The seeds that had been planted for many years sprouted so fast that Chen Kan couldn't even react.
Chen Kan was sitting in his study writing furiously, replying to everyone's letters.
The most important and urgent thing is naturally the reply to Chen Qia.
After he integrated the power of various Jurchen tribes, the next step was to completely annex the peninsula.
But outright annexation of the peninsula is just the beginning.
Didn't Meng Ge Suhan want to build a country? Chen Kan felt that the isolated Japanese country was a good place to build a country.
If the Jurchens wanted to establish a country, they would have gone to Japan.
Anyway, the current shogunate era of Japan is coming to an end, and the Warring States Period is about to come.
There was no reason why the Jurchens couldn't conquer a Japanese country that was scattered and in charge of its own affairs.
As long as Chen Qia is willing to give a meal to the ronin who were overlorded after the defeat, Chen Kan believes that those ronin will be happy to help the Jurchens establish their own country in Japan.
After writing the reply to Chen Qia, Chen Kan waved to call Yuncheng and told him to hand it over to Fang Xu before he started writing the second reply.
This reply is to Rujun, Minister of the Ministry of War.
It's time for Chen Kan's Anzi, who is ambushing in the southwest, to go to the border for activities.
Now Wang Long and Li Hu have become thousands of households because of Gu Cheng's support.
Since they are a thousand households, they have the responsibility to defend the country and guard the borders.
The place Chen Kan found for them was Annan.
With Zheng He sitting in Nanyang, the war between Sumatra and Manchuria will inevitably end with one side destroying the country.
Just kidding, Zheng He is a eunuch. Even though he usually considers himself a military commander, it still cannot change the fact that he is a eunuch.
What eunuchs are best at is sowing discord.
Taking Zheng He's hook and trying to escape unscathed is tantamount to wishful thinking.
Once the war between Manchuria and Sumatra ends, a huge empire spanning thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean will immediately appear in Southeast Asia.
How could such an empire not have the ambition to be on par with the Ming Dynasty?
The Southeast Asian peninsula is all vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. Burma, Siam, Champa, and Chenla all follow the Ming Dynasty.
Even the throne was conferred by the suzerain country of Ming Dynasty.
By then, whether Sumatra or Manchuria wins, can they really rest assured that the springboard of the Southeast Asian peninsula will be left to the Ming Dynasty?
What Chen Kan wants is to kill someone with a borrowed knife.
Only by borrowing a knife to kill people first, and finally Ming Dynasty breaking the knife, can Ming Dynasty take over all these lands in the name of righteousness.
Only in this way will the people in these lands accept Ming's notice with sincerity.
Annan is a good example. If Li Jili hadn't been obsessed with power, the Ming Dynasty might not have been able to capture Annan so smoothly.
The letter to Ru Yu was written quickly. After all, it was just a personnel transfer between two thousand households. With Chen Kan's current prestige in the Ming Dynasty, he was not afraid that Ru Yu would not cooperate.
Next is Zheng He.
The letter to Zheng He was much more delicate. In addition to affirming Zheng He's actions in Nanyang, he also had to tactfully remind him of his main mission.
How should I put it? Zheng He was not an arms dealer after all.
He also has a more important task: to open up the communication channels between the East and the West left by the former Song Dynasty, which is the famous Maritime Silk Road.
Although there are now merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty that have arrived in the Persian Gulf, but merchant ships are merchant ships, and officials are officials.
If Zheng He didn't publicize it, how would those countries know that the East had stood up again and could do business with Ming Dynasty?
Chen Kan wants more than just Nanyang.
This time, Ming Dynasty will not only take the lead in embarking on the great voyage, but also take advantage of the situation to become the world's blood-sucking pump.
Whether it's talents from the West or gold and silver, the Ming Dynasty wants them all.
With wealth and talent, Ming's science and technology will continue to advance explosively, and it will remain at the top of the world.
Therefore, in his reply to Zheng He, Chen Kan's wording was much more cautious.
It took Chen Kan half an hour to finish the letter to Zheng He.
After writing another letter to Fang Xiaoru to report that he was safe, Chen Kan put his pen back on Beacon Hill.
After stretching, Chen Kan slowly walked out of the study door.
Now that Chang Ning is pregnant, Chen Kan has to do one more thing every day, besides integrating information from all parties, which is to take care of the pregnant Chang Ning.
After all, this was the couple's first child, and the medical conditions of this era were backward.
I couldn't do a B-ultrasound, and I couldn't confirm how the fetus in my belly was developing.
Chen Kan really didn't trust others to take care of his daily life.
If he takes care of her, he can at least provide Chang Ning with balanced nutrition.
Walking to the yard, Chen Kan moved his body, which seemed uncoordinated due to sitting for a long time.
After confirming that his mental state was back to its best, he walked towards the backyard.
Chang Ning was wearing a toad mirror and was lazily leaning on the deck chair, sunbathing with a huge parasol behind him. There was a small table next to him, which was filled with various seasonal fruits.
Because she heard from Chen Kan that spending more time in the sun was good for the development of the fetus, she specially asked the craftsmen in the mansion to build this set of equipment for him.
