On June 18 of the sixth year of Yongli, after Li overrode the public opinion and decided to take the prison country, Su Yan opened an altar in Nanjing to worship the sky, officially declared the regent and the prison country, and changed the following year to the first year of the prison country.

After Su Yan was officially imprisoned, the system's prompt sounded in his ears again.

[Congratulations to the host for becoming a supervisor of the imperial court, only one step away from the throne, the host's forbearance is admirable, and the system specially issues a reward for the prison country. 】

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining two top civil officials, who can join the cabinet to assist in government affairs, obtain a hussar regiment (including 6 hussar companies, 2 teams of 6-pounder cavalry guns) and a horse farm containing 500 good stallions and 500 good mares.] 】

[Note: Since the host has become the de facto ruler of a country, the army will no longer be directly rewarded from now on, but the army will be rewarded with free conscription slots - the host only needs to choose to recruit in the prefecture, and can train into an army for free within a month.] 】

Su Yan didn't expect that he would be able to mix a wave of system rewards after claiming to be a prisoner, although he had only recently been rewarded with a Guards Infantry Regiment and a Guards Cavalry Regiment and a third-level flagship for his promotion to King of Chu, but who would be too good to have a lot of good things?

However, the rewards given by the system to the two top civil officials were just right, and Su Yan immediately summoned the two.

Both of them are standard Ming Dynasty literati, one of them is named Xu He, a person from Nanzhili, 42 years old, Chongzhen ten years of Jinshi, and the other is named Kong Xingxi, a person from Shandong, 38 years old, who calls himself ZB Kong.

The former was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the latter also served as the imperial history of Henan of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Palace, and he was not a white body - this is also the identity background set by the system to facilitate Su Yan to directly appoint the two.

After some exchanges, Su Yan expressed satisfaction with the ability and talent of the two, and he immediately appointed Xu He as a scholar of Wuyingdian University, as the first assistant of the cabinet and a secretary of the ministry, and Kong Xingxi as a scholar of Wenhuadian University and a deputy assistant to the cabinet.

In addition to the two, Su Yan also appointed and dismissed some officials in the court of the former King Lu, he retained Zhang Kentang Dongge University Scholar, appointed as an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, Wu Zhongluan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhu Yongyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to stay in office, and removed Li Xiangzhong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and appointed Zhang Huangyan as the secretary of the military department with real power, and Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangning, as the secretary of the household department.

He also promoted Gu Yanwu to be the left attendant of the Ministry of War, and temporarily acted as the secretary of the Ministry of War before Zhang Huangyan returned to Beijing, and took Qian Qianyi as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites to preside over the education of the imperial court.

Fu Dingquan in Huguang also retained his official position, Su Yan transferred him back to Nanjing to serve as the right attendant of the military department and a bachelor of Hanlin, revealing that Chongxi tried the case during his tenure as an official, emphasized evidence, allowed the parties to plead their defenses, persuaded people with reason, sentenced according to law, and was moderately lenient and severe, known as "a clear as water and love as spring", Su Yan removed him from his original official position and reappointed as the secretary of the criminal department.

At this point, the six high-ranking officials of the cabinet of the emerging imperial court of the prison state have been collected.

Su Yan's arrangement did not encounter much resistance, Zhang Huangyan, who was still in Yanzhou Mansion, heard that the emperor had died, first grief-stricken, and fainted on the spot, and when he learned the news that Su Yan was in charge of the country and named him the secretary of the military department, he only sighed, as if he had expected it, and accepted the appointment in silence.

Most of the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty led by Zhang Huangyan were like this, but there were some people who chose to hang themselves and go with the emperor, but in any case, the entire southeast gradually accepted this unchangeable fact after experiencing the initial shock after Su Yan's imprisonment. After the appointment and dismissal of personnel, Su Yan was still not in a hurry to march westward, he organized the cabinet for the death of the Yongli Emperor on the name, after some discussion, the court decided to give the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang on the temple number Ningzong, the name of Ying Tian Tui Dao Min Yi Gong Jian Wen Wei Wu Li Ren Ke Xiao Kuang Emperor.

