Chen Kan said seriously: "The enemy is too cunning. Shi Wen is no match. I must go in person."
Seeing Xu Yuan, he still wanted to say something.
Chen Kan patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, I know what I know. No matter what happens, there are still tens of thousands of troops stationed in Chongqing and Guizhou. When necessary, I can turn to Marquis Zhenyuan for help."
The Marquis of Zhenyuan was Gu Cheng, the commander-in-chief of Guizhou who led the troops to suppress Zhu Chun's rebellion.
Seeing Chen Kan's resolute attitude, Xu Yuan frowned and asked, "What about your marriage to His Highness the Princess?"
Just as Xu Yuan asked about the marriage, the young eunuch's sharp shout came from outside the yamen: "The imperial edict has arrived. Admiral Chen Kan, the commander of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, will receive the edict."
The two looked at each other and walked out of the room.
The captains under his command have prepared incense tables and other items. This time, it is a formal imperial edict that needs to be received on kneeling.
Chen Kan came to kneel down in front of the incense table, and all the captains in the square also knelt down.
"The emperor was entrusted with the destiny of heaven, and the edict said: The middle man Chen Kan is of a prudent nature, diligent and submissive, and has a pure nature. Now there is the emperor's fifth daughter, Princess Chang Ning, who has a virtuous temperament, a pure and filial nature, and a suitable house and home... I ordered the two of them to get married on December 18th, how wonderful!"
Chen Kan stretched out his hand to take the imperial edict and murmured in his mind, is Zhu Di installing surveillance around him?
One second he had just decided to go to Shuzhong, and the next second the imperial decree arrived.
It’s really hard not to make people suspicious.
Zhang San handed a plate of wedding coins covered with red cloth to the little eunuch. The little eunuch took the coins happily, his face wrinkled with laughter.
The eunuchs of the Yongle Dynasty had a hard time, and they didn't dare to collect money randomly.
If he had not conveyed the intention of granting marriage today, he would not dare to accept Chen Kan's money casually.
"Congratulations to Mr. Chen, congratulations to Mr. Chen. Our family wishes Mr. Chen and Her Royal Highness the princess a happy marriage and a son soon."
People smiled and congratulated themselves, so Chen Kan naturally held up his hands and smiled and said: "Thank you so much, little chamberlain. With your good advice, next year I will have a fat boy with Her Royal Highness."
"Hahahaha, then our family wishes Mr. Chen in advance that he will get his wish. We have to go back to the palace to recover first. You are busy, you are busy."
When the little eunuch left the door, a group of people immediately surrounded Chen Kan, and the sounds of congratulations and congratulations could not be heard.
Looking at the bright yellow imperial edict in his hand, Chen Kan's gloomy mood has improved a lot in the past two days.
The three great joys of a young man, getting promoted, getting rich, and marrying a wife are finally all there.
But the most important thing at the moment is to catch Fozi and seek justice for those eight innocent girls.
There are still two months until the wedding, which is enough.
Chen Kan was happy for a while, then waved to Fang Xu and Zhang San.
After whispering a few words in the ears of the two of them, Chen Kan turned to look at Xu Yuan and said: "The capital will be left to you. Don't be afraid of becoming an enemy of Jin Yiwei. If anything happens, go to the Ministry of Official Affairs to find my teacher. When necessary, he will take action to withstand the pressure in the court."
Xu Yuan's face was still a little worried, but Chen Kan's expression was extremely determined.
...
At noon, a caravan of a hundred people left the capital, boarded a merchant ship from the Yangtze River pier outside the capital, and headed up the river.
From the capital to Shuzhong, the fastest way is naturally to take the waterway.
The vast waterway of the Yangtze River is an extremely precious treasure left by nature to the Han people. Without this great river, the brilliant civilization of the Han people would have been dimmed by at least half.
The merchant ship is a huge three-story mast sailing ship that can accommodate 600 cargoes and more than 300 merchants, including sailors and ship bosses.
This ship is not the largest ship on the river, but it is not small either.
There were a total of three caravans on the merchant ship, including one composed of captains from the Five Cities Military and Horse Division led by Chen Kan.
Chen Kan's group has the largest number of people and carries the most goods.
Of course, those so-called goods were actually various weapons that Chen Kan collected from the Arsenal, including dozens of fire blunderbuss and two Hundred Tigers of Arrows, all of which were tightly wrapped in thick wooden boxes. Reality.
The other two caravans are said to be going to Sichuan to do silk business. In early winter, the autumn silkworms in Sichuan are all made into finished products. They only need to buy them, transport them to the capital and resell them, which will make several times the profit.
It is worth mentioning that the consul of one of the caravans turned out to be a young woman. These days, it is very rare for a woman to go out to do business, not to say it is unique.
As far as the female businessmen Chen Kan knows so far, only Yuncheng's widowed sister runs a Hengfeng store by herself. All the servants in Chen Kan's family were introduced by her Hengfeng store.
This is the second one Chen Kan has seen.
In the past three days, the three caravans were relatively peaceful. Each caravan was guarding its own goods and had little communication with each other.
Starting from the fourth day, the members of the three caravans became familiar with each other and began to gradually communicate with each other.
But with so many big men, it is easy to breed friendships and conflicts when they get together.
On this day, Chen Kan was staying in his room studying the situation in Shuzhong when he heard a fierce quarrel outside the door.
Chen Kan put down the information in his hands a little irritably, and was about to get up to see what was going on, when a school captain opened the door and came in.
"Young Master, it's not good, the brothers are fighting with others."
"A fight started?"
Chen Kan frowned and walked quickly to the plywood. Sure enough, he saw several captains under his command fighting with the guards of another caravan.
Moreover, reinforcements from both sides are still arriving in a steady stream.
Seeing that the melee was getting bigger and bigger, Chen Kan quickly shouted: "Stop!"
"stop."
At the same time, a shout came from the other direction.
The two of them drank together, and the people in the melee reluctantly separated.
Chen Kan separated from the crowd and came to the middle of the melee. He looked at the leaders Wang Long and Li Hu and asked: "What's going on? Why do you want to fight with others?"
Wang Long said angrily: "Sir, my brothers have cast a net and caught a big fish. They will come up to snatch it indiscriminately."
When the man opposite heard this, his face flushed and he argued: "You fart, that dolphin fish was obviously brought by us."
Chen Kan was a little stunned that just a fish could cause a fight between the two sides.
The woman stepped forward, looked at Chen Kan and frowned: "Brother, please restrain your men."
Chen Kan looked back at the woman, with a hint of fierceness in her beautiful appearance.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he indiscriminately shifted the responsibility to Chen Kan, and Chen Kan immediately felt unhappy.
He said in a deep voice: "Girl, do you think this is our fault?"
The red-faced man stepped forward to protect the woman behind him, and said dissatisfiedly: "It was the fish we caught, but the fishing net is still hanging on the fish."
