Since the beginning of February, a lot of Di newspapers have been posted in the major shops in Jinling, discussing state affairs, inspiring words, advocating that "the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband". It was all for the governors of the major feudal towns and state capitals, so they all felt very honored, and those who had leisure gathered around the gate to read the large mansion newspaper, and those who were illiterate were reciting.

Every time the righteous slaughter dogs, the ordinary people who don't know much guide a little, it is much more enthusiastic than the ministers of civil and military affairs, and they have gathered to say that once the country has something, they are willing to contribute money and efforts, and the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband.

While praising the emperor for his wisdom in the newspaper, he never forgot to go to the East Palace, giving the people the impression that the prince was also very virtuous, and he would not succeed to the throne in the future, and the good life of the people of the Tang Kingdom could continue.

At this time, it was rumored that there was a Hu merchant named Abu, who had been in the Tang Kingdom for three generations, and donated 50,000 taels of silver as the salary of the border army, making armor, casting knives and guns, and making a contribution to the strength of the Tang army and not being invaded by foreign enemies.

Hu Shang's donation of silver had a great impact, and for several days in a row, the streets and alleys of Jinling City, teahouses and restaurants, merchants, hawkers, and prostitutes were all talking about this matter, and I heard that this Hu merchant had recently come from Jiangzhou, and opened three shops in Jinling West Market, selling "Xuanjing", "Five-color Liuware", "Fanghua Eternal Frost" and "Dashi Carpet" respectively.

Now, Abu's four stores are full of customers every day, and the first shipment from Jiangzhou is quickly sold out, and the second shipment has not yet arrived, even so. There is still an endless stream of people who come to patronize every day, and they want to see the style of the patriotic Hu businessman Abudi.

Abu, according to Zhou's instructions, has not shown up for the past few days, hiding on the shore of Mochou Lake and waiting for the official robe to be added.

Just when Zhou Xuan was in the last round of the Lantern Festival chess battle, Abu's touching deeds finally reached the Holy Hearing, and Emperor Li Yu passed the decree to Honglu Temple. Xuanhu Shang Abu met him.

The officials of Honglu Temple found Abu's shop in Xishi, and the guy said that Abu was in the Fenghua Military Mansion on the shore of Mochou Lake. The officials of Honglu Temple came to the Fenghua Military Mansion again, and Gu Changshi had already been instructed by Zhou Xuan, and said: "Abu is a friend of Marquis Zhou, and he is busy with business on weekdays, running around, and only Marquis Zhou knows his whereabouts. ”

"What about Marquis Zhou?"

"Playing chess in Guozijian, this is the last game. Not in the night, but during the day. ”

The two main bookkeepers of Honglu Temple broke their legs and came to the Guozijian to find Zhou Houye, but they saw Zhou Houye sitting in danger, concentrating on the game, and the prince of the East Palace stood behind him to watch the chess, and the two master books did not dare to disturb, so they had to leave one person to guard. The other entered the palace to report to His Majesty.

Emperor Li Yu is painting in the imperial study, he is copying Zhou Xuan's painting of the Australian costume after the small Zhou Dynasty, Li Yugong calligraphy, good at painting, he takes Zhou Fang's "Hairpin Lady", the color is beautiful and soft, the characters are gentle and delicate. Even Gu Hongzhong was impressed, but Li Yu couldn't copy Zhou Xuandi's painting, the use of brushes and color skills was too weird, and the depiction of Xiao Zhouhou's expression and posture was as if it were at present-

Li Yu threw his pen and sighed: "This Zhou Xuan, he is really a ghost, the words and chapters and paintings are unique, the day before yesterday, the "Qingyu Case" - 'The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but that person was in the lamplight', he was affectionate. There seems to be an infatuated person. I'm going to ask him another day, who are you looking for? I can fulfill his marriage. ”

Then. The master of Honglu Temple came to Yu to look for Hu Shang Abu but did not meet, only the Marquis of Xinzhou knew his whereabouts, but the Marquis of Xinzhou played chess in the Guozijian.

