Chapter 57: Grandeur

With the current scale and influence of Yi Zhanlou, the so-called open tournament is a flattering statement, because Ye Tao, and even Tan Weixin, have not yet conducted a hierarchical selection tournament across the country, and then conducted a more representative one, not only financial resources, but also the influence of the game of marching chess among the people has not been widespread to a certain extent, and the player class is still relatively weak; Yizhan Building, at least the distribution agent of Yizhan Shop, has not been popularized to that extent; What's even more troublesome is that the training of the staff of Grand Strategy is far from meeting the needs of national competition organizations. If it is modern, the grand strategy gameplay is just a quasi-turn-based strategy simulation game that can be carried out online, and a large number of calculations and chess piece arrangement deductions can be handed over to the computer to carry out, but in this era, because the general mathematical foundation of this era is so bleak, it is not very easy to find people who can carry out a slightly more complex four-rule mixed calculation, as for some exponential calculations and some more complex geometric calculations brewing in Ye Tao's later period, tolerance calculations that can allow a certain error, etc., I'm afraid I can only talk to Tan Weixin in the process of discussing the further development of marching chess.

However, with the modern mind, even the current limited scale of the competition can still be operated as a grand event that attracts the deep attention of the public.

As an open competition, the rules and regulations of the competition have long been issued through the Battle Shop, and all teams and individuals who sign up for the competition can get a detailed copy of the rules. The competition did not charge an entry fee, but a certain standard of accommodation subsidies for participants from other places, and this "business" was taken care of by Qingluo Xingshe, who has been doing business in Danyang.

For Ye Tao and Tan Weixin, making the Open a high-profile event seems like a gesture. In the small square in front of the Yi Zhan Building, a series of huge posters painted with oil-based paint were placed in rows from a few days before the official registration began. Each of these posters depicts an aspect of the war. In addition to the scenes of the large-scale battles that are taking place in the center, there are also scenes that depict the details of logistics, scouting troops, building, operating equipment, evacuating people, organizing people, feeding military horses, and so on. Although this era is somewhat different from the era that Ye Tao and Tan Weixin came from. But in the land where they lived, in the field of art where ink painting and water-based pigments dominated, the seemingly simple but extremely rich posters created by this kind of oil painting combined with modern poster painting techniques have become a huge attraction in itself. After all, among the people who can actively participate in the competition and training of marching chess, the children of rich families and the children of official eunuchs account for a large proportion, and these people are not very poor in their appreciation of art.

More intriguing activities are a series of smaller ones. Priority in scope, very targeted lectures and seminars. Although Yip's employees were unable to participate in the competition because of their suspicion, they were the main force in carrying out these lectures and discussions. Those chess players from all over the world are very happy to learn something from them. After all, except for Yicheng and Danyang. The time for other places to contact marching chess, especially the contact with grand strategy gameplay, is still very short, and there is still a considerable gap between Yicheng and Danyang in the development of tactics and so on.

Actually, for the vast majority of chess players. Yi Zhanlou's extremely strict competition system seems a little incredible, and even the fact that Ye Shi did not participate in the competition makes everyone feel a little inexplicable. Isn't it to pay for the competition now to show off its influence and ability? The people who can really see from behind this competition that Ye Tao and Tan Weixin can get huge benefits will naturally not tell those who want to charge so little registration fees but provide so many services How can the organizing committee of the competition balance the mystery of profit and loss.

The uneven individual competition started first, and in just two days, the first two rounds of extremely funny qualifying rounds were over. Unlike the Grand Strategy game, which requires a group participation, the individual game only requires an understanding of the classic version of March Chess as a board game, and there is not much military component in it. Those who can make the most of their role as strategists and commanders in some aspects of the grand strategy team are not uncommon to lose miserably in individual matches. Until they entered the knockout round of sixty-four. The quality of the competition has improved.

The content of the game in the game room, which is isolated from external interference, is directly delivered to the commentary hall by specially arranged people, and the referee team led by Suo Zheng selects wonderful content from all the games to comment. For Ye Tao, this commentary hall that constantly rotates to explain, and the commentary hall that does not stop for two hours in the morning and afternoon every day has become another place that evokes his memories and makes him a little forgetful. Every day at noon, he would run to the office behind the small podium in the commentary hall where all the games were summarized. Maybe it's because everyone originally had a relatively ** compartment design. Maybe it's because of the ubiquitous chaos in the office caused by hectic work, which makes this office except for the lights. In almost every other way, it resembles a modern office. This is especially true in the middle of the day, when the floor-to-ceiling shutters that open directly to the garden at the back, allowing the spring sun, which is beginning to become moist and mild, to shine in and illuminate the entire large office. As the competition progressed, this huge office gradually became the central office of the organizing committee that commanded and guided the entire marching chess open, and when this office became more and more busy and tense in the leisurely atmosphere of this classical era, this office became more and more attractive to Ye Tao. So much so that a few days after the Open Tournament, Ye Tao finally couldn't help but make a relatively ** compartment by the window for himself in this huge office. Since then, this has also become a place where people from all walks of life must reach if they want to find Ye Tao, who is getting busier and busier. As for how people who are accustomed to leisurely feel about this busy and nervous place that occasionally makes people scratch their heads, it is not within Ye Tao's consideration.

