Qiming 1158

Chapter 709 There's really not a drop left

As for the Ming army, Zhou Zhi and Zhou Zhixue discussed it and decided to meet the negotiators from the Southern Song Dynasty and let them enter the Ming army's central army camp for negotiation.

In any case, it's okay to first understand the bottom line of the other party, and then hold a formal meeting after the emperor's specific arrival.

Besides, war reparations are definitely needed, and it is better to talk about war reparations first this time.

"His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty personally ordered the negotiator, Shi Hao, the political counselor of the dynasty, and met the general."

After Shi Hao led the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty into the Ming army camp, he saw the Ming army negotiating team sitting up and never got up, and knew that it was a difficult negotiation, so he was not angry because the Ming army did not stand up to meet him, Instead, lower your stance.

In this regard, Zhou Zhi was quite satisfied. He felt that this senior official of the Southern Song Dynasty was a little bit knowledgeable and knew what attitude the loser should have when facing the begging of the winner.

So Zhou Zhi nodded.

"This general is Zhou Zhi, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition Army of the Ming Dynasty. Song Ting was able to send Shi Xianggong to negotiate with sincerity. But then again, the matter has come to this point. If a certain Xianggong hadn't come to negotiate in person, this general would not have been at all. will let him in."

Shi Hao froze in his heart and nodded heavily.

"This is the end of the matter, the defeat of my dynasty has been decided, and there is nothing to say. This time is called peace talks, but it is really begging for surrender. The defeated army will not dare to speak bravely. I only hope that the peace talks will go smoothly, and the war will end as soon as possible to save the people from suffering."

Zhou Zhi and Zhou Zhixue looked at each other and could feel the surprise in each other's eyes.

This Shi Hao was indeed a bit unusual, he directly admitted that he was begging for surrender, without taking his face into consideration, he seemed to be a practical official.

So Zhou Zhi allowed officials from the Southern Song Dynasty to take their seats. After the negotiating teams of both sides were seated, the negotiations officially began.

"In this battle, Daming won a complete victory, the Ma Bu army won, the navy army won, and the Southern Dynasty was completely defeated. This is a fact. Needless to say, do you agree?"

Some officials of the Southern Song Dynasty nodded in agreement with expressionless faces, while others nodded in agreement with mournful expressions, while others nodded in disgrace and gritted their teeth.

no disagreement.

With this as the premise, many things can be discussed.

Since ancient times, the victorious side has been able to claim a one-time war reparation from the losing side. Leaving aside other conditions, war reparations are necessary.

The content of this indemnity includes all the expenses paid by the victorious side to launch the war, the military expenses spent in the process of marching and combat, and the pensions after the casualties of the soldiers.

All these money should be counted on the losers, and then distributed to the army in the name of the winners. In every sense, it is a secondary injury to the losers, which is extremely humiliating.

But whatever, it's the winner's right.

The sum of the money is usually multiplied by two for the more polite winner, and three, four or five for the less polite winner.

According to the pre-war Ministry of Finance’s estimate of this war of 3000 people, it is estimated that this local war will cost Daming 200 million yuan in military expenditures to complete it. Later, based on actual calculations, it was found that the difference between the number and the original estimate was not large. big.

In order to organize the army, launch wars and war logistics, when the Ming army arrived at the city of Lin'an, even if it tried to save money in many ways and tried to save money from some unnecessary links, it had already spent 190 million yuan.

This is by no means a small fee.

Although the financial revenue of the Ming Empire is far more than that, the Ming Empire needs more money.

War expenses are not part of the regular expenses of the empire, there is no advance budget, and no feudal country will prepare war reserves in advance for war, and they are all expenses incurred at any time.

Therefore, every battle is a battle of wits and courage between the main war faction and the officials in charge of finance. Those with serious internal friction will pay a huge price for this, such as the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.

The Ming Empire had a unified order and a unified goal. The power to launch wars did not belong to the civil government, but to the emperor and the military system. In the event of a possible war, the emperor and the military system negotiated separately, and the civil government had no right to say anything about it. .

The only Ministry of Finance that can participate can only make financial recommendations, and has no right to object to whether the war is initiated or not.

Therefore, within the Ming Empire, the internal friction in this area was kept to a minimum by Su Yonglin, and he did everything he could to reduce the cost.

But no matter how to control the cost, the necessary expenditure cannot be less, so this time the war is still quite pressure on the Ming Empire's already tight finances, but fortunately, the existence of Bai Tiao has temporarily relieved some of the pressure.

But now that the war has been won, of course they have to get it back with interest, so after discussing with Zhou Zhixue, Zhou Zhi and Zhou Zhixue set a price of 1000 million yuan in war reparations.

