After listening to Baihu's science popularization, Chen Kan had a bad feeling in his heart.
Of course, this bad news is not about worries about chieftain harassment, but about whether Yunnan's policy of reforming the land and returning it to local people can be implemented smoothly.
There are too few Han people in Yunnan.
Historically, the biggest reason why the Qing Dynasty was able to successfully roll out the policy of reforming the land and returning it to local people in Yunnan was the huge increase in the population base of the Han people.
Now that there is such a huge disparity in power between the Han people and the Yunnan natives, can the Marquis of Xiping really carry out the policy of reforming the native people and returning them to the locals in Yunnan?
Chen Kan suddenly understood the true meaning of this poem: "What you see on paper is ultimately shallow, but you know you have to do it."
When I was in the capital, I thought it was just a matter of copying homework. Unexpectedly, after a trip to Yunnan, I discovered that this was not the case at all.
No wonder Zhu Di wants to take a trip to Yunnan by himself.
I am afraid that I have already discovered something wrong, and I deliberately let myself take a look, learn, and practice.
Warn him that many things cannot be carried out with a slap on the forehead.
After hundreds of households returned to the queue, Chen Kan ordered: "Speed up and get to Xundian Mansion to rest before dark!"
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Three days passed quietly. Chen Kan rode his horse and walked on the official road of Tonghai County, with vast expanse of blue waves in front of him.
During these three days, Yunnan impressed the entire imperial team with its beautiful scenery and numerous lakes.
Along the way, everyone passed through the Dian Sea, Ming Lake, Chengjiang Sea, and Qilu Lake.
These four lakes happened to be known to Chen Kan. Needless to say, Dianhai was the Dianchi Lake in later generations, Minghu Lake was the Yangzonghai in later generations, and Chengjianghai was naturally Fuxian Lake.
As for Qilu Lake, it is not as well-known as the previous three, and its area is much smaller, but its beautiful scenery is not inferior to the previous three large lakes.
Even Chen Kan, who was on his way, couldn't help but slow down and slowly walked along the lakeside to appreciate this rare beauty in the Central Plains.
Chen An approached Chen Kan on horseback. After half a month of devil training, the three weak governors sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate have also greatly improved their riding skills and can trust the reins of horses.
The two of them walked side by side. Chen An opened the map and said calmly: "Sir, the place where we are now is called Tonghai County. It is under the rule of Lin'an Prefecture. It is also one of the pilot projects for Xiping Hou to change his land and return to his hometown. Can we Want to go into the county town to have a look?"
Chen Kan thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Forget it, just go to Jianshui!"
After passing Qilu Lake Bazi, the broad official road that everyone walked from Pingyiwei turned into a mountain path again.
Fortunately, the road is relatively flat and not the winding path in Chongqing that can only accommodate one person.
When approaching the mountain pass, hundreds of households came forward on horseback and said on guard: "Sir, on the beautiful mountain ahead, there is a group of Huihui. They are the people under the rule of Tonghai County, but they are guarding the mountain and completely disobey the government's discipline. We still Be careful!”
"It's okay, let's go!"
Chen Kan shook his head. He knew that Hui Hui was Ma He and there were many Hui Hui in Yunnan. It was normal for a mountain to have Hui Hui people.
But as soon as Chen Kan finished speaking, he heard a burst of noisy footsteps approaching from far away.
"what's the situation?"
"Is there an enemy approaching?"
"All troops on alert!"
Hundreds of households shouted loudly, and the hundreds of households sent by Fang Xu and the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion also unsheathed their swords.
The noisy footsteps were getting closer and closer, and even everyone's feet began to tremble slightly.
This is definitely not something that one or two hundred people can make.
Chen Kan looked solemn, and the three censors headed by Chen An had a look of fear in their eyes. Although the Yunnan chieftain's ferocity only existed in legends, they had never experienced a battle.
Suddenly, many shirtless, short, monkey-like people rushed out from all over the mountains and plains.
They held a variety of weapons in their hands, including knives, hoes, wooden bows and arrows, and even wooden sticks and poles.
Some of them climbed on the branches, making all kinds of screams and exclamations from their mouths.
