Chapter 219: Victory Pass
The conflict with Chen Ying is just a small turmoil in Chen Kan's opinion, even if he doesn't have a dispute with him today, after Chen Ying enters the court, he will have to fight him sooner or later.
It's like being an enemy of Ji Gang.
This has nothing to do with personal preferences or even personal grudges, but is determined by the position between the two.
Zhu Di needs cool officials like Chen Ying and Ji Gang to gradually clean up the old Jianwen ministers above the court, and he also needs people like Chen Kan to balance the forces between the courts.
The different positions of the two doomed them to become political enemies sooner or later.
So Chen Ying beat it up, it's not a big deal.
What really made Chen Kan vigilant was the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.
Fang Xu's unintentional words made Chen Kan clearly see the current state of the Five Cities Terracotta Division.
Perhaps it was because the development of the Five Cities Terracotta Division was too smooth in his own hands, and he did not deliberately suppress the two-pole spirit of the Five Cities Terracotta Division.
As a result, they have now developed a state of being the first emperor and the second Chen Kan.
It seems that except for His Majesty and Chen Kan, none of them are afraid.
This is still Fang Xu, the person who follows Chen Kan at any time.
Even his mentality is like this, not to mention those ordinary captains in the yamen who haven't seen Chen Kan for ten days and half a month, in their hearts, they are afraid that they have long been mythologized, right?
As a traverser, Chen Kan knows very well how many people in history died miserably because they didn't know how to restrain.
To be a man, you still have to keep a low profile!
And now, not to mention that the Five Cities Terracotta Division is far from being able to make anyone fear, even if the Five Cities Terracotta Division is really on par with Jinyiwei, according to Fang Xu's mentality, Chen Kan will be implicated in death by the Five Cities Terracotta Division sooner or later.
Chen Kan wants to hold the power and turn the clouds and rain, but he doesn't want to be drowned in the torrent of history.
It seems that after returning from Yunnan this time, it is time to rectify the internal affairs of the Five Cities Terracotta Division.
Strengthening the political and ideological education of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, establishing civilization, stressing new styles, and building the Five Cities Terracotta Division into a humanist department in the new era of the Ming Dynasty is the original intention of Chen Kan to take over the Five Cities Terracotta Division.
Instead of covering it with a simple four words of the emperor's eagle dog.
After cleaning up Fang Xu in front of everyone, Chen Kan took the opportunity to announce the decision to speed up from Jian to Yunnan by light car.
The three weak chickens Yu Shi just wanted to object, but after recalling the tragic situation of Chen Ying, he finally gritted his teeth and accepted this decision.
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The next day, the sky was dark, and the smell of food wafted from the station.
When Chen Kan and Chen Ying clashed last night, Yicheng, who didn't know where to hide, was now waiting beside Chen Kan with a smile on his face, and his old face was full of folds, which made Chen Kan disgusted.
Filling his stomach as fast as he could, Chen Kan disappeared into the morning light with the Qincha team.
Yi Cheng watched Chen Kan go away, and looked back at the various materials that Chen Kan left in the post station and wanted to cry without tears.
These materials were piled up in the post station, which made the already small space of the post station even more cramped, and he did not dare to dispose of these materials at will.
"Iniquity!"
"It's really deadly."
"When you are a postman, why is your life so hard?"
In yesterday's night fight, he hid in the dark and could see it clearly, and he knew that no matter what the identities of the two parties were, it was not something that he could afford to offend as a small postman.
With a bitter face, he could only ask his subordinate to vacate two rooms to store these materials well......
Chen Kan led his team to run a distance of nearly fifty miles in one go, and only after the men and horses had reached the limit did he order a fire to be made.
Chen Kan turned over and got off the war horse, only to feel that his legs were no longer his own.
The inner thighs were numb, and there was no feeling anymore.
Fang Xu, who was taught a lesson by Chen Kan last night, was like a castrated quail at this time.
