There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Chen Kan continued to set foot on the road to Yunnan with his personal guards.

Every time you go to a post station, there must be a messenger sent by Yunnan or the Zhu brothers.

Chen Kan commanded remotely all the way, but there was no big mess.

After a month of starry nights, Chen Kan finally arrived in Guizhou.

After walking for another three days, he came to the heart of Guizhou and stopped, and Chen Kan ordered everyone to rest on the spot.

The land of Guizhou, as far as the eye can see, is full of stretching mountains.

Although it is not the first time that Chen Kan has come to Guizhou, he is still a little dizzying when he is used to seeing the Yangtze River Plain in Nanjing and the North China Plain in Beijing.

"Lord Hou, not far ahead is where Guishanwei is stationed, His Royal Highness the Imperial Prince and His Royal Highness the Prince are guests at the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion at this moment, do we want to go and meet the two Highnesses?"

"Don't worry, rest for a while."

Chen Kan waved his hand, Xie Zhong bowed slightly, and said no more.

After finding a slightly higher place to sit cross-legged, Chen Kan began to look at the Guishan Nanshan in the distance.

There should be a big city here.

Historically, the person who built the city here was Wang Yangming, a sage of psychology in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yangming was demoted to the dragon field station, in the dragon field enlightenment sanctification, and then in the south of Guishan site to build the city, because the new city was built in the south of Guishan, the Han people to the south for the yang, so named Guiyang.

As soon as Guiyang City was completed, it became an important passage for the central court to control the southwest.

Starting from Guiyang, it connects Sichuan Wumeng Tusi Mansion and Yunnan Dongchuan Tusi Mansion, directly controlling Yunnan and Sichuan, and at the same time, it can overlook the Indochina Peninsula from a high vantage point.

When the Central Plains Dynasty was on the defensive, Guiyang could become the second line of defense to protect the central court.

It has a great strategic depth with Chengdu and Lin'an, the three cities are each other's horns, whether it is to support the front line, or to return to the defense center, there is a very high maneuverable space, the strategic position is compared with the southwest cities, it can be said that it is second only to Chengdu, Sichuan and Lin'an, Yunnan.

Just by virtue of the construction of Guiyang City, we can see the superb strategic vision of Wang Yangming, the most holy saint of mental learning.

It's a pity that there are still decades before Wang Yangming came to the world, and this Guiyang City is naturally impossible to talk about.

There is a small city in the north, that is, where Guishanwei is stationed, and it is also where the Hou Mansion of Gu Cheng, the chief soldier of Guizhou, is located.

But the city was too small and far from the main road to assume the function of a provincial government, let alone become the rear of Lin'an and Chengdu.

Chen Kan could have made a suggestion to Zhu Di and asked him to move Guishanwei's station south for about 100 miles, but if he wanted to build a city, forget it.

It's too much trouble.

After sitting on the hillside and looking at it for a while, Chen Kan came back to his senses, took the dry food from the hands of the guards and began to nibble on it in small bites.

After nibbling on the dry food and pouring a stomach of ice water, a cold wind hit, and the chill rushed to his head.

Tightening the clothes on his body, Chen Kan found a leeward place to lie down and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

November is also known as the Winter Moon on the lunar calendar.

What is called the winter moon can be explained in one word - cold

Although there is no heavy snow in Guiyang now, the hoarfrost hanging on the pine trees still proves what season it is.

The so-called rime is a pine tree covered with hoarfrost.

After resting for half a day and recovering some energy, Chen Kan left the main road with his guards and turned to the north towards Guishanwei's station.

When he arrived in Guizhou, Chen Kan had to visit Gu Cheng.

Putting aside the transaction between the two many years ago, Wang Long and Li Hu are still playing under Gu Cheng.

The two of them are now the commanders of Guishanwei, if there is no secret support from Gu Cheng, with the prestige and merits of Wang Long and Li Hu, if they want to reach this position, it will take a short time.

What's more, Gu Cheng also married his youngest daughter Gu Tao to Wang Long, which can be said to be a real help to Chen Kan.

And Chen Kan's layout in the southwest over the years is also because Gu Cheng is sitting in the southwest so smoothly.

Chen Kan didn't go to Guizhou, if he didn't visit in Guizhou, he was really ignorant.

The neighing of war horses resounded in the tree-lined paths.

Guishan south to Guishan north, the straight-line distance does not exceed 100 miles.

But the eighteen bends of the southwest mountain road are not a joke, compared to the dead horses running on the Wangshan on the grassland, it will only be more than that.

I set off in the afternoon, and when I saw the Guishan Wei military camp, it was already dawn the next day.

From Zhejiang to Guizhou, Chen Kan and a group of guards ran wildly for more than a month, although the night was tormenting, but everyone's mental state was quite good, but their faces were very haggard.

"Stop!"

"Ahead is where the barracks are located, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter."

When there were still more than ten miles away from the Guishan camp, Chen Kan and the others were blocked by the outpost of Guishan Guard.