Su Yan originally planned to go to Zhaozong for him according to the historical temple number, but although Zhaozong is praised, it is mostly used for the king of the dead country, even if he wants to go to Zhaozong, he will have to wait for him to ascend the throne and then change the new temple name.

At the same time as going to the temple for Emperor Yongli, Su Yan also wrote a letter to invite Zhu Chenggong to come to Nanjing to discuss the state of the country.

Of course, Su Yan did not forget the Xining king Li Dingguo, who was respectfully called the "last Ming Dynasty man" (he was not yet canonized as the king of Jin at this time), and he also wrote a letter in person, hoping that Li Dingguo could understand the overall situation and resolutely draw a line with the national thief Sun Kewang.

Zhu Chenggong occupied Zhangxia and Guangdong, and became a great warlord in the Southern Ming court, although he was Su Yan's eldest brother, Su Yan could not tolerate an unrestrained warlord in his south.

Therefore, Su Yan invited Zhu Chenggong to Nanjing, hoping to merge with Zhu Chenggong and let Zhangxia and Guangdong return to the direct jurisdiction of the Ming court.

At the same time, Su Yan also confiscated all the civil and military officials issued indiscriminately by King Lu, Longwu, and Yongli in the name of the prison state, and canceled those meaningless positions, so that the rights and positions of the officials in the court and China were clearer.

He also spread the word to the world, asking the soldiers and horses loyal to the Ming dynasty to obey the transfer of the Nanjing court, and sent envoys to western Guangdong to spread the edict to the Ming army in western Guangdong.

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In late June, after the news of Su Yan's imprisonment spread all over the country, Sun Kewang immediately reacted, claiming that he had found Zhu Ci, the mourning prince who had been separated from the Yongli Emperor, among the people??, and supported the so-called mourning prince Zhu Ci in Guiyang. For the new emperor, the name of the year was changed to Jianwu.

And because of Zhu Ci?? At a young age, Sun Kewang was named regent, and spread all over the country, asking all the state capitals and counties of the Ming Dynasty to respect the Guiyang court and crusade against the Nanjing puppet prison court.

Su Dingyuan, who was stationed in Xiangtan County, was like a needle threatening Changsha at all times, and Sun Kewang knew that his main general Su Dingyuan was Su Yan's sworn friend, so he directly mobilized troops and horses to surround Xiangtan County, cutting off the access road, intending to trap the Ming army in the city.

Not only that, Sun Kewang also realized the importance of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, who was still in Sichuan, if these two were fought over by Su Yan, his rear would be in danger.

Therefore, in the name of the regent, he issued a decree to canonize Li Dingguo as the king of Jin and Liu Wenxiu as the king of Shu, and ordered the two to return to the court and jointly fight against the Nanjing court.

However, although Li Dingguo had not yet received Su Yan's letter, he had seen Sun Kewang's previous series of moves to fight for power, and knew that Sun Kewang was not credible, so he did not accept the so-called holy decree from the imperial court, but began to retreat to Yunnan.

Although Liu Wenxiu accepted the canonization of the king of Shu, he refused to be a teacher on the grounds that the war in Sichuan was in full swing, and cut off the road from Yunnan and Guizhou to southern Sichuan.

The reaction of the two made Sun Kewang furious, especially Li Dingguo, Yunnan is Sun Kewang's rear, isn't Li Dingguo trying to steal his house when he retreats there.

In a fit of rage, Sun Kewang immediately dispatched the generals Feng Shuangli and Bai Wenxuan to the west to intercept Li Dingguo's entry into Yunnan, if it weren't for Su Yan's threat by his side, he would definitely personally lead the army to attack Li Dingguo's "traitor".

However, where would Su Yan let him be able to deal with Li Dingguo with all his might, after getting relevant information from the Rogers commando who was still in the realm of Sun Kewang, Su Yan immediately ordered Cao Dahao's troops who retreated to Tongcheng County to march to Yuezhou, and Lai Xun's troops in Chaling Prefecture marched to Xiangtan County to relieve the siege of Xiangtan County.

The large-scale military movement of the Chu army (because both sides were under the banner of the Ming court, in order to facilitate the distinction, they were all called by the title of king) immediately attracted the attention of Sun Kewang, who personally sat in Changsha and began to mobilize troops and horses to prepare for the battle.

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