Zhao Ming has actually not relaxed his surveillance of the Zhu royal family.

At the beginning of the city of Wuchang, Zhao Ming planned to completely destroy the Zhu power, but because Zhu Yihai intervened in the rear, Wu Sangui also set up troops on the border and prepared to intervene in the internal war of the Ming Dynasty, which forced Zhao Ming to compromise.

Zhao Ming had no choice but to acquiesce to the Longwu group.

After that, Zhao Ming returned to Nanjing and first got rid of the disobedient Zhu Yihai, and supported Zhu Youlang as the emperor to resolve the internal discord.

After resolving and purged the Zhu Yihai faction in the Nanjing court, Zhao Ming then divided the Longwu faction while disagreeing and dividing the Longwu faction, while expanding the army, sorting out the internal affairs of the Yongli court, enriching the national treasury, and gradually settled in the position of regent.

At this time, Zhao Ming had strong soldiers and strong horses, and wanted to have soldiers and money. He gradually controlled the situation, and he began to regret not completely solving the problem of the royal family.

From then on, Zhao Ming had actually considered how to attack the royal family, but he had no excuses.

After all, the Ming Dynasty was founded for nearly three hundred years, with a royal family population of hundreds of thousands, occupying a large amount of social wealth. It does not require tax payments, but also requires the court to pay money to support it.

Of course, the court had long stopped the salary of the royal family, but the power of the royal family still hindered the development of the Ming Dynasty and the reforms that Zhao Ming was about to carry out.

Most of the royal families in the Ming Dynasty were rich, but if they had money, they had power.

The privileges of the royal family come from the royal identity and are naturally royal in politics, so they will never tolerate Zhao Ming controlling the government and threatening the Zhu family's throne.

The conflict between Zhao Ming and them is almost irreconcilable, and they can only be completely divided.

To this end, Zhao Ming eliminated the influence of the emperor on the court and moved the cabinet and the court to Yangzhou, while monitoring the royal family with a loose outside and tight inside, waiting for the royal family to make mistakes.

After all, the Ming Dynasty's surname was Zhu, and Zhao Ming had reached an agreement with Zhu Yuyou, Zhu Yue, Zhu Linyuan, and Zhu Yihai before. It always required a safe excuse to take action.

Starting last year, after Zhao Ming moved to Yangzhou, he deliberately relaxed his surveillance of Zhu Yihai and was also more indulgent to the Three Feudalists of the Tang Dynasty.

Sure enough, the Military Intelligence Department soon discovered that there were a group of Jiangbei soldiers who had been abolished in Nanjing.

When Zhao Ming forced Zhu Yihai to abdicate, he then carried out a large-scale purge of his direct troops. Many soldiers of the Jiangbei Army were driven out of the army.

Although Zhao Ming paid severance payments, the soldiers who had fought for more than ten years did not know anything except wars, and could not stand the loneliness in farming. Soon, they spent all the severance payments and were wandering all over the south of the Yangtze River.

These people appeared in Nanjing in large numbers, which immediately aroused Zhao Ming's vigilance and asked the Military Intelligence Department to secretly monitor it.

Not long after, Zhao Ming summoned the vassals and sent troops to the northern expedition. Li Dingguo, Jin Shenghuan, Gao Yigong and others all brought nearly 10,000 elite troops to assist in the war. The three vassals of the Tang Dynasty sent less than 10,000 troops, and the troops were all new soldiers, which was completely fooling Zhao.

Zhao Ming's northern expedition would definitely be empty in the south, which would be an opportunity and the only opportunity for those who opposed him.

If Zhao Ming succeeded in the Northern Expedition and recovered Shenjing, even if Zhao Ming wanted to usurp the throne, the people in the world would have no objection. Even if Zhao Ming did not plan to usurp the throne, the people in the world would be anxious for Zhao Ming, why didn't the regent become the emperor?

Zhao Ming contacted the former Jiangbei generals who appeared in Nanjing. Seeing that the Tang Dynasty's Three Feudalists preserved their strength, he had a premonition that the royal family was going to cause trouble.

However, Zhao Ming actually didn't take the actions of the royal family seriously.

If the Zhu family united to deal with Zhao Ming before the Battle of Wuchang, Zhao Ming was still a little worried, but now Zhao Ming has been regent for nearly three years, and the court is full of his people and his followers are all his followers. He is not only not worried about the actions of the royal family, but instead deliberately indulges them and waits for their actions.

