The time was in mid-October, and in the capital, Zhang Fan and the others set off, and the destination was naturally Chengdu, Sichuan.

This time, the team going to Sichuan can be said to be very strong, but if you look at the lineup of people who actually go there, there are actually not many, how can Zhang Fan calculate, that is, he is a person who went to pass the decree and reward, so in this matter, he doesn't need to bring too many people with him, too much is not good.

Therefore, it seems that the reason why the team is very big, it is just because the team still carries a lot of things, after all, this time it is to reward the three armies, and the things rewarded by the court will naturally not be less, and in addition, the court is now rich in taxes and there is no shortage of silver, so this time the things that the court will reward are quite rich.

In fact, Zhang Fan was able to go with so many rewards, which originally illustrated a problem, that is, whether it was the imperial court or the Empress Dowager Li, they all believed in Liu Xian's war report, otherwise it would be impossible for Zhang Fan to go over with these things.

But the problem is that Empress Dowager Li asked Zhang Fan to have other things to do in the past, so Zhang Fan had to take another task of "investigating the actual battle situation", and this is definitely something that will make Liu Xian feel unhappy, but Zhang Fan has to do it.

In fact, this matter is very contradictory, and it is easy to see, after all, it has been almost a month since Liu Xian led the army to annihilate the servants, and Zhang Fan has just rushed to Sichuan, and when Zhang Fan arrives in Sichuan, some will take a while, and at that time, whether there is a problem or not, for such a long time, it has already been hidden, and it is impossible to find out or anything.

In other words, Zhang Fan's name of investigating the military situation this time was originally used to bluff people, which many people can see, but even so, even Liu Xian can see that Zhang Fan did not come because of him, there must be another reason, but since Zhang Fan used such a name, Liu Xian naturally could not give him a good look, after all, no matter whether Zhang Fan can investigate anything in the end, or just pretend, but there will always be trouble.

But since these can be seen by outsiders, then Zhang Fan can naturally be regarded as having a lot of preparations.

And this time, Zhang Fan's real purpose is to investigate Zhu Xuanqi, the king of Shuduan, but this is just something that outsiders can see, and Zhang Fan's real purpose is to frame Zhu Xuanqi.

But no matter which way it is said, it doesn't matter to Zhu Xuanqi, he only knows one thing, Zhang Fan came this time to deal with him, that is to say, no matter whether Zhang Fan was involved in this matter before or not, these are not important to Zhu Xuanqi, as long as he knows that Zhang Fan came to deal with himself this time, then he has to fight back, as long as he understands this, all other differences are not important now.

In short, this matter is very unfavorable to Zhang Fan, and although Zhang Fan has the means and preparations to deal with it, whether it will work or not, whether he can help him complete the things explained by the Empress Dowager Li, to be honest, Zhang Fan himself has no bottom, but he can only do so.

This time, with Zhang Fan, there were some officials in the court, who were not important figures, and Zhang Fan's subordinates, in addition to Wang Meng and Liang Chao, Zhang Fan did not bring more people, after all, if people go too much, it will cause a lot of panic, so it will only have an adverse impact on what they are going to do, besides, anyway, there are Jinyiwei people in all parts of the Ming Dynasty, and there are also people in Sichuan, and there are many people, and it is okay to dispatch manpower over there, so this time, There were only about a dozen Jinyiwei who followed Zhang Fan to Sichuan.

In addition, Zhang Fan also brought a woman on the road, about this, so that the officials who came with him all shook their heads, but they couldn't say anything.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty had strict regulations on this kind of thing, and the officials who were ordered to go out on patrol or the ministers of the imperial court could go out with their maids, but they could not take their female dependents, and during the patrol period, they could not marry wives and concubines.

When he went to Jiangnan, he brought Yingyue with him, although Yingyue went with Zhang Fan's maid, but the concern of the two was clear to everyone, and over there, even if it was a scene or anything else, no matter what kind of thoughts Zhang Fan had at the time, after all, he married Luo Ling'er in Jiangnan, in short, he was guilty of all the two points stipulated by the imperial court.

