Early the next morning, Chen Kan was still cozying up to the cute girl with big eyes under the covers.
Just as he was about to start a gunfight, Leng Buding heard Yuncheng's voice outside the door.
"Sir, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is waiting for you in the living room. ..."
Hearing this, Chen Kan's originally great interest suddenly seemed to be extinguished by a basin of cold water.
Angrily, Chen Kan put on his fox fur and walked out of the room, angrily saying: "You're celebrating the New Year, are you urging me to die?"
When Yuncheng saw Chen Kan's unhappy face, his heart pounded. He had experienced Chen Kan's anger many times before. If you don't do it well, you might get a beating!
"Which censor comes here to seek death during the Chinese New Year? If there is something that cannot be discussed another day, if he comes to seek death in the early morning, I will grant him his wish."
As soon as Chen Kan said this, Yuncheng suddenly felt a little ashamed. It was a big holiday after all, and someone coming to visit didn't mean that the family business was prosperous. This was a good thing!
Seeing Chen Kan angrily heading towards the living room, Yun Cheng was excited and hurriedly chased after him.
During the Chinese New Year, it would be bad if it really kills people.
After all, this young master's brain circuit is indeed different from ordinary people. If he really wants to get angry, it doesn't matter whether it is a festival or not.
"Sir, wait for me!"
Chen Kan walked to the living room angrily and saw the green-robed official who had been forced to change his seat yesterday, waiting in class with a reserved look on his face.
Seeing Chen Kan show up, the censor quickly stood up to greet him.
"Chen An, the imperial censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, has met your Excellency."
As the saying goes, don't hit someone with a smiling face, not to mention this censor's attitude is so respectful.
Chen Kan's anger immediately dissipated.
"Excuse me. I wonder if Yushi Chen is visiting me during the Chinese New Year. What's the important matter?"
Faced with Chen Kan's blunt question, the censor was stunned.
Then he said cautiously: "Master Chen, should we set off?"
"Set off?"
"Where to go?"
Chen Kan is confused?
Could it be some New Year activity unique to the Ming Dynasty?
The censor was even more confused than Chen Kan. His Majesty made it very clear yesterday.
The emperor appointed Chen Kan as an imperial envoy to inspect Yunnan.
Why is this Mr. Chen so clueless?
this……
It shouldn’t be!
But when Chen Kan asked, he still bowed his hands respectfully and said: "Go to Yunnan."
"Going to Yunnan?"
"When did I say I was going to Yunnan?"
Chen Kan looked shocked.
Then he said suspiciously: "You came to me just to have fun during the fucking Chinese New Year, right?"
"Go out and ask around. Who in the entire capital dares to play tricks on me, Chen Kan? I think you are here to die!"
The official was even more shocked. Mr. Chen was a fish with only seven seconds of memory?
However, seeing Chen Kan's face getting more and more ugly, he hurriedly explained: "Master Chen misunderstood. When His Majesty gave you food yesterday, he appointed you as the Imperial Envoy to lead the imperial censor sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect Yunnan's reformed land. Don’t you remember the effectiveness of our policy?”
"ah?"
"Damn, is this still happening?"
Chen Kanyan was stunned. Didn't you see that I went to bed yesterday?
Where can I go?
"real?"
Chen Kan still didn't believe it. He suspected that there might be an activity similar to April Fool's Day to tease people during the Ming Dynasty.
"Of course it's true. The imperial edict is here, please take a look."
When Chen Kan saw the imperial edict that Chen An took out had the word "Chen Kan" written in big letters on it, he was confused again.
"Grass (a plant), what's going on?"
In an instant, Chen Kan transformed into a C language master, and the expression on his face began to become uncertain.
Damn it, Zhu Di was so old that he asked him to go to Yunnan without consulting him in advance.
Is there still king's law? Is there still law?
That’s fucking Yunnan.
Even if it is far away, there are still savages running all over the mountain with wooden sticks, which is very dangerous.
Chen Kan put away the imperial edict and greeted Zhu Di's elders again in his heart!
He looked at Chen An: "Can't you go by yourself? It's just a formality anyway."
Chen An opened his mouth wide. He suspected that he was hallucinating.
What words, what words is this?
Is this human language?
What does it mean to be a formality? Doesn’t he know what an imperial envoy is?
Chen An Qiqi Ai Ai said: "If you don't go, I'm afraid... I'm afraid it won't work!"
Chen Kan suddenly became furious and said: "How come you don't get enough food and salt? I won't go to Yunnan anyway. You can go by yourself if you like!"
Chen An never thought that his outlook on life would be impacted like this. What happened to Mr. Chen?
