The day after the end of the competition, Li Xiangping returned to China with honors.

Well, this time there is indeed only "reputation", firstly, the aftermath of the domestic "SARS" has not dissipated, and secondly, Li Xiangping won Lee Sedol...... This is expected by everyone, most of everyone's predictions before the game, even including the Koreans' own predictions, actually think that Lee Xiangping has a better chance of winning, and Lee Sedol is more auspicious.

Li Xiangping is now completing a thing that everyone expected, in this case, of course, there is still honor in honor, after Li Xiangping came back, the major media carried out a new round of praise, but more repercussions were no, and the additional celebration activities were also not there this time.

Of course, Li Xiangping himself didn't care about this, from this month, his schedule suddenly became busy, so not long after returning home, he discussed with Lao Shi about the 14 "quotas" he had left this year.

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, you see that you are now considered to have lifted the ban, so tell me for yourself, do you have any thoughts about the remaining 14 rounds this year?"

"Hehe, it's okay, Ding'an doesn't have any special ideas, Xiangping Xiaoyou looks at the arrangement."

Li Xiangping nodded when he heard this, expressing satisfaction with Lao Shi's attitude. But satisfaction is satisfaction, but he knows that he really can't just follow this, he really "arranges it".

You must know that Li Xiangping was a gentleman in his previous life, and his family also had a company that was not small, so under the influence of his ears and eyes, of course he knew that if he wanted employees to work for themselves, he could not only let others work, but also meet certain demands of others.

Fortunately, an "employee" like Lao Shi, of course, has no material appeal, and he only has a spiritual appeal at most.

So what is the "spiritual appeal" of Shi Da Qisheng? Li Xiangping thought about it: with the degree of sullenness of his plug-in, his biggest spiritual appeal is probably just to reunite with his embroidery girl.

It's a pity that Li Xiangping can't meet this appeal for the time being, so he can only retreat to the next best:

"Brother Ding'an, I think so, there are a lot of games in the next month this month, don't worry about other games, the focus is on the "Chunlan Cup" at the end of the month, and the next "Chunlan Cup", how about all the things done by Brother Ding'an? ”

"Hehe, this is very good, there is no problem here in Ding'an, by the way, Xiangping Xiaoyou, the "Chunlan Cup" is now in the semi-finals, why don't you go and win the championship yourself? ”

Li Xiangping said in his heart, what else can he do, of course, he wants you to work harder for me, for your guy's spiritual appeal, then I can think of your embroidered piano girl, in fact, there is only one: that is, you guy's chess addiction is very great, and he is a real chess idiot.

If it is purely from the perspective of "chess addiction", then of course, there is no more suitable game than the "Chunlan Cup", after all, you just said yourself, this game has reached the semi-finals, and the number of remaining sets is not much, so that other quotas can be arranged more flexibly.

"Brother Ding'an, you know me, my biggest wish now is to win a championship that belongs to me completely, and the first two rounds of this "Chunlan Cup".... So ....."

Li Xiangping deliberately didn't finish his words, but Lao Shi quickly agreed:

"Understood, understood, understood, Xiangping Xiaoyou, come on, I believe that with your talent, you will soon be able to win the personal championship that belongs to you, as for this "Chunlan Cup"..... Don't worry, it's all on me. ”

Li Xiangping was satisfied again, but he was not satisfied with Lao Shi's answer this time, because his reaction was completely unexpected by Li Xiangping.

Li Xiangping is satisfied with his speaking skills, because he has always believed that as a so-called "superior", it is really not as difficult as he imagined, just like he just did, while satisfying the demands of his subordinates, he also said his own demands.

So as long as your appeal is sincere and there is no contradiction with the employee's demand, then most of the time, it will definitely get a warm response.

If you don't get an enthusiastic response in this case, it's not actually your problem, it's the employee's problem, and in this case, don't hesitate to open the employee directly.

Well, of course, Shi Daqisheng is a good employee, so you see, people immediately gave a warm response.

After talking about the arrangement of the "Chunlan Cup", Li Xiangping did not make a more specific allocation of other quotas.

In fact, in Li Xiangping's heart, since he tried the power of "two swords combined" on the Internet, he has an urge to try it in an official competition. It's just that in line with the principle of "good steel is used on the blade", of course he doesn't want to try this thing casually, at least in the top 32 stage and the top 16 stage, he doesn't want to try this kind of play that is enough to beat a professional chess player to 2 pieces.

