In the 1945 U.S. air raid, Wu Qingyuan's house was blown up, and Wu Qingyuan, who was homeless and had no chess to play, once followed a cult called "Xiyu Sect", and the leader was a woman who didn't know how to play Go at all, and every day he treated Wu Qingyuan as an errand and an arbitrary envoy, and even insulted him as a "Zhina person" (in fact, as early as 1936, Wu Qingyuan had already joined the Japanese nationality).

What's even more tragic is that after Japan's defeat, a Kuomintang officer found Wu Qingyuan and his wife, forcibly revoked his Japanese nationality, and issued him a temporary Republic of China passport, but at that time it was the first game of ten chess between him and Hashimoto Utaro, Wu Qingyuan did not play chess all the year round, and his chess strength was rusty, which led to the failure of the first game, and then the officer ran to him and claimed that "the loss is so ugly, it is useless for people like you to ask for it", and then took away the temporary passport, so Wu Qingyuan became a stateless person.

In Japan during this period, although the chess academy existed, all kinds of subsidies were long gone, and it was difficult for official chess players to live, not to mention Chinese chess players like Wu Qingyuan, so his life was extremely hard, Han Xuewei knew Wu Qingyuan when he was in the Northeast, and now he wants to help him when he is living so poorly.

For Wu Qingyuan, Go enthusiasts like Tang Ning have always loved and hated, admiring his contributions to Go, especially his new layout and the big avalanche inflection; Looking at his brilliant record, the juban chess of that era is unimaginable and difficult to replicate now, and if he fails, he will be demoted, which is impossible to reproduce in the current chess world. Hate his performance outside Go, twice became a Japanese citizen, repeatedly condoled the Japanese army, and served as a Sino-Japanese friendship ambassador during the Japanese invasion of China, which is really difficult for modern Chinese to accept and forgive.

But no matter what, Tang Ning still wanted to meet this Showa chess master, so he asked Han Xuewei to find him. When they met, Tang Ning was somewhat surprised, Wu Qingyuan was born in 1914, so in 1946 he should only be 32 years old, but now he looks as if he is about to be fifty, thin, listless, wrinkled, sallow skin, as soon as he saw Tang Ning, he bowed and saluted according to Japanese etiquette: "Hello, Captain, I heard that you want to see me, do you want to play chess with me?" ”

Tang Ning smiled: "I'm just a little interested in Go, and you can't compare with an eight-dan master, I came to you, first, I want to meet Miss Han's wishes, and second, I am more interested in your experience, I want to ask you some questions, I don't know if you mind?" ”

In fact, Wu Qingyuan himself was very confused during this trip, he had never heard that Americans also liked to play Go, and now he saw that Tang Ning just wanted to ask him a few questions, but he was relieved, so he replied: "Captain, even if you ask, I must know everything and say everything." ”

Tang Ning took a sip of tea, and then asked: "As far as I know, Mr. Wu, you were born in a wealthy family in Fujian, and you have already made a name for yourself in the chess world when you were young, known as a prodigy in the chess world, and was hired as a chess player by Duan Qirui, you should have a bright future, but why did you want to leave your nationality and join Japan?" I don't think there are very many Chinese people who do this. ”

Wu Qingyuan smiled bitterly: "Our Wu family was indeed a Fujian salt merchant in the early years, and the family was well-off, but by my father's generation, there was only one shelf left, and my father was still a concubine, and he had no status in the family, so he lived a very hard life, and later he was fortunate to be appreciated by Premier Duan and subsidized 100 silver dollars a month." However, at that time, there were civil wars in my country, and there were very few people who played chess, so it was not suitable for the development of chess players at all, so when my teacher Kensaku Sekoshi wanted to bring me to Japan, I agreed, because Japan was stable at that time, the atmosphere of Go was strong, and the income was good, which was very suitable for the development of a chess player. ”

Tang Ning frowned and thought for a while, and then asked, "It's normal for you to go east to Japan for the development of Go, but why do you want to become a Japanese citizen?" Don't you know that your motherland was at war with Japan at that time, and the hatred between the two sides was already thick and irreconcilable, and smart people were afraid to hide in the capital, why did you still get into it, and also served as a Sino-Japanese friendship ambassador to comfort the Japanese army, you really can't understand what you do. ”

Tang Ning's words seemed to ask Wu Qingyuan's sore spot, he closed his eyes and thought calmly for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and looked at Tang Ning with wide eyes and said, "If I say that I am just here to play chess, can you understand?" ”

Tang Ning shook his head and said, "I don't understand. ”

Wu Qingyuan said with some excitement: "I'm just a chess player who likes to play chess, I don't want to figure out these things politically, and I can't figure it out, I joined the Japanese nationality just to be able to play chess quietly with some chess masters, and at the same time I can support my family by playing chess, as for comforting the Japanese army, that was my job at that time, and I couldn't refuse and avoid." Why does everyone refuse to understand me, the Chinese call me a traitor, the Japanese call me a cruel china, what should I do to play chess quietly? ”

Tang Ning was silent for a long time before he slowly replied: "This is your fault, and it is also the fault of this era." In fact, Tang Ning still has a lot to say in his heart, but he feels that there is no need to tell Wu Qingyuan, because this person's political thinking is too shallow and naïve.

He was really born in the wrong era, if he was changed to the modern era, with his record of sweeping the Japanese chess world alone, his status in China will not be lower than Yao Ming; He really made the wrong choice, he thought that he could play chess quietly in Japan by becoming a Japanese citizen, but the result was that both ends were not pleased. Especially in 1979, when he re-became a Japanese citizen, he almost voluntarily severed ties with China.

In the end, Tang Ning said to Wu Qingyuan: "Play your chess well, if you have any difficulties in life, you can come to me, I will guarantee your minimum living conditions, but you don't go to the factory, go back and study your Go well, I hope you can win in the next ten chess battles, and I also hope that you can think more about things other than Go, no matter who you are, it is difficult to live so purely, many things are not something we don't want to think about, and some things can't be avoided." ”

Tang Ning's evaluation of Wu Qingyuan's experience is only eight words, which is what Mr. Lu Xun said back then: "Mourn his misfortune and be angry with him!" He really didn't expect that the Go master and Showa chess saint in his mind were such a person outside of Go, so he had a kind of depressed emotion in his heart, but he didn't expect that he would soon find a channel to vent. Because someone dared to steal his things!

PS: I ask you for a leave, I will travel to Changbai Mountain and Changchun from Thursday this week to Monday next week, so I have to start saving manuscripts in the next few days, and I can't change two times a day for the time being, only one change a day.

And because this book has not been signed yet, so there is no function of setting the time to automatically update, I can only find an Internet café to update in the interval of travel, if there is no update one day, don't think that this book is not written, to be honest, the results of this book are so good now, I am absolutely reluctant to give up.

Another point to note is that although this book can only be updated once a day in the near future, the quality will never decrease, but it will improve, and the protagonist will show his iron-blooded side at the beginning of the next chapter.,It's absolutely not possible to rule these Japanese only by being gentle and frugal.,I hope you don't think the protagonist is too cruel at that time.。

Finally, I still hope that everyone will support more, collect more, recommend more, and hope that after I come back from my trip, I can receive a short contract station.