From Soldier To Emperor

Only by occupying all the cities in one of the regions and bringing them under the rule of Richard can he open new regional system buildings and regional corps!

After the East Asian continent crosses the sea to the west or east, the Empire Age panel is no longer displayed, and to the west is only the Central Asia region and the Indian peninsula.

Richard discovered that some of the areas divided by the imperial era system were extremely large in territory, while others were quite densely populated. Just like the Central Plains, the population was almost equal to the sum of the other five or six regions!

That is the most fertile area of ​​Datang. In this world, the southern coastal area is far less developed than the Central Plains area.

In the Central Plains region, the number of green skins is also the least, and there is no dangerous large area of ​​wilderness at all.

There are only a few green skins in some deep mountains and old forests.

Eighty percent of the land of the Beiting Duhu Mansion of the Datang Dynasty and more than half of the city controlled by Anlu Mountain are in the northern part of East Asia, while the Tufan area is basically the place where the Tufan Kingdom and a few Nanban tribes are entrenched.

Among the major regions on the verge of the Western Regions, the Tufan region is the easiest for Richard to win, and there is no one!

Although the west of the Western Regions is uninhabited, the area of ​​Central Asia is very large. Nearly half of Central Asia is located in the Ottoman Empire established by the dark elves!

The two are separated by large grasslands and the Gobi Desert.

In this isolation zone, there are a large number of Semu tribes who were wiped out by greenskins, as well as scattered beasts and greenskins.

This quarantine zone is very scarce. The humans there are basically half people and half bandits who want to survive, and they are quite sturdy, not to mention races like wild orcs and greenskins.

If not necessary, no country is willing to expand into the isolation zone.

Although Richard knew that the quarantine brought the rich Ottoman Empire to the west, where beautiful dark elves were abundant

Whether the dark elves are beautiful or not is not the key point. The main reason is that Richard likes to have beautiful and friendly interactions with foreign races, for example, to greet them fiercely in the form of war.

However, Richard still understands the reason why the persimmon has to be soft. There is a weak Tufan kingdom around him that is still in the civil war. Why do you want to expedition to Central Asia and cross the long isolation zone?

With the addition of 20,000 infantrymen from the Western Regions, Richard has the capital to fight attrition in the mountains!

However, the Tufan civil war is now in full swing, and the two sides have not yet decided the victory or defeat. Richard intends to let the Tufan people consume some more power before doing it.

Perhaps, after the Turfans were exhausted from fighting, the Turfans voluntarily surrendered as soon as Richard's army arrived.

While having a dream, Richard announced the news of the newly formed Western Region Army.

The officers and soldiers in this Western Region Legion are all good examples of not getting a penny of the army's salary, and everyone fights fiercely without fear of death, has good military training, and all the infantry are good men who are good at shooting!

The Western Regions Corps consisted of 20,000 infantry and 2,000 light cavalry, which is definitely a tyrannical force in the Western Regions.

Just when the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty thought that this was the successor of Qi Jiguang, the minister of the cabinet, Richard had used it to check and balance. With a stroke of a pen, Richard handed the question of eating, drinking, and Lhasa of the Western Region Army to the Minister of Finance Zhang Juzheng, and internal deployment. And daily training management was also handed over to the Secretary of the Army Qi Jiguang

Richard said that he was very busy and did not have time to manage the food and drink of more than 20,000 people.

As for the Ming army soldiers, Richard needs them as his own guards and responsible for his own safety, so he did not hand them over to the cabinet commander.

However, although the Western Region Legion was handed over to the Cabinet, on weekdays, this Western Region Legion is the city defense army of the capital of Kucha, and Richard's emperor pro-army!

When Richard was in the capital of Qiuci, the Western Region Army stayed here. When Richard went out, the Western Region Army would split most of his troops to accompany him. Richard's Ming dynasty soldiers were personal guards, and the Western Region Army was responsible for perimeter security.

Now Richard's safety is no longer dependent on the field army composed of indigenous humans.

The Ming Dynasty entrenched in the Western Regions now has a Han field army of nearly 40,000, an auxiliary army of more than 60,000, a Western army of more than 20,000, and a few thousand Richard Taoist guards.

In other words, the people of the Western Regions have to support nearly 130,000 full-time soldiers!

This is a terrible figure. In addition, the population of the Western Regions has not yet recovered from the war. In August of the 6th year of the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of Finance Zhang Juzheng reported to Li Cha that the Ming Dynasty had already had a serious fiscal deficit, and The main reason is that military expenditures are too high!

If it weren’t for Richard’s Western Region Army and Dao soldiers, don’t pay a penny. The auxiliary corps’ military pay is lower than the average level of the Tang army in this world. The Han field corps does not need military pay because of its military merits. The Western Regions simply cannot support so many troops!

Moreover, the appearance of the fiscal deficit also made Richard understand that he could not continue to play the previous tactics of forcibly conquering the young men and soldiers in the Western Regions, because a large number of young men and women in the Western Regions were killed and lost. Serious labor shortage!

Zhang Juzheng even proposed to disarm the 60,000 **** of the auxiliary army and the young prisoners of war and return to the fields. This will not only reduce the food and salary problems of the auxiliary army, but also increase more than 60,000 young laborers, which greatly compensates for the shortage of labor in the Western Regions.

Of course, this transaction was not unexpectedly refuted by Richard.

What's a joke, how can he disband the high-quality cannon fodder trained by tens of thousands of talents and let them farm?

Farmers who plant the land are easy to get, but soldiers who can fight are not easy to train!

Not to mention these veterans who survived many **** battles!

After learning about Richard's wishes, Qi Jiguang provided Richard with another route to alleviate financial pressures for external expansion and looting, and feed back to the Western Regions!

Qi Jiguang gave two goals for expansion.

The first place in the ranking is not the Tufan Kingdom, which has been in constant civil war. Qi Jiguang’s information shows that the Tufan Civil War has caused a large number of deaths, injuries and escapes of the Tufan people. The Kingdom of Fan is located in a mountainous and plateau area, and there are not many high-grade acres suitable for farming.

The most important thing is that most of the Tufan people have not been civilized. It is easy to lay down the Tufan kingdom, but they must be prepared for a long time to suppress the bandits.

Suppressing bandits is nothing, but the process of suppressing bandits will greatly affect the restoration of production in the Tufan Kingdom. At that time, the Tufan Kingdom may become a worse financial burden than the Western Regions!

Therefore, Tufan can fight, but Qi Jiguang is more inclined to target Dayan in Anlu Mountain.

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