Rebirth of the Great Power

The visit of the Fusang Mission has long been rumored in Beijing and China. Walking on the street, you can also hear people talking about it.The last time the Fusang Mission visited was ten years ago, and the people in Beijing and China were very excited to see it.As the overlord of the Central Plains, Daqi has a strong national power, and there are many vassal states around it. Every year, they send envoys to Beijing to pay tribute. Everyone has long been familiar with it.

Fusang is different. It is not a vassal state of Daqi. The two countries are separated by a strip of water and live next to each other. Although Fusang is far inferior to Daqi in terms of national strength, people, and territory, the Dahe nation also has its own excellence.Perhaps because he knew that he could not compete with Da Qi in terms of force, he devoted himself to being able to compete with Da Qi in terms of culture.Fusang began to learn various cultural skills from the Central Plains more than a hundred years ago. Although it cannot be said that the blue is better than the blue, it still has its own characteristics.

Since the founding of Daqi, Fusang will send envoys to visit almost every ten years or so. In addition to establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, they are also committed to challenging Daqi in various cultural and technical fields, and sometimes they have amazing performances.

Now that the Fusang Mission is visiting again, everyone is guessing what aspects the Fusang Mission will challenge this time, and which capable people in our court are suitable for the battle.

The most discussed one is about playing chess.Chess and chess are popular throughout the country in Daqi, and Fusang is not far behind in this regard.

On the day when the Fusang mission came to Beijing, Zhuque Street was overcrowded, and the second floors of all the stores along the street were almost completely enclosed. The enthusiastic people of Yunjing crowded both sides of the street.At the beginning, the Fusang envoys waved to the crowd on both sides with friendly smiles on their faces. Later, they were crowded into a panic by the people rushing forward to watch. Finally, they rushed into the imperial city under the protection of the city defense army. Everyone was a little embarrassed.

Yu Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites looked calm, and laughed: "The people of Daqi like all the ambassadors very much."

Fujisawa, head of the Fusang Mission, kept wiping the sweat off his face. He didn't know whether it was because of the heat or he still had some lingering fears. He spoke Daqi official dialect with a heavy accent, nodded and smiled with embarrassment: "Thanks to the great love, thanks to the great love .”

Mu Yuan and Tian Yuan also watched the whole process of the Fusang mission entering the city on the street, but they stood far away and were not affected by the crowd.

It wasn't until the mission group entered the imperial city that the crowd gradually dispersed, and the two slowly walked towards the imperial city.

The number of guards in the imperial city today is more than double that of usual, and the checks on entry and exit are also more stringent. Presumably this will be the case for the next period of time, and it will not end until the mission leaves the capital.

After entering the selection office, everyone was indeed discussing the mission.Mu Yuan was not the last one to arrive, and many people were stuck on the road.Since Mu Yuan came to the candidate office, the attendance rate of the candidate office has greatly increased. If there is nothing special, everyone will come here almost every day, more frequent than the regular candidates. dummy.Naturally, the Imperial Academy didn't mind providing lunch for a few more people. Instead, all the people in the institute were driven to be more diligent than before, and the chess skills of the candidates were also increasing day by day.

During this period of time, everyone's enthusiasm for entering the Institute has not diminished, but more attention has been paid to the Fusang Mission's entry to Beijing.Almost everyone tacitly agreed that the mission's entry into Beijing will definitely propose a game of chess to the imperial court, but there are players waiting for the main selection, so it should be nothing if there are no candidates.I just hope that the chess records of the battle can be delivered earlier, so that everyone can experience it.For this reason, many chess players have already greeted Xiao Huangmen with their friends.

It is said that when the Fusang mission came to Beijing ten years ago, it also raised a challenge. At that time, the person who took the challenge was Liu Xuandu, the current Chief Qi Daizhao. Chief Liu became famous in that battle, and later took over the position of Chief Qi Daizhao. .Everyone thinks that the player in this response battle should be the chess player who is generally recognized as the most powerful chess player, and he is also the most powerful contender for the next chief.

On the first day when the Fuso mission came to Beijing, the two countries exchanged the treaty to establish diplomatic relations. From the second day onwards, there were all kinds of fancy challenges.The hustle and bustle ahead also affected the backup office. In the past two days, there were almost no people who concentrated on playing chess. People from Muyuan were in the backup office, but they could hear a lot of first-hand news.

The excitement was just about to be watched, and suddenly there was a dictation from the Holy Spirit, please wait for the edicts to come to the front court to see you.

Everyone looked at each other, both excited and nervous, which was different from what they expected.Someone asked the servant who came to pass on the word of mouth, but the servant didn't hide it and told the reason directly.

It turned out that the Fusang mission really proposed the challenge of playing chess as everyone expected, and Cheng Daizhao had been waiting for this.Unexpectedly, the prince of Fusang Kingdom, Fujiwara Oriya, stood up as a big gift. He said that he had admired Cheng Daizhao for a long time, and his teachers also highly respected him. He looked forward to asking for advice in person one day.As a disciple, I dare not challenge Cheng Daizhao before my teacher, so I ask for advice from other chess players.

This nonsense is just an excuse at first glance. I am afraid that Prince Fusang knew Cheng Daizhao's superb chess skills, so he did not dare to take the lead.

Having said that, the other party's request cannot be answered.

The ministers were about to discuss which other chess master would take the challenge, but Fujisawa, the head of the envoy, proposed that this challenge hoped to adopt the rules of the Fusang Kingdom, that is, there would be no seats.

