After reporting the overall report, Shi Hao did not continue to say that he consciously left time for the emperor and his ministers to reminisce about the problems reflected in this data.

Sure enough, from Zhao Sheng to Han Yuanji and Lu You, editors of the Privy Council, who were in charge of the meeting minutes, everyone had a very bad expression.

Han Yuanji and Lu You were originally writing hard, but after hearing this number, they stopped writing, raised their heads with incredible expressions, looked at each other, and looked at the emperor and the new senior officials of the imperial throne not far away.

They could not accept the fact that the Southern Song Dynasty had defended with 180,000 troops, but was beaten into a sieve by the 60,000 Ming army.

What's even more terrifying is that this is almost annihilated.

With more than three times the Ming army's strength, it was defeated by the Ming army and wiped out the entire army. The Ming army also rushed to the capital without any obstacles. The Southern Song army was defeated like a mountain, and there were almost few troops that dared to confront the head-on. Facing the Ming army, they fled in a desperate situation.

It can almost be said that the Southern Song army was basically a group of waste and could not defend the country at all. They gave so much military expenditure and ate so much food, but raised a group of waste.

How can this make them feel sorry for?

It is true that the situation in Jiankang Mansion is not true, and there is no force of 70,000 troops at all. However, even if his royal power earned 40,000 troops at a loss of 100,000 troops in the Battle of the Song Dynasty, it is irreversible.

In one battle, the number of soldiers and generals was reduced by 100,000, which was one quarter of the rated number of soldiers on the books of the Song Dynasty and one quarter of the number of troops owned by the country.

The Ming army used less than two months to mobilize 60,000 troops to destroy one-tenth of the Song army's army.

The total number of military forces of the Ming Dynasty, as announced by the Ming Dynasty itself, is about 400,000, which is equivalent to the Southern Song Dynasty. The total number of people dispatched this time is about one-seventh, which is less than the national mobilization. For the Ming Dynasty, it can even be regarded as a small fight.

Therefore, the military gap between the two sides was obvious at a glance. This terrifying gap made the emperors and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty whizzing air conditioning from the top of their heads to the soles of their feet.

This situation is almost comparable to when the Jin army headed south to invade the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Jin army was so sharp at that time. The million troops of the Northern Song Dynasty were beaten by more than 100,000 yuan, and finally lost the capital, the emperor and the royal family, and half of the country were lost.

What is slightly better now than back then is that the Ming Dynasty did not necessarily have to conquer the goal of destroying the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty, but just to extort a sum of money to build the Yellow River.

Judging from their current performance, they really have no other goal. From the beginning, they just wanted to extort a sum of money to build the Yellow River.

However, the Southern Song Dynasty relied on its own ability to defeat the situation of only paying some annual monies to the situation of ceasing the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute to the land. It is not a god-level operation.

After the initial shock, the emperor and his ministers came back to their senses.

Realizing that the current situation must be changed. If the army is really going to be disastrous, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Zhang Jun is undoubtedly the one with the most anger.

"The guilty person must be punished, and those who should be killed must be killed. Kill the chicken to warn the monkey, kill one to warn the hundred, rectify the army, and train the army. This is an urgent matter! Otherwise, the next time the Ming Dynasty needs money to repair the Yellow River will be not far away."

Zhang Jun's words were supported by everyone present, and they all offered suggestions and contributed their ideas to the Southern Song Dynasty's self-improvement and self-respect.

There are indeed many things that are meaningful, so Zhao Xing was excited when he heard this, as if a brand new and powerful Great Song Empire was about to appear soon.

He could lead hundreds of thousands of troops back to the north, recover lost territory, return to Kaifeng, worship his ancestors, comfort his ancestors, let his ancestors know that he had fought back, and he achieved great achievements that thousands of people could not achieve.

He really looks forward to that future.

And in such a frenzy, Shi Hao was the only calm person.

"Your Majesty, you guys, although your ideas are good, every idea requires money. This premise cannot be ignored. The Song Dynasty not only has to compensate the Ming Dynasty for direct compensation of 6.2 million guan, but also annual annual monies, 250,000 silver and 250,000 silk cloth. This is not easy for the Song Dynasty."