He leaned over to Chen Kan's side and said honestly: "Our speed is too fast, the brothers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division are fine, but there are already quite a lot of complaints among the hundred households sent out by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. ”
"Can't stand it?"
Chen Kan tried his best to stand up straight, enduring the discomfort and not letting Fang Xu see his strange appearance.
A sneer appeared on his face: "You go and tell them, where is this, we are going to run to Yunnan in one go, if anyone can't stand it, let them go back now." ”
Fang Xu showed a hint of hesitation on his face: "My lord, this is not appropriate, right?" ”
Chen Kan looked at him coldly and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Fang Xu was just about to open his mouth, but after noticing Chen Kan's unkind gaze, he quickly closed his mouth.
Chen Kan said lightly: "Your Majesty did not ascend the throne before leading the army to sweep the grassland, under the command of the light cavalry a day rapid march of 160 miles, but also to maintain the combat strength of the army, the Han Dynasty champion Hou Bei expedition to the Xiongnu, six days of marching 1,000 miles, but also while walking to identify the route, and encounter the Xiongnu can also break it."
We are just a simple journey of 200 miles, and we don't need to carry heavy logistics, let alone guarantee combat strength, if we can't stand this little hardship, what can we do in the future. ”
"Ah...... This! ”
After listening to Chen Kan's comparison, all Fang Xu could do was smile bitterly.
He really wanted to refute, we are not elite cavalry, besides, the light cavalry led by His Majesty is the most elite cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.
Champion Hou, at that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also gave him all the best physical fitness warriors and war horses.
But...... Can't!
However, Chen Kan's words aroused his competitive spirit.
The Imperial cavalry marched nearly two hundred miles a day, and had the strength to cut off the heads of the Tartars with their swords, and if they could not do it simply by traveling two hundred miles a day, it would not be laughed at when it was heard.
So, he conveyed Chen Kan's words to the captains under his command as they were, and then conveyed them to the ears of the hundred households sent by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.
"It's time to eat!"
The man in charge of the food of the Qincha team roared, and the soldiers who were stimulated by Chen Kan's words immediately lined up in five rows and began to receive their food with solemn faces.
I have to say that although Chen Kan's words were not very hurtful, they were extremely insulting, and they even stimulated their sensitive self-esteem.
Everyone was full of energy when eating, and even the three civil officials put down their bodies at this time and began to eat with these Qiu Ba, who they looked down on the most on weekdays.
They want to prove that they are the most elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Looking at the soldiers who no longer complained, the corners of Chen Kan's mouth pulled out a smile that was difficult to understand.
Man, the most unbearable thing is that others say that he can't do it, although the agitation method is inferior, but the effect is surprisingly good!
The 4,000-kilometer journey back and forth to Yunnan was a training process for Chen Kan, and he believed that when he returned from Yunnan, his men would have an extra team of tenacious cavalry.
It's only two hundred, but that's enough!
He took a clay bowl from the saddle and scooped out a large bowl full of mush from the pot, without having to queue up, which was his prerogative as a minister.
The soldiers in line saw that Chen Kan was also eating in the same pot with them, and their faces suddenly became a little 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 military general who was of the highest rank in the army did not bother to stir a spoon in a pot with them.
They have their own little stove.
However, the soldiers were surprised for a moment, so they stopped paying attention, after all, this was the next day, and who knew if this overly young adult was putting on a show?
Chen Kan walked to the side with a mush, broke two dead branches from the big tree on the side of the road, and then sat on the ground very down-to-earth, and began to snort with a pottery bowl.
After coming to the Ming Dynasty, Chen Kan gradually adapted to the various environments and foods of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, this kind of millet paste that looks like and tastes like a throat, when he first crossed over, Chen Kan would never be able to take a bite.
But now, Chen Kan can barely swallow, and even when he chews carefully, he can chew out a fragrance that belongs to grain from the coarse millet noodles, which he does not have in the delicacies he has eaten in later generations.
Even Chen Kan himself didn't realize that he had only been in Daming for more than half a year, but he was more like a Ming man than an authentic Ming person.
