The conflict with Chen Ying was just a minor disturbance in Chen Kan's opinion. Even if he did not have a dispute with him today, he would have to confront him sooner or later after Chen Ying entered the court.
It's like being an enemy of Ji Zang.
This has nothing to do with personal preferences or even private grudges, but is determined by the stance between the two people.
Zhu Di needed cool officials like Chen Ying and Ji Gang to gradually clean up the old Jianwen ministers above the court, and he also needed people like Chen Kan to balance the power between the courts.
The two people's different positions are destined to become political enemies sooner or later.
So Chen Ying just beat him up, it’s not a big deal.
What really made Chen Kan wary was the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division.
Fang Xu's unintentional words made Chen Kan clearly see the current state of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division.
Perhaps the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division developed too smoothly in his hands, and he did not deliberately suppress the two-pronged spirit of the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division.
As a result, they have now developed a state where the emperor is first and Chen Kan is second.
It seemed that except for His Majesty and Chen Kan, they were not afraid of anyone.
This is still Fang Xu, the person who follows Chen Kan at all times.
Even his mentality is like this, let alone the ordinary lieutenants in the Yamen who have not seen Chen Kan for ten days and a half. In their hearts, they are afraid that they have long been myths, right?
As a time traveler, Chen Kan knows very well how many people in history died miserably because they did not know how to restrain themselves.
As a person, you still have to be low-key!
And now, not to mention that the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division is far from being feared by everyone, even if the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division is really on par with the Jin Yiwei, according to Fang Xu's mentality, Chen Kan will be defeated sooner or later. The soldiers and horses of the five cities were implicated and killed.
Chen Kan wanted to hold the power and change things, but he didn't want to be drowned in the torrent of history.
It seems that after returning from Yunnan this time, it is time to reorganize the interior of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division.
Strengthening the political and ideological education of the Wucheng Army and Horses Division, establishing civilization, promoting new trends, and building the Wucheng Army and Horse Department into a humanistic department in the new era of the Ming Dynasty. This was Chen Kan's original intention to take over the Wucheng Army and Horse Department.
Instead of covering it up with the simple words "Emperor Eagle Dog".
After punishing Fang Xu in front of everyone, Chen Kan took advantage of the situation and announced his decision to speed up to Yunnan.
The three weak censors were about to object, but after recalling Chen Ying's tragic situation just now, they finally gritted their teeth and accepted the decision.
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The next day, the sky was bright and the smell of food wafted from the inn.
Yi Cheng, who had been hiding somewhere when Chen Kan and Chen Ying had a conflict last night, is now waiting beside Chen Kan with a smile on his face. His old face is full of wrinkles, which makes Chen Kan feel disgusted.
After filling his stomach as quickly as possible, Chen Kan led the imperial team and disappeared into the morning light.
The postmaster watched Chen Kanyuan go, and looked back at the various supplies Chen Kan left in the post station without tears.
These supplies were piled up in the inn, making the already small space of the inn even smaller, and he did not dare to dispose of these supplies at will.
"Wretched!"
"It really kills people."
"Why is life so hard when you are a postmaster?"
He could clearly see the fight yesterday night while hiding in the dark. He knew very well that no matter what the identities of the two parties were, neither of them could afford to offend him as a little Yi Cheng.
He could only ask his postmen to vacate two rooms with a bitter look on his face and store these supplies properly...
Chen Kan led his team to run for nearly fifty miles in one breath. Only after the men and horses reached their limit did he order to light a fire and make food.
Chen Kan got off the horse and felt that his legs were no longer his.
The inner thighs were numb and there was no feeling anymore.
Fang Xu, who had been taught a lesson by Chen Kan last night, was now like a castrated quail.
He came close to Chen Kan and said honestly: "Our speed is too fast. The brothers in the Five Cities Military and Horse Division are fine, but there are already quite a few complaints among the hundreds of households sent by the Fifth Army Governor's Office. "
"Can't you stand this?"
Chen Kan tried his best to stand up straight, holding back the discomfort so that Fang Xu wouldn't notice anything strange about him.