I really want to slap him in the face.
Who is the master who keeps out the oil and salt?
He said numbly: "Master Chen, you are disobeying the order and disrespecting me."
Chen Kan gave up and said, "If you resist the decree, resist the decree. Anyway, I won't go. Whoever wants to go can go."
That is Yunnan. Is Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty a place where people can go?
According to classmate Li Tong, today's Yunnan can be described in four words: "poor mountains and harsh waters."
The key is to return the people's customs to be tough. Those savage-like mountain people are terrifying, and they cannibalize people.
Just from Li Tong's description, Chen Kan could imagine that today's Yunnan is definitely not the kingdom of animals and plants that will be like spring all year round in later generations.
Chen An was also quite helpless. Why is this master so difficult to serve?
Even if you don't obey His Majesty's arrangements in the palace, now you still want to resist the decree. Can you resist the imperial decree casually?
He might lose his head. Did he not realize the seriousness of the problem?
Thinking of this, Chen An decided to try harder. He took a deep breath and said, "Master Chen, I'm afraid you have to go to Yunnan. His Majesty's will has been made known to the world, and there is no reason to change it."
"Oh, you still dare to threaten me?"
Chen Kan stared at Chen An with an unkind expression, and he would get angry and hurtful if he said something that didn't agree with him.
Chen An Lingran was not afraid. He looked directly into Chen Kan's eyes and said calmly: "If your Excellency seriously refuses to go, I can only report to Your Majesty the truth."
Chen Kan narrowed his eyes: "Are you threatening me?"
Chen An raised his head and was about to defend himself when a sharp call came from outside the door.
"Your Majesty's Oral Order~"
Hearing this voice, Chen An was relieved.
To be honest, facing Chen Kan, a ruthless man who likes to burn down other people's houses whenever they disagree, he was under a lot of pressure.
Chen Kan frowned and rushed out of the door.
As soon as the little eunuch saw Chen Kan running out of the yard angrily, he immediately backed away with his hands folded in fear.
"Chen...Master Chen, Your Majesty has a message for you."
"explain!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty asked you to go to Yunnan as quickly as possible. He said that if you dare to find any excuse to delay the time, you will be disqualified from this year's college examination and your legs will be broken..."
"I...I'm done..."
The young eunuch was frightened by Chen Kan's momentum. After conveying Zhu Di's order with trembling hands, he turned around and ran away.
Chen Kan stayed where he was, closing his eyes and having to accept the sudden news.
After a moment, he opened his eyes.
He would not doubt Zhu Di's determination, even if he was his son-in-law. If he said he wanted to break his legs, he would not just break one.
In other words, he really made a reservation for this trip to Yunnan.
"call……"
After taking a long breath, Chen Kan's face calmed down.
Chen An, who had just followed him out, asked calmly: "Mr. Chen, can we set off now?"
"Can!"
After Chen Kan uttered two words through his teeth, he turned around and looked at Yuncheng beside him and angrily shouted: "Why are you still standing there in a daze? You are preparing something for a long journey!"
This look of bullying made Chen An's face twitch again.
"I'll get ready now, little man."
Yun Cheng woke up from a dream and ordered the servants in the mansion to wander around like headless flies.
Half an hour later, Chen Kan looked at the convoy of more than ten carriages in front of him with a dark look on his face, and couldn't help but kick Yuncheng in the butt.
"Young Master is going on business, not traveling!"
Yuncheng's face looked a little aggrieved, but... he didn't dare to talk back!
Zhu Yuelan took Chen Kan's arm and said worriedly: "Husband, I heard that Yunnan is in danger. Otherwise, let's go to the palace and beg my father to let him go with someone else."
Chen Kan patted her hand and said: "It's useless, His Majesty has given a death order. I have to leave on this trip to Yunnan. You stay at home obediently. If you get bored, go and play with His Royal Highness." "
Suddenly there was a sad atmosphere of farewell in the air.
"Sir, if we delay any longer, we won't be able to reach the Chuzhou border today."
Chen Kan was about to give her a farewell kiss, but a disturbing sound suddenly sounded, and Chen Kan had to bid farewell to the cute girl with big eyes reluctantly.
After leaving Zhengyang Gate, the imperial envoy team on this southern tour was already waiting quietly at the city gate.
These include three censors sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a hundred-household office sent by the Fifth Military Governor's Office to protect the personal safety of several censors, plus a hundred-household office under Fang Xu led by Chen Kan, a total of two More than a hundred people.
Since Chen Kan was traveling as an imperial envoy this time, the path he took could only be planned by the imperial court.