The two young soldiers in leather armor and holding firecrackers looked at Chen Kan and the others with wary expressions, and the firecrackers in their hands had already opened the safety bolt.

Chen Kan turned over and dismounted from afar, spread his hands to show that he had no malicious intent, and said: "I am Chen Kan, Marquis of Jinghai, and I also invite the two Marquis of Tongyu Town to come and see Chen Kan!" ”

Hearing Chen Kan's self-report, the two soldiers did not relax their guard in the slightest.

Although their equipment and size were inferior to the guards behind Chen Kan, they still stopped on the road and refused to relax for half a point.

In the next second, two heavily armed soldiers burst out of the forest on the side again.

One of them spoke: "Dare to ask what proof does Master Hou have?" ”

Chen Kan was stunned, but he didn't expect that he had reported to his home, and the other party was still so vigilant.

After thinking about it, Chen Kan took out his small seal from his arms and threw it at the soldier who opened his mouth.

"You can go to report with the small seal of the book, and the two royal highnesses of the imperial grandson and the prince of Han can distinguish the authenticity."

The soldier stretched out his hand to take the seal, leaving two people on guard and two people to look at the seal.

After seeing the seal engraved, the four of them were shocked at the same time, and they all knelt down on one knee and saluted: "It is we who have eyes and do not know Mount Tai, and ask the general to forgive the sin, we will go to the marquis, and ask the general to wait." ”

Chen Kan nodded, his brows furrowed slightly.

It is understandable that the soldiers of Guishanwei did not let him enter the barracks, but now that it is still more than ten miles away from the camp, they went to inform Gu Cheng that he wanted him to wait here, which is obviously abnormal.

When Chen Kan was puzzled, the four soldiers of Guishan Wei were also separated, and they didn't know where to pull out a war horse, turned around and galloped in the direction of the camp.

Another soldier dragged out a dry tree stump from the outpost in the forest and placed it a foot away in front of Chen Kan.

"General, please be seated."

The soldier greeted Chen Kan, still with a certain look of vigilance in his eyes.

Chen Kan was puzzled, but looking at the state of these soldiers, it was estimated that they would not tell him what had happened if he asked them, so he could only wait patiently.

Fortunately, Gu Cheng didn't let him wait long, and in about two quarters of an hour, a team of fast horses drove in the direction of the barracks.

"Teacher~"

"Hou Ye~"

There were bursts of slightly excited shouts from the cavalry, and Chen Kan looked at the person at the head of the cavalry, and his face was also uncontrollable.

The cavalry roared, and everyone on horseback turned over and dismounted and ran towards Chen Kan from a distance.

"Teacher, you're here!"

Zhu Zhanji ran in front of Chen Kan and was about to give him a bear hug, but Chen Kan flexibly dodged, but his eyes moved to the two honest-faced wooden men behind Zhu Zhanji.

"Master Hou, my subordinates finally see you again."

Wang Long and Li Hu had tears in the corners of their eyes, and they all stepped forward quickly to kneel down for Chen Kan.

Chen Kan grabbed them one by one, and said with a smile: "What is it hypocritical to become a general, you want to wait for me to die and go to my grave." ”

Listening to Chen Kan's laughter and scolding, the excitement in the eyes of the two became even stronger.

Wang Lung hurriedly said: "What nonsense is Master Hou talking about, his subordinates are much older than you, and if you want to die, your subordinates will die first, and you must live a long life." ”

Li Hu grabbed Chen Kan's arm and choked up: "Master Hou, my subordinates still thought that you had forgotten about our two brothers, and after so many years, you didn't say anything about replying to a letter or anything." ”

Chen Kan patted the shoulders of the two of them and scolded with a smile: "Reply, you are fucking illiterate, which letter will Ben Hou reply to you, besides, didn't Ben Hou write a letter to Gu Cheng and ask him to read it to you, what is the hypocrisy?" ”

When the old people saw each other, they naturally had endless words, and the Zhu brothers were snubbed, so they had to stand aside and force their smiling faces.

After Chen Kan and the two of them exchanged a few polite words, he wondered: "Has something happened to Guishanwei recently, Benhou Guan Guishanwei's guards seem to be much stricter recently?" ”

Hearing Chen Kan's question, the four soldiers who blocked the road hurriedly knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty.

Chen Kan motioned to Xie Zhong to help them up, and reassured: "Ben Hou didn't mean to blame you, you are loyal to your duty, what is the crime?" ”

After Chen Kan pacified the four soldiers, he looked at Wang Long and Li Hu with puzzled eyes.

Just before the two of them could speak, Zhu Zhanji on the side stepped forward with a stinky face and said in a low voice: "Teacher, this matter is related to students. ”

"Huh?"

Chen Kan was stunned for a moment, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Zhu Zhanji continued: "Teacher, there are many people here, you might as well go to Old Marquis Gu's mansion and settle down, and the disciple will explain the details to you?" ”

Chen Kan bowed slightly: "It's okay, then let's go." ”

Seeing that Chen Kanying was down, everyone did not delay any longer, and stepped on the war horse and roared towards the small city behind the Guishan camp.