A sneer appeared on his face: "Go and tell them, where are we now? We are going to rush to Yunnan in one breath. If some people can't stand it, let them go back now."
Fang Xu showed a trace of hesitation on his face: "Sir, is this inappropriate?"
Chen Kan looked directly at him coldly and asked, "What's wrong?"
Fang Xu was about to open his mouth, but he quickly closed his mouth after noticing Chen Kan's unkind gaze.
Chen Kan said calmly: "Before he ascended the throne, His Majesty led an army across the grassland. His light cavalry marched one hundred and sixty miles in a day, and he still had to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. During the Han Dynasty, the champion marquis went north to conquer the Xiongnu, and he marched a thousand miles in six days. Identify the route while walking, and be able to defeat the Huns when encountering them.
We are just traveling 200 miles, and we don’t need to carry heavy logistics, let alone guarantee combat power. If we can’t stand this little pain, how can we be very successful in the future. "
"Ah...this!"
After hearing Chen Kan's comparison, all Fang Xu could do was smile bitterly.
He wanted to retort, we are not elite cavalry. Besides, the light cavalry led by His Majesty is the most elite cavalry in the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also gave all the best warriors and horses to him.
But...don't dare!
However, Chen Kan's words aroused his competitive spirit.
The imperial cavalry marched nearly two hundred miles a day, and they still had the strength to chop off the heads of the Tatars with the knife handle. If they could not do it simply by traveling two hundred miles a day, the news would be spread. Laughing.
So, he conveyed Chen Kan's words intact to the captains under his command, who then conveyed them to the ears of the hundred households sent by the Fifth Army Governor's Office.
"time to eat!"
The cook who was in charge of feeding the imperial team roared, and the soldiers who were stimulated by Chen Kan's words immediately lined up in five neat rows and began to receive their food with solemn faces.
I have to say that although Chen Kan's words were not very harmful, they were extremely insulting and severely stimulated their sensitive self-esteem.
Everyone was working hard while eating, and even the three civil servants lowered their posture at this time and began to eat from the same pot as Qiu Ba, whom they usually looked down on the most.
They want to prove that they are the most elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Looking at the soldiers who were no longer complaining, Chen Kan pulled an unexplainable smile from the corner of his mouth.
The most unbearable thing for a man is when others say he can't do it. Although the provocation method is inferior, the effect is surprisingly good!
The 4,000-kilometer journey to Yunnan and back was a training process for Chen Kan. He believed that when he came back from Yunnan, he would have a tough cavalry under his command.
Although there are only two hundred people, that is enough!
He took a clay bowl from the saddle and scooped out a large bowl full of paste without having to queue. This was his privilege as an imperial envoy.
When the soldiers in line saw that Chen Kan was also eating from the same pot as them, their expressions suddenly became complicated.
Eating and sleeping with soldiers is easy to say, but it is not an easy thing to do.
The Ming Dynasty implemented the military household system, but any general who had reached a certain rank in the army would not bother to stir in the same pot with Qiu Ba like them.
They have their own little stove.
However, the soldiers were surprised for a moment and stopped paying attention. After all, this was only the second day. Who knew whether this young man was just showing off?
Chen Kan walked aside with the paste in hand, broke two dead branches from the big tree beside the road, then sat down on the ground in a down-to-earth manner, and began to eat with a pottery bowl.
After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Kan gradually adapted to the various environments and foods of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, Chen Kan was determined not to take a bite of this kind of glutinous rice that looked like shit and tasted scratchy in his throat.
But now, Chen Kan could barely swallow it. Even when he chewed it carefully, he could chew out a unique grain flavor from the coarse millet noodles. This was something he would taste in the delicacies he would eat in later generations Not available.
Even Chen Kan himself didn't realize that he had only been in Ming Dynasty for more than half a year, but he was more like a Ming Dynasty person than an out-and-out Ming Dynasty person.
While in prison, he had fantasized countless times about how he should integrate into the Ming Dynasty.