This made the Southern Song negotiators take a deep breath, and even Shi Hao was a little scared.

These negotiators, including Shi Hao, all had common sense and a good understanding of the economy. Many of them even came from a financial background and had a deep understanding of the chaotic and bad financial situation in the Southern Song Dynasty.

According to the conventional budget, launching a medium-intensity war with 10 people requires military expenditures of about 300 million yuan to complete.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the civil officials of the Song Dynasty just calculated an account and felt that spending military expenditures was too terrifying. It is better to spend money to buy peace, give annual coins, how much money is spent in a year?
This is obviously Da Song making money, right?
How else can we say that these civil servants are shameless?

They don't seriously consider that military spending is often a one-off, and if you win, there is a chance to earn it back, and once the annual currency is given, it will be dozens or hundreds of years, and people will still need silver.

Most of the silver is mined and refined in the mountainous area of ​​Fujian and other places in the south of the Yangtze River. The Khitan people will not come to the south of the Yangtze River to get it, but the people of the Song Dynasty will be transported from the south of the Yangtze River to Hebei for delivery.

Isn't Song Guo's responsibility to toss the people?
The people along the transportation route need to undertake the task of transshipment free of charge, and they suffer unbearably, and it will also affect agricultural production. The hidden losses caused by this far exceed the expenditure of military wars.

Of course, none of these matters. As long as the scholar-officials can achieve peace, avoid wars, and save military expenses, what does the life and death of the common people have to do with them?
It was the same then, and it is the same now.

As long as war reparations can be exchanged for peace, give it to him!

Anyway, it's not our scholar-bureaucrats and gentlemen who paid for it by ourselves, not our own money, so we don't feel bad about it at all.

Shi Hao is considered to be more conscientious, so he was surprised at the big opening of the lion in the Ming Dynasty.

In this battle of the Ming Empire, even if they claimed to have an army of 1000, [-] million yuan was enough for them to launch three wars of the same scale at the same time.

That is almost the military expenditure of the war of annihilation that can destroy all the three war zones of the Southern Song Dynasty.

This is a bit too lion's mouth to speak.

Shi Hao knew that if this condition was agreed, the following conditions would definitely cause the Southern Song Dynasty to bleed heavily, and even after a year of hard work, he would end up working for the Ming Kingdom.

This is impossible.

"Judging from the scale of the battle and the number of troops dispatched by the Northern Dynasty, the cost of this battle should be less than 300 million guan, while the Northern Dynasty paid 1000 million guan at the first opening. Could it be that you are joking about Song Dynasty?"

Shi Hao immediately spoke out against this request.

Zhou Zhixue smiled.

"Shi Xianggong himself knows that the Ming Kingdom is the winner, and the Southern Dynasty is the loser. Isn't it true since ancient times that the winners demand what they want from the losers?"

Shi Hao pursed his lips and shook his head firmly.

"The Great Song Dynasty is willing to pay compensation, but the Northern Dynasty cannot be so excessive. The amount of 1000 million guan is enough to cause the same war three times. No matter how rich the Song Dynasty is financially, it is impossible for the Northern Dynasty to spend so much money to compensate the Northern Dynasty."

Of course, Zhou Zhi didn't want to ask for that much money. This is just a big opening of the lion's mouth, which is convenient for them to bargain. If it is a psychological expectation, this group of cunning Song people will only continue to lower the price.

Before the war, Su Yonglin said that the purpose of this war was to obtain funds for the governance of the Yellow River and to reduce the burden on the people of the Ming Dynasty.

It is impossible to eat the Southern Song Dynasty to death in one breath, and the Southern Song Dynasty will not agree, so Zhou Zhi did not intend to blackmail the Southern Song Dynasty to death, they can continue to bargain until Zhou Zhi and Zhou Zhixue's psychological price.

Of course, if they agreed without paying that price, Daming would not lose money.

So the two sides began to bargain.

Shi Haoli Chen Southern Song's economic difficulties and the economic damage caused by the war, tried to cut off 500 million guan with one knife, which made Zhou Zhi furious. He slammed the table and accused Shi Hao of not taking the loss of the Ming army seriously.

In order to reach Lin'an, the Daming army has paid more than [-] casualties and more than [-] injuries so far. Don't compensation for such a large number of casualties need to be paid?

This is all caused by the Southern Song army!
It's all money!
800w!Otherwise, talk about it!

Shi Hao cried poorly again, and kept talking about the financial difficulties of the Southern Song Dynasty. He said that the new emperor Zhao Yun had just ascended the throne. ?
550 million coins!Otherwise, there is really no more!Not a drop left!
(End of this chapter)