The news related to the Marquis of Xinzhou is always so pleasant, Li Yu raised his eyebrows, nodded and said: "That Hu Shang and the Marquis of Xinzhou are from Jiangzhou, they must be old acquaintances, there are many loyal and patriotic people in Jiangzhou, things gather by like, people are divided by groups, Xinzhou Hou's friends are also heroic and generous, even a businessman, or Hu Shang, is so deeply aware of the righteousness, I am very relieved." "Message: "Placing the prince of the country, I want to watch the chess, and I will also hand-pick the chess to wait for the edict." ”

At the beginning of the afternoon of the tenth day of February, Li Yu wore a black gauze hat on his head and a red belt around his waist, and went to the lecture hall of Guozijian surrounded by a group of Jin Wuwei and inner attendants. ”

Li Jian hurriedly caught up, and Li Yu asked, "Where is the Marquis of Xinzhou playing chess?" Fifteen games were played in the chess hall at the same time, and Li Yu didn't see where Zhou Xuan was for a while.

Li Jian led his father to come straight to see the game between Zhou Xuan and Wu Weinan, Li Yu had heard of Wu Weinan's name, Wu Weinan ranked seventh among the eighteen major chess players, and was the second master of this Lantern Festival chess battle after Huang Xingjiandi.

Li Jian introduced in a low voice: "Father, Wu Weinan and Huang Xingjian won and lost one this time, and they were evenly divided, but they lost the previous game with Zhou Xuan. ”

Li Yu can also play Go, but his chess skills are mediocre, he can't tell the delicate situation of this master's game, hearing Li Jian say this, he was amazed, Huang Xingjian is the fourth-ranked big chess player!

Zhou Xuan's confidence has doubled since he defeated Huang Xingjian with the cosmic flow in the backhand, and this time he played against Wu Weinan first, playing freely, firmly grasping the advantage of being the first, always pressing Wu Weinan, and winning the third son in the final game.

At this point, Zhou Xuan in this Lantern Festival chess battle of the game is all over, a total of eighteen games, of which the game against Lai Xiushan is won without a fight, in the first round of nine games, Zhou Xuan lost to Qi Yaowen and Huang Xingjian, but then Zhou Xuan caught up, the more he fought, the more courageous, the second cycle of nine rounds undefeated, and Huang Xingjian is the same as sixteen wins and two losses, but the Fenghua Army is the second in the top ten capital protectorates after the town navy, which is already the best record achieved by the five major capital protectors in the southwest for more than 20 years.

Li Yuxi said: "Xinzhou Hou has superb chess skills, and he is overwhelming, and the court chess of the Tang Kingdom is none other than Xinzhou Hou." ”

Huang Xingjian listened to it very unpleasantly on the side, he was quite arrogant, and it was not a shame to lose to Wu Weinan in the back hand, but he lost to Zhou Xuan in the first hand, and he felt that he had lost face, regardless of the emperor being here, he protested: "Your Majesty, the grass people are not convinced." ”

Zhou Xuan knew that Huang Xingjian was going to make trouble. Xiao Yinyin stood aside, if he wanted to implement the new rules of Go, he needed an influential chess player like Huang Xingjian to make a fuss, and the more sensational the better.

Li Yu asked: "Why are the people of Huangshan dissatisfied?" ”

Huang Xingjian said: "The grass people and the Marquis of Xinzhou are both sixteen wins and two losses, how can Your Majesty say that the Marquis of Xinzhou is the best of the best?" The grass people are not fighting for chess and waiting for the edict, the grass people are just not convinced that the state marquis is waiting for the edict. ”

Li Yu, the emperor, was too good to speak, and immediately said: "Then the people of Huangshan will also be merged into the Hanlin Academy to wait for the edict." The two chess edicts are showing the prosperity of our Tang country's chess fortune. ”

Huang Xingjian and Zhou Xuan were incompatible, and said stubbornly: "Your Majesty." The grass people are used to being lazy and don't want to wait for the edict for chess, and the grass people just want to play a few more games with Zhou Xuan to see if the Hou of Xinzhou is overpowering! ”

Li Yu's face showed displeasure, and Huang Xingjian really didn't know how to lift.

