The Chinese nation is a nation that relies on kinship to maintain its existence.

The same talent, for people with nepotism, a position promoted in a year can take decades of hard work by the same people.

As a person in power, what needs to be weighed is the balance between affinity and exterior.

And many, many people, in fact, are proud of opening a single page of the family tree.

At a certain time in a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, Shen Xingyun, and Shen Xingfang are the princesses of the Blue City!

You can open a single page in the Shen family tree.

And with it.

Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, father-in-law...... A series of descendants of the Shen family entered the court as officials.

If you don't do it.

is his unfilial piety, which will be criticized by others.

Even if he Zhu Di weighed the pros and cons and didn't want to, Lao Zhu would take the initiative to arrange for the children of the Shen family to enter the court as officials.

And this is the society that is maintained by kinship.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many people who broke their heads to apprentice, make friends, and recognize godfathers, because stepping into the official career in this way will be faster than others for more than ten years.

And many people who are teachers, friends, and fathers will carefully examine their relationship charts, and they should be estranged or even dissociated, because once someone makes a mistake, they will be affected by this relationship chart.

Under the general strategy of suppressing business and valuing agriculture, the joint venture with the Shen family will bring him an unimaginable blow, of course, Lao Zhu will not nod and agree to let the daughter of a merchant marry into the Zhu family.

Don't talk about him, up to the family of the emperor's relatives and relatives, down to the family of Shengdou Xiaomin, marrying a wife and a daughter is a marriage that is considered comprehensively.

"When the second sister got married, she hugged our sisters and cried, Grandpa thought we didn't know, but we all knew that in order to go to the sea, Grandpa married the second sister to the county magistrate of Haining County as a concubine."

Shen Xingfang sat down and sighed sadly, obviously complaining a lot more than Shen Xingyun's words.

Shen Xingyun kept stabbing this open-mouthed cousin, and apologized directly.

"What are you afraid of, since you two sisters are so talented in arithmetic, it just so happens that I have a task to give you!" Zhu Di smiled and ate dumplings with a smile.

"What task, Your Highness just commands!" Shen Xingfang's eyes, who were still sad, lit up, and she looked up at Zhu Di in surprise.

"The dean of the School of Mathematics of Lancheng University, teaching children under the age of 16 in Lan County to learn arithmetic." Zhu Di said with a smile.

"Really, Your Highness, great, hahaha, to be someone else's teacher, I can really be someone else's arithmetic teacher?" Shen Xingfang jumped up excitedly, eager to give Zhu Di a big hug.

"Women are teachers, Your Highness, I'm afraid this is not appropriate, and the people have never heard that there is a Blue City School in Lan County!" Shen Xingyun was also very surprised, lowered his head and secretly looked at Zhu Di, and couldn't help but open his mouth to ask the first one tonight.

"Yes, Your Highness, you lie to us with empty words!" Shen Xingfang, who had just become excited, seemed to be splashed with cold water in an instant, and looked at Zhu Di with a pout.

"This king said that it is okay, as for the Blue City Academy, this king said that there is, there will be one, and you two are waiting to be hired!"

Zhu Di is not worried that the two of them do not have the ability to be teachers, a person who can study arithmetic classics such as "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Sun Tzu's Arithmetic" and "Arithmetic Enlightenment" at the age of thirteen, and still has the spare energy to dabble in the quaternary higher polynomial equations such as "Quaternary Yujian".

It is not an exaggeration to call it an arithmetic genius.

Not surprisingly, he has found the right person for a generation of female mathematicians.

"People's Girl Thank ......" Shen Xingyun pulled Shen Xingfang to thank Zhu Di, Zhu Di raised his hand and pressed Shen Xingyun, and said with a smile: "Eat well, since you have entered the palace, don't kneel and thank you at every turn." ”

"Your Highness's grace, the people will remember it in your heart, always remember!" Although Shen Xingyun was pressed, he still thanked him.

As for Shen Xingfang, it seemed that his thoughts had drifted away, and he was complacent about the scene where he taught others to read and learn arithmetic, and he smirked happily.

Compared with this silly little girl, Shen Xingyun is more like a window given to him by the Shen family, a window to understand the Shen family.

Shen Xingyun knows a lot about the affairs of the Shen family.

Including the faint, non-staining revelation of the news that Shen Wansan, who is in his nineties, faked his death to escape the world.

Before he became the princess, Shen Xingyun was a chess piece that Shen Hongtai knew that he was inconvenient to say in person, but he was personally involved in the survival of the Shen family.

However.

A real storm never breaks out without warning.

When they left Zhu Di for a full meal and were about to rest, the tranquility of the temporary palace was completely broken.

"After an hour, exterminate the bandits and kill them!"

"Location, Lintao Feng family, Wang family, Baiyin Ma family, Zhang family, Jinzhou Liu family, Cui family."

Grunt!

Zhu Di gasped and asked Ah Qiu to close the door, he read the note three times by himself, and resolutely threw the note into the fire.

The originally smiling face showed an extremely heavy suspicion.

After checking the field book, he knew that the Lintao Ma family belonged to the second family in Lintao, the Jinzhou Liu family was the first family in Jinzhou, and the Baiyin Ma family and the Zhang family were also the best families in the silver field.

If this is the news from Jing Yuwei and Lintaowei, Zhu Di is not in such a mood.

But this news is a message handed over by Mao Xiang.

It's outrageous.

In addition to plotting against Queen Chibe Ning when Mao Xiang went north this time, he also had a task to investigate the internal thieves.

Zhu Di didn't understand what Mao Xiang's operation meant at all.

This found out the internal thieves, and determined that the Feng family, the Wang family, and the Ma family were not the top scholars, but they were also among the best scholars in the northwest and were spies in the Northern Yuan.

