After Xiao Tianjian captured Nanzhili, everyone in the world actually quickly knew the news that Xiao Tianjian was about to establish the country and ascend the throne as emperor, but no matter who it was, there was nothing to be done about it, because where is the strength of the Xingtian Army, and now the Xingtian Army has become a behemoth and is already unshakable.

The Ming court, whether it is Emperor Chongzhen or those ministers, in addition to angrily scolding Xiao Tianjian for being a traitor, can only sigh behind his back, at this time, Ming Sizong Zhu Youzhen, that is, the decree of Emperor Chongzhen, has been unable to order the whole country, although there are still some areas of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Liangguang, Jiangxi and some parts of Fujian are still nominally under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but in the middle there is a huge force established by Xiao Tianjian, so that the Ming imperial power at this time, Basically lost the ability to manage these areas, even if Chongzhen wanted to give an order to these places, he had to send people through the area controlled by Xiao Tianjian to arrive, but on the way he was often caught by the military of Great China, making it difficult for his holy decree to be sent to places outside of Jingfu, Shandong, and Xuanda, so although he knew that Xiao Tianjian was going to ascend the throne in Nanjing City, Chongzhen had nothing to do about it, so he could only sit and wait for Xiao Tianjian to complete his enthronement and become an emperor who could be on an equal footing with him.

At this time, with the strength of the Ming court, it was no longer able to launch any effective offensive against the Xingtian army, because of the loss of Nanzhili, so that the Ming Dynasty had lost the most important source of finance and food, and the busy canal in the past was captured by the Xingtian army in Yangzhou and other places, and the cao boats that sent supplies in the direction of the Jingshi from Nanzhili and Zhejiang and other places were all stopped, and a large number of boat people and cao boats were either controlled by the Xingtian army, or they took the initiative to surrender to the Xingtian army and began to serve Xiao Tianjian.

As a result, whether it is finance or food in the north, there has begun to appear a huge gap, you must know that after the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing in Zhu Di, the consumption of finance and food in Nanzhili and Zhejiang accounted for about sixty percent, and now Caoyun was cut off by the Xingtian Army, it is conceivable that the Ming Dynasty immediately fell into a huge panic.

Since the war in the south of the division of Beijing, it received fewer and fewer boats, and then to Chongzhen thirteen years after October, it is even more cut off, only from Dezhou, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Linqing and other grain warehouses will be transported to the Beijing division for use, for a time the north to the end of the year, there was a large area of food shortage, the officials, the nobles have money, they take the money to buy grain and store it, but the people do not have much food, the land of Jingfu and Shandong have been built into the slaves, the whole north is dilapidated, The population of the common people has also been greatly reduced, and a large number of people have either fled south or have been taken captive as slaves by Jiannu and sent to Guanwai, and there has been a situation of dozens of miles of uninhabited people in many places, and there is no place to fight for grain if they want to collect grain.

The impact of the lack of food is very huge, there are still a lot of officials and soldiers in the north at this time, these hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers also have to eat, the court can't allocate it, they go to grab it themselves, the people's life is much harder, the Ming officials and soldiers don't care whether the people have anything to eat, they have to eat first, so when they grab the people, they are more powerful than Jiannu, it can be said that in order to find food, they have taken a scraping type of looting where they can get it, and the north has reached the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. It can be said that once again there is a situation of starvation.

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

In this way, it also posed a great pressure on the newly established Great China, and officials from all over Great China had to do everything possible to resettle these displaced people, in case they became outcasts in the blink of an eye because they had no food to eat, which would also cause great damage to the rule that the Xingtian Army had established with great difficulty in the previous years.

Before Xiao Tianjian founded the country, Xiao Tianjian and his ministers had already anticipated this situation, and the newly established ministries were very busy with this matter, and had to requisition grain from the territory they had just occupied, or buy or forcibly requisition from some large households, to transfer grain to various places to alleviate the pressure caused by this influx of displaced people.