When he was in prison, he had fantasized countless times about how he should integrate into Daming.
But in fact, the state he imagined in his heart had never appeared, he integrated into Daming very smoothly, smoothly without a trace of obstacles, as if he should have been a person of Daming, and those experiences in the later life were his dreams.
After taking a few gulps of the paste in the pottery bowl, Chen Kan turned over and got on the horse, endured the soreness coming from the inner thigh, and shouted: "Brothers, are you all full? ”
"Full!"
The soldiers under his command ate much faster than Chen Kan, and they had long been accustomed to this rhythm of life in the army.
Chen Kan waved his hand: "Let's go, Yunnan!" ”
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Two hours later, a group of people dressed as rangers appeared at the place where Chen Kan and the others were cooking.
The leader was a one-eyed man with a broken arm, carrying an exaggerated heavy sword behind him, his body was far more burly than ordinary soldiers in the army, and the blind eye seemed to have been forcibly gouged out by something, leaving only an empty eye socket, and the white bones of the forest loomed.
When the others looked at him, a hint of jealousy flashed in their eyes from time to time.
He walked over to the fire and reached out to feel the ashes of the burnt plants.
The residual temperature is still there!
A middle-aged man with a rather elegant temperament who was still holding a feather fan in the middle of winter squatted down next to him and asked, "How is it?" ”
The one-armed man shook his head and said lightly, "I can't catch up." ”
His accent is strange, and he doesn't look 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 Holy Maiden!" ”
"Hmm!"
The one-armed man didn't say much, just turned and left.
But he didn't notice the shame and jealousy that flashed in the elegant man's eyes when he turned around.
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In the middle of the Beijing Division, in a small residential building, a woman wearing a hat opened her thin lips lightly: "According to what you said, we can't do anything about him, right?" ”
Hearing the woman's emotionless words, the feather fan in the hand of the elegant middle-aged man kneeling in front of the woman shook and almost fell to the ground.
He replied as calmly as he could, "We can set up an ambush on the man's way back." ”
The woman's eyes looked into the distance, and when she heard this, she just shook her head slightly: "Ambush, who knows when that man will come back, he has not come 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 lightly: "I'll go to Yunnan!" ”
With that, the man strode out of the room.
"Wait!"
The woman's ethereal voice rang out, and he stopped and looked back silently.
The woman met his remaining eye: "I'll go myself." ”
"I'll accompany you!"
"Okay."
The woman beckoned, and the elegant middle-aged man stood up and asked, "What does the holy woman command?" ”
The woman said: "Send a message to Shuzhong and tell the Buddha that that person has left the Jingshi." ”
"Yes!"
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After galloping for days, the Qincha team led by Chen Kan crossed the city without entering, and finally drilled out of the mountains and mountains of Guizhou after half a month.
At this time, what was in front of everyone was a steep pass.
The three big characters of the pass on the book Shengjing Pass are 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, the mountain canyon is deep, and the width of the pass is only more than ten zhang.
There is a husband when the pass, and there is a trend of ten thousand people not opening.
Chen An took out the map and found the three big characters of Shengjing Pass on the map.
Then he said to Chen Kan: "My lord, this is the Shengjing Pass, which belongs to the rule of Pingyi Wei, after the Shengjing Pass, we will enter the land of Yunnan, which is still three days away from the Lin'an Mansion where the Xipinghou army is stationed, but do you need to rest here for a day?" ”
Chen Kan wiped his chapped lips and said lightly: "Then let's rest here for a day, let everyone recover their spirits, how to say that we also represent the imperial court, don't let Xiping Hou look down on us." ”
"Yes!"
Hearing this, Chen An breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned around and shouted: "My lord has an order, enter the Shengjing Pass and rest for a day!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the tense spirit of the soldiers was suddenly relaxed, and many of them simply rolled off their horses as soon as their bodies were weak, and lay on the ground panting.
After half a month of rapid marching, the physical fitness of many soldiers has reached the limit.
