After the retreat of the old Jiangkou, the situation in Jiangnan suddenly stabilized.

Ajige made a lot of gains, but Zhao Ming and Longwu quitted, and then defeated tens of thousands of Ming troops and fled back to the south bank, leaving Ajige with no opportunity to take advantage of it, so he could only sigh at the river.

As for today, the overall strength of the Southern Ming Dynasty is about one point stronger than that of the Qing Dynasty. If Zhao Ming did not attack and kill each other with the Longwu court, the Qing army would not be able to cross the river.

Only when the internal part of the Southern Ming Dynasty split and became several forces, and internally fighting each other, the Qing army had the opportunity to reap profits.

Zhao Ming did not attack Nanjing like Zuo Liangyu, causing Ajige's plan to fail.

For a time, the Qing army could only station in key areas, rest and rectify the troops, reorganize the prisoners, and wait for the opportunity to fight again.

The Qing army was calm, and the various forces within the Ming Dynasty did not take any action.

This time, the Longwu court was greatly damaged. In addition, the mutiny of the Xichuan army threatened the old nest of Huguang. In addition, the court suffered losses and generals, Zhu Youjian was unable to repel the Qing army and recovered several prefectures in Jiangbei. At the same time, he was unable to eliminate the Zhejiang army and could only maintain the status quo.

During this internal strife in the Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Yihai was deposed, Zhao Ming raised an army and defeated the imperial guards in a row, forcing the court to finally release Zhu Yihai and others, causing a huge blow to the prestige of the Longwu court. The warlords in the Ming Dynasty, who were originally forced by the central authority and somewhat restrained, reduced their awe of the court.

This made the warlords in each town see that the Longwu court is strong outside and weak inside. Since Zhao Ming can force the court to agree to his conditions, would the warlords in each town be okay?

Therefore, although Zhao Ming withdrew his troops, the Longwu court was actually ruined.

In this way, the small warlords would not obey orders, and the large warlords would even seek independence and rebellion, which would bring great crisis to the Longwu court.

Now Zhu Youjian can only try every means to reshape the authority of the central government, but to re-establish his prestige, he still needs time to restore his strength. Before that, the Ming Dynasty court could not be in chaos.

For this reason, Zhu Youjian only tolerated Zhao Ming, and at the same time ordered King Zhu Youyou of Tang to squeeze out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the Jiangxi finances, and went to Jingzhou to appease the Xichuan soldiers, and ordered the Xichuan soldiers to withdraw back to Sichuan.

Zhu Youjian had to appease the Xichuan soldiers first and ensure the safety of the base camp Huguang. However, Sun Kewang was also an ambitious person. After occupying Jingzhou, he already had the capital to compete for the world. The Longwu court may be easy to invite gods and it is difficult to send gods. Whether Sun Kewang would withdraw his troops is not so easy to say.

Another branch of the Longwu court, the Zhejiang Army led by Zhu Yihai, was the main force of the Ming Dynasty's internal resistance to the Qing army since the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty.

At this time, the Zhejiang Army in Nan'an stopped moving after Zhao Ming took away tens of thousands of defeated soldiers from the Jiujiangkou. The Zhejiang Army in Yangzhou even remained silent after the Qing army advanced south.

After Zhu Yihai escaped from Nanjing, he came to Zhao Ming's camp and keenly noticed that the generals under Zhao Ming's command and the Zhejiang generals who surrendered to Zhao Ming's attitude towards him changed.

Although Zhao Ming and the Zhejiang generals are still very respectful to Zhu Yihai, Zhu Yihai lost his position as crown prince and became an ordinary vassal king.

Nowadays, Zhu Yihai is the king and Zhao Ming is also the king. Moreover, Zhu Yihai has no savings in Nanjing City in the past two years, and he is in vain. The Zhejiang army under Zhao Ming's command all take Zhao Ming's money.

Many generals of the Zhejiang Army were also ethical and moral. It was impossible for them to take the money of King Wu and Yue to be loyal to Zhu Yihai.

The generals of the Zhejiang Army gradually changed their mentality in their mentality.

Zhu Yihai was very sensitive to this change. After staying in Zhao Ming's camp for a few days, he crossed the river to the north and went to Zhang Mingzhen's camp.

After Zhu Yihai arrived in Yangzhou, he gathered troops and did not attack the Qing army. He did not in anger and counterattack Nanjing. Instead, he reduced his troops and protected Yangzhou and Huaian tightly.

This time, the internal turmoil of the Ming Dynasty tore up all forces and made all parties no longer trust each other.

Faced with Ajige, who occupied several prefectures in Jiangbei, the Zhejiang army, which was originally active in resisting the Qing Dynasty, had concerns at this time and had no plan to actively drive Ajige out.

Zhao Ming, another branch of Wu Yue, who was split in the Zhejiang clan, was already in a semi-independent state at this time.

During this storm, Zhao Ming controlled Zhejiang and took away tens of thousands of defeated soldiers. He ate too much and took time to digest it.

Now, in the state where the Southern Ming court is superficially unified but actually fall apart, it is difficult for Zhao Ming to organize the Longwu court, Zhu Yihai, and his troops to fight against Ajige.

The battle in Jiangbei made Zhao Ming no longer trust other people, and the troops in the headquarters were difficult to defeat Ajige, so Zhao Ming stationed his troops on the south bank. As long as Ajige did not fight across the river, Zhao Ming would not take action.

Under such circumstances, the war in Jiangnan suddenly stopped and reached a temporary balance.

Zhenjiang, in the Wuyue Army camp.

Zhao Ming looked at the decree from the court and couldn't help laughing, "The emperor asked the Gu General to receive the defeated army from Jiangdong and return it to Nanjing! He also ordered the Gu King to withdraw from Zhejiang and Zhenjiang!"

All the generals in the commander's tent were laughing. Wang Dana followed Zhao Ming for a long time. Seeing Zhao Ming's expression, he couldn't help but seize the opportunity, stood up and fisted and said, "Your Highness, Nanjing is stupid, the court is corrupt, and your highness has the appearance of the sun, this is the destiny!"

When Zhao Ming heard this, he saw that there were many generals in the tent, perhaps because he was guilty, and was shocked. He suddenly stood up from the position of commander and shouted: "Wang Dana, how dare you make such crazy words! If you say this again, I will definitely not let you go!"

Seeing Zhao Ming's reaction, Wang Dana immediately did not dare to speak.

As Zhao Ming's strength grows, his subordinates will inevitably have some ideas. They have discussed in private what to do next, but everyone does not know Zhao Ming's idea.

Wang Dana also conducted a test, which means that the Longwu court was corrupt and incompetent, and Zhao Ming had the aura of the emperor and instigated Zhao Ming to rebel independently.

This is the case with the warlord forces. If the people below want to climb up, the people above must obey the people below. Otherwise, if they block their way, they may be abandoned or even killed by their subordinates.

This situation was very common in the separatist vassal states at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods, and sometimes the governors and vassal lords did not want to rebel, but there was no way. The people below did not agree. If you don’t become emperor, we have to be founding fathers. If you don’t rebel, you will kill you, and then establish a new leader to lead us to rebel.

It is precisely because of this that the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were particularly chaotic. However, Zhao Ming's control over his subordinates was not comparable to the vassal lords and the governors at the end of the Tang Dynasty. His military power was controlled by him, and it was unlikely that the subordinates would be defeated by the subordinates.

Seeing Zhao Ming's reaction, everyone did not dare to mention it again. Tang Tong couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, what is the will of the court?"
Chapter completed!