"This... why are you? I have long said that I only serve as the emperor to supervise the regent and will never usurp the throne. Why do you force me to do this?!"

A large number of officials suddenly persuaded him to come forward, which caught Tang Jianguo off guard. Before coming to Nanjing, he made up his mind to never be the emperor. He never thought that Zhou Shixiang was so anxious that he had just finished offering sacrifices to Xiaoling, and before he could calm down, he had such a big show of forcing the palace to force him. He couldn't help but annoy him.

"I am talented, virtuous, and poor, and I am not a person who inherits the throne. In this Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing, there is half of the country. Wu Lai Yue Duke and his soldiers fought to the death. Wen Tuo Guo (Zhiqi) and Zhang (Huangyan) all the gentlemen worked hard to assist. I am just sitting in the hall to read the memorials. How dare I be greedy for the merits of heaven? I have to take it for myself! Don't force me to do it anymore! I will never follow your request!"

"Your Highness is such a bad word!"

Zhou Shixiang knelt down with Nanjing civil and military officials. As one of the leaders of the Zhou Party, Grand Secretary Ding Zhixiang naturally understood it. At this time, he was the opportunity to support great achievements. How could he beg others? So he changed his usual mediocre image and said loudly:

"The country was unfortunate and Nanjing fell. Anzong had just been hunting north, and Lu Jianguo took the initiative to offer the surrendered enemy in Hangzhou... The national humiliation was extremely high, and Emperor Xiang (Longwu) succeeded to the throne in order to cheer up. When His Majesty Shaozong died for his country, the emperor was afraid of the enemy as a tiger and abandoned Guangdong and fled. Emperor Wenzongjie was forced to ascend the throne to the throne. Now that the emperor abandoned the country again, how could his highness be greedy for the throne?!"

Ding Zhixiang was once the deputy envoy of Emperor Shaowu's Guangdong Censorate. He was naturally clear about the story of that year. The officials around him nodded repeatedly when they heard it, and naturally he refused to let Tang Jianguo easily shirke him.

"Although Nanjing has been restored, the captains want to follow Hailing, gather ugly people and peek at Jiangdong. Just like today, the son of the sages do not know where to go, the treasures are empty and there is no master in the sea, and your highness is not upright for a day, how can people feel at ease? I also ask your highness to take the ancestors and the people of the world as their thoughts, abandon their private qualities and follow the great righteousness, and quickly inherit the great throne!"

Zhang Huangyan, the Minister of War, was originally a faction of King Lu in eastern Zhejiang. Although there was a disagreement between Tang and Lu, time had changed. Before entering Nanjing, the King of Tang sent a quick horse to award Zhang Huangyan the title of Grand Secretary, and was temporarily appointed as the Minister of War to the Southern Zhili Supervisor, and did not alienate him because of King Lu's relationship. In the letter, the King of Lu also asked Zhang Huangyan to assist the Tang Jianguo ascend the throne, so Zhang Huangyan naturally had to do his best.

"Your Highness is a righteous man and a military man, and half of the wall is revered to the glory. It is called Jitong, but it is actually a kind of development. Moreover, since the southward transition, the throne has been divided into two thrones of Yan and Tang dynasties, and the wise men of the Tang dynasty are even more powerful than Yan dynasty! Your Highness is Shao, the legitimate brother of the two sects of Wen, and the brothers are finally brothers, so what's wrong with it!"

Another general of the Zhou Party, Grand Secretary Yuan Kuoyu, saw that Ding Ge Lao was in the limelight, so he naturally could not let him be alone. In a hurry, he took a different approach, and even disregarded the righteousness of the monarch and ministers who were hidden by the lords of the emperor and the emperors of the Yanfan who started Hongguang. This time, not only did he make the Yongli Party stick Jifu Lianchengbi look so angry that his face turned blue, but even some neutral and upright ministers frowned.

"Your Highness is not willing to take on this great responsibility in the world, is he cherishing his reputation?!"

"Your Highness wants to abandon the country of the emperor?!"

"Is Your Highness going to take the country into danger again?"

Inspired by Grand Secretary Yuan, the other officials gradually became fierce and even unrestrained. As the saliva splashed, they did not notice that the face of the Tang King became increasingly ugly.

"Why do you have to force me to be this emperor?" Tang Jianguo's face turned red, and he was finally forced to become anxious.

"I know the nature of Gu Zi'er and others. Since Gu said he would not usurp the throne, he would never be a rebellious minister!... Gu will go back to Guangdong now... If anyone stops Gu, Gu will hit him and die on the divine magic monument so that you can see Gu's heart!"

After Tang Jianguo said that, he urgently ordered the eunuch Pan Yinglong to open the way in front. Pan Yinglong was a little hesitant and secretly looked at Zhou Shi. Seeing the opposite nod, Eunuch Pan stood up straight and ordered the ministers blocking the way to move aside. After all, the governor was the king, and the officials were ministers after all, and the ministers were part of the ruler. The ministers were not easy to forcibly stop him, so they could only get up and follow the governor and walk one after another.

The King of Tang hurried out of the tomb gate, walked along the shrine by the horse-drawn stone, and climbed onto the chariot without raising his head under the gaze of all officials and gentry. Before he could sit down, a thunderous call came from his ears: "I hope the governor's country will respond to the heavens and ascend to the throne as emperor!"

The governor was startled and lifted the curtain to look up. He saw that on both sides of the gods, thousands of soldiers guarding the governor were kneeling on the ground, all of whom were shouting long live, asking him to ascend to the extreme. The King of Tang looked at the soldiers of the three armies and was speechless for a while, but he still refused to agree.

"Your Highness!"

