Richard did not agree with Genevieve's peerless plan, which was not driven by human sympathy. The most critical reason was the interests-

Richard doesn’t want to give up the population resources of East Asia!

The northeastern region of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom was not well developed in this era, and most of the Jurchens still stayed in the tribal system of fishing and hunting for a living. If it were not for the rule of the Tang Dynasty, they would not even know what "agricultural civilization" was.

The population of the Three Hans is quite large, but because it is located in the border, it has never been valued by the Tang Dynasty. The promotion of Han culture is very weak. Although it was nominally the ruler of the Three Hans during the peak of the Tang Dynasty, it was actually just the tribal leaders of the Three Hans who feared the strength of the Tang Dynasty and were dependent on the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Similar to the autonomous lords, they regularly pay tribute to the Great Tang Dynasty.

Because the force of the Three Koreans was weak, the Tang Dynasty naturally did not control its garrison. After all, the garrison was also a considerable expense...

This has prevented the Chinese culture in the Three Koreans from being widely popularized and circulated. The tribes and leaders of the Three Koreans still maintain their own unique national culture, especially in terms of language!

Because of this, after An Lushan rebelled, the Three Han lands, which had lost the military deterrence of the Tang Dynasty, immediately broke away from the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and surrendered to the powerful An Lushan at that time, and continued to live an independent and free life.

If you really want to control the land of the Three Hans, you must send a large army to sweep the messy Three Hans sticks, then force the popularization of Han culture, and then immigrate to the real Han people, and slowly integrate them in several generations...

Otherwise, you would use the current Jurchen Jin Kingdom method to attack in quickly and neatly, and then turn the people of the Three Koreans into the coat of arms of the Jurchen bannermen!

Therefore, in Richard's eyes, the land of the Three Koreans has little benefit to rule. However, in Richard's eyes, the land of Yanyun and the Central Plains, which have been developed and mature, it is a piece of fat in Richard's eyes!

With a relatively sparse population alone and incompletely developed Yanyun Land, more than 100,000 new troops were armed, continuously filling the consumption of meat grinders on the northern defense line, and even the population still has the spare energy to continue recruiting troops to supplement the consumption of the new troops!

If it is the densely populated Yanyun land and the Central Plains, as long as you have money and food, it is not difficult to arm a million troops!

In fact, during the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the registered government soldiers, regular field troops, local county soldiers patrol battalions and other messy soldiers could reach 2 million!

In the war between An Lushan's uprising and Tang State, the soldiers of the regular army alone cost hundreds of thousands!

Here we refer to the soldiers who died in battle, and a large number of Tang soldiers were defeated or were incorporated by An Lushan for other reasons!

During the peak period before the green-skinned orcs headed south in An Lushan, there were nearly one million troops. In addition to the 200,000 core elite troops, there were nearly 800,000 local garrison troops and auxiliary soldiers such as militia townsmen.

Yan State with this scale and strength naturally beat Tang State...

However, in the end, he was weakened by the green-skinned orcs who went south and became the "sick man"!

Just from the number of troops of An Lushan and the Tang Dynasty, we can see how rich the population resources of Yanyun Land and the Central Plains are.

In contrast, although the land in the southern provinces is fertile, the population is not as good as that in the Central Plains and Yanyun because the development time is too short.

If the Central Plains and Yanyun land can be successfully annexed, Richard will have enough population resources to arm the army of hundreds of thousands, and then he will be fully qualified to fight the war of attrition with the green-skinned orcs who are heading south!

After all, Richard has gold fingers. When hundreds of thousands of human troops are exhausted, the undead army will probably be able to gather 100,000 elite troops. No matter how strong the green-skinned orcs are, can they still have Richard's gold finger cow?

This is the fundamental reason why Richard is unwilling to allow the green-skinned orcs to sweep south!

However, it is not as easy to annex the Central Plains and Yanyun Land. On the surface, Yan State seems to be weaker than Tang State due to internal and external troubles, but Yan State is now a big pit. If An Lushan defeats An Lushan, he will have to face the green-skinned orcs and the eighteenth rebels going south. The Jurchen Jin State in the northeast will not be peaceful...

If you want to establish rule in Yanyun land, it would be easier to attack Tang State directly!

However, it is very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to fight against Tang. Today, the Tang Dynasty is full of landlords, warriors and local private soldiers. These rich people have become class enemies with Richard, and they all spend all their money and fight to the death. Richard is not that he cannot win, but he cannot afford to spend it!

As Genevieve said, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, how many soldiers did Richard have enough?

The two-headed giant Jack is Niu Bi, but there is only one. The landlord armed group training and local clan private soldiers of the Tang Kingdom can bloom everywhere. If you are more brave, you can even insert the Ming Dynasty land and explode Richard's "local" area!

At that time, unless Richard can set up a huge and continuous rear defense line, even the territory that Ming Kingdom has swallowed will be in war!

Therefore, protracted war is not suitable for Richard. Richard must conquer the Tang Kingdom in a short period of time and force his whole country to surrender in order to swallow the entire Central Plains.

As long as the Chang'an court surrenders and becomes Richard's vanguard in suppressing rebellion, those landlord armed groups and local clans will lose their backbone. While morale is greatly reduced, they will be dispersed into sand without the leading court, which will be much easier to deal with.

The armed armed group training of landlords and local clans and private soldiers led by the Tang Dynasty could blossom everywhere and fight on multiple fronts. Without the leadership of the Tang Dynasty, they could only be regarded as mobs scattered in sand!

Richard only knows one way to make the Tang Kingdom surrender unconditionally. It is best to capture the Emperor of Tang Kingdom, which will be easier to operate next.

However, this is not absolutely successful. If the emperor of Chang'an City runs away early, or the Tang Dynasty court resolutely resists the Ming Dynasty to the end, finds a new bloodline of the Li family to rebuild a small court, and continues to lead the landlord armed forces and local clans to fight against the Ming Dynasty, Richard will fundamentally push the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty with force!

At that time, Richard may have to choose Genevieve's road...

Since Yan Yun and the fat meat of Central Plains could not be swallowed into their stomachs, they could only destroy it themselves. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty, which became the target of public criticism, would definitely exhaust its national strength in a long war of attrition, and even if Richard had a golden finger, he could only protect himself!
Chapter completed!