But in fact, the state he imagined in his mind never appeared. He integrated into the Ming Dynasty smoothly without any obstacles. It was as if he was supposed to be a member of the Ming Dynasty, and his experiences in later generations were his golden years. Just like a dream.
After taking a few big mouthfuls of the paste in the pottery bowl, Chen Kan got on his horse, resisting the soreness in his inner thighs, and shouted: "Brothers, are you all full?"
"full!"
The soldiers under his command eat much faster than Chen Kan. They have long been accustomed to this pace of life in the army.
Chen Kan waved his hand: "Let's go to Yunnan!"
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Two hours later, a group of people dressed as knight-errants appeared at the place where Chen Kan and others were making fire and cooking.
The leader was a man with one eye and a broken arm, carrying an extremely exaggerated-looking heavy sword behind him. His stature was far larger than that of ordinary soldiers in the army. The blind eye seemed to have been forcibly gouged out by something, leaving only An empty eye socket, with white bones looming.
When others looked at him, a hint of fear flashed in their eyes from time to time.
He walked to the fire and stretched out his hand to feel the ashes of the burned vegetation.
The remaining warmth is still there!
A middle-aged man with a rather elegant temperament, still holding a feather fan in the middle of winter, squatted down next to him and asked, "How do you do?"
The one-armed man shook his head and said calmly: "I can't catch up."
His accent is weird, not like a person from the Central Plains at all.
The elegant man gently waved the folding fan in his hand, nodded and said: "Go back and report to the Saint!"
"Um!"
The one-armed man didn't say anything, just turned around and left.
But he didn't notice the flash of shame, anger and jealousy in the elegant man's eyes when he turned around.
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In a small residential building in the capital, a woman wearing a bamboo hat lightly opened her lips: "According to you, there is nothing we can do against him, is there?"
After hearing the woman's emotionless words, the elegant middle-aged man kneeling in front of the woman shook the feather fan in his hand and almost fell to the ground.
He responded as calmly as possible: "We can set an ambush for that person on his way back."
The woman's eyes were looking into the distance. When she heard the words, she just shook her head slightly: "Setting up an ambush, who knows when the man will come back. He has not come back for a long time. Do we have to hide in the wilderness and wait?"
Hearing this, the one-armed man leaning on the wall said calmly: "I'm going to Yunnan!"
After saying that, the man strode out of the door.
"Wait a minute!"
The woman's ethereal voice sounded, and he stopped and looked back without saying a word.
The woman met his remaining eye and said, "I'll go there myself."
"I'll accompany you!"
"good."
The woman waved, and the elegant middle-aged man stood up and asked, "What are the saint's orders?"
The woman said: "Send a message to Shu and tell the Buddha that that man has left the capital."
"yes!"
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After galloping for days, the imperial team led by Chen Kan passed through the city without entering, and finally emerged from the rolling mountains of Guizhou after half a month.
At this time, what was lingering in front of everyone was a steep pass.
The pass is written with three characters: Shengjingguan, which is the first pass from Guizhou to Yunnan.
The pass stands on the ancient post road. The two mountains of the pass are steep and precipitous, and the canyon between the mountains is deep. The width of the pass is only more than ten feet.
If there is one man at the gate, there will be no way for ten thousand men to open it.
Chen An took out the map and found the three characters Shengjingguan on the map.
Then he said to Chen Kan: "Sir, this is Shengjing Pass, which is under the rule of Pingyi Guards. After passing Shengjing Pass, we have entered the land of Yunnan. This is far away from Lin'an where Xipinghou's army is stationed. We are still three days away from home, do we need to rest here for one day?"
Chen Kan wiped his chapped lips and said calmly: "Then we will rest here for a day and let everyone refresh themselves. After all, we represent the imperial court. Don't let Marquis Xiping look down on us."
"yes!"
Hearing this, Chen An breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around and shouted: "Your Majesty has ordered us to enter Shengjing Pass to rest for a day!"
As soon as these words came out, the tense spirits of the soldiers suddenly relaxed. Many simply rolled off their horses and lay on the ground breathing heavily.
After half a month of continuous forced march, the physical fitness of many soldiers has reached its limit.