"Young master, it's okay to talk about these two games in the afternoon, right?" While Ye Tao was hurriedly stuffing his lunch in the office, Suo Zheng, who was a little unsure about the choice of a few games, hurriedly asked.

"What does it matter if the game itself is exciting or not? It's true that you can speak brilliantly. Ye Tao was a little puzzled, smiled and pushed Suo Zheng away, and finally managed to allocate a piece of time to deal with the people sent by the little princess Tan Weiying to find him.

Under the guidance of her sister, it took a few days for Tan Weiying to form a team with a fairly good lineup. In addition to Chi Lei, who is very familiar with the game, as the head of the scout force, the three brothers and sisters of the Chi family have served in three different teams. At the same time, Tan Weiying's team also gathered a lot of strange people, as an apprentice in a pawnshop in Xicheng, Zeng Zining, who was extremely sensitive to the calculation of the outcome of the battle, and Lin Shaohua, who claimed to be familiar with military books but was a bookkeeper in the Guozijian who was a bookkeeper in this team, could only be regarded as very ordinary characters in this team, the most special thing was the little eunuch who was now standing respectfully in front of Ye Tao, who was only seventeen years old but was already one of the chief eunuchs in charge of the accounting work of the inner government in the Dongping Palace.

No one knows what Li Mian's original surname was, since he was adopted by Li Sishu, the current head of the Inner Palace, since he was a baby. He started calling his current name. Li Mian is a very soft-hearted child, Li Sishu is old, in order to be able to follow Li Sishu at all times and take care of the old eunuch who has worked hard for the Dongping royal family for decades, Li Mian also entered the palace as a little eunuch. One is a eunuch and the other is an orphan, and he didn't have much thought about the succession, so he came over naturally. Li Mian, on the other hand, is one of the few eunuchs who has an extremely sensitive sense of numbers and formulas. When Tan Weixin discovered this in a simple accident and recommended Li Mian to Li Sishu, Li Mian gradually revealed his talent in the inner mansion with his talent in this aspect and stabilized his position. How strong is Li Mian's talent? Basically, he's a humanoid computer. If he knows the formula, he will tell him the variables in the formula casually, and he will be able to give the answer almost instinctively.

Because the team formed by Tan Weiying was a bit hasty, so. Ye Tao's suggestion to Tan Weiying, and when he and Tan Weixin assisted Tan Weiying in forming a team, he considered letting the team start from the gameplay aspect of the grand strategy of playing chess, relying on the precise control and management of numbers and data to gain an advantage, rather than extensively carrying out unprofessional strategic ideas. And with the support of such an idea, Li Mian, Zeng Zining and others are very useful.

Li Mian was a little apprehensive. With the insipid self-control of the Dongping royal family, he naturally will not tolerate any arrogant and domineering behavior of his subordinates. Although there are some power struggles and some ruthless things in the palace, in general, Li Mian, who has been determined to serve Li Sishu and the royal family all his life since he was a child, has never stood in the glorious foreground. And this time, from the invitation of the little princess who agreed to join the team and go through a series of trainings, he felt a little wrong. He finally understood that this team was going to stand in the spotlight. Fight against teams that are also in the limelight. And as the training progresses. Li Mian found himself increasingly important in the team, even though he didn't know much about the military. But more and more battles are not being carried out but more and more dependent on his opinion. And just this morning, he accidentally discovered a problem with a formula......

Here's the thing, during a few of their internal training matches in the morning, Li Mian took advantage of a loophole in the stats and formula settings that he felt should be a game, and repeatedly used the continuous impact bonus of the cavalry to win. In the formula system of the Grand Strategy game of marching chess, when a unit is continuously attacked by a unit with higher mobility than its own for a certain period of time, the attacking team will continue to accumulate attack bonuses. In fact, this is in line with the facts, the basic principle of sparrow warfare, harassment warfare, and sports warfare, everyone agrees with this setting, but Li Mian deliberately used small-scale troops to attack to accumulate enough bonuses for the final cavalry general attack. In reality, this method of warfare is completely impossible to achieve, because there is still a big difference between continuous death and continuous harassment, but originally, the little princess Tan Weiying's team started from the game level, and their first consideration was not the rationality of reality but the possibility of using the game system to win.