Seeing that Tang Jianguo refused to agree, dozens of lieutenants took off their armor and clothes on the spot, exposed their scars and knelt in front of the Tang King's carriage. The leader said loudly: "Your Highness! The young Zhang Minghu is from Gaoyou. When he traveled south, the young man went to Fujing to join Master Longwu. He wanted to fight back to his hometown every day, but he retreated step by step. He had to settle down in Guangdong. Fortunately, General Zhou went down the mountain to take us to kill the Tartars, which avenged great revenge for Master Longwu! The general said that you are Master Longwu, Master Shaowu's brother, and my true dragon emperor of the Ming Dynasty. If you don't become the emperor, our Ming Dynasty will have no backbone!"

"Our brothers fight with the Tartars, they are all men who don't know tomorrow... I just want His Highness to ascend the throne and become the emperor, so that the dead brothers will have a reward, and the living brothers have a small future without any thoughts. As long as they can go back to their hometown to find my parents' grave, burn some paper money, so that they know that our Ming Dynasty is back, I will not be sorry for my ancestors!"

Looking at the scars on Zhang Minghu's body, Tang Jianguo's nose felt sour. Unlike those civil officials who usually speak of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness but have their own scheming, these men who fight desperately with the Tartars are the truly lovely people in the eyes of the King of Tang. Their request is so simple that they are just to have some care for their lives and have some support, and they can have a place to worship their ancestors. However, the court was unable to satisfy them, which made the King of Tang feel guilty and could only comfort him gently: "I have no merits and no virtues, and I have let down the soldiers... This emperor cannot do it, and I must wait for the emperor to come back..."

"Your Highness!"

Zhang Minghu kowtowed violently, and nearly ten thousand Taiping soldiers kowtowed together, but there was no sound at all.

Xiaoling is quiet.

"Duke of Guangdong, can you let your son go down the mountain?"

Tang Jianguo didn't know what to do. He actually begged Zhou Shixiang next to the car. The latter responded gently and waved his hand to the soldiers. Nearly 10,000 soldiers immediately moved away from both sides like a tide, revealing the road in the center for the car to pass through. The Tang King felt relieved and bowed his head and said nothing as if he was running away. However, as soon as he got off the gods, he stopped again. The Tang King leaned his head to ask, but saw countless people kneeling on the road, helping the elderly and young, burning incense to top the pot. More than a hundred people in their seventies were kneeling on the road, tremblingly with the help of their children and grandchildren. When he saw Tang Jianguo looking over from the car, he said long live!

"Old man, what are you doing!"

The old men knelt down to him, how could the King of Tang bear it? He hurriedly drove off the car and wanted to help them get up, but the old men refused to get up.

The old man in the leader held the hand of the Tang King and cried, "Your Highness, Jiangnan has been poisoned by the Tartars for 16 years, and the people have been looking forward to the return of the court and the royal army. Now that we have finally recovered our clothes, the old man, can we not worry about being faced with our ancestors after death... But if Your Highness refuses to ascend the throne, how can we make the soldiers and the people believe that the Ming Dynasty can not only come back, but also eliminate the Tartars? What if the Qing soldiers kill the river again, ask me to wait for the people!"

"Old man, my Daming Emperor is still in the southwest. I am just managing the emperor on behalf of the emperor. How can I occupy the nest?"

"Your Highness! Where is the emperor's whereabouts? The Tartar Emperor fell on the other side and was about to kill him to resurrect the tragic incident of Hongguangnian! If your Highness refuses to obey us today, please ask the frame to crush the old people! When I get old, I don't want to be a slave to the country again!"

Facing a group of old people crying bitterly, Tang Jianguo wanted to repeat the words to the officials and soldiers just now, but he couldn't say the words of rejection.

Facing civil and military officials, the King of Tang can still maintain his majesty; facing the meritorious soldiers, he is already full of guilt; facing the common people, the governor of the country cannot be tough at all. He glanced at the chief minister of the cabinet, Guo Zhiqi, with helplessness in his eyes. The great ministers of the two dynasties also sighed and knelt in front of the governor and said: "The emperor once ordered Wenzong (Shaowu) to hand the imperial edict: If the king first worships Xiaoling, I will abdicate and return to his residence. Today, the emperor is patrolling the desert, and your highness has already worshiped Xiaoling. Can you make any jokes? Please respond to the emperor's imperial edict and do not resign your great responsibility!"

"Now the hearts of all officials, the hearts of the soldiers, and the hearts of the people and the hearts of the elders are all in His Highness. The heart of heaven is the heart of the people. How can Your Highness betray the world for the sake of minor condolences?! I would like to give my help from death!"

Seeing this, Zhou Shi hurriedly knelt in front of the King of Tang again and struck while the iron was hot to achieve results!

Tang Jianguo stood there for a while, and finally cried to the elders: "I am not a greedy man, but I am the ancestors and the country, and the people have no choice but to do it!"

Zhou Shixiang, Qian Qianyi and others were waiting on the side and were overjoyed. The civil and military officials could not wait to put out the Dharma carriage that had been prepared and must let the King of Tang climb onto the chariot. The Dharma carriage is the highest level of ceremonial guard for the emperor, and no one else is qualified to use it. The Tang Jianguo finally climbed the chariot under the crowd of Zhou Shixiang and civil and military officials, and the sound of long live the mountain was thunder.

The King of Tang sat on the chariot and wanted to confess his love again. He said to the civil and military gentlemen: "The ministers thought that it is better to worship the ancestral temple than to spears, but the ancestral temple is of great importance, so I am not worthy of praise. Now I am loved by the hearts of the people, so I will not be able to give up my words and follow the whole nation. The ministers should work together and not be able to assist me."

Zhou Shi and all officials said they were obeying the orders. At this moment, the vast crowd of people surrounded the Tang Jianguo from Zhengyangmen to enter the Nanjing Imperial City.
Chapter completed!