"Brother Ding'an, let me ask you, in your Great Qing Dynasty, is there still the existence of Hanlin Qi to be edicted?"

"Chess? How could we still have it then? This official position was first created in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and reached its peak in the Tang and Song dynasties, but in the previous dynasty, Emperor Hongwu canceled this official position, so no, we had no Hanlin chess to be edicted at that time. ”

"Hehe, then Brother Ding'an, let me ask you again, the Ai Xinjue Luo Hongli of your court, will he play chess? If so, what is his level? ”

"Who are you talking about?"

"It's the Qianlong Emperor who you boasted about being a perfect old man."

"He? Hehe. ”

Li Xiangping was amused when he heard it: "Oh, Brother Ding'an, it's not bad now, even "hehe" was learned by you, I guess this person shouldn't love chess at all, right?" Even if he occasionally plays a game or two, he is definitely a stinky chess basket. ”

"Huh? How can you guess this? ”

"It's very simple, because this person also writes poetry," Li Xiangping said with a laugh.

"That guy actually wrote more than 10,000 poems in his lifetime, what kind of concept is this? This is simply writing poetry as a diary, and I told you a long time ago that writing a diary is really not a good thing, it is easy to expose your ugliness, such as your Qianlong Emperor, among his more than 10,000 crooked poems, is there a description of Go? It seems to be rare, or even close to nothing, then Brother Ding'an, think about it, if he is really a chess lover, how can this phenomenon occur when he writes crooked poems as a diary? Therefore, from this point alone, I can infer that this person must not love chess, and he must be a stinky chess basket. ”

"Hahahaha," this