Some just slipped down the hillside, and in an instant, the already small mountain pass was blocked with water.
The small mountain pass suddenly became lively.
On Chen Kan's side, when the hundreds of households saw clearly how these uninvited guests were dressed, their expressions suddenly changed and they shouted loudly: "No, they are mountain people, please protect me!"
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and Chen Kan was instantly surrounded by cavalry.
There were no less than three thousand mountain people in the mountains and plains. Chen Kan swallowed his saliva and thought to himself that he wouldn't be so unlucky, would he?
However, he had experienced several battles and had been in the battle formation in person, so he did not panic in his heart.
These mountain people look similar to savages, and their fighting prowess must not be very good. However, the four hundred men under his command are serious cavalry. If there is a fight, with the combat effectiveness of the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, these mountain people will not threaten him. s life.
As for the mountain people, seeing a group of cavalry quietly blocking the mountain pass, with the bright swords in their hands unsheathed, their eyes suddenly showed a look of astonishment.
A mountain man with a collar made of unknown teeth hung around his neck and his clothes were still intact raised the long knife in his hand. The chirping voices of the mountain men suddenly became quiet.
He walked out of the crowd and stopped dozens of meters away from Chen Kan's formation. He danced and talked in dialect to Chen Kan's group.
Chen Kan: "?"
Ming Dynasty general: "?"
Chen Kan couldn't understand what the native was saying at all.
But he instinctively felt that this group of people was not coming for them.
The mountain man had an anxious look on his face, and when he saw that Chen Kan's military formation was unmoved, he jumped up anxiously.
Chen Kan tilted his head and looked at the hundred households and asked, "What is he talking about?"
Baihu shook his head: "I can't understand it either. There are many chieftains in Yunnan, and the languages of each tribe are different. I only know the language of the Yi chieftains and the Huihui people."
Chen Kan frowned, and then made an unexpected move. He took back the Xiuchun knife in his hand, and was about to step forward to fight the horse.
This scared those hundreds of households to death.
"Sir, you can't go!"
He grabbed Chen Kan's sleeve, his face full of anxiety. Chen Kan was an imperial envoy. If Chen Kan died in Yunnan, how would the Marquis explain to the court?
Chen Kan said: "It doesn't matter. I don't think they have any hostility. Although there are many of them, our Ming soldiers are not vegetarians."
Baihu still wanted to say something, but Chen Kan had already pushed aside everyone and walked to the front of the formation.
Seeing this, the two hundred households, Fang Xu and Zhang San, had no choice but to guard Chen Kan on both sides with their faces full of vigilance.
Chen Kan held the horse rein and came to the front of the formation. He looked at the dark savage and asked, "Who are you? Why do you want to block my way? Do any of you understand Chinese?"
Chen Kan asked three questions in succession, and the mountain man's face suddenly showed a look of confusion, and then he started dancing and giggling.
Chen Kan frowned. The language barrier was a big problem, and these mountain people were similar to savages, and they didn't look like they could speak Chinese.
Seeing that Chen Kan didn't understand what he was talking about, the mountain man was sweating on his forehead. He jumped and pointed at Chen Kan, and uttered a sentence that Chen Kan couldn't understand quickly.
"Ouch!"
Suddenly, a tiger roar sounded at the mountain pass.
Hearing this tiger roar, the war horse under Chen Kan instantly became uneasy. No matter how Chen Kan controlled it, he always subconsciously raised his hooves and retreated back.
The horses under the command of the others were similar. Chen Kan's face finally turned a bit ugly now. If the opponent had a tiger, Chen Kan and others would have to dismount and fight on foot.
The behavior of the mountain people was completely opposite to that of Chen Kan and others. After hearing the roar of the tiger, a solemn look suddenly appeared on their faces.
The mountain man in front of the formation stopped chattering, but turned his back to Chen Kan and knelt down towards the place where the tiger roar came from.
"Ouch!"
All the people knelt down towards the place where the roar of the tiger came from, and at the same time uttered syllables that Chen Kan and others could not understand at all, as if they were saying hello to some important person.
The horse was restless, so Chen Kan had no choice but to dismount and calm the horse.
While calming the horse, he looked towards the mountain pass.
