On the second day of the Shangyuan Festival in the sixth year of Suzong in Great Xia, the Taiyi Hall of the Shangqing Palace in the southeast corner of the sixteenth imperial city of the first month, Emperor Suzong collapsed on the high lying jade. The official family has always advocated Taoism, the Shangqing Palace was built by Emperor Suzong when he was 16 years old, after nearly 50 years of continuous repair, it has now become nine before and after, the main hall is dedicated to the three Qings, and there are many deserving to enjoy. The palace is majestic, carved beams and painted columns. Between the palaces, the rock is strong, and the water shows its potential. It's like another cave outside the thirty-six caves.

Since Emperor Suzong's health is not good, the Taiyi Hall of the Shangqing Palace has been a place for Suzong to pray for blessings and keep quiet, and the general government and foreign affairs are presided over by Jia Ru, and the internal affairs are reviewed and approved by the Empress Xie Daoqing. Major national policies are met here to meet with ministers for consultation.

At this moment, in the ashram of the inner sanctum, this sixty-year-old man, with a righteous robe and a feather crown, closed his eyes and recuperated in the ashram. I saw the eunuch Wang Chun quietly come to Su Zong's side and whispered: "Official, several ministers are already waiting in the front hall. ”

The four ministers in the Taiyi Palace, with their eyes on Su Zong, sat on top of the jade collapse with the support of the inner holder, and hurriedly knelt down to worship, Emperor Su Zong said: "This Taiyi Hall is not in the main hall, there is no need for a big gift, give the four in-laws a seat,"

After Jia Ru got up, he said sadly: "Official, now that Jiangbei is settled, Heqing Haiyan, what else is there to worry about the official?" The army of Yan was driven back to Hebei, it is the three generations of meritorious service, all mundane things, taken care of by the queen, now is the time for the official family to seek the avenue and follow the Sanqing, what else can provoke the butler's Taoist heart? “

Emperor Suzong said: "The people of Yan are ambitious, this time they died and the Great Khan, how do you know that they will not come again next time?" How can you not be concerned about the inheritance left by your ancestors? Jiangbei is over, Jiangbei is really good! Gan's family died in battle, Sichuan, Xiangfan, and Huaisi lost hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and now they are all scattered and put together. How can I feel at ease? “

Jia Ru has always been able to observe words and feelings, how can he not know what Su Zong means? Seeing that the official finally showed a little crack, he hurriedly drilled when he saw the crack. immediately bowed to the ground: "The ministers are waiting for capital crimes, they can't share the worries of the monarch's father, the corpse is vegetarian, and the official family is punished!" Wang Mingzhi, Shi Chong, and Zhao Chong fell to their knees in panic.

Emperor Suzong said: "The envoys can't shirk their responsibilities, they are all people around me, and I can't blame you." Great Xia's weakness over barbarians is the result of six hundred years of accumulation, and it can't be reversed by you and me in a few years, so let's get up. “

At this time, Xiao Huangmen came in and whispered something to Wang Chun? When Emperor Suzong saw it, he asked, "What's the matter?" Sneaky, here are all my close ministers, what's the matter. ”

Wang Chundao: "Official, Wudang Mountain, Zhang Sanfeng, Zhang Zhenren, led Yu Wang Shizi to arrive, waiting outside the door. ”

"Call in, it's strange and cold outside, you are often near Jiankang, no better than Zhang Zhenren traveling around the world, maybe real people can have different opinions."

After a while, Zhang Sanfeng led Gan Tang into the main hall. Although Gan Tang is only six years old, he looks like a nine- or eight-year-old child because of his perennial martial arts practice. Entering the hall, Gan Tang knelt down and saluted. Zhang Sanfeng just clasped his hands together and drove with Taoist etiquette. The inner leader invited Zhang Zhenren to come to the vicinity of Emperor Suzong, and the ministers sat down.

Zhang Sanfeng said: "I don't know that the rulers and the officials are discussing the government, there are many disturbances, and there are many sins. ”

Emperor Suzong said: "Zhang Zhenren has been running for me all the year round in Great Xia for decades, and there is something in Great Xia that real people can't hear." The real person is outside the transformation, and it is the Sanqing Immortal family who is waiting. If you can give me some guidance on the politics of the Great Xia Dynasty, it will be a blessing for hundreds of millions of people in Great Xia, and I am afraid that the real person will leak the heavenly secret and affect the Qing cultivation of the real person. “

While talking to everyone, he beckoned to Gan Tang with a smile on his face and said, "Little man, come to me." Sure enough, it is well-behaved and cute, a few days ago, the queen saw that you were well-behaved, and after returning to the palace, she mentioned to me that she wanted to accept you as her godgrandson, and this matter has been mentioned to Qimen Hou and Ji Zhonghou, are you willing. “

Everyone was taken aback, Jia Ru thought to himself, the Gan family is now withering, but the prestige of the first general of the Great Song Dynasty is undiminished, and the protégés are old and full of the army. The influence in the army is not comparable to that of ordinary nobles, and now although Gan Feng is dead, as long as Gan Tang is accepted as a righteous grandson, the generals in the army will not die for Daxia! Moreover, there is only six-year-old Gan Tang left in the main branch of the Gan family, and he is not a substantial threat to the imperial power of Great Xia. The other Gan families do not have outstanding talents, they are really high-level builders, and they are good at chess.

