"You don’t know that you are brave and afraid. Compared with the cowardice of famous people, you seem to be reckless. Courage is the most important thing in the Song Dynasty. Everyone can blame you for acting recklessly, but no one can blame you for being brave!"
Zhao Shen looked at Shi Hao with some surprise.
"Teacher, do you really think so?"
"If there is a false statement, it will thunder!"
Shi Hao did not waver.
Zhao Shen just looked at Shi Hao’s face as if he could see what he longed for so much from his face.
He did see it.
So there was a slight relief in his sad expression.
Of course, bitterness still accounts for the vast majority, because he is really bitter
The Manchu civil and military demands for surrender are endless. Most people no longer support him to continue fighting this battle. Only a few people hope that the emperor will continue fighting.
Zhao Shen looked at ten recitals to find one that supported him to continue the war, and the remaining nine demanded surrender.
Although Zhao Shen wanted to continue to fight, he remembered a story. He really worried that someone would choose to beat the gate to welcome the army into the city because of fear.
By that time, he will really have no bargaining power at all.
Although there is nothing wrong with the eyes, if the party who voluntarily surrenders has some requirements, that party will also consider it
After all, there are more than 40,000 fighting troops in the city, and it is very difficult for the city’s residents to conquer Lin ‘an.
Reasoning Shi Hao repeatedly persuaded Zhao Shen to finally recognize the reality and nodded and agreed to Shi Hao’s request
So Zhao Shen Chaotang officially announced that Shi Hao was awarded to negotiate with the army on behalf of the emperor for a relatively reasonable peace clause to end the war as soon as possible
Zhou didn’t know about Zhao Gou’s abdication and Zhao Shen’s accession to the throne until he arrived in Lin ‘an City. He thought it was a great event, so he immediately sent someone to return to the north quickly to inform Su Yonglin of the news and ask Su Yonglin to give specific instructions.
How much compensation is appropriate?
The specific amount of annual currency should be determined.
What should I do if the Southern Song Dynasty does not agree?
Do you really want to conquer Lin ‘an City?
What should I do if I really capture the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty?
He hopes to get specific instructions from Su Yonglin, so that when negotiating, he can make a lot of blackmail demands to the Southern Song Dynasty with a clear aim and reason.
Of course, without waiting for Su Yonglin’s specific instructions, Shi Hao was sent to the Southern Song Dynasty on behalf of the negotiating team to request peace talks with the military to stop the war and avoid the disaster in Lin’ an City.
Chapter 77 There’s really not a drop.
The military side Zhou and Zhou Zhixue discussed a decision to meet the negotiators of the Southern Song Dynasty and let them enter the military camp for negotiations.
Anyway, it’s ok to know the bottom line of the other side first and then call a formal meeting after the emperor arrives.
Besides, don’t say that war reparations are definitely needed. It is better to talk about war reparations first this time.
"Emperor Dasong personally ordered the negotiator, and Shi Hao, who was in charge of political affairs, met the general."
After Shi Hao led the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty into the military camp, he saw the military negotiation team sitting and never getting up, and knew that this was a difficult negotiation venue. Instead of being angry that the military did not get up to meet him, he lowered his posture even lower.
I’m quite satisfied with this week, and I think this senior official of the Southern Song Dynasty knows a little about what attitude the loser should have in the face of the winner’s begging for surrender
So Zhou nodded his head.
"It is also sincere that Zhou Songting, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expeditionary Army, can send Shi Xianggong to peace talks, but then again, it is already the case. If a Xianggong did not come to negotiate in person, he would not be allowed to come in."
Shi Hao nodded his head with a heavy heart.
"It’s done. I’ve lost the game. I can say that the defeated army will not dare to speak bravely, but I hope that the peace talks will end the war smoothly as soon as possible and the people will suffer."
Zhou and Zhou Zhixue looked at each other and could feel surprise in their eyes.
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 were formal 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 there is not much difference between the figures and the most expected ones.
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 the necessary expenses, this war is tight for the empire, and the finances are still quite stressful. 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, we have come up with 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.