"The cost of food for each soldier is three taels of silver per day, and because of the different treatment of officers, each lieutenant is ten taels of silver per day, twenty taels of silver for adjutants, and thirty taels of silver for generals. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The camp covers a total of 500 acres of land, the average rent per mu per day is 10 taels of silver, a total of 2,010 houses are built in the camp, each cost 200 taels of silver, a total of 10,000 soldiers of our army are unable to perform their duties normally because of the protection of your soldiers, so the cost of food and accommodation is the same as the above expenses, and the cost of care is three taels of silver per person per day.

Our army has treated more than 6,900 wounded and sick people for your army, and according to the different injuries of each person, the cost is also different, together with the treatment fee and service fee, the medical expenses of these 6,900 people totaled 17,900,000 taels of silver.

There were 14,291 ordinary soldiers in your army, and the food expenses for half a month were 643,095 taels of silver, 1,090 lieutenants, totaling 163,500 taels of silver, 170 adjutants, totaling 51,000 taels of silver, and 4 generals, totaling 1,800 taels of silver.

In addition, the food standards of more than 6,920 injured people are different, and they need more nutrition to recover, so the cost is also different, the average cost per person per day is ten taels of silver, because three taels of silver have been calculated before, so this time it is only calculated according to the difference, a total of 726,600 taels of silver.

The total cost of food for your army in the past half month is 1,540,095 taels of silver.

The camp was rented at a cost of seventy-five thousand taels of silver, and the cost of building a house was four hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver, for a total of four hundred and seventy-seven thousand taels of silver.

There were 10,000 soldiers in our army, including two generals, sixty colonels, and three hundred lieutenants, a total of 10,362 people, of whom the soldiers' food expenses were 450,000 taels of silver, the lieutenants' 45,000 taels of silver, the colonel's 18,000 taels of silver, the generals' 900 taels of silver, and the total food expenses were 468,900 taels of silver.

Our army built a total of 1,500 barracks, covering an area of 460 acres, which added up to 99,000 taels of silver, and the cost of guarding them amounted to 466,290 taels of silver.

The total of the above expenses is two thousand one hundred fifty thousand one hundred and twenty-one thousand two hundred and eighty taels of silver.

In addition, the cost of our army's troops, a total of 190 million taels of silver, which covers the cost of sending troops, ammunition consumption, and the pension of the dead, not including the subsidy for the assistance of the wounded, which needs to be calculated after the wounded are healed in the future, but in the early stage, Japan must pay 20 million taels of silver to advance the rescue.

In addition, the cost of the North Korean army's troops is 100 million taels of silver, which covers all the expenses. Therefore, the Japanese side needs to pay a total of 311,151,280 taels of silver to us and the Korean side. Tang Shaoyi, Minister of Plenipotentiary Negotiations of the Chinese Empire, took out a piece of paper with statistics and read out the numbers on it one by one.

In fact, when she saw the content on this piece of paper for the first time, Tang Shaoyi subconsciously couldn't believe it. As an old diplomat, what scene has Tang Shaoyi never seen?

Oh no, it should be a scene of cutting meat that I haven't seen? It is often them who are cut by the great powers, how can they go to cut the flesh of the great powers?

Nima's, that's 310 million taels of silver, if you can really get it from the Japanese, then the development of the empire will be awesome.

"This is impossible, these data are completely unfounded, and this attitude of your country is not an attitude of negotiation at all, and it is impossible for the Great Japanese Empire to accept it." Komura Shoutaro directly refused Tang Shaoyi's request without thinking about it, what are you kidding? Let Japan pay 310 million taels of silver to the Chinese Empire?

Please, the Japanese didn't think about the reparations at all, in their consciousness, it would be very good to be able to cede half of Korea to them, but they didn't expect the Chinese Empire to dare to open their mouths.

"Why can't it be? If it weren't for the face of the UK, the price would have been higher. Do you know where your soldiers get their food? Those are the grains that our government buys from the people of the country at high prices. Do you know how much it costs to transport a pound of grain from our country to North Korea? I'll tell you the truth today, not counting labor costs for the time being, just food, ten catties of grain moved from the place of departure to the car, and only one catty was finally delivered to the troops, or even less than one catty.

Each soldier of your country needs to eat two catties of grain per day, and there are some other precious vegetables such as melons and fruits, and three taels of silver per person per day is a lot?

If you want me to say, you don't have the proper negotiation attitude, you just want to empty the gloves of the white wolf, and you want us to help you raise the army without spending a penny, do you think this is possible? Tang Shaoyi immediately retorted,, others won't, isn't Tang Shaoyi, an old diplomat?

Anyway, the longer it takes, the more the Chinese Empire will be able to get in the end.