And now, he brought another woman with him, the reason why those ministers just shook their heads and sighed, but didn't say anything, is also because, because of the identity of this woman, they can't say anything, yes, this woman is the foreign visitor, Joanna is.

In fact, Zhang Fan's reason for bringing Joanna over this time is very simple, not to fall in love with the moon and the moon, nor to have any romantic trip, he just wants to take Joanna around, even if he has something very important to do when he goes to Chengdu this time, but it will take a long time to say it, and there is no time at all during the period, so he brought Joanna over this time, and in this regard, those ministers really can't say any reason for opposition.

However, this trip to Sichuan, although there are many factors that make Zhang Fan very dissatisfied or make him difficult to act, but in the final analysis, these are still secondary, after all, this time, Zhang Fan has to come, and he has to come if he doesn't come, and the Empress Dowager Li has explained, he can only bite the bullet, even if there is no good way, only a few are reasonable, but he does not dare to guarantee that it will be an effective way, but Zhang Fan still has to come.

However, these are all secondary, the most dissatisfied point for Zhang Fan, that is, this time the time problem, you know, Zhang Fan only set off from the capital in mid-October, and the destination he is going to is Sichuan, the distance from the capital is not as good as the south of the Yangtze River, even if it is by land, plus he still carries so many things, it will take a month to arrive.

And after getting there, it's already more than November, and then dealing with things over there, and it's a very troublesome thing, no matter how you look at it, it will take another month, and even if Zhang Fan can be very fast, it only takes half a month to get everything done, and then he immediately set off to Beijing, when he comes back, although there is not so much cumbersome, but at least it will take at least half a month, so that when Zhang Fan returns to the capital, the first day of the first month has passed, At most, he can catch up with the Shangyuan Festival.

Thinking that he can't spend the Spring Festival with his family, his mother, his lover, and his children during the Spring Festival this year, Zhang Fan naturally won't be very happy, and the same is true for Liang Chao, after all, he has only been married for a long time, and this is only the first year of the New Year, he is not at home, and he has more resentment than Zhang Fan about this matter.

After all, no matter what Zhang Fan said, he still had Joanna by his side, but Liang Chao didn't have a woman by his side, so he didn't even have the right to speak.

And the only person who doesn't care about this matter is naturally Wang Meng, after all, he is the only one among the three who has not yet married a wife, since he has no family, he will naturally not worry about this heart, and even, in the eyes of Zhang Fan and Liang Chao, even if Wang Meng already has a family, with his kind of temperament, even if he will not completely let go, but he will definitely not put homesickness in the first place.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that Wang Meng is the oldest of the three, but he has not yet started a family, not because Wang Meng doesn't want to, nor because he has any weird habits, he is a very normal man, he has no money, naturally he won't, after all, although he has the title of a thousand households, but after all, he is a Jinyi Guard, among the Jinyi Guards, even if he is not greedy for anything, there will be no less money and the like, so what is the reason.

Although Wang Meng is cold on weekdays and doesn't talk much, although his woman's popularity is not good, it is not bad, and there are women who are willing to approach him, but even if she has a good impression of Wang Meng, she will give up after less than half a pillar of incense with Wang Meng, after all, he is very serious about everything, he can't joke, and he has no sense of humor, which is really unapproachable.

However, Wang Meng himself is not in a hurry about this matter, and outsiders naturally have no reason to worry about him.

Anyway, this is just a digression, and that's the end of it.

Because they carried a lot of things, they couldn't take the waterway, so Zhang Fan and his party could only pass slowly by land, and this month's time really couldn't be reduced at all, but fortunately, no one in the team was particularly anxious about this matter, so Zhang Fan and his party were not in a hurry, but they didn't delay much.

Finally, after a full thirty days, they finally arrived in Chengdu, Sichuan, the land of abundance.

And Zhang Fan, looking at the officials who came to greet him with a not very good attitude, also secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, he knew that the next thing was about to start, and as for whether it could go smoothly, it was not up to him to say.