Gan Tang had been instructed by several elders in the family before he came, but he didn't know that when the queen was not present, Su Zong was in a hurry to speak, and after hearing what Su Zong said, he hurriedly knelt down to greet him, and shouted: "Grandpa Huang." ”

In fact, Jia Ru only guessed halfway, Su Zong proposed to accept Gantang as his grandson at this time, and befriended Zhang Sanfeng and acted in front of the four important ministers, as long as he had the courage to do things, the court would not fail to give heavy favors.

Wang Mingzhi saw that Su Zong was in a good mood, and it was the time to report on the affairs of Jiangbei.

Hurriedly knelt down and played: "Official, the minister is running in Jiangbei during this time, the people of Jiangbei are suffering under the iron hooves of the Yan people's army, they are miserable, they can't eat, the Yan people don't produce, they only know robbery and slaughter, the food planted by the people of Jiangbei is mostly robbed by them, and there is no food to eat, so they have to become homeless people, running around begging, three or four out of ten people who starve to death, have reached the point of changing their children and eating, and the minister implores His Majesty to let the Jiangbei refugees cross the river for resettlement. “

"Official, don't do it."

Shi Chong said: "What Prime Minister Wang Cheng said, absolutely not, this matter has been discussed countless times, and it has long been vetoed by the ministers, and Prime Minister Wang Cheng is not unaware of this matter. Originally, there were few people in Jiangnan, and the output would be enough for the people in Jiangnan, so how could my ministers in Daxia not know that the people in Jiangbei were in distress, and every time they took refugees from Jiangbei across the river, it would cause social unrest and social turmoil. If the refugees from Jiangbei are allowed to cross the river, they will rob the people in Jiangnan of their rations, and the private fighting will continue, and there will be many deaths and injuries in the private fighting. It put tremendous pressure on the imperial court. Hooray, please veto this matter."

Zhao Chong knelt down and said, "For the minister, I will review what Shi Shangshu said."

Jia Ru then knelt down and said, "The minister also does not approve of letting the northern refugees cross the river. ”

For a while, Su Zongben's good mood regained and became sad again. "Hey! They are all lonely and incompetent, causing all the people in Jiangbei to suffer. If you take the displaced people from the north of the river to cross the river, there will be chaos in the south of the Yangtze River. did not accept the displaced people from the north of the river to cross the river, and pushed them into the fire pit. How do I choose? ”

Wang Mingzhi kowtowed and said: "The official family, if you don't take the displaced people from Jiangbei to cross the river, the displaced people will join the Yan army in a desperate situation, in order to get a full meal, and in turn attack Jiangnan for the Yan army, every year in the Xia Yan War, most of them are infighting between the Han people, and most of the dead and injured are Han people, how much grain does the court pay for this every year, isn't this all from the people of Jiangnan?" “

Zhao Chongdao: "The official family, don't let the displaced people cross the river, the people in Jiangnan just pay money and grain." If the displaced people from the north of the Yangtze River are allowed to cross the river, what the people in the south of the Yangtze River will pay is land and property, and even their lives! ”

"------" The monarchs and ministers of the hall who were arguing were suddenly affected by this series of sounds, and everyone in the hall suddenly fell silent, and their faces were blank. Everyone raised their eyes and saw that a box of jade chess pieces that had been placed on the side of the jade collapse was dumped on top of the jade collapse, and a few of them rolled to the ground, although there was a thick carpet on the ground, but one rolled all the way between Zhao Chong's feet.

Such a thing could have happened on such a solemn occasion.

"Poof" Wang Chun couldn't help it and laughed. "Little Ancestor, why are you so careless." After saying that, he hurried over and picked up the chess pieces on the ground. ”

Emperor Suzong said: "Tang'er, I am discussing state affairs with my in-laws. If you want to play chess, you can go to your imperial grandmother and play with your imperial grandmother, which is good. Emperor Suzong said this, but it was an embarrassment to cover up the matter.