As for the cost spent on the Japanese, don't mention it, just think about it and think it's ridiculous, each person is rationed three taels of grain a day, there are no vegetables, the houses are built by cutting trees themselves, and most of the food is also collected from the Koreans, this matter is done by Li Xi, and the Koreans are still happy to help their king.

So, the cost of the Chinese Empire was almost zero, except for the guardsmen of two regiments.

"Japan will never agree to this request." Komura Shoutaro was a little dizzy with anger, if Japan had so much money, would the war be like this?

"Then I'm sorry, if Japan doesn't come up with so much money, in order to recover our country's losses, my country can only let these Japanese soldiers use labor to redeem themselves, but please rest assured, my country will definitely treat them according to their normal salary, when they will pay back, when they will be released, when will they return home." Tang Shaoyi said directly.

"Lord Tang, isn't this request of your country a bit excessive?" Sa Daoyi frowned and said, the Chinese Empire asked Japan for compensation, he had nothing to say about this, but this compensation was too much, he knew very well that the Japanese did not have so much money, and it was impossible to accept so much money.

Although the sky-high price is demanded to pay back on the spot, but as soon as you open your mouth, it is set so high, even if the British come forward, I am afraid that in the end, the Japanese will have to come up with 100 million taels of silver to solve it.

"Is it much? Nine years ago, in the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" signed by the Qing Dynasty and Japan, the former Qing Dynasty not only had to cede the Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan Island and its affiliated islands, and the Penghu Islands to Japan, but also had to pay Japan 200 million taels of silver. To put it mildly, even if my country invests with 200 million taels of silver, what we get now is far more than the 310 million taels of silver, or do you think that in the negotiation arena, there has always been only time when my country loses money to others? And not qualified to let others lose money to us? Tang Shaoyi snorted coldly and picked up the things of nine years ago.

Tang Shaoyi wisely did not mention the "Xinchou Treaty" three years ago, although the Chinese Empire also paid a lot of indemnities in the past few years, but generally speaking, the payment was not much, and after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, all indemnity payments were also stopped.

In one, they didn't want to embarrass the great powers with this matter, in case they were pushed to the side of the Japanese, the next negotiations would not be easy to say.

Listening to Tang Shaoyi's words, Sa Daoyi couldn't help but blush, if it was according to the previous practice, then the Chinese Empire didn't want much money, and besides, there was still 100 million taels of silver to be paid to North Korea, and even the Chinese Empire had not even recovered the capital that it paid to Japan nine years ago.

In the end, the day's negotiations could only end in vain, Tang Shaoyi insisted on 310 million taels of silver, and Japan must agree, otherwise the next step of negotiations will not be carried out.

At the same time, he warned the Japanese that the cost of Japanese prisoners would increase every day, and that the longer the time of the captivity, the higher the cost, and if the Japanese still refused to agree within a month, the Chinese Empire would choose to send these Japanese to work in iron mines, coal mines, and other factories, or prohibit the provision of any food.

After the first negotiation broke down, Sa Daoyi found Komura Shoutaro and asked the Japanese about the bottom line of the negotiation, this time, he did not want the Japanese to lose too much, nor did he want the Japanese to lose nothing at all.

And the Japanese desire for colonies also made Sa Daoyi feel a little worried. Therefore, he also hoped that the living space of the Japanese could be compressed as much as possible, so that they could only suppress the Chinese Empire in the navy, and it was better for the army not to develop at all.

And the reply given by Komura Shoutaro made Sa Daoyi want to cry without tears, and he couldn't wait to pick up the kitchen knife and cut Komura Shoutaro directly.

The Japanese are only willing to pay 10 million yen as compensation, how much is 10 million yen for Nima? That's less than eight million taels of silver (1:1.4 yen for silver), which is a long way off.

Subsequently, Sa Daoyi found Tang Shaoyi again, but Tang Shaoyi refused to let go, and refused to pay less than a tael of silver, and kept saying that this was to save face for the British, and some domestic ministers even suggested that the emperor ask the Japanese for a billion taels of silver.

For a while, Sa Daoyi became the busiest person between the two sides, and the left and right sides refused to let go, which made Sa Daoyi feel as if there were millions of grass and mud horses whistling in his heart.

Because Sa Daoyi was unable to convince the two sides, the negotiations could not proceed the next day, and Sa Daoyi began to unite the representatives of other powers to participate, hoping to put pressure on both sides and get them to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

However, the effect was never satisfactory, and the Japanese finally increased the bottom line of the reparations to 50 million taels of silver, but the indemnity on the side of the Chinese Empire did not decrease but increased, on the grounds that the cost of prisoners increased, which made the negotiations that had just improved again into a stalemate. (To be continued.) )