When everyone was making suggestions to train a country, Shi Hao proposed money very much, just like everyone was making a lot of fire here. He suddenly pulled off his belt and urinated and put out the fire.

That feels really strange.

The warm atmosphere of a powerful country suddenly stagnated and then slowly dissipated. Everyone looked at Shi Hao with strange eyes, even Zhao Xing, feeling that Shi Hao could not read the air, and did not see what kind of atmosphere everyone is in right now.

But in the end they had to return to reality and realize that what Shi Hao said made sense.

A strong military and a strong country require money, but what the Song Dynasty lacks the most now is money. There are many ways to strengthen the country and the army, but making money is the most important thing, and only with money can we do things.

"It is not only the compensation and annual monies given to the Ming Dynasty, but also the recovery of local governments after the war and the pension of the dead, as well as the problem of official salt. The Ming army destroyed many large salt fields. Once official salt cannot be provided, private salt will become popular, and the income from the Dasong salt tax will be greatly reduced.

Not only that, there is also maritime trade. Previously, the Ming army navy intercepted merchant ships in Suzhou Ocean, plundered goods, and drove away merchants, which greatly affected the maritime trade in the Song Dynasty. Even the prices in Lin'an rose sharply and have not recovered so far. The people complained, and these are all problems."

Shi Hao sighed, looked at Zhao Xing's face, and said helplessly: "The old minister knows that Your Majesty wants to strengthen the country and the army, but before this, he must rectify the internal affairs, rectify the administration of officials, rectify the salt administration, and rectify the maritime business affairs, and then he can strengthen the army and the country."

Zhao Xing lowered his head, his face looked ugly, and he didn't say anything.

Zhang Jun couldn't sit still anymore.

"Governing the country is of course important. Although maritime businessmen and salt taxes are important, I know that, but I don't agree with Shi Xianggong's statement and the issues of succession."

Shi Hao looked at Zhang Jun.

"What is Zhang Shumi's teaching?"

"I can't talk about the teachings. I just want to say that everything that Mr. Shi needs time to do. If a strong country and a strong army are in the back, it will take time. Before that, will Ming Guo give you time?"

Zhang Jun looked back at Shi Hao.

Shi Hao shook his head.

"I don't know what the Ming Dynasty Congress does, I don't know, Zhang Shumi doesn't know, only Emperor Ming knows, what we know is that the Ming Dynasty is planning to build the Yellow River and turn the Yellow River back to its old path.

With such a large project, the Ming Dynasty would have to do its best to build the Yellow River while starting war. No matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty is, it would be impossible to do it. Therefore, at least when the Ming Dynasty started to repair the Yellow River, the Song Dynasty was safe."

Zhang Jun shook his head.

"That's what you think the Ming Dynasty cannot do it. Just as we all thought that the Ming army could not use 60,000 troops to attack Lin'an. What's the result? The Ming Dynasty's 60,000 troops penetrated the Song Dynasty, causing the Song Dynasty to lose all its face!

We don’t know too many things. We must observe the place of life and death, the way of survival and death. Shi Xianggong, both of them have no order and must be carried out at the same time."

Shi Hao thought about it for a moment and spoke slowly.

"With the current financial situation of the Song Dynasty, if we want to pay compensation and annual monies, we will definitely be in a difficult situation. At the same time, there will be no natural disasters and man-made disasters in the country, otherwise the Song Dynasty will have no money to deal with natural disasters and man-made disasters.

So I still think it should be more stable. First, stabilize the domestic situation, wait until the court's finances are a little more abundant, then rebuild the army, train the army, and strengthen the military."

Zhang Jun still disapproves.

"Reasons are dead, people are alive. How can living people be confined to the principle of death and be self-confirmed? Mr. Shi, I know that you are safe in doing things, and you will naturally take charge of the affairs of the government. We are very relieved, but military affairs are urgent."

Seeing that Zhang Jun could not be moved by any means, Shi Hao had to turn to Zhao Xing to make a request.

"Your Majesty, with the current financial situation of the Song Dynasty, it is very difficult to promote military reform and local recovery at the same time. The old ministers think that the war has just stopped and the Ming Dynasty will not easily rise again. The Song Dynasty should concentrate all its efforts to restore local governments, stabilize finances, and then strengthen the army. What does Your Majesty think?"
Chapter completed!