Zhou Xuan bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to accept the challenge of the people of Huangshan, but the minister has a proposal. Proposal to revise the current rules of Go. ”

Li Yu said: "How does Zhou Aiqing modify the rules of Go?" ”

Zhou Xuan said: "There are only two revisions, one is to abolish the seat, and the other is to post it first." Then he went into more detail.

Huang Xingjian immediately objected: "The seat system has gone through thousands of years, how can it be said that it will be changed?" It's not feasible to post first, and it's impossible to measure how much to post, which is unfair! ”

Zhou Xuan refuted: "At the beginning of Yao's creation of Go, there was no seat, and since the Qin and Han dynasties, Go has gradually developed. From the vertical and horizontal thirteen to the fifteen, and then to the seventeen, and finally become today's vertical and horizontal nineteen roads, three hundred and sixty-one points are secretly the number of Zhou Tian, if according to the Huangshan people's corrupt view, then we should now play thirteen ways to go. ”

Zhou Xuan was very polite, and said that Huang Xingjian was pedantic. Huang Xingjian said angrily: "You are a strong word!" ”

Zhou Xuan said: "Reason can be taken away means that you are unreasonable, Huangshan people are big chess players, and they must have played handicap chess, such as handicap two-in-a-row, the chessboard only has two white pieces, and the black seat is gone, isn't this equivalent to abolishing the seat?" ”。

Huang Xingjian was speechless.

Zhou Xuan said: "Let's talk about the first post, as long as you have a certain amount of chess strength, you know that the white first has an obvious advantage, and two masters with equal chess strength." It is often the one who comes first and who wins. If you have a game that is a winner-loser, then the back hand is very unfair. The advance post is to make up for this drawback. ”

Huang Xingjian asked: "According to you, how many should you post upside down first?" ”

Zhou Xuan said: "Two and a half sons. ”

Huang Xingjian was silent for a while, and asked, "Xinzhou Hou wants to play against the mountain people with new rules?" ”

Zhou Xuanying said: "Exactly, I am afraid that the people of Huangshan will be cowardly." ”

Huang Xingjian said angrily: "What am I afraid of, do you really think that your chess strength is stronger than me?" I've seen a few of your games of chess, and you often win by chance, and the officials are shoddy, how can you beat my upright soldiers! ”

Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "Shanren Shao'an should not be impatient, Go is also known as hand talk, not boasting about the strongness of the mouth, but seeing the high and low on the chessboard." ”

Huang Xingjian's face was purple and swollen, and he nodded again and again and said: "Okay, good, good, then the chessboard will see the top and bottom, and the mountain people will fight with you in nine games, do you dare to fight?" ”

Zhou Xuan shook his head and smiled: "Nine rounds? It's too much, it's not as idle as the mountain people, and you only know how to play all day long, so let's play three games, you win, and you play chess to be edicted. ”

Huang Xingjian said angrily: "The mountain man has said, if you don't do chess and wait for the edict, if the mountain man loses, he will never touch the chess pieces for the rest of his life, and if the Marquis of Xinzhou loses, he doesn't have to do this chess to wait for the edict." ”

Zhou Xuan said with concern: "Huangshan people, it doesn't matter if you lose, what can you do if you don't play chess, Shanren won't touch chess pieces for life if you lose, isn't this too cruel for a person who is obsessed with chess?" How about not playing chess for three years? ”

Huang Xingjian was even more angry, Zhou Xuan's tone clearly said that he Huang Xingjian was bound to lose, and shouted: "Your Majesty is here, the grass people have no jokes, if you lose, you won't play chess for life, you say, when will the game start?" ”

Zhou Xuandao: "Since the people of Huangshan are so broken, then they will rise up to fight in the next place, but the Lantern Festival chess battle has just ended, presumably the mountain people are also very tired, how about starting the war after resting for half a month?" ”