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked.

Xue Chang and Ji Jin looked at each other, they really came prepared.

Xue Chang suppressed the sharpness in his eyes, and said with a bit of sarcasm in his smile: "If the head of the envoy has any other requests, please tell them together."

Fujisawa was not polite, and scratched his head in a straightforward manner: "Prince Oriya is not a professional chess player after all, but because he loves Go too much, he came from a long way to ask the chess players of the Chinese Dynasty. If possible, I hope the Chinese chess players Chess players can give way."

All the ministers were about to be laughed out of anger.

As we all know, the biggest purpose of setting up seats in Go is to suppress the first-hand advantage.The Fusang mission proposed not to set up a seat, which has made it difficult for chess players who have been accustomed to the game for thousands of years; if you want to give up, it is equivalent to losing a few points before the start of the game.

This kind of unreasonable request shouldn't be answered, everyone can see it, Fujisawa said that Prince Fusang is not a professional chess player, but he must be one of the best players in Fusang country, otherwise he would not have come to Daqi to make fun of him .But if it should not be done, it will lose the demeanor of a great country, and it will not look good no matter whether it is a win or a loss.

I'm afraid this is the purpose of the Fusang Mission.

All the ministers frowned, thinking how to refuse without losing face, and Xue Chang's face was also a little ugly.

When everyone was at a loss, Ji Jin suddenly said: "Since Prince Zheye is not a professional chess player, it would be inappropriate for us to let the chess masters fight. In addition to the chess masters in my Daqi, I also set up a special chess player. Alternative chess candidates are equivalent to chess students, and they all have the opportunity to become chess candidates in the future. Yu Yilin's status should be comparable to that of a prince, so it's better to choose one of them to ask the prince for advice."

As soon as the voice fell, the ministers were shocked.Everyone knows that most of the alternatives are selected from the main selection, and those who have failed to beat the main selection, their chess strength cannot be compared with the main selection.Although the prince deliberately misinterpreted the meaning of the alternative, it is true that his chess strength is not as good as it is.Could it be that the prince has given up on this game?

Think about it carefully, if the candidates are not sure of winning, they will lose face if they lose.However, if it is an alternative, although losing is still embarrassing, at least there is an excuse to find; if it wins, it will slap Fusang in the face, and it will be even more enjoyable.

Thinking about it this way, it might be a good idea.

The ministers who had figured this out turned from surprise to joy, and exchanged glances to express that it was feasible.

Xue Chang understood Ji Jin's meaning almost instantly. Of course, he didn't think that Ji Jin had given up on this game, so he asked him with his eyes if he was sure.

Ji Jin smiled at him, expressing that His Majesty can rest assured.

Xue Chang immediately made up his mind, he believed in Ji Jin, and even more in Ji Jin's vision.

"Xin Wang's words are reasonable. I am a grand king, so I can't use the big to bully the small. Let's let the alternative chess to fight Prince Fusang. Come, go and invite all the alternative chess to come up."

There was the sound of a waiter leaving.

Fujisawa and Fujiwara Ori also looked at each other secretly, with doubts in their eyes.They came here this time to plot against Da Qi, and Fujiwara Ori was not an ordinary chess player at all, but one of the best chess players in the Fusang Kingdom, whose chess strength was only inferior to that of his teacher Masa Kobayashi.Moreover, Fuso has abandoned the seat for several years, which not only enriches the changes in the opening game, but also greatly broadens the horizons of Fuso players. Fujiwara Ori is also a leader under the new rules.It can be said that under the new rules, Fujiwara is "invincible".

That's right, Fusang is different from Daqi in that he goes first with the black.This has to be traced back to the ancient times, when black was the most respected in ancient times, when Go was popular, black was the first to go.When Fusang learned Go from Zhongyuan, he used black first, and it is still used today.As for Daqi Zhibai first, it is because of the great joy before Daqi, hundreds of years after the founding of the country, white was respected, so Go was changed to Zhibai first, after the founding of Daqi, it was not changed back, so it is still Bai Xian.

Fusang has been paying attention to Daqi Yilin for a long time, and knows that the most famous chess player in recent years is Shiyuan, who is known as an invincible genius in the Go world.Two years ago, I got Cheng Shiyuan's chess record by chance, and I was very impressed. Now that two years have passed, I should be more refined.Apart from being unsure about Cheng Shiyuan, Fujiwara Orori also had confidence in the other chess players in Daqi. As soon as the mission entered the Daqi realm, they secretly searched for all the chess records of the chess masters they could find, and found that As expected, Cheng Shiyuan was more difficult to deal with, and he had more confidence in other chess players.

In this challenge, Cheng Shiyuan was deliberately avoided, and arguably more stringent conditions were put forward, in order to win a battle, at least in chess, he had to win Da Qi once.

I thought there would be a back-and-forth, but instead of bargaining, the emperor of Daqi even took a step back, making them wonder if there was another mystery.

The author has something to say: I found a historical data, which said that in the Tang and Song Dynasties Go was still played with black first, and it was only in the Ming and Qing Dynasties that it was changed to play white.Japan's Go master was Tang Shi, so it has always been black.

So a setting was added.

But this text is empty.As long as the setting is logical and self-consistent, and does not seek to be the same as the historical facts, I hope everyone knows it.

In addition, the chess game after entering Beijing is all nonsense, I am too lazy to check the information and cry~~

I really want to fast-forward the career line directly, I really want to have some emotional scenes~