Yang Mu didn't say much, nor did he bargain with the envoys of Sheng Guo.

In a word, of the 50 million taels of silver, 30 million taels were pledged by iron and stone, and the other 20 million taels were directly used in cash.

Among them, the iron and stone were mined by the Shengguo organization, and the pig iron was initially smelted into pig iron, and after being transported to Cangguo, it was delivered to Cangguo according to half of the market price, that is, the price of five hundred catties and one tael of silver.

Every month, it must be delivered at least once, and within three years, 30 million taels of silver pig iron must be delivered in full.

Even if Yang Mu is the maker of the rules, after silently thinking about it in his heart for a while, he is a little unbearable.

The mortgage of 30,000,000 taels of silver was converted into a unit of weight for the Hereafter, which was 7,500,000 tons.

You must know that if all the pig iron of this number is forged into steel, it will already catch up with the annual output in the 50s after the founding of New China.

In a country like Shengguo, even if it is paid in three years, it is a huge task.

It is conceivable that Shengguo will definitely recruit a large number of laborers to extract ore for this purpose, and the whole country will enter a sick and frenzied quarrying trend.

Historically, the construction of the Great Wall, channels, canals, etc., the people have been miserable, how dangerous mineral mining, will not lead to more resentment boiling?

In addition, if a large amount of people's labor goes to mining deposits, agricultural production will certainly suffer a great blow, grain production will certainly drop by a large margin, and social contradictions will become increasingly intense.

There is no money and no food, and it is difficult to guarantee the quality of the army, so it is good to be able to barely maintain the army, but it is basically impossible to increase and expand the army.

Historically, many pains of losing the country have slowly arisen in such a dead cycle.

Yang Mu didn't feel sorry for the people of those enemy countries, on the contrary, he longed for the monarchs and ministers of Sheng Guo to be a little more tyrannical, so that the people's hearts of Sheng Guo for hundreds of years were likely to be exhausted in just a few years.

The will of the people is one of the foundations.

There is no money and food, and there is no popular support, the army has no combat effectiveness, the decline of the prosperous country has become inevitable, and it is a matter of time before it becomes a vassal country of a large country.

"Your Majesty, this ...... 20 million taels...... I really can't take it out. ”

Min Shanyi was almost crying, before he came, his father passed through the bottom, there were only 12 million taels in the treasury, plus more than 3 million taels in the inner treasury, a total of 15 million taels, and the lion of Cangguo asked for 20 million taels of silver when he opened his mouth, where did the other 5 million taels come from?

Five million taels!

With the current situation of Shengguo, it can only be a tax increase, but tax collection also requires a process, and it cannot be achieved overnight.

"Can't get 20 million taels?" Yang Mu frowned and snorted, "Then what about ten million taels a year in the future?" Don't you think I'm soft-hearted? ”

"This ......"

Min Shanyi was speechless, and all explanations seemed very pale at this moment.

At this time, an old man among the envoys of the Sheng Kingdom stood up and bowed: "Your Majesty, I don't know if we can use slaves as collateral, my Sheng Kingdom has many slaves, and it can be sold cheaply in the Cang Kingdom. ”

Servant?

Yang Mu sneered, as early as the year before when he annexed Zheng Guo, he issued a decree to emancipate slaves, after two years, most of the slaves in Cangguo have been freed, it can be said that there are not many slaves in the whole country, and the nobles are unable to support slaves, often a family only leaves a small number of slaves, and instead uses the way of hiring long-term workers to maintain the operation of the family.

The slaves of Shengguo have entered Cangguo, how should they be treated?

If we had followed the same method, wouldn't it have cheapened those slaves?

Sheng Guo is a good plan......

"There is absolutely no room for negotiation in this matter, if you really can't scrape together enough money, you can pay off the debt with grain, and the price is analogous to iron and stone."

After Yang Mu finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves, walked directly off the dragon chair, and walked out of the main hall under the service of a group of eunuchs and palace maids.

Suddenly, a group of envoys of the Shengguo Kingdom were left looking at each other.

Half the price of grain?

Isn't this a complete loss for Sheng Guo?

Directly in the territory of Shengguo, wouldn't it be good to sell the grain?

The envoys were sad in their hearts, but the emperor of Cangguo had left, and there was no room for turning around the matter, so Sheng Guo could only break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

On the other side, the ministers of Cangguo smiled knowingly.

……

On the second day of October, after several days of negotiations, all the details were finally finalized.

On the Shengguo side, a one-time indemnity of 20 million taels of silver must be delivered to Cangguo in October.

In addition, 30 million taels of silver of pig iron were handed over in three years, and a certain amount was handed over every month.

In each subsequent year, Sheng Guo should also pay a tribute of 10 million taels of silver to Cangguo, and the five-year period will expire.

The Cangguo side is very simple, that is, to withdraw troops on the border, all the troops are withdrawn from the territory of Shengguo, and no longer attack Shengguo.

After signing the credentials and treaty, the envoys of the Sheng Kingdom went back non-stop, reported the news to the Sheng monarchs and ministers, and began to prepare for the indemnity on the same day.

The rest of the matter will be communicated by the 12th Department.

Yang Mu was very relaxed, and enjoyed the blessings of Qi people for more than ten days, copying books and playing mahjong in his spare time, but other than that, there seemed to be nothing else to do.

It's finally December.

The indemnity of Shengguo was also transported, and the army of Cangguo also withdrew from the territory of Shengguo, and instead consolidated the dozen or so cities that had been captured before.

However, from within the border of Shengguo, there are many refugees pouring in, roughly estimated to be more than 100,000 people, and more and more, some of them are attracted by the generous policies and national treatment of Cangguo, and some are forced by heavy taxes and forced labor.

These people were all arranged in some border cities and temporarily joined the household registration of Cangguo.

The Ministry of Rites was not idle, printing millions of newspapers, handing them over to caravans or the common people, and spreading them across the border.

Since then, there have been many rumors in the territory of Shengguo, the general content is that the emperor of Shengguo provoked a war, and now he has lost, obviously the treasury and nobles have a large amount of silver, but they are reluctant to give it, and the burden is transferred to the common people, and when everyone suffers, the emperor is enjoying himself in the court.

In addition, a large number of folk songs satirizing the monarchs and ministers of the Sheng Kingdom were also fabricated, and some ugly palace secrets, which quickly spread to the territory of the Sheng Kingdom through the infiltration of Jinyiwei.

It can be said that these two months have been a very difficult month for the monarchs and ministers of Sheng Guo.

On the one hand, they were busy with matters such as reparations and garrisons, but on the other hand, they couldn't stop the people's mouths, and watched the prestige of the court and the prestige of the government being lost little by little.

In this way, it is even more impossible to prevent the infiltration of Jinyiwei.

It is worth mentioning that today's Jinyiwei has developed to more than 3,000 people, under the leadership of the second son, has been out of the jurisdiction of Shen An, and began to build a complete set of spy mechanism.

This time, taking advantage of the fact that the monarchs and ministers of Sheng Guo were busy paying compensation, a large number of Jinyi guards infiltrated Sheng Guo and used various means to control some Sheng Guo officials.

In addition, several large and small forces have also been organized in the civil society to build a huge underground network.

After Yang Mu knew about this matter, he was a little stunned, and he always felt a little familiar.

Isn't this similar to the Heaven and Earth Society?