Although Huang Xingjian was eager to defeat Zhou Xuan, Zhou Xuan was right, he did feel tired, and after eighteen rounds of games, it was very hard, and he nodded: "Okay, I don't know where the game will be?" ”

Zhou Xuan said: "Since it is a battle to implement the new rules of Go, it is natural that the more people who watch the game, the better. I think the Xiangrufang Cockfighting Hall is good, we play three games in the Cockfighting Gym, let the people who love Go watch the game, by the way, the chessboard is small and can't be seen, then make a square chessboard, special black and white big chess pieces. It is placed in the middle of the venue of the cockfighting hall, and the two big chess players Wu Weinan and Chen Xingyuan are invited to talk about chess. This is the real promotion of chess, what do Huangshan people think? ”

Zhou Xuan advanced the big chessboard of later generations by a thousand years, and his contribution to Go can be described as huge.

Before Huang Xingjian could speak, Li Yu had already applauded and smiled: "Xinzhou Hou is really full of tricks, while playing a game, invite a master to talk about chess, and all the people will watch, this is really a wonderful proposal." I'm right. ”

Now that the emperor has approved, what else can Huang Xingjian say, so he agreed that half a month later, that is, on February 25, three games will be held in the Xiangrufang Wei Wangfu Cockfighting Hall, one game a day, and the extra-large chessboard and chess pieces will be ordered to start making now.

The chess players who participated in the Lantern Festival chess field withdrew from the Guozijian, and Li Yu left Zhou Xuan alone, and said with a smile: "Xuan's nephew is really good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting." Huang Xingjian is the number one master of my Tang Guoyi Dao, stronger than his predecessor Chess Edict, but today he was so angry that he was dizzy by Xuan's nephew, hehe, it's really interesting, Xuan's nephew is sure to win him? ”

Zhou Xuan said: "The nephew is not sure. It should be a close battle, and the momentum of chess cannot be lost, and it is always good to overwhelm the opponent. ”

Li Yu praised: "It should be so vigorous!" Nephew Xuan, do you recognize a great food merchant named Abu? ”

Zhou Xuan was secretly happy in his heart, Abu was transported by the local official, and said: "Abu is a friend made by his nephew in Jiangzhou, why did Your Majesty ask him?" ”

Li Yu said: "This person donated 50,000 taels of military funds, Xuan's nephew won't know about it, right?" ”

Zhou Xuan hurriedly said: "The nephew naturally knows that Abu read the newspaper of the palace that day and learned that I am surrounded by tigers and wolves in the Tang Kingdom. There is the Song Kingdom in the north, the Southern Han in the southwest, and Wu Yue in the southeast. Although Ming Jun is on top, the country is peaceful. But these external troubles are always worrying, those rogue countries covet the wealth of my Tang country, always want to raise troops to plunder, if the Tang army is not ready, it is inevitable to be harassed by it, my friend Abu, although he is a Hu Shang, influenced by his nephews and nephews, often have a loyal and patriotic heart, and have no way to serve the country, so after reading the newspaper, he made a grand wish, cut down on food and clothing, ate porridge for the whole family, and offered 50,000 taels of silver, without asking for anything in return, His Majesty has such loyal and courageous subjects, why worry about the country is not prosperous! ”

Zhou Xuan's words were extremely infectious, and even Li Yu, a person who pays attention to inaction, was enthusiastically boiled by him, nodded and said: "What Xuan's nephew said is extremely true, I am fortunate to have such a subject, Xuan's nephew found Abu, I want to see him, I will summon him in the country's prison, go quickly." ”

Zhou Xuan hurriedly left the Guozijian, took the two Honglu Temple master bookkeepers and rode back to the Fenghua Military Residence, and after a while, he found out the bearded Abu.

The two masters were strange, they had just come to say that Abu was not there, why was this here again?