It left Nanzhili, entered Jiangxi, passed Huguang, entered Guizhou, and ended in Yunnan.
The moment Chen Kan got the line, he wanted to curse.
Which fucking idiot planned this route?
It turned out to be a land route. Is this for fear that he might not die in Yunnan?
Obviously, we should go all the way upstream along the river, and after arriving in Chongqing, we would turn southwest and enter Yunnan via Wuchi Road from Douchuan Pass. However, we had to plan to take the land route. Isn't this just fucking disgusting?
Seeing this, Chen An on the side could not help but remind him in a low voice: "Master Chen, this is your Majesty's wish."
The unhappiness on Chen Kan's face immediately subsided.
That's what your Majesty meant.
That’s okay!
"Let's go!"
Chen Kan got on his horse and followed the route given by Zhu Di out of the capital and turned west.
The primary purpose of Chen Kan's imperial envoy was to inspect Yunnan and investigate the actual results of the policy of reforming the land and returning it to the locals.
But at the same time, he also shoulders the important task of investigating local people's livelihood.
This was the reason why Zhu Di arranged for them to take the land route.
It's faster to go upstream along the river, but... Zhu Di wants them to see the people's livelihood conditions in various places, not the river!
That's what happened!
But Chen Kan was just unhappy.
Because the road conditions in Daming are really bad.
The roads in Jiangnan are not bad, at least the terrain in Jiangnan is flat, and Jiangnan is an important financial and taxing area of the Ming Dynasty, so the official roads are fairly wide.
But Chen Kan had traveled to Guizhou and Yunnan in his previous life. He knew how difficult it would be for his group to travel the entire Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau without highways.
On the first day, a team of two hundred people hurriedly entered Chuzhou City before dark.
After staying at the post station in Chuzhou City, Chen Kan got into the room and started counting the time on his fingers.
Chuzhou is one hundred and sixty miles away from the capital, and they walked for a whole day, even if they didn't care about their horsepower.
From the capital to Yunnan, it is nearly four thousand miles, and it will take at least a month even if you don't care about horsepower.
Not to mention that the imperial team had to deal with local officials when they went to various places.
If we were delayed in Yunnan for another ten or eight days, almost three months would have passed.
The college examination is on February 28th, the last day of February. In other words, by the time I come back from Yunnan, the college examination will probably have passed?
For a moment, Chen Kan wanted to curse his mother.
Didn't co-author Zhu Di not want to take part in the imperial examination?
Unfortunately, there is no point in scolding her now. The mission to Yunnan has become an established fact. All Chen Kan can do is to try his best to shorten the time.
“If the vehicle is kept simple, starting at Yin time every day and setting up camp at Xu time, without sacrificing horsepower, it can cover forty miles more every day.
By traveling two hundred miles a day, the round trip can be reduced to about fifty days without having to deal with local officials.
It’s not too late to spend ten days and a half in Yunnan.
I just don’t know if those weak censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate can accept such a high-intensity rush!
No matter what, I’m the biggest in the team anyway, so I have the final say! "
After muttering to himself for a while, Chen Kan suddenly missed the cars and high-speed trains of later generations.
The daily march of two hundred miles, converted into kilometers, is one hundred kilometers, which is more than an hour's drive away.
The high-speed rail is faster and you'll be there in a snap.
But in this era, a hundred kilometers is a proper high-intensity march, and this is with the deployment of all light cavalry.
In later generations, Chen Kan often saw things like 800-mile acceleration in movies and TV series, and BMW traveling 800-miles a day.
But after Chen Kan's actual experiment, he found that the people who said these words were just farting.
No BMW can run 400 kilometers in a day.
After just one hundred kilometers of running, the horses are basically tired and the people are basically tired too.
This one hundred kilometers is divided into four sections. After running for twenty or thirty kilometers, you have to stop and rest, feed and water the horse to cool down, otherwise the horse will easily be burned to death due to the high temperature!
"Grass (a kind of plant), it would be nice to have a little electric donkey!"
Once again transformed into a C language master, Chen Kan suddenly felt that it was urgent to promote the industrialization of Ming Dynasty.
But when I think that the Ming Dynasty cannot even build the most primitive steam engine, I can only shudder in my heart.
"Sir, a group of people suddenly came outside the door, saying that we took their place!"
Just when Chen Kan was confused in his heart, a noisy quarrel suddenly sounded outside the door.
Chen Kan rolled over and sat up from the bed which was as hard as a rock.
He said angrily: "You are celebrating the Chinese New Year. Where are you from? You dare to compete with me for the inn. Are you impatient?"