The flesh between the legs had been blurred by the friction of 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 blank, his clothes and skin were full of dirt, his hair had become felt, and there was a tingling between his thighs, which made him almost unstable.
He now admires the famous generals in history who led large-scale cavalry to sweep the grassland, Huo Quzhi, Wei Qing, Li Jing, and Lan Yu, how did they do it?
Why did you run such a distance with someone, and it was almost useless?
Don't I have the qualifications to be a celebrity?
But isn't the traverser the qualification of the wolf juxu per capita?
"Phew! Crossing misunderstands me! ”
Seeing that the soldiers all rolled off the horse, Chen Kan couldn't help it, and rolled off the horse with a crooked body, and then lay flat on the ground and breathed in the fresh air.
I have to say that in Yunnan, the sky is really blue, and the air is also very sweet!
At this time, it is January, and the land where Jingshi is located in the south of the Yangtze River is still cold and windy, and Yunnan is as if there is no winter.
Birds and flowers are singing everywhere, and the cliffs on both sides of Shengjing Pass are full of green trees.
Chen Kan was wearing a wide official uniform, and it was still a little hot!
The officers and soldiers of the guard post at Shengjing Pass had already noticed Chen Kan and his party, and originally wanted to wait for this group of people to arrive under the gate and then routinely interrogate them, but who expected that this group of people would not move not far away.
The people on the horses fell to the ground one after another like dumplings.
Seeing this, the officers and men of the guard post standing on top of the wall had no choice but to run to report the situation to the higher-level leaders.
The chief soldier who stayed at Shengjing Pass was named Zhao Chen, and after listening to the report of the soldiers under his command, his face suddenly showed a look of doubt.
"More than 200 people, from Guizhou, or cavalry?"
"Let's take a look!"
Zhao Chen gathered all the people and tentatively approached the team led by Chen Kan.
Then, at a glance, I saw an apricot-yellow flag on the majestic war horse at the head.
Zhao Chen was shocked, hurriedly trotted forward, and said loudly: "I didn't know that the angel was coming, I didn't meet him from afar, and I asked the envoy to forgive me." ”
Chen Kan squinted at this chief soldier who looked like a fool, and saw him bending over with his fists clenched and staying on the spot, as if he didn't plan to straighten up if he didn't make a sound, and suddenly felt a little helpless, why didn't this person have any eyesight at all, forgive the sin of a fart, he can't move now, is he blind?
He said weakly: "Please find someone to carry the official into the gate, and then prepare hot water for the official to take a bath, thank you!" ”
Zhao Chen woke up like a dream, hurriedly got up and ordered his soldiers to lift Chen Kan up, and touched the body of Chen Kan's war horse, and suddenly felt that the war horse was already amazingly hot at this time.
If it doesn't cool down, I'm afraid these horses will be wasted!
He gave an order, and the originally peaceful Shengjing Pass 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 and feeding the horses.
In these days, horses are more expensive than people.
Zhao Chen personally acted as a coolie, carrying Chen Kan, the youngest but obviously the youngest teenager, into Guancheng.
He was very confused, why did the Qin of the imperial court come to Shengjing Pass quietly? Why hasn't Yunnan received the slightest message?
What happened to this Chincha-sama, and why did he and his men become like this?
People are other Qincha, and there is good food and drink in the place, and they have to gain a lot of weight when they go out and return to Beijing.
And this Qincha actually made himself look like a refugee, could it be that he was attacked by Tusi on the way here?
Zhao Chen carried Chen Kan on his back, and suddenly made up a big drama of a young Qincha fighting toast in his mind.
Chen Kan finally saw his own city now, and his heart suddenly relaxed, and a tide of sleepiness instantly swallowed him, and he fell asleep directly on Zhao Chen's back.
Zhao Chen carried Chen Kan back to his room, and for a while, he couldn't find a more luxurious place to live, so he had to grit his teeth and contribute his room.
I hope this Lord Chincha will not dislike it......