Chen Kan tiptoed behind Chang Ning, gently leaned into Chang Ning's ear and whispered: "Madam, it's time to exercise!"
"Stop making trouble, let me lie down for a while!"
Chang Ning lazily raised her hand and pushed Chen Kan's face aside, because the hot breath of Chen Kan's breath made her ears itchy.
Chang Ning didn't know what was going on. Ever since she got pregnant, she had become lazy. She didn't want to do anything or wanted to do anything. She could stay in one place forever without moving.
Fortunately, Chang Ning may have a special constitution, but he didn't suffer from morning sickness or anything like that, and his food intake was still barely enough.
So Chen Kan had to come every day to urge her to get up and exercise.
Chen Kan also set a time limit for her to be active for at least half an hour every day.
Seeing that Chang Ning was unmoved, Chen Kan grabbed a green plum from the plate on the table and stuffed it into his mouth.
Then his face was twisted with soreness, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble.
"Bah, bah, bah, these plums are not yet ripe. Who is selling them?"
Then he hurriedly broke off a few grapes and threw them into his mouth, shivering again from the sourness.
"These grapes are also sour. What unscrupulous merchant brought them to our house?"
Chen Kan had just finished complaining about the merchant's shoddy goods, when he saw Chang Ning stuffing a plum into his mouth.
"Kacha kacha~"
After chewing a few times, he swallowed it into his stomach without changing his expression.
"I think the plums that the merchant sells are quite delicious, and there are also grapes."
Chang Ning responded lazily, and Chen Kan was speechless.
Pregnant women have unique tastes, a fact he couldn't change.
The fruit had nothing to do with him, so Chen Kan had to forcefully pull Chang Ning up from the recliner.
"Let's go, today is a big market, let's go shopping!"
Chen Kan couldn't help but pull Chang Ning up, and saw her face suddenly fell.
"But I don't want to go out!"
Chang Ning stamped her foot helplessly, but Chen Kan never tolerated her in this kind of thing.
Now it's only over five months old and I don't want to move anymore, and I won't even want to move when the fetus is a little older. If the overnourished fetus grows too big and cannot be born, it will be the result of killing two people.
Now that the means are so backward, Chen Kan will have no choice when the time comes.
In the end, Chang Ning followed Chen Kan out reluctantly.
"Let's go. I'll treat you to some candied haws, which is both sour and sweet."
Chen Kan supported Chang Ning and walked along the Jinshui River. The personal guards headed by Zhang Dong kept the two of them in the middle.
Common people have never seen such symptoms and stayed away from them.
If Chen Kan hadn't spoken out to tell them not to be so ostentatious, all the dogs passing by would have been slapped twice.
There was no other way, the master's family was having a hard time raising an heir, and it was not easy to conceive one. Whether their glory and wealth could continue depends on this unborn little master.
Yes, all the guards, including Zhang Dong, felt that it was difficult for Chen Kan to have an heir. Otherwise, why would he have been married to the princess for so many years without getting pregnant.
As for controlling pregnancy, they never thought about it.
In this era, the emphasis is on having more children and more happiness. Whoever would control not to have children would only want to have more children.
And they are Chen Kan's personal guards. They are said to be personal guards, but in fact they are no different from retainers. They are both prosperous and disadvantaged with Chen Kan.
Now that Chen Kan and the princess have a child, their heirs will be able to continue to rely on the Marquis Mansion to enjoy the glory and wealth in the future.
If something unexpected happens to this little master and the Marquis of Jinghai loses his title, their heirs will become mud-legged again.
This is related to the future of their children and grandchildren, so they cannot be careless.
Yes, this is how it is in this era. As long as a person's position reaches a certain level, it is not up to you to decide whether you will have children or not.
Because there are too many people dependent on you, the rise and fall of your family can affect the lives of many people to a certain extent. In essence, there is not much difference between a big family and the royal family.
The only difference is the number of people attached to the family.
Chen Kan's retainers, of course, hope that Chen Kan can be a prince for generations to come.
A large group of people pounced on the large market in the upper reaches of the Jinshui River like wild dogs crossing the border, which immediately attracted the attention of the crowd and the people.
The large market in the upper reaches of the Jinshui River is held every three days, mainly to facilitate the wealthy people living on both sides of the Jinshui River to buy some daily necessities.
After all, the wealthy area of Jinshuihe is still some distance away from Beijing. Why go to Beijing when you can buy things at your doorstep?
However, most families just send their stewards or servants to make purchases. At most, if there are children at home who like to join in the fun, they will let the stewards take the children to visit.
People like Chen Kan, who is the host and crowds into the market with a large number of people cheering, are really rare.
So it’s hard not to attract onlookers.
This was very difficult for Zhang Dong and other personal guards. They had to isolate themselves from the crowd and were responsible for purchasing the products that Chen Kan and Chang Ning were interested in.
After a while, a group of personal guards were covered with all kinds of messy gadgets.
There are snacks, toys for infants and young children, even small children.
Of course, the child was not bought, but got separated from his family and accidentally bumped into Chen Kan's personal guards.
Eventually, the bodyguards were forced to lift her above their heads.
It is not only for the children to find their parents in the crowd, but also for the parents to see their children easily.