Or rather.

Special Lao Zhu's finances in Saibei are already in an emergency, and he needs to kill chickens and eggs.

Zhu Di didn't dare to imagine.

Even at this time the content of the letter on these families, already!

Zhu Di didn't have the heart to sleep anymore, and went out to stand in the courtyard wrapped in a mattress.

The fifteenth moon shrouded in the sky, the moonlight poured down sprinkled a layer of silver frost on the ground, and the cold wind rolled from the courtyard wall into the courtyard, Zhu Di couldn't help but shiver.

"Your Highness, it's cold at night, wear more!" Ah Qiu came over with a thick mattress jacket and wrapped it around Zhu Di's body, and stepped aside.

"It's okay, you go and rest, I'll be quiet!" Zhu Di shook his head.

He didn't inform anyone, it was a top-secret letter, and there was no seal of the pro-army Governor's Mansion, only Mao Xiang's seal, which was only passed into his hands through the hands of the pro-army Governor's Mansion.

Banditry.

Where did the bandits come from?

Lintao, Baiyin, and Jinzhou each have five thousand households, as well as Gongchangwei, the right guard of the navy, and the six Lanzhou guards of Jingyuwei, and Lanxian is the first line of defense against the northwest.

Before building these guards, Feng Sheng had already swept away the bandits in this area with an army of 150,000.

The terrifying smell came from the surface, making the night even colder.

Regardless of the reason, Zhu Di felt that he should not delve into the reasons behind this, but he still couldn't help but speculate and think wildly.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, it's a big deal, it's a big deal."

Just in Zhu Di's thoughts, Zhang Guang, a thousand households in Zhenyuan, hurriedly rushed into Lan County, rushed to the Blue City Palace, and exclaimed before he arrived at the gate of the mansion:

"Jinzhou just came to the urgent call for help, Jinzhou Liujia, Cui's family was attacked by a group of horse bandits, the two families resisted hard, the horse bandits were numerous, they acted viciously, and the Lintao avant-garde urgently asked for help."

Zhang Guangdu was about to get hot, and his condition was extremely critical.

"What!" Zhu Di screamed, expressing his shock, and it was a real shock.

Guo Ying was also startled and hurriedly ran over from the courtyard next to him.

"Guo Ying, count the cavalry and set off with this king!" Zhu Di quickly ordered, and then shouted, "Ah Qiu, armor!" ”

Ah Qiu and Ah Dong hurriedly ran out of the side room, and they didn't seem to be sleeping.

There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have blessings and misfortunes.

Guo Ying quickly went to the palace military town to transfer troops, and Zhu Di rode a horse and waited at Zhenyuan Bridge to suppress the tremor in his heart.

That's when it happened.

The fire on the Zhenyuan Bridge was dotted, and another team of men and horses rushed over, sweating profusely and exclaiming from afar: "The emergency military situation is reported to Lanzhou Wei, Lintao Ma's family, the Wang family was attacked by unknown horse bandits, and Lintaowei urgently asked for help." ”

Lintaowei didn't have any decent troops at all.

To be precise, the six guards of Lanzhou at this time, each of them belonged to the strength of Lanzhou Guard, Gong Changwei, and Lintao Guard, and the remaining troops were only one or two hundred.

And the new round of replenishment of troops will be supplemented to 500 people with the 50,000 soldiers and horses of Xue Xian in Yongcheng Hou to the north.

This time.

Zhu Di looked at the request for help from Lintaowei's deputy Qianhu, and knew that Mao Xiang had succeeded.

"Your Highness, Bai Yinchuan urgently asked for help, saying that the Ma family of Baiyin, the Zhang family was also attacked by mysterious horse bandits."

"There will be reason to suspect that this may have been an organized attack."

Guo Ying came over with a thousand horses, anxiously reported, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and suddenly there were horse bandits everywhere.

"Guo Ying, you take people to Baiyin Town to exterminate the horse bandits, and meet the horse bandits." Zhu Di paused and said, "Kill!" ”

"The rest of the people, follow this king to Jinzhou to extinguish the horse bandits."

Zhu Di quickly gave the order, and the royal cavalry began to move out again.

Guo Ying led people north to Baiyin.

And Zhu Di led people south to Jinzhou.

Jinzhou is just a summary, Jinzhou Liujia is in Liuji Town, which belongs to the largest township in Jinzhou.

Liuji Town is in a mountain col, built against the mountain, the terrain is slightly high, leeward.

The Liu family and the Cui family are the largest families in Liuji Town, belonging to the Liu family in Shaanxi, and the two remote branches of the Cui family in Xingning, aside from others, these two are wealthy families in Jinzhou.

Most of the fields in Golden State are in the hands of these two families.

And he is still thinking about how to solve the problem of the two families encroaching on the land.

Thundered!

The moonlight is clear, and you can see the road clearly without lighting a torch, Zhu Di galloped all the way down, took the right road of Jin, turned into the mountain road, and galloped up.

From afar, I only saw the flames of Liuji Town, and the shouts continued.

There are also black-clad and masked people who are killing.

"Kill!"

Zhu Di roared angrily and rushed into Liuji Town, his spear flashing, piercing the body of a masked man in black.

There is no need to go to the Liu family anymore, the firelight is coming from a high-gate compound.

"Is there a township patriarch who organizes firefighting nearby?" Zhu Di shouted while rushing, but the panicked people were fleeing, and when they saw a husband, they forced the husband to organize a firefight.

"Ring the gong and organize people to put out the fire!"

This was only delayed for a moment, and Zhu Di continued to rush inside, the fire was not big, and there were people running around.

Soon, Zhu Di came to Liu's house and gasped.