In Nanjing, Zhou Shixiang has made it clear that once the country is in charge of the throne, he will be supported to ascend the great treasure. Therefore, when the country has arrived in Jiangxi, he started preparing for the throne ceremony. Zhou Shixiang handed over the preparation of the throne ceremony for the King of Tang to Zhang Changgeng, and was co-organized by Gui Yongzhi.

After Zhang Changgeng and Gui Yongzhi were appointed, they immediately started to clean up the imperial city (formerly Mancheng), requisitioned thousands of people from Nanjing to clean the imperial city, and redecorated the imperial city. The major city gates and main streets were decorated with lights and colorful colors, and were extremely happy. The former Ming officials and gentry were also happy. Like the New Year, countless people gathered at the city gates every day just to see the new emperor's dragon face.

Assembling the throne was customized, and Nanjing was one of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty. Although it was occupied by the Qing Dynasty for 16 years and the imperial city became a whole city, there were many officials familiar with the former Ming system in the city, and there was no worry about no one being available. In addition, with Qian Qianyi there, he could correct any mistakes in time.

Zhou Shixiang has basically not been concerned about the preparations for the throne ceremony these days. He is busy deploying the attack on Jiangbei Camp, and only makes decisions about a few major events reported by Gui Yongzhi before dinner every day.

Since returning to Nanjing, Zhou Shixiang was also very upset. Every day, there were gentry and former Ming officials holding various famous posts to visit. At the beginning, he was still interested in receiving a few people. After finding out that the real purpose of these people was only to seek official positions, and there were even some boastful people who gave him some advice on the pretext that he was busy with military affairs, and he never saw anyone again.

The gentry and officials could not see the Grand Commander Zhou of Guangdong, and heard that Qian Qianyi would serve as the three orphans of the Tang Dynasty's regime, so they all went to visit Qian Qianyi. For a moment, there were traffic and roads outside the Qian Mansion, and scholars wearing romantic scarves and people wearing Ming Dynasty official uniforms were endless.

Although Qian Qianyi did not ignore these people like Zhou Shixiang, he was also selective. Among the former Ming officials and gentry, who were above the fourth rank, and the local literary masters also met him. In addition, he was his disciple and those who donated a lot of money to the Ming Dynasty over the years. In addition, the old clan also had a barrier, not anyone could see him as soon as he wanted.

According to the Military Information Department, there are now two permanent residents in Qian Qianyi's mansion, one is Huang Zongxi from Yuyao, Zhejiang, and the other is Wang Fuzhi who came from Hunan. It is reported that Qian appreciated the two of them quite well and said that he wanted to seek official positions for them in the new dynasty. Zhou Shixiang criticized three words in the report, "I know."

On this day, Zhou Shixiang suddenly came to the Jiangning Prefecture prison, where he imprisoned Yue Le, Lang Tingzuo, his forehead was black, Liang Huafeng, Zhu Guozhi, and Sun Kewang. For some reason, Zhou Shixiang actually ordered the six people to be taken to the lobby.

When the six people were taken up, Zhou Shixiang saw Lang Tingzuo first. The former Governor Liangjiang's clothes are now torn and covered in blood, with blood and soil on his beard, his eyes are empty, biting marks on his face, and bloody and flesh on his five fingers. It is obvious that his fingernails have been peeled off, revealing the flesh that has become blood scars, which is indescribable.

Yue Le's chin was still opening and closing. Since it was forced to fall off, Prince An's mouth had never closed. Every day, the jailer sent food to his mouth and then closed his chin so that he could swallow it.

Yue Le came strangely, and he didn't need the jailer to urge him to drink. He came over honestly. After seeing Zhou Shixiang, he did not look angry and gritted his teeth, but just stood there blankly. Looking at his appearance, he seemed as if he was stupid.

Zhu Guozhi was also tortured, and his chest and back were burnt black with iron, and he could not find a complete piece of flesh on his body. Zhu Guozhi knew very well that the thief scholar could not let him go, so he also had the idea of ​​seeking death. When he woke up every day, he would drink more cold water to death. Unfortunately, Zhou Shixiang had already explained that after he used the torture, he would have to apply medicine to the doctor to treat it. The doctor also came once an hour every day. He could rescue him if he was wrong. This made Zhu Guozhi unable to even want to die.

He was not tortured when he was in Suzhou, but when he arrived in Nanjing, his legs were broken. Two prison guards were holding him on the left and right, dragging him up from the cell.

Seeing Zhou Shixiang in the hall, his forehead was black on the ground was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to kowtow, but Lang Tingzuo next to him snorted angrily: "Who else can you kowtow if you are bound to die?"

Hei, Ying Sei woke up and lay there glared at Zhou Shixiang.

The only ones who have not been punished were Liang Huafeng and Sun Kewang. The former was seriously injured, and if he was punished, he would definitely not be able to withstand it; the latter was Zhou Shixiang considering that Sun Kewang had the merits of resisting the Qing Dynasty in the past, so although he deserved to die, he would not have to suffer before his death.

This was the first time the six people met since they were captured. Although they were in the same prison before, they were all detained alone, and no one knew who they existed. Then they suddenly met. Except for Yue Le who continued to stay there, the few people were all sad and choked in their hearts.

Zhou Shixiang's eyes swept around the six people, and finally fixed on Sun Kewang. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but suddenly he was a little distracted and waved his hand to signal the prison guard to take the person down.

This was really a sudden and was quickly gone. The prisoners didn't know why General Zhou suddenly came to see the prisoners, and why he had to take the prisoners down after seeing the person. They were all confused, but they didn't dare to ask, and they went forward one by one to arrest the prisoners down again.

Lang Tingzuo and others were also like when they were taken to the scene. They said nothing and let the jailer take them down. When Sun Kewang reached the entrance of the hall, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Do Marshal Zhou want to send us on the way?"

Upon hearing this, Lang Tingzuo and others couldn't help but stagnate for a moment. Although they were not afraid of death or fear of death, they knew that they would definitely die. Life was worse than death. But when the death period was coming, they inevitably had some reactions. This is human instinct, and they could not suppress it no matter how hard they suppress it.

"Tomorrow, my Ming Dynasty Superintendent will come to Nanjing."

Zhou Shixiang did not answer whether Sun Kewang and their death date were approaching, but just told the other party that Wang Tang was about to arrive tomorrow. After that, he left with his hands behind his back.

Sun Kewang sighed, shook his head, and silently followed the prison guard and returned to his dark cell.

The next day, the carriage of the Tang Jianguo arrived at Dasheng Pass west of Nanjing. Zhou Shixiang and Zhang Huangyan each led all civil and military officials to welcome him.

After the King of Tang arrived, Zhou Shixiang and Zhang Huangyan led all officials to kneel down and salute. The King of Tang stepped forward to help Zhou Shixiang. Zhang Huangyan and asked all officials to stand up in harmony. Afterwards, Zhou Shixiang invited the King of Tang to enter the city. There was a welcome ceremony at Zhengyang Gate, and Qian Qianyi led a group of gentry and people to wait there.

The Tang King's carriage was surrounded by thousands of Taiping soldiers and drove to Nanjing City. Walking through Zhonghe Bridge, you could see countless people greeting Zhengyangmen from afar.

Looking at the people and looking at the majestic Nandu City in front of you, the King of Tang felt emotion and couldn't help but shed tears.
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