Besides, it is not ruled out that there is another possibility, that is, just like the previous game with Xiao Li, when did Lao Shi suddenly take over the game completely. Li Xiangping believes that with his current actual level, of course, this situation may still occur, and in this case, it is not easy to completely divide the remaining 14 rounds.

In short, now is to set a big principle first, first set a small proportion to meet the old chess addiction, as for the rest, of course, it will be flexibly mastered in the future.

After discussing this matter properly, Li Xiangping started a new journey, in addition to the "Chunlan Cup" in August, the next thing is naturally the "Samsung Cup" and "LC Cup".

To be honest, these two competitions are indeed the mainstay of modern Go, even if it is the professional Go tournament that is held once a year and has been able to persist until that time, there are only these two events.

So to tell the truth, although Lee Xiangping has never looked up to sticks, at this point, he still has to admit that this is a great contribution made by Koreans to Go.

As for the rumors before Li Xiangping's crossing, it was believed that these two competitions might be suspended, and Li Xiangping thought that this kind of worry was unnecessary. There is no other reason for this, because the sponsors of these two competitions are not trivial.

What Li Xiangping means here is not to say how good these two companies are, but to refer to the special identity of these two companies, with the special chaebol economic system of the South Koreans, these two companies are the large state-owned enterprises in their country, and they are even more special than those large state-owned enterprises in our country.

You can think about it from another perspective, if our country has such a large state-owned enterprise sponsoring a Go competition, for example, like the four major banks, PetroChina and Sinopec, will it be stopped casually after it is done?

Of course not, this kind of company is not allowed to hold competitions in China, but once it is done, it will definitely not stop easily.

The situation of these two South Korean companies is actually similar, just like in the future, even if their share of the Chinese market has become smaller and smaller, especially "LG", they are about to be unable to mix in China, but for the sake of face, they will still persevere.

The only reason for their closure: that is, South Korea has really changed, and even the top three chaebols can no longer hold on.

Well, of course, this possibility also exists, but Li Xiangping thinks that at least in the short term, there is no need to worry about Koreans, and he can rest assured that he can earn this kind of silver.

Besides, it's hard to tell whose money it is. In the real history, the old man of Li Xiangping's family participated in the construction of these two buildings, so he remembers very well that the cost of these two buildings was only a few hundred million, even if the cost of land acquisition was added, it was worth about 400 million US dollars at that time.

However, by the time Li Xiangping crossed over, because "LG" was about to be unable to mix in China, they were ready to sell the two buildings, and the bottom bid was already more than 10 billion.

It's no longer possible to sell products, and two buildings make so much money?

So it is completely conceivable that Li Xiangping relied on playing chess to earn this bit of silver, so how justified and comfortable he was.

Well, this opportunity to make money is coming soon. On August 9th, just one week after Li Xiangping returned to China, the 7th "LG Cup" officially started, and the opening ceremony was not elsewhere, and the organizers chose to be in Beijing.

As the defending champion, Li Xiangping is of course exempt from selection, but because there are 32 players in this tournament, it doesn't matter what "seeded players" are in this kind of competition, everyone must start from the first round.

This time in the capital a total of two rounds, in the top 32 on August 10, Li Xiangping encountered a young Korean chess player named An Daxun, this chess player seems to be not famous, belongs to the kind of world top four has not reached, and now he is still very young, and he looks only two or three years older than Li Xiangping.

There is no suspense, after Li Xiangping practiced a "demon knife variant" for him, he was no longer able to, less than 200 chess moves, Li Xiangping easily won.

In the round of 16 on August 12, Li Xiangping still encountered Korean chess players, and today he was replaced by Kim Seungjun 7th dan.

This chess player still has a certain reputation in this year, because he joined the Weijia and represented the Wuhan team for several years, as for his strength, well, he should be similar to Choi Myung-hoon Jiudan, and he belongs to the "Four Little Kings" in the Korean chess world a few years ago.

Kim Seung-joon speaks Chinese well and is said to have an excellent amount of alcohol, but it has nothing to do with the game, in which he and Lee Xiangping played kung fu chess.

This is obviously not what Korean chess players are good at, and it can be seen from his choice that he is actually a bit of a "pitch shift" today.

Therefore, there is still not much suspense, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, there are more than 230 hands in the overall situation, and Li Xiangping won 1 and a half small victories.

Li Xiangping once again broke into the quarterfinals of the World Series.

However, it is obvious that the current top eight can no longer satisfy Li Xiangping's appetite. After participating in two rounds of armor in mid-August, Li Xiangping is ready to go abroad again, this time to South Korea to participate in this year's "Samsung Cup".