Gan Tang said: "Grandpa Huang, the child listened to it for a long time, and he understood it. That is, the left is not, the right is no more. Everyone has been arguing for three or five days, and it may not end well. The child wants to ask the four ministers for advice, maybe everyone will stop arguing, isn't it perfect? “

Emperor Suzong wanted to persuade again, but he only heard Zhang Sanfeng say: "Holy Lord, Tang'er may be right." From the point of view of the poor Dao, the Tao is the same as Tang'er thinks, the stones of other mountains can be used for jade. Lookers-on see most of the game. Since there is no good solution for the time being, it is not too late for everyone to think of a way to play a game of Go and open up ideas. “

Emperor Suzong's eyes lit up, Suzong's little man may not have any way, but Zhang Sanfeng is a person, he is dozens of years longer than ordinary people, and he has become a fine character. It's just that the ability to see things is not comparable to ordinary people.

In fact, Emperor Suzong thought too much, and Zhang Sanfeng really didn't have anything to do. It's just that I have been with Gan Tang for a long time, and I know that although Gan Tang is not very old, he often has wonderful ideas, and he is by no means a fool of himself, and he must have ideas to solve problems. So I helped by the way.

"Okay, everyone is tired for a few hours, so let's listen to Zhang Zhenren, play chess first, and change your thinking. At noon, everyone stayed to accompany Zhang Zhenren to eat a vegetarian meal, and Wang Chun asked someone to prepare a vegetarian meal. Since this game of chess was initiated by Tang'er, how to play? It was Tang'er who drew the way. Emperor Suzong said.

The most devoid of royal majesty in all dynasties is Daxia. Great Xia is talking about ruling the world with scholars and doctors. There are many emperors and close ministers of the Son of Heaven in Great Xia, not like monarchs and ministers, sometimes like friends for many years.

There is an internal holder who sets up the chess game in front of the jade collapse, and Gan Tang first sat down and said: "This game of chess is not one person against one person, I am with the emperor's grandfather." The four of you ministers are at the same head, and you can all brainstorm. Whoever asks the master and your old man to be the referee. ”

The Xia Dynasty was at its peak in literary style, and it was the most glorious era of cultural development in all dynasties of China, as the most famous literary giants in ancient China, most of them appeared in the Tang and Xia, and Go, one of the six arts of the literati, was dabbled in by scholars and doctors. Xia Taizu is a master of Go, there are many special chess halls in Jiankang Market, and there are special chess rooms in general teahouses.

Emperor Su Zong smiled: "It's really crazy, I'm already running out of energy, how old are you, what can you do?" Zhao Chong's family is a master of this way. ”

Zhao Chong heard the saint mention himself, and had to sit opposite Gantang and put a seat at the four corners, the so-called seat is the rule of ancient Go, and the four corners of the chessboard are placed in black and white. Then start the game with one hand at a time.

I saw Gan Tang reach out and take off the seat, pick up a sunspot and put it on the small eye in the upper left corner.

Everyone in the hall was stunned, just thinking that Gan Tang didn't understand the rules, Zhao Chongdao: "This is fresh, is there any way to say it?"

Gan Tang said: "The master once told me that since ancient times, the Central Plains has been bounded by the Great Wall, and the north of the Great Wall is dominated by nomadic people. The nomads all depend on the sky for food, and as long as they encounter natural disasters, they have to cross the Great Wall to grab the rations of the farming people, otherwise they have to wait for death. The farming people south of the Great Wall who mainly cultivate the land, the farming people use their ingenuity and ingenuity to constantly optimize their ability to resist nature, whether it is dredging rivers, using ploughing cattle and other production tools, or planting wheat in drought and rice in floods, etc., and have been continuously optimized, and now they can resist most natural disasters. Nomads and agrarians are natural enemies at this time. In the past, the strength of the north and south of the Great Wall was balanced, just like a seat on a chessboard, but now since the Yan people have owned the north of the Yangtze River, my Great Xia is only based on the southeast half of the wall, and now the two sides of Xia and Yan are not equal, and Yan has been three of the four. In that case, why not break the cage, cancel the reciprocal seats, look at the world, and start over. Please Zhao Shangshu is down! “

All the people in the hall fell into deep thought, and for a while they couldn't think of any specific way to solve the current problem, knowing that Gan Tang still had the next step, so they had to wait quietly and wait.

Everyone thought that this must be Zhang Sanfeng's idea, but it was just conveyed to everyone by Tuo Gantang.

Zhao Chong dropped a white piece into the right hand star position of the chessboard, and after more than a dozen hands, Zhao Chong found himself in a predicament.

At first, I thought that playing chess with a five- or six-year-old child was to cancel the seat, and the chess still had to be played one step at a time, and the strength still had to be spoken on the chessboard.

How did he know that Gan Tang used the first hand to get out of the 'Murasho Demon Knife' large-scale formula.

This formula was first issued by Kubo Kiyo during the Warring States period of Japan, and after more than 200 years of research and evolution by modern people, it is ever-changing, as long as one step is wrong, it will be in trouble, and it is revealed that he can think about it at any time?

At this time, everyone in the hall had their eyes shining, staring at the chessboard, thinking about countermeasures for Zhao Chong.