The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

It was mid-October, and Zhang Fan and his group set off in the capital, and the destination, of course, was Chengdu, Sichuan.

This time, the team going to Sichuan is very strong, but if you look at the actual lineup of people going there, there are actually not many people. No matter how Zhang Fan counts, he is just going to deliver a reward, so in this case As for things, he didn't need to bring too many people with him, too many people would be bad.

Therefore, the reason why the team seems to be very large is just because there are a lot of things in the team. After all, this time it is to reward the three armies, and the imperial court will naturally reward many things. Nowadays, the imperial court has rich taxes and no shortage of silver, so the rewards from the imperial court this time are quite generous.

In fact, the fact that Zhang Fan was able to bring so many rewards together showed a problem, that is, both the imperial court and the Queen Mother Li believed in Liu Xian's battle report, otherwise it would have been impossible for Zhang Fan to take the rewards with him. These things passed together.

But the problem is that Queen Mother Li asked Zhang Fan to go there and there are other things to do. As a result, Zhang Fan has to take on another task of "investigating the actual battle situation", and this will definitely make Liu It was obviously an uncomfortable thing, but Zhang Fan had 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 wipe out the Bo people, and Zhang Fan has just set off on the road. In Sichuan, it may take some time for Zhang Fan to arrive in Sichuan. By that time, no matter whether there is a problem or not, it has already been hidden for such a long time, and it is impossible to find out anything.

In other words, Zhang Fan's name of investigating the military situation this time was originally used to bluff people. Many people can see this, but even so, even Liu Xian can see it. Zhang Fan didn't come here because of him, there must be another reason, but since Zhang Fan used such a name, Liu Xian naturally couldn't give him a good look, after all, no matter whether Zhang Fan can investigate in the end What comes out, or just to put on a show, but there will always be troubles.

But since outsiders can see these things, then Zhang Fan can naturally do it too. It can be considered that he has made a lot of preparations.

But this time, Zhang Fan's real purpose was to investigate Shu Duan King Zhu Xuanqi, but this was only something outsiders could see, and Zhang Fan's real purpose was to frame Zhu Xuanqi.

But no matter what kind of argument it is, it doesn't matter to Zhu Xuanqi. He only knows that Zhang Fan came this time to deal with him. To Zhu Xuanqi, none of this mattered anymore. As long as he knew that Zhang Fan came to deal with him this time, he would fight back. As long as he understood this point, all other differences were not important now.

In short, this matter is very unfavorable to Zhang Fan. Moreover, although Zhang Fan has already prepared to deal with it, but whether it will work or not, can he help him complete the things that Queen Mother Li told him? To be honest, Zhang Fan himself has no idea, but he can only do this.

This time, along with Zhang Fan, there were also some court officials, none of whom were important figures, and besides Wang Meng and Liang Chao, Zhang Fan did not bring any more people with him. People, after all, if people go too much, it will cause many people to panic. This will only have an adverse effect on what they are about to do. Besides, there are people from Jinyiwei all over the Ming Dynasty anyway. There were also, and there were quite a few people, and it was okay to dispatch people there, so this time, there were only a dozen or so Jinyiwei who followed Zhang Fan to Sichuan.

In addition, Zhang Fan also brought a woman on the road. Regarding this point, 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. Officials who were ordered to go on tour or imperial envoys of the court could take their maids with them, but they could not bring their female relatives. Concubine, in fact, Zhang Fan basically committed all of this.

When he went to Jiangnan, he took Yingyue with him. Although Yingyue went there as Zhang Fan's maid, everyone knew the concern of the two of them. It doesn't matter what else Zhang Fan had in mind at the time, after all, he married Luo Ling'er in Jiangnan. In short, he violated all the two points stipulated by the court.

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

In fact, the reason why Zhang Fan brought Joanna here this time was very simple. It was not for the purpose of having a romantic relationship, nor was he going on a romantic trip. He just wanted to take Joanna everywhere. Just take a look, even though he has important things to do when he goes to Chengdu this time, it will take a long time, and there is not a little spare time, so he brought Joanna here this time , and in this regard, those ministers really couldn't say any reason to oppose it.

However, although there were many factors that made Zhang Fan very dissatisfied or made it difficult for him to act during this trip to Sichuan, in the final analysis, these were secondary. After all, Zhang Fan had to come to this time. , If you don’t come, you have to come. Empress Dowager Li has explained that he can only bite the bullet. Even if there is no good way, there are only a few reasonable ways, but there is no guarantee that it will be effective. , but Zhang Fan still had to come.

However, all of these are secondary. What dissatisfies Zhang Fan the most is the timing of this time. You must know that Zhang Fan only set off from the capital in mid-October, and the destination he is going to is Sichuan is not as far away from the capital as Jiangnan. Even if it is by land, and he still has so many things with him, it will take a month or so to get there.

And after arriving there, it has already been more than November, and then dealing with things there, and it is still very troublesome. No matter how you look at it, it will still take a month, and even if Zhang Fan can do it very quickly. , It only took half a month to get everything done, and then I immediately set off to return to Beijing. When I came back, although I didn’t have so many burdens, it would take at least half a month. When Zhang Fan returned to the capital, the first day of the first lunar month had already passed, so he could catch up with the Lantern Festival at most.

Thinking of not being able to spend the Spring Festival with his family, his mother, his lover, or his children this Spring Festival, Zhang Fan would not be very happy, and the same is true for Liang Chao. After all, he only got married not long ago. It was only the first year of Chinese New Year, he was not at home, and he had more resentment about this matter than Zhang Fan.

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, and he didn't even have a place to talk.

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 married a wife. Since he has no family, he naturally won't worry about it. What's more, in the eyes of Zhang Fan and Liang Chao, even if Wang Meng already has a family, with his temperament, even if he will not completely let go, he will definitely not put homesickness first. of.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that Wang Meng is the oldest among the three, but he has not yet married. It is not because Wang Meng does not want to, nor is it because he has any weird hobbies. He is a very normal person. A man, if he doesn't have money, naturally he can't. After all, although he has the title of a thousand households, he is a Jinyiwei after all. Among the Jinyiwei, even if he is not greedy for anything, he will not be short of salary. What is the reason?

Could it be that Wang Meng doesn't have a female affinity, and that's not the reason. Although Wang Meng is cold and doesn't talk much on weekdays, his female affinity is not bad, but it's not bad. There are women who are willing to get close to him, but , even if it is a woman who has a crush on Wang Meng, she will give up after getting along with Wang Meng for less than half a stick of incense. After all, he is very serious about everything, can't joke, and has no sense of humor. It is really difficult to approach.

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

In short, this is just a digression, and it will stop here.

Since they were carrying a lot of things and couldn't go by water, Zhang Fan and his party could only go slowly by land. This month's time really couldn't be shortened at all, but fortunately, no one in the team was concerned about this. This matter was very urgent, so Zhang Fan and his party were not in a hurry, but they didn't delay too much.

Finally, after a full 30 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 bad attitude, secretly smiled bitterly in his heart. He knew that the next thing was about to start, and as for whether it would go smoothly, it was not a question. He has the final say,