Therefore, after Zhao Ming noticed the signs, he did not collect actions. Instead, he arranged the matters between the court and various places, continued the Northern Expedition, and prepared to resolve Ajige again, and at the same time he also dealt with the royal family.

When Zhao Ming captured Xuzhou, news came from the Military Information Department that Zhu Yihai had obtained a large sum of money from somewhere and began to contact his former subordinates. A large number of Jiangbei troops who were abolished by Zhao Ming gathered in Nanjing.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Tang King, Yue King and E King were also ready to move and secretly headed to Nanjing on a merchant ship.

After receiving the report from the Military Information Department, Zhao Ming knew that Zhu Yihai and others would take advantage of his Northern Expedition to take action in Nanjing.

Therefore, after Zhao Ming captured Xuzhou, he did not advance north immediately. Instead, he waited for Zhu Yihai to take action, and began to make arrangements to appease and win over all forces.

Zhao Ming used the land in the north to win over merchants, gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and army, including Li Dingguo, Jin Shenghuan and others, to his side, and then secretly summoned members of the cabinet left behind in Yangzhou and his confidant ministers, and sent Du Yinxi to Liaodong to resettle the surrendered army.

Zhao Ming was ready and waited for Zhu Yihai to launch the army immediately back to suppress the rebellion of the royal family.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yihai and others were too cowardly. Seeing that Zhao Ming's army was parked in Xuzhou, they did not dare to launch it.

Seeing this, Zhao Ming hesitated for a while and finally decided to take the risk to go north and give Zhu Yihai a chance.

Sure enough, shortly after Zhao Ming's army arrived at the city of Beijing, the royal family forces in Nanjing believed that Zhao Ming was far away from Jiangnan and went deep into the territory of Dongqing, and was beyond the reach of Jiangnan. Finally, he launched a coup and controlled Nanjing.

In this way, the royal family could use the emperor's name to impose orders in various parts of Jiangnan to decide Zhao Ming as a traitor and take the opportunity to control Jiangnan. Zhao Ming had a family and could not return.

By then, under the joint efforts of the Nanjing royal family, the Dongqing, and the Zhou Kingdom Wu Sangui, Zhao Ming was attacked from all sides. In addition, the Longwu and his team in the Northern Expedition took the opportunity to cause trouble, and Zhao Ming would definitely be defeated.

But Zhu Yihai didn't expect that Zhao Ming was very scheming and had been waiting for them to do this long ago.

Of course, Zhu Yihai actually noticed something wrong and realized that Zhao Ming might set a trap for him, but Zhu Yihai could not miss this opportunity.

Because once Zhao Ming recovers Shenjing, his status will be unshakable, and Zhu Yihai will have no chance again.

Therefore, Zhu Yihai knew there were risks, but he had to give it a try.

At this time, Zhao Ming had actually been arranged to the south. Although Zhu Yihai controlled Nanjing City, the cabinet and six ministries had long been transferred to Yangzhou. As soon as a coup occurred in Nanjing, Chen Mingyu, the left-behind Grand Secretary, had already responded and controlled the turbulence in Nanjing.

Now Zhu Yihai only controls an isolated city in Nanjing.

In Jiangnan, Zhao Ming was ready, and Wu Sangui of Zhou was still fierce in Mongolia, and Ajige was unable to protect himself. Everything was actually under Zhao Ming's control.

At this time, Zhao Ming was acting in front of Li Dingguo and others, but in fact, he was relying on the righteousness of the Northern Expedition and the recovery of Shenjing, forcing everyone to stand in front of others to express their opinions.

On the one hand, he was determined to recover Beijing and loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but on the other hand, he was a corrupt royal family who ignored the righteousness and dragged their backs.

Not to mention, the Northern Expedition is related to their vital interests and whether the farm can be fulfilled. It is not difficult to choose just to see Beijing being captured. No one wants to be Qin Hui and leave the infamy of thousands of bones.

If they help the royal family, they will not end up well with their urinary nature.

Furthermore, the Zhu family has always given generous rewards to the people of their Zhu family, but they are quite stingy to them.

If the royal family wins, they will have no benefit. In the future, maybe due to political needs, they will inevitably be punished and be blamed for Qin Hui.
Chapter completed!