Money draining too rapidly in vanilla campaign

So I’m a vassal for Battania as a tier 6 clan with more influence than the ruling fen Gruffendoc, and have about 16 fiefs (evenly split between towns & castles).

For awhile, I was sitting comfortably around 1 million denars, but after a few in game years I started bleeding 20K per day and I can’t stop it.. I think it’s because all of my fiefs have almost completely filled garrisons? I’ve tried limiting the wage budget but it doesn’t seem to save properly. Is the only solution to give away a few fiefs to stabilize my expenses?

Ideally trying to keep this save going until I can be elected as the new king of Battania but feel like I may need to restart.

submitted by /u/jussant
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