Li Mian just felt a little strange, is this a loophole in the game? Is this the absence of this huge and complete game system? Li Mian has been educated since he was a child, and the Dongping royal family they serve will not make mistakes, if there is a mistake, refer to the previous article. Even, their duty is to serve the Dongping royal family. That is, to talk about the family, to make up for these big and small mistakes. And after Tan Wei called Ye Tao his brother-in-law, at present, Li Mian at least regards Ye Tao as a venerable person he must treat carefully.

Ye Tao watched Li Mian whenever he mentioned the Dongping royal family and the two princesses of the Tan family, and his hands in his sleeves unconsciously formed a ceremonial arch, and his body would unconsciously bow a little bit. It's no longer a matter of restraint or deference, it's simply a reflex. Ye Tao found it interesting. The odds of such a person being in the era in which he lived are too low.

"Father-in-law Li......" Ye Tao thought about it for a while. But Li Mian immediately bowed down and interrupted: "Don't dare, don't dare, Ye Gongzi, you just call me Xiao Mianzi, this Li Gonggong is called, the villain is not deserved." ”

“…… Xiao Mian, "After ignoring the iconic title of the eunuch "Xiao Mouzi", this title seems more intimate, but it shows that Ye Tao has never treated Li Mian as a eunuch in the inner court and has any different attitude. "What do you think should be done now?"

Li Mian said categorically: "Change, the calculation of the competition is carried out by Ye Gongzi's subordinates, and these people who carry out the calculation are all trustworthy." Ye Gongzi, if you modify this formula, everyone will definitely not have any doubts. ”

Ye Tao shook his head and said, "This is a game that needs to be played authoritatively. And the authority of the competition comes from fairness and impartiality. All the formulas for Grand Strategy gameplay are public, although everyone is busy with all sorts of considerations during the game. And most of the audience is unaware of why, the formula has been modified, as long as it is not enough to shake the final result of each calculation, not to shake the local victory and defeat, but only a slight adjustment in the profit and loss of both sides, it will not cause any doubt, but, from the perspective of this game. How can we convince everyone of the explanations and promises we have made in the future? ”

Li Mian said: "...... However, if someone sees this problem, the game is not perfect. ”

"When I created a game that was so complex, I knew from the beginning that it was going to be imperfect. However, that's just the game. I'm grateful to you for coming to tell me what you've found, and I'm not against you taking advantage of the flaws in the rules of the game. Because. This is all within the scope of the rules of this game......" Ye Tao paused. He said: "Why not stop at this aspect of the imperfection of this competition? It's just that this is the first problem in terms of formula design. After this tournament, Yi Zhan Lou will release the first comprehensive revision plan for the various problems in the game. However, for now, since everyone is on the same starting line and playing the game by the same rules, then, in general, the authority, fairness and fairness of the game are guaranteed. To be able to find loopholes in the rules of the game, isn't it the ability of each team and an individual with a sharp mind? ”

Li Mian recalled what Ye Tao said, bowed deeply and said, "I have been taught." He then asked with some hesitation: "Before coming out, Her Royal Highness Princess Xiu has an order, let me ask you, can you enjoy the light and drink tea in the Embroidery Garden tonight?" ”

Xiuyuan is the current name of Ye Tao's pirated Master of Nets Garden. In fact, during the construction, Ye Tao made some adjustments, so that this small garden is more and more full of strong life and exquisite details, since it was completed ten days ago, ten days ago Tan Weiying moved in to the present, almost every night there are banquets in various names. The beautiful embroidery garden has become what the little princess Tan Weiying wants to show off the most. But Ye Tao had never been to even one banquet, for no other reason, but he felt that that that kind of polite banquet was a little troublesome to deal with. Although his friendship with Tan Weixin and his familiarity with Tan Weixin have made him almost not have to think about the so-called etiquette in front of them, it does not mean that he can be free to care in front of everyone.

"Since it was Her Royal Highness the Princess's special invitation, I should obey my fate." After thinking about the schedule for the afternoon for a while, and calculating the time it would take to go to the construction site of Tiecheng for a round of inspections and then rush back to bathe and change clothes, Ye Tao agreed. At least a third of the reason is that they don't want to embarrass Li Mian.

Although Li Mian said it politely, Ye Tao knew that Tan Weiying was not so polite when he gave the order, and most of them just said that he would drag Ye Tao for me. Although Tan Weiying will not get angry and lose her temper, the little princess makes the little temperament enough for a guy like Li Mian who prides himself on being scared for a long time.