Then, Chen Kan's pupils shrank into pinpoint shapes.
At the mountain pass, a huge tiger slowly walked out. There was a person sitting on the tiger's back. To be precise, it was a woman.
As soon as the tiger and the woman appeared, the mountain people immediately worshiped the woman.
The loud voice immediately suppressed Chen Kan's shock.
He looked at the woman, and the woman looked at him.
It was a woman who looked to be no more than twenty years old at most. Unlike the disheveled mountain people, the clothes she wore were luxurious.
Her proud breasts were covered with a bra made of silver leaves the size of fingernails, and her lower body was a short skirt made of the skin of an unknown animal. The skirt was embellished with gold threads and embroidered into exquisite patterns.
The bra and short skirt completely covered her private parts. A pair of straight and slender thighs and a waist that could only be grasped were exposed. There were green bracelets on her hands.
Her wheat-colored skin made her look like a vigorous cheetah.
Her face is also very beautiful, with a high bridge of nose, small cherry mouth, and a pair of sparkling eyes like autumn water, which together form a beautiful face.
"exotic!"
Four big characters suddenly appeared in Chen Kan's mind.
Hot, passionate and unrestrained!
What kind of woman is this? It actually makes Chen Kan, an experienced woman who has seen countless women, feel a little surprised.
If the tiger under her crotch hadn't looked so terrifying, he would have rushed up to her immediately.
Let me say the next sentence: "Beauty, add a V letter!"
Shaking his head, Chen Kan shook this unrealistic thought out of his mind. After all, he was already a married man, so he had better think about this kind of thing. He didn't want the cute girl with big eyes to feel sad and wronged.
The woman rode the tiger and slowly approached the formation, chatting with the dancing mountain people a lot of words that Chen Kan couldn't understand.
He turned to look at Chen Kan and asked: "Hey, you are the imperial army? Why are you blocking our way?"
Her voice was soft and waxy, speaking authentic Ming Dynasty Mandarin.
But no one answered her question, because everyone on the opposite side was desperately trying to drag the horse to escape.
A look of astonishment flashed in the woman's eyes, then she patted the tiger on the head and said something in native dialect.
The tiger snorted in a humane manner, as if showing disdain.
Then a tiger roared: "Ouch!"
Oddly enough, after the tiger roared, the originally restless war horse became quiet.
Chen Kan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If the war horse ran away and he was asked to walk from Tonghai to Jianshui, he wouldn't have the ability.
He turned around, looked at the woman who was dressed enough to sink into the pond in the Ming Dynasty, and said with her hands, "I am an imperial envoy who inspects Yunnan under the orders of the imperial court. I wonder why this girl and your nobles want to block my way?"
The woman frowned, then turned around and chatted with the mountain man in dialect.
Then he looked at Chen Kan and asked, "What is an imperial envoy?"
Chen Kan: "..."
Meeting a beautiful woman on the road should be a good thing, but she doesn't seem to have a very high level of education.
After thinking for a while, Chen Kan said loudly: "I am the envoy who came to investigate the local people's livelihood and sufferings under the order of His Majesty the Emperor. I am waiting to rush to Jianshui. Can I trouble the girl to let the nobles make way for me?"
Hearing this, a look of thought appeared in the woman's eyes, and then she suddenly asked: "Since you represent your Majesty the Emperor, how big is your official position?"
Chen Kan was stunned.
What is the problem?
He frowned and corrected: "It's not my Emperor, but our Emperor. Yunnan is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Please give me a favor. I'm really in a hurry."
But the woman seemed not to see Chen Kan's expression, and said to herself: "This official should be older than that bullshit magistrate of Tonghai County, right?"
Then he started chatting with the mountain man again.
When Chen Kan saw this, his expression suddenly turned ugly.
"call!"
He took a long breath and raised one hand.
Four hundred people versus three thousand people, Ming Dynasty tigers versus Yunnan mountain people, it is still unclear who will win.
Even if the other party is a beautiful woman, Chen Kan has no intention of showing mercy to her. Daring to attack an imperial envoy sent by the imperial court is a serious crime against the nine tribes.
The group of people in front of me already have a way to die!
