This Shi Hao is a bit unusual. He directly admits that this is begging for surrender. He seems to be a practical official without regard for his face.
So Zhou allowed the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty to sit down, and the negotiations officially began after the negotiation teams of both sides sat down.
"This world war I won a great victory. The water army won, and the Southern Dynasties lost. Is it a fact that you need to say more?"
Officials in the Southern Song Dynasty nodded with expressions of approval, nodded with sadness, and nodded with shame.
No objection
Many things can be discussed before.
Since ancient times, the victors can claim a one-time war indemnity from the loser, and his condition is that war indemnity is necessary for the time being.
This compensation includes the amount paid by the victorious party in launching the war, the army consumed during the March war and the pension after the soldiers were killed or injured.
All this money is to be counted as a loser, and then all kinds of meanings are distributed to the army in the name of the winner, which is a second injury and humiliation for the loser
But whether it’s a winner or not.
Generally speaking, the sum of the money is more polite, and the winner will multiply by two, but not so polite. The winner will multiply by three, four, five, all of which are available anyway.
According to the pre-war Ministry of Finance’s forecast of this 63,000-person war, it is estimated that this local war will cost a big country 2 million Gwan Chin to finish. According to the actual calculation, it is found that the figure is not far from the initial forecast.
By the time the army arrived in Lin ‘an City, it had spent 1.96 million yuan to organize the army, launch the war and use its logistics, even if it was saved in many ways and tried to save money from some unnecessary links.
This is by no means a small sum.
Although the imperial revenue is far more than that, the empire needs more money.
War does not belong to the empire’s routine expenditure. There is no pre-budget and no pre-meeting preparation for war in that feudal country. The war reserve funds are always incurred and spent at any time.
Every battle is a battle between the main warring factions and the officials in charge of finance, which will cost a lot, such as the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.
The empire has a unified command and a unified goal. The power to wage war does not belong to the civilian government, but to the emperor and the military system. In the event of a possible war, the emperor and the military system discuss it separately, and the civilian government has a problem with it.
The Ministry of Finance, the only one who can participate, can also make financial suggestions and object to whether the war is launched.
Su Yonglin controlled the consumption of the Imperial Department in this respect, and made every effort to reduce it.
However, no matter how to control it into necessary expenses, it is still quite stressful for the empire to go to war this time. Fortunately, the white bars have suspended some of the pressure.
But now that the war has been won, of course, we have to get it back with interest. After consulting with Zhou Zhixue, Zhou offered a price of 10 million yuan for war reparations.
This made the negotiators in the Southern Song Dynasty gasp, and even Shi Hao was a little scared.
These negotiators, including Shi Hao, are familiar with common sense and the economy. Many people even have financial backgrounds and have a deep understanding of the chaotic and poor financial situation in the Southern Song Dynasty.
According to the conventional budget, it takes about 3 million Gwan Chin to launch a moderate-intensity war with 100,000 people.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the civil servants of the State of Song just calculated an account and thought it was too horrible to spend money on the army. How much did it cost to spend on peace for the new year?
This is obviously earned by Da Song, right?
How else can I say this group of civil servants are ashamed?
They won’t seriously consider the military expenditure, which is often won at one time, and there is still a chance to earn it back, while the new year’s money will be given for hundreds of years without saying that people want silver.
Most of the silver is mined and refined in the mountainous areas of southern Fujian and other places, and the Khitans will not come to the south to get it themselves, but the Song people will transport it from the south to Hebei to deliver it to them, and the Song State will bear the transportation itself.
Isn’t Song Guo’s own commitment to the people?
Along the transportation route, people need to pay for the burden of transshipment, which will make them miserable and affect agricultural production. The hidden losses in this process far exceed the military war expenditure.
Of course, none of this matters. What does it matter if the literati can get peace, not fight and save the lives of the military and civilians?
That was the case then, and it is the same now.
If you want war compensation, you can get peace for him!
Anyway, it’s not like we scholar-officials pay for it themselves, and we don’t feel bad at all if we don’t spend it ourselves.
Shi Hao has a good conscience. He was surprised by the lion’s big mouth.
Even if they claim to be 100 thousand troops and 10 million yuan in the imperial war, they will be able to launch three wars of the same scale at the same time.
That is almost able to destroy the three war zones in the Southern Song Dynasty and destroy the military expenditure of the national war level.
This is not a bit too lion’s mouth.
Shi Hao knows that if this condition is agreed, many conditions will definitely lead to great bleeding in the Southern Song Dynasty, but after a year of hard work, it is a national job
This is not possible
"Judging from the scale of the war and the number of troops dispatched by the North Korea, the cost of this war should be less than 3 million yuan, and the North Korea’s opening is 10 million yuan. Isn’t it a joke on Dasong?"
Shi Hao immediately spoke out against this request.
Zhou Zhixue smiled.
"Shi Xianggong himself knows that a big country is a winner, and the Southern Dynasties is a loser. Isn’t it a truth from ancient times that winners take what they want from losers?"
Shi Hao pursed his lips and shook his head firmly.
"Dasong is willing to pay compensation, but the Northern Dynasties can’t be so rich. The number is large enough for the same war to happen three times. No matter how rich Dasong is, it is impossible to come up with so much money to compensate the Northern Dynasties."
Zhou, of course, doesn’t want so much money. It’s just a lion’s mouth to make it easier for them to bargain. If he opens his mouth, he is psychologically expected to be kept down by these sly Song people.
Before the war, Su Yonglin said that the purpose of this war was to manage the Yellow River Sutra and reduce the burden on the people. At the same time, it was also to accelerate the intensification of class contradictions in the Southern Song Dynasty and urge them to blow themselves up faster
It is impossible to eat the Southern Song Dynasty to death in one breath, and the Southern Song Dynasty will not agree to it, and it has no intention to blackmail the Southern Song Dynasty to death. They can continue to bargain until Zhou and Zhou Zhixue reach their psychological price.
Of course, if they don’t return to that price, they promise to make a profit without losing money.
So the two sides began to bargain
Shi Hao argued that the economy in the Southern Song Dynasty was not easy to be destroyed by the war, and he tried to cut off 5 million yuan with one knife, which provoked Zhou Da’s anger and accused Shi Hao of not paying attention to the losses of the big army
The big army has paid more than 1,400 people killed and more than 5,000 injured since it hit Lin ‘an. Isn’t it necessary to pay compensation for such a large number of casualties?
This is all caused by the southern song dynasty army!
This is all money!