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After many years, Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, is already old.

In history, Gu Chengnai died in the twelfth year of Yongle at the age of eighty-five.

This year is the seventh year of Yongle, which means that Gu Cheng is now eighty years old.

Living to this age as a military general, looking at the entire feudal history of China, it is a first-class longevity.

Eighty years old, he naturally can't still have the energy to lead the army, in fact, he is almost in a state of semi-retirement now, nominally he is still in the name of the general army of Guizhou, in fact, the big and small affairs of Guishanwei are in charge of Wang Long.

As for why it's not Li Hu, there is no way, Wang Lung is now Gu Cheng's son-in-law, and he is considered his own family.

Of course, Gu Cheng did not treat Li Hu badly, and Li Hu, with the support of Gu Cheng, still sat firmly in the position of the third-in-command in the military circles in Guizhou.

Today, Gu Cheng, who had not appeared in front of people for many days, rarely went out of the gate and waited at the gate for a long time.

The people passing by speculated about which big man he was waiting for.

Some say it's His Majesty, some say it's the crown prince, and some say it's a certain prince.

After all, it is no secret that His Royal Highness the Imperial Highness is a guest in the Mansion of the Marquis of Zhenyuan in this small city.

And the picture of the emperor's grandson and the prince of Han hurriedly leaving the city was also seen by many people.

Just when the people were talking, Chen Kan was also surrounded by everyone, and entered Guishan City with his personal guards.

The moment he saw Chen Kan, Gu Cheng couldn't help but hold his beard and laugh.

In the next second, he directly broke free from the support of a young woman and greeted Chen Kan's team.

"Hahahaha, it turns out that the old man has never greeted him from afar, so please don't be surprised."

"Hahahaha, where did the old general say, this is a wicked guest, it's good that the old general doesn't kick out a certain family."

Chen Kan turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly towards Gu Cheng.

The two looked at each other and put their arms together and laughed.

The onlookers saw that the old marquis personally greeted such a young man, and they even guessed Chen Kan's identity.

Guess Your Majesty, it's obvious that the age is not right, guess the prince, everyone knows that His Royal Highness the prince is a fat man, and he can't be right, as for the King of Han, it's even more nonsense.

Although Guizhou is remote, the people also know that the King of Han led his troops as early as the beginning of the year.

For a while, Chen Kan's identity became a mystery.

Of course, the people's discussions naturally did not affect Chen Kan and Gu Cheng.

After the two of them raised their arms and laughed, Gu Cheng was about to welcome Chen Kan into the door, when a female voice came: "The concubine has seen Lord Hou." ”

Chen Kan followed the prestige, but it was a young woman who was saluting him.

"You are, Gu Tao?"

Looking at the dignified and generous woman in front of him, with a slightly bulging belly, but with a dignified demeanor, Chen Kan couldn't connect her with the little girl who was arrogant and domineering on the boat and insisted on buying the fish in his hand.

Seeing the look of surprise in Chen Kan's eyes, Gu Taoqiao blushed and replied, "Back to the Hou Ye, it is the concubine." ”

Chen Kan nodded, and said with a smile: "It's true, the eighteenth female college has changed, and the ancients are honest and don't deceive me." ”

Hearing Chen Kan's joke, Gu Tao's face turned even redder.

"Hehe, Master Hou doesn't want to make fun of the little girl, the little girl was ignorant when she was young, and now she is also a mother who wants to be a mother, it's not good to ask others to scold her for not being rude."

Gu Cheng smiled, said a few good words for his daughter, turned his head to look at Wang Lung and scolded: "Don't come forward to support your wife." ”

Hearing this, Wang Lung hurriedly trotted to Gu Tao's side and grabbed her hand.

Seeing this, Chen Kan couldn't help laughing.

thought that back then, Gu Cheng was a dead face who wanted to give him Gu Taosai as a concubine, but he never thought that he hadn't seen him for many years, and the arrogant and domineering little girl back then would also be a mother.

Chen Kan patted Wang Long's shoulder and smiled: "You're a bastard, remember to treat others well in the future." ”

"Hehe, that's for sure, my subordinates aren't some of the same people."

Wang Longhan replied to Chen Kan with a smile, his ugly face was full of happiness.

Chen Kan asked, "How many months?" ”

Wang Lung said: "It's been six months. ”

Chen Kan nodded, tore off the jade pei from his waist and put it in Wang Long's hand, and said: "Make an addition to the little guy, remember to write to me when the child is born, and Ben Hou will definitely prepare a generous gift for the little guy at that time." ”

Wang Lung still wanted to excuse himself, but Gu Cheng scolded angrily: "Hurry up, if you give birth to a son, you will take the jade pendant to the Hou Ye's mansion to ask for the county lord, do you know?" ”

Gu Cheng's words caused everyone to laugh again.