"This is a handwritten letter from the eldest master, please take a look at the second master." Important things are naturally told by letters, otherwise if the messenger does not remember clearly or understands wrongly, won't the big thing be delayed? Zheng Xing came to Yangzhou this time to do business, and he took Zheng Xinyu's handwritten handbook, and handed it over to the Zheng family brothers, and half of the task was completed.

After receiving the letter, Zheng Jifu did not rush to open the envelope, but first carefully checked the seal of the envelope, and after making sure that the seal was intact and there were no traces of it being opened, he signaled Zheng Shuang to drink tea and rest first, and then tore open the envelope and took out the stationery to look at it.

The content of the letter is very much and miscellaneous, there are the latest chess world trends, officialdom personnel changes, the situation at home, etc., in addition to asking the two brothers about the situation in Yangzhou, the business status of the chess academy, the recent development plan and what support the family needs to have, most of them belong to the old talk, and the family letter sent before is not too much, only in the last part of the letter there is a specific instruction - the so-called suspicious do not use, do not use the use of people, and the so-called will not be subject to the life of the king abroad, Yangzhou and the capital are thousands of miles away, not only the transportation is inconvenient, people and geography, economy and culture are very different, the effective management methods in the capital may not have good results here, and everything is not only not conducive to the growth of talents, but may be too much to make people lose the opportunity to show their ability, so Zheng Xinyu usually only does the general direction of the things in Yangzhou, and there are few special specific instructions, but on the other hand, once the specific instructions are issued, it means that the matter has been set in stone and must be completed.

"Father asked Tan Xiaotian to go back with you?" After reading the letters. Zheng Jifu asked Zheng Shuang with a serious face - since Tan Xiaotian entered the school, his situation will be reported to the capital every two months, and when he went back to visit relatives last year. The two brothers were also called by Zheng Xinyu to understand the situation, and after showing his father the chess games that Tan Xiaotian had played in the past two years, his father also greatly appreciated the child's chess talent, on the one hand, he asked the two brothers to cultivate carefully, and on the other hand, let the two of them keep it as secret as possible, so that people from other families could not have the opportunity to get close to or understand Tan Xiaotian. For both instructions, the brothers were very clear. Needless to say, the status and reputation of the family are based on strength, although Tan Xiaotian is not of Zheng family blood. But when you enter the Zheng family, you are the children of the Zheng family, and you are the people of the Zheng family to the outside world, and when you grow up, you can find a woman of the same age among the descendants of the Zheng family to marry each other as a son-in-law. In that way, you can become the real Zheng family. Therefore, after determining the child's chess talent, the father will instruct them to do their best to cultivate this child, and with the father's instructions, it means that Tan Xiaotian has already been determined to become a disciple of the Zheng family, and he will be sent to the Zheng family in the capital after two years after the completion of his studies in Yangzhou.

As for the second instruction, it is actually very easy to understand, several major families in the capital are fighting openly and secretly, and the same is true outside the capital, who will not know that all the competition is ultimately the competition of talents. Every family is doing everything possible to find talented talents to cultivate, not only his Zheng family, but talents are easy to obtain. Genius is hard to find, find some talent, after strict training to become a five-grade or six-grade chess boy is not difficult for several families, although it is more difficult to become a master of three or four grades, but it is always possible to do one out of ten or twenty, but to find a genius who has the potential to become a top chess player and become a banner of his own family, it is extremely difficult, and even something that can be encountered but not sought. Therefore, once there is such a genius, each family will definitely try their best to dig that chess boy into their own hands, just like the two brothers did to Dong Yong, but the so-called punch of a person, you need to guard against a kick, you can do the first year of junior high school, people dare to do fifteen, you dig people from others, others will also poach people from you, what's more, if you can't dig people, it's not like no one has done anything to destroy people, Jiang Wannian, the first generation head of the Jiang family, has an elder brother, and his chess when he was a child was stronger than Jiang Cheng's, But he was abducted at a temple fair, and later found the body in the small river outside the town, which is rumored to be the secret work of a Go family that was more famous than the Jiang family at that time.

Tan Xiaotian is not the Zheng family, although he learned chess in the Jiangdu Chess Academy, but this does not mean that he is a disciple of the Zheng family, compared to other families, the requirements of the four major families are not very high for the outer disciples, the so-called Han Xin points the soldiers, the more the merrier, as long as the family background is not bad, the brain is not stupid, and the chess talent can be accepted, this kind of outer disciples come and go freely, as long as the corresponding fees are paid, but when accepting the inner disciples, it is much stricter, and the importance of the family background is reduced (the inner disciples not only do not charge money, except for room and board, The Zheng family will also give living expenses and pocket money on a monthly basis), and the requirements for character, brain, and chess talent have been greatly improved, in addition to going through a three-month investigation, they must finally go through the joint test of the five family elders, and after being recognized by at least three elders, they can become inner disciples and be included in the list of Zheng family disciples, and this list is difficult to enter, and it is even more difficult to come out. was betrayed by the master', in the Great Zhou, which attaches great importance to the prince of heaven and earth, the name on his back is almost equivalent to being ruined, pointed out by Wanfu, and spurned by the world, unless it is a last resort, no one dares to do that.

Because of this, after understanding Tan Xiaotian's chess talent, Zheng Xinyu did not let the Zheng brothers immediately send Tan Xiaotian to the capital, because at this time Tan Xiaotian was still young, and the work of laying the foundation was supervised by the Zheng brothers in the Jiangdu Chess Academy, and the careful guidance of the famous teacher Zhao Yanwu was completely competent, so there was no need to be too anxious, and in addition, according to the usual practice, the disciples surnamed Zheng should be sent to the capital after the child was ten years old, and sending Tan Xiaotian to the capital too early was not conducive to hiding the news, so that people from other families could secretly make ghosts, and Zheng Xinyu didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. So I plan to let Tan Xiaotian stay in Yangzhou for two more years, although there are many fights between chess players here, but most of them are limited to money and fame. (To be continued......)