Seeing this gesture, the originally relaxed soldiers became tense again.
Then they quietly stared at Chen Kan's hand. As long as Chen Kan's hand was under his command, they would protect Chen Kan and fight his way through a group of savages.
Chen Kan raised his hand, and then waved it down heavily.
"Can you ask them to let my brother go? My brother was captured by your officials from the Ming Dynasty. My father went to Jianshui to see the general again."
As soon as Chen Kan waved his arm, he heard the girl's soft voice.
Chen Kan's face froze, he sighed helplessly, and raised his arm again.
A group of Ming Dynasty tigers who were ready to charge suddenly stopped, and their eyes suddenly showed confusion.
What are you doing, sir?
Are you going to stop fighting this fight?
Chen Kan looked at the woman and said: "I don't know your brother, and now you are blocking my way. If you don't get out of the way, I will have no choice but to order my soldiers to attack you. Do you understand?
"So, please, get out of the way right now!"
After finishing speaking, a look of pain suddenly flashed in Chen Kan's eyes!
Chen Kan, Chen Kan, you are a person who wants to do big things. How can you be fascinated by a woman's eyes? You should kill her without any scruples.
Grass!
When the woman heard this, her eyes suddenly widened, and then her face darkened.
She patted the big-brained tiger's head under her crotch, and after the tiger roared, Chen Kan and the others' horses suddenly became anxious again.
"Hero, don't be angry!"
Chen Kan raised his hand and said sternly: "Who captured your brother? Tell me, I will definitely uphold justice for you!"
"Bata!"
In the imperial envoy team, Fang Xu and Zhang San couldn't help but slap their foreheads.
Does this adult have to show his lustful nature at this time?
Kill them in one go!
How can these mountain people, who are like chickens and dogs, withstand their charge?
This is wasting the opportunity to fight!
When the woman heard this, she asked suspiciously: "Tell me first, how old is your official?"
Chen Kan said proudly: "Big, definitely big, at least bigger than any official you have ever seen."
The woman asked: "Is he bigger than the general?"
Chen Kan: "..."
I am really...
Chen Kan shook his head numbly: "No."
Originally, Chen Kan had been preparing to charge just now. If this girl hadn't mentioned that his father went to Jianshui to meet the general, even if she was riding a tiger, she would still be Chen Kan's dead soul at this time!
But...the woman's words just now made Chen Kan's heart move, and he suddenly had a bold idea.
Since Tonghai is a pilot project to reform the land and return it to local people, then...
Of course, the main reason was that she said it was the officials of the Ming Dynasty who had captured his brother, and he, as an imperial envoy, happened to have the power to inspect illegal activities in the local area.
In addition, his father went to see Mu Sheng, which shows that this group of people is probably not the troubled mountain people, but Mu Sheng's people.
Since he was one of his own, Chen Kan decided to mind his own business.
When the woman saw Chen Kan shaking his head, a trace of disdain appeared in her eyes unconsciously!
Chen Kan was startled, then became furious!
What look, what look is this?
He felt that he had been severely humiliated.
Women have long hair but short knowledge. Didn’t you see that he was wearing a crimson official uniform?
This official is not big, which official is big?
Grass!
After calming down, Chen Kan asked: "Who captured your brother?"
The woman pointed to the small city standing on the edge of the lake: "The official in that city."
Chen Kan turned around and glanced at the Tonghai County town that he had never entered before, nodded and said: "The officials there are not as big as me. I can take care of your affairs, but you have to tell me first why your brother is doing this." Get caught by them, otherwise I can’t take care of this matter.”
Chen Kan tried his best to talk to the woman in vernacular, because he found that the woman's education level was really not high, that is, she could barely understand human speech.
"Sir, what nonsense are you talking to her about? There is just a toast girl on the left and right, let's just rush over!"
Fang Xu couldn't stand listening anymore. He knew that the adult was lustful, but marrying such a monkey-like woman would pollute the bloodline.
"Talk too much!"
Chen Kan slapped Fang Xu on the forehead, which immediately made Fang Xu roll his eyes.
Anyway, he didn't think there was anything good about this woman. She was worse than the half-closed door of Shibafang.