After Xiao Tianjian ascended the throne, he did not get the slightest respite, so he began to convene the ministers to discuss the next plan of action, and at this time, there was another difference of opinion between the DPRK and China.

The military led by Li Xin believed that this was the best time for them to pass through the south, and took advantage of the fact that the imperial court decrees were not in pass, and the officials and officers and soldiers in various parts of the south were fighting their own battles, and could not be effectively mobilized in a unified manner, so they could take this opportunity to use the main force in the south, capture the entire territory of Jiangxi and Zhejiang as soon as possible, and strive to defeat Fujian, Liangguang, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places in a year's time, so that the Ming Dynasty in the north would collapse on its own.

However, the faction dominated by Li Jinde and Fu Deming and other civil servants strongly advocated that it was best to go north as soon as possible, and directly wave their troops to take down Jingfu and Shandong in the north, so that they could resume transportation as soon as possible, transport grain to the north, and stabilize the people in the north on the original land as much as possible, otherwise, when the south is over, the people in the north will either starve to death, or they will all flee their land, and even if they go north to capture the capital division in the future, it will cost huge financial and material resources to re-emigrate to the north. Because of this, it is better to stabilize the north as soon as possible now, and destroy the Ming Dynasty, and it is not too late for the south to clean up slowly.

Xiao Tianjian is naturally involved in the debate between these two factions, but now that he is the emperor, he can't be too arbitrary, so he needs to listen to such an argument before making a decision.

In the fight against Sichuan, Xiao Tianjian and the ministers have no opinions, after all, Sichuan is an extremely rich place, and now the thief Li Zicheng is also coveting Sichuan, once the thief Li Zicheng takes the lead, Sichuan will be devastated, even if it is recaptured in the future, I am afraid it will be dilapidated, and it is very difficult to recover.

Therefore, the opinions of all the ministers reached a consensus, that is, Sichuan must be captured as soon as possible, at least to seize the northern part of Sichuan first, and block Li Zicheng from going south to Sichuan.

At this point, in fact, Xiao Tianjian has already arranged, after he just laid down the city of Nanjing, he transferred Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu's troops back to Huguang to Jingzhou to reorganize the army, preparing to send troops to Sichuan, these few months, Li Xuanzhu has led his troops to start attacking Sichuan along the Yangtze River, and now he has attacked Kuizhou a year ago, defeated a Ming army guarding Kuizhou, and obtained a bridgehead to attack Sichuan. As for when Sichuan can be taken down, it depends on Li Xuanzhu's ability.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian did not think much about this issue in the matter of attacking Sichuan, he believed that with Li Xuanzhu and Luo Rucai, it was only a matter of time before Sichuan was taken down.

In fact, in recent years, Xiao Tianjian has repeatedly encountered how to choose to go south or north, and his understanding of history has prompted him to make the right decision again and again, so he did not rashly lead the army to the north, and successfully laid down the territories of Nanzhili and Huguang.

Now he also wants to follow the advice of Li Xin's group of staff officers, first go south to level all parts of the south, and then go north effortlessly to take down the northern Jingshi land like ripe fruit, in that case, it seems to be quite safe, but he thought of one thing, that is, he wants to do this, but he doesn't know if Jiannu will give him such time to take down the southern provinces first.

After all, Huang Taiji's slave chief is not a human head and pig brain, including many of his Jiannu, in fact, they have long coveted the Great Central Plains in Guannei, can they sit back and watch him Xiao Tianjian overturn the entire Ming Dynasty so easily, and then wave his army to deal with them?

Li Xin and they only took into account the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, but they forgot to take into account the uncertain factor of Jiannu, and the exact news has not yet been transmitted outside the customs for the time being, explaining what Jiannu is planning to do at this time, so before they can judge the movement of Jiannu for the time being, this is like being at a crossroads again, and 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 to go south or go north after he ascended the throne.