Chapter 239 Crossroads

After Xiao Tianjian captured Nanzhili, people in the world soon knew the news that Xiao Tianjian was about to become emperor. However, no matter who is in this matter, there is nothing they can do, because where the strength of Xing Tianjun is, now Xing Tianjun has become a huge thing, which is unshakable.

In the Ming Dynasty, whether it is Emperor Chongzhen or those ministers, in addition to scolding Xiao Tianjian as a traitor, they can only sigh behind their backs. At this time, Ming Sizong Zhu Youjian, that is, the decree of Emperor Chongzhen, can no longer communicate with the whole country, although there are still parts of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Liangguang, Jiangxi and some parts of Fujian are still under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but there is a huge force established by Xiao Tianjian in the middle, so that the Ming emperor has basically lost the ability to manage these areas at this time. Even if Chongzhen wants to order to go to these places, It is also necessary to send people through the area controlled by Xiao Tianjian to reach it, but on the way, he is often caught by the Chinese military, which makes it difficult for his imperial edict to be sent to places other than Jingfu, Shandong and Xuanda. Therefore, although he knows that Xiao Tianjian is going to ascend to the throne in Nanjing, Chongzhen has no way to do this and can only open his eyes. He waited for Xiao Tianjian to complete his accession to the throne and become an emperor who can sit on an equal footing with him.

At this time, with the strength of the Ming court, it is no longer able to launch any effective offensive against the Xingtian Army. Because of the loss of Nanzhili, the Ming Dynasty has lost the most important source of finance and food. After the busy canals were captured by the Xingtian Army in Yangzhou and other places, they went straight from the south. The boat boats that sent supplies to the capital in Li, Zhejiang and other places all stopped. A large number of boat people and boat boats were either controlled by the Xing Tianjun, or they took the initiative to surrender to the Xingtian Army and began to work for Xiao Tianjian.

In this way, there is a huge gap in finance and food in the northern area. You should know that after Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, the consumption of finance and food in Nanzhili and Zhejiang accounted for about 60%. Now the transportation has been cut off by the Xing Tianjun. It can be imagined that the Ming Dynasty immediately fell into a huge In a big panic.

Since the war in Nanzhili, fewer and fewer boats have been received in Beijing. Later, after October of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the boat was cut off. Only some old grain can be transported from Dezhou, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Linqing and other grain warehouses to the capital for use. At the end of the year, the north will come out. There is a large area of grain shortage. Officials and nobles have money to rush to buy grain to store, but the people do not have much food. The land of Beijing and Shandong have been invaded by slaves. The whole north is dilapidated, and the population of the people has also been greatly reduced. A large number of people either fled to the south or were taken as slaves by the construction slaves and escorted to the customs. There have been dozens of miles of uninhabited smoke in many places, and there is no place to compete for food.

The impact of food shortage is very huge. There are still many officers and soldiers in the north at this time. These hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers also have to eat. If the imperial court can't allocate it, they will grab it by themselves. The life of the people is much harder. The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty don't care whether the people have food or not. In short, they have to eat first. Therefore, when robbing the common people, it is more powerful than Jiannu. It can be said that in order to find food, they have adopted a land scraping raid where they can get it. At the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in the north, it can be said that there was another situation of starvation everywhere.

A large number of people really couldn't live. They simply abandoned their fields and homes and fled south to the area controlled by the Xingtian Army. At one time, hundreds of thousands or even more than a million people fled from the imperial court-controlled area to the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army.

In this way, it also poses a lot of pressure for the newly established Greater China. Officials from all over China have to try their best to settle these emigrants, so that they will become thugs because they have no food to eat in a blink of an eye. This will also cause the hard-won rule established by the Xing Tianjun in the past few years. Huge destruction.

Before Xiao Tianjian founded the People's Republic of China, Xiao Tianjian and his ministers had already predicted the occurrence of this situation. The newly established departments were busy with this matter. They had to collect food from the newly occupied territory, buy it or forcibly requisition it from some large families to transfer it to all places to slow it down. Solve the pressure caused by this influx of drifters.