The friction between the legs was bruised by the saddle of the war horse, and as for the pain, it was already numb.
Chen Kan's condition was not much better, his eyes were dull, his clothes and skin were covered with dirt, his hair had become matted, and there was a numbness between his thighs that made him almost unsteady.
He now admires those famous generals in history who led large-scale cavalry across the grasslands, Huo Qubing, Wei Qing, Li Jing, and Lan Yu. How did they do it?
Why is it that after leading someone for such a short distance, he is almost useless?
Don't I have the qualifications to be a famous general?
But isn’t the average person who travels through time qualified to be a wolf?
"Hey! I made the mistake of traveling through time!"
Seeing that the soldiers all rolled off their horses, Chen Kan couldn't help it anymore. He rolled off his horses and lay flat on the ground, breathing in the fresh air.
I have to say that in Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty, the sky was really blue and the air was very sweet!
It was January, and the capital was still very cold and windy in the south of the Yangtze River, while Yunnan seemed to have no winter at all.
Birds are singing and flowers are singing everywhere, and the cliffs on both sides of Shengjing Pass are lined with green trees.
Chen Kan was wearing a loose official uniform, but he was still a little hot!
The officers and soldiers of the guard station at Shengjing Pass had already noticed Chen Kan and his party. They originally planned to wait for this group of people to arrive under the gate before conducting routine questioning. Unexpectedly, this group of people stopped moving not far away.
The people on horseback were like dumplings, falling to the ground one after another.
When the officers and soldiers of the guard station standing on the wall saw this, they had no choice but to run to report the situation to their superiors.
The commander-in-chief who stayed at Shengjing Pass was named Zhao Chen. After hearing the report from his soldiers, a look of confusion suddenly appeared on his face.
"More than two hundred people, from Guizhou, or cavalry?"
"Follow me and take a look!"
Zhao Chen ordered his troops and tentatively approached the team led by Chen Kan.
Then, at a glance, he saw an apricot-yellow flag hanging on the leader's majestic war horse.
Zhao Chen was shocked and hurriedly trotted forward and said loudly: "I didn't know the angel was coming, but I didn't greet him from afar. Please forgive me."
Chen Kan squinted at the naive-looking commander-in-chief and saw that he was standing there with his fists clasped and bent over. It seemed that he was not going to straighten up if he didn't say anything. He suddenly felt helpless. Why did this man have no eyesight? No, I'm sorry, I can't move now, are I blind?
He said feebly: "Please find someone to carry me into the prison, and prepare hot water for me to take a bath. Thank you!"
Zhao Chen woke up from a dream, quickly stood up and ordered his soldiers to lift Chen Kan, and then touched the body of Chen Kan's horse, and immediately felt that the horse was extremely hot at this time.
I'm afraid these horses will become useless if they don't cool down!
With his order, the originally peaceful Shengjingguan suddenly became busy.
The soldiers guarding the pass were divided into two groups, one group was responsible for carrying people, and the other group was responsible for cooling down the horses and feeding them.
These days, horses are more valuable than people.
Zhao Chen personally acted as a coolie and carried Chen Kan, who looked the youngest but clearly had the highest official position, into Guancheng.
He was confused, why did the imperial envoy come to Shengjing Pass without saying a word? Why didn’t Yunnan receive any news?
What happened to this imperial envoy? Why did he and his subordinates become like this?
Other imperial envoys, provided with delicious food and drinks in the local area, would have gained a lot of weight after going out for a trip and returning to the capital.
And this imperial envoy actually made himself look like a refugee. Could it be that he was attacked by a chieftain on the way here?
Zhao Chen was carrying Chen Kan on his back, and a scene of a young imperial envoy fighting a chieftain suddenly appeared in his mind.
Now that Chen Kan finally saw his own city, he suddenly felt relaxed. A wave of sleepiness instantly swallowed him up, and he actually fell asleep directly on Zhao Chen's back.
Zhao Chen carried Chen Kan back to his room. For a while, he couldn't find a more luxurious residence, so he had to grit his teeth and donate his room.
I hope this imperial envoy will not dislike it...