On the way to face the king, Abu's thick lips trembled, his palms were full of sweat, and he asked Zhou Xuan in a low voice: "Master Hou, what should a contemptible person say when he sees the emperor?" The contemptible are afraid of losing their words. ”

Zhou Xuan said: "You say less, I say more." ”

Entering the lecture hall of the Guozijian, the Abu people fell to their knees without even seeing it, nervous.

Li Yu saw that Abu had purple eyes and a very honest appearance, and he was quite happy in his heart, and said warmly: "Flat, look at the seat." ”

The chamberlain moved a chair for Abu to sit on, and Abu carefully sat on half of his buttocks.

Li Yu asked him again how he would come up with the idea of donating silver? Abu had already received Zhou Xuan's guidance, and he spoke loyally.

Li Yulong Yan Dayue said to the crown prince Li Jian, Zhongshu Ling Qizhang, and Zhou Xuan on the side: "A Hu businessman, but he is so loyal, it is rare, he should be rewarded-Abu, what do you want me to reward you, just say?" ”

Abu said: "The grass people do not ask for any reward, but only for the prosperity of the country and the longevity of the king." ”

Li Yu was very happy, and Li Jian deliberately said: "Father, Abu is so loyal, he must be rewarded, but how to reward is a problem?" He donated 50,000 taels of silver, so naturally it was not good to reward him with money. ”

Li Yu thinks about it, people donate 50,000 taels of silver, and you reward people with a few silks, doesn't this make the people laugh at the royal stinginess!

Li Yu asked Qi Zhang: "How does Qi Aiqing think Abu should be rewarded?" ”

Qi Zhang had already received hints from the crown prince, but he was reluctant to come forward to suggest Abu as an official, for fear of being criticized by the government and the opposition, and said: "The Marquis of Xinzhou is resourceful, Your Majesty might as well ask the Marquis of Xinzhou?" ”

Zhou Xuan thought for a moment, and was about to open his mouth to be an important official of Abu, when the chief secretary of Honglu Temple came in and said, "Your Majesty, Wei Bo, the envoy of Zhennan Jiedu, is waiting to be summoned. ”

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Today's yard is smoother, and Xiaodao is going to say a few words to the book friends again, hehe.

Xiaodao updated five thousand today, a little more than a few days ago, so dare to come out and say two sentences, a few days ago it was more than four thousand, and occasionally three thousand, it's really a little less, Xiaodao is not afraid to speak, afraid of criticism from book friends, fortunately, book friends are more magnanimous, still keep subscribed, and do not complain about Xiaodao, Xiaodao is very grateful!

But it's not that the trail is lazy.,By no means.,It's a bit of a card in the plot.,A super long story of more than one million words (this book trail is ready for more than one million words),There will always be a time when you encounter a card.,When it's not stuck.,The trail can write eight or nine hundred words an hour (and others are sad to compare with three or four thousand an hour.,The trail is only compared with yourself),So today's 5,000-word update is the trail took more than six hours to code out.,And when you meet the card.,Four or five hundred are gone in an hour.,It took the same amount of time.,It's just a little bit of code., Xiaodao will be in a bad mood, and then look at the book review area, there is no new message, not to mention a monthly pass, not even a recommendation ticket, Xiaodao only secretly squatted in the corner and cried - uh, too sensational? Secretly drink tea, in short, the mood of the trail is more gloomy, and one day it is much newer, there will be more tickets for book friends, and book friends will really spur the trail.

But Xiaodao thought, can book friends do this? One day, I see that Xiaodao is updated less, but votes more for recommendation or something, so that Xiaodao sees that book friends are urging Xiaodao, and the depression of Xiaodao's plot will be reduced a lot, and the next day you can break through the bottleneck, more more, is it okay?

Of course, if you update less, you have to smash the ticket, and when you update more, you have to smash it.

In short, no matter how much trail there is, the book friends will smash it - ah, the trail is so shameless, let's smash him to death!

PS: As of yesterday's chapter 43 of Volume 3, there are 100 chapters left in the chapter after entering V.