After Xiao Tianjian ascended the throne, he didn't get a chance to breathe, so he began to convene the ministers to discuss the next action plan. At this time, there was another disagreement between the court.

The military, led by Li Xin, believes that this is the best time for them to go through the south. Taking advantage of the failure of the imperial decrees, officials and officers and soldiers from all over the south are fighting separately, and they can't get effective unified mobilization at all. They can take this opportunity to use the main force in the south and capture the whole territory of Jiangxi and Zhejiang as soon as possible. It took a year to defeat Fujian, Liangguang, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places. In this way, the Ming Dynasty in the north will collapse by itself.

However, the faction of civil servants such as Li Jinde and Fu Deming, it is best to go north as soon as possible and directly take down the Jingfu and Shandong in the north, so that the transportation can be resumed as soon as possible, food can be transported to the north, and the people of the north will be stabilized in the original land as much as possible. Otherwise, wait for the strategy. After the south, the people in the north either starved to death or fled from their land. In the future, even if they go north to capture the capital, they will spend a lot of money and material resources to immigrate to the north again. Because of this, it is better to stabilize the north as soon as possible and destroy the Ming Dynasty. The south will be slower. It's not too late to clean up.

Xiao Tianjian naturally participated in the debate between the two factions, but now he is the emperor and can't be too arbitrary. It is necessary for him to listen to such an argument and then make a decision.

In fighting Sichuan, there is no problem between Xiao Tianjian and the ministers. After all, Sichuan is an extremely rich place. Nowadays, the thief Li Zicheng is also coveting Sichuan. Once the thief Li Zicheng is allowed to take the lead, Sichuan will definitely destroy the life. Even if it is taken back in the future, I'm afraid it will be dilapidated. It is also very difficult to recover.

Therefore, the opinions of the ministers have reached an agreement that Sichuan must be captured as soon as possible, at least to occupy the northern part of Sichuan and block Li Zicheng from going south to Sichuan.

At this point, in fact, Xiao Tianjian had already made arrangements. After he had just captured Nanjing City, he transferred Luo Rucai and Li Shuanzhu's troops back to Huguang to Jingzhou to prepare troops to send troops to Sichuan. In the past few months, Li Shuanzhu has led his troops to attack Sichuan along the Yangtze River, and now he has attacked them before the New Year. Kuizhou defeated a Ming army guarding Kuizhou and obtained a bridgehead to attack Sichuan. After the New Year, Li Shuanzhu began to mobilize more troops in the Huguang area and send troops to Sichuan. As for when Sichuan can be taken down, it depends on Li Shuangzhu's ability.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian did not think too much about this issue in attacking Sichuan. He believes that with Li Shuanzhu and Luo Rucai, it will only be a matter of time before Sichuan is taken down.

In fact, Xiao Tianjian has repeatedly encountered how to choose whether to go south or north in recent years. His understanding of history has prompted him to make the right decisions again and again. This has not suddenly led the army to the north, and successfully won the territory of Nanzhili and Huguang.

Now he also wants to go south to flatten all parts of the south according to Li Xin's staff, and then go north effortlessly to take down the land of the northern capital like a ripe fruit. In that case, it seems quite safe, but he thought of one thing, that is, he wants to do this. But I don't know if Jiannu will give him such time to take down the southern provinces first.

After all, the slave chieftain of Huang Taiji is not a human head and pig brain, including many of his Jiannu. In fact, they have long coveted Guannei's good Central Plains for a long time. Can they sit and watch him Xiao Tianjian overturn the whole Ming Dynasty so easily, and then wave their masters to deal with them?

Li Xin and others only considered the current situation of Daming, but forgot to take into account the uncertain factor of Jiannu. For the time being, the exact news has not been returned, which shows what Jiannu is planning to do these days. Therefore, before they can't judge the trend of Jiannu for the time being, it is like being at another crossroads. It is time to choose Where to go! This is also one of the reasons why Xiao Tianjian did not immediately make a decision to continue south or north after ascending the throne.