Chongzhen's face was extremely ugly.

How could he not understand that the next battle in Zunhua City was ostensibly the success of the Ming Dynasty in blocking the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces, leaving the main force of the Horqin Department.

In fact, he was shot by Huang Taiji, which greatly weakened the living force of the Horqin Department.

After returning to the division, Jianzhou came to Horqin, where only the old and weak women and children remained, and the thieves did not go empty, and annexed the remnants of the Horqin department.

Originally, Jianzhou transformed the Mongol tribes into vassals, but it was not until seven years after Chongzhen that he defeated Lin Dan Khan and completely became the overlord outside the Great Wall.

After reading and looking at the information in his hand, Chongzhen gradually calmed down the rhythm of his breathing.

This is the butterfly effect of simulation.

The positive butterfly effect is that he has redeemed the famous generals who will die in the changes that have passed, such as Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui, and Sun Zushou, and has renewed the vitality of the weakened Ming Dynasty at this time.

The negative butterfly effect is that after Huang Taiji's expedition to the Ming Dynasty was fruitless, he chose to accelerate the integration of various Mongolian ministries.

In the face of this change, I can only accept it calmly, and then try my best to amplify the positive factors.

He walked in front of the map of the northern border of the Ming Dynasty.

Today's North Asia presents a three-country situation.

Jianzhou in the northeast has established the so-called Dajin State, which is about to use troops to the west, with the intention of clearing the northern court.

The Chahar headquarters in the west, under the leadership of Lin Dan Khan, was determined to recover the Northern Yuan, and was continuing to win over the remaining clans left by Dayan Khan, trying to prevent the Monan Mongols from falling to Jianzhou.

And the Ming in the south is a giant with feet of clay.

To his southwest, the unquelled rebellion of the Tusi of Guizhou had firmly absorbed the power and wealth of the regional provinces, and it became extremely risky to mobilize the Tusi and the White Pole soldiers to reinforce the north as before.

In his northwest, the military towns that used to defend the frontier have become the source of unrest and are in danger of spreading to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

To his northeast, the Zhili region, which was originally guarded by the Western Liaoning Corridor, had been exposed to Jianzhou's attack range, and the other party could move south through the Grassland Corridor at any time to invade any Great Wall fortress from Zunhua to Datong.

It can be said that the current Ming Dynasty is under attack everywhere, using troops everywhere, and is completely passive.

Chongzhen recalled what he had done since this simulation.

Externally, he trusted Man Gui and Yuan Chonghuan, repelled the Jianzhou army, accumulated some prestige, and set up an artillery school to prepare for the future.

Internally, after the retreat from Jianzhou, he kept opening up the source and reducing the expenditure, and the open source side checked the new taxes on salt, wine, and tea, and the throttling was to share the Liao salary and clean up the clan.

These are all very good, but they are all trapped in specific affairs, ignoring the strategic situation that Daming is now facing, and more importantly, they cannot reverse Daming's current passivity.

Some people feel that as long as they slowly farm and raise an army that is strong enough to crush Jianzhou head-on, they will be invincible.

In fact, in the late Wanli period, the overall strength of the border towns of the Ming Dynasty was still stronger than that of Jianzhou and the Mongolian Chahar Department, but the Ming Dynasty did not have the initiative to fight, but Nurhachi captured Fushun and Qinghe, and Lin Dan Khan once broke through Guangning.

By the time the Ming Dynasty gathered its troops, either the other party had already withdrawn, or it was a fiasco in the Battle of Salhu and the Battle of Liaoyang.

Therefore, Chongzhen must choose a direction that can get Daming out of his current passivity, which is the most crucial.

Only by determining the next strategic direction can we mobilize the strength of the whole country to work towards this goal, instead of being mobilized everywhere by Jiannu, Lin Dan Khan, and thieves in northern Shaanxi like headless flies, and exhausted.

Chongzhen first looked in the southwest direction.

At this time, the rebellion of Lu'an was about to be pacified, whether he should transfer troops and send generals, first pacify the large rear area in the southwest, and then transfer the white pole soldiers of Qin Liangyu in Sichuan to reinforce the battle situation in eastern Liaodong.

Chongzhen pondered for a moment, but still shook his head.

First of all, except for Sichuan, the southwest is all limestone mountains, and the transportation with the north is extremely inconvenient.

Even if the southwest can be pacified quickly, it is unlikely that there will be huge gains in fiscal revenue.

Secondly, the water in the southwest was very deep during the Ming Dynasty.

In Chongzhen's previous simulation, after the Lu'an Rebellion was completely pacified, there would be another rebellion in Tusi in Yunnan.

This rebellion, Chongzhen has not yet been quelled when it has been reopened repeatedly.

Therefore, instead of sending the white pole soldiers from Sichuan, it is better to leave them in the southwest to suppress the 100,000 mountains.

Chongzhen looked to the northwest again, why not finish his work in one battle, completely sweep away the thieves, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

In this way, the funds and military strength for the suppression of bandits in the northwest can be fully concentrated in Liaoxi and Denglai, so the tripartite encirclement proposed by Yuan Chonghuan before (actually mentioned by Xiong Tingbi in actual history) may also be realized.

Chongzhen looked to the northwest and finally shook his head.

Because there was not only a popular uprising in the northwest, but also the Chahar department of Lin Dan Khan.

In the previous simulation, Lin Dan Khan was simply a madman who hit people on sight, rather than a reliable ally.

After Chongzhen transferred the northwest combat strength, he once captured Datong, Ningxia and other military towns respectively, which led to the turmoil in the northwest that Chongzhen had finally stabilized.

Therefore, the northwest is destined to absorb a considerable number of troops.

Not to mention, the so-called popular uprising in northern Shaanxi is not because of the so-called three salaries and factions.

Judging from the "Degree Support Recital" written by Bi Ziyan in history, there was no so-called situation in the Chongzhen era where the southeast did not pay taxes and the northwest paid more taxes.

At that time, the largest amount of silver was distributed in Henan and Nanzhili, about 650,000 taels. Then there is Shandong, 550,000 taels.

Shaanxi's additional dispatch of 200,000 taels is about the same as that undertaken by Guangdong, and the two provinces are only ranked ahead of Beizhili and Guangxi, which have special circumstances.

In fact, the ecological collapse caused by the Xiaoice River period and long-term farming in the livestock belt is the root cause of the civil change in northern Shaanxi.

According to the records of people at that time, even the roots and turf of trees in northern Shaanxi were sloughed away.

In this case, whether or not to raise taxes will not change the nightmare situation of the locals.

The refugees in northern Shaanxi rebelled again and again, also because after the official army appeased them, they could only send them back to their hometowns.

Returning to their hometown is suicide for these displaced people and unemployed border soldiers.

Only by wandering to Jindi and Zhongzhou, killing the locals, and plundering their survival resources, can they maintain their lives.

The best way to solve the problem of rogue gangsters is to restore the production order in northern Shaanxi and let them farm with peace of mind.

But the cost and manpower required to do so will be astronomical.

Chongzhen can only think of the current way, that is, to block their way and prevent them from harming Guanzhong and Shanxi.

Vetoed two directions in a row, and the breaking point was only the northeast direction.

Chongzhen looked at the Liaoxi Corridor on the map, could it be said that he still followed the old path of Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan to build a tower?

But this path has long been vetoed by itself.

Suddenly, Chongzhen looked at an area under the Liao River, above Jizhen.

On the map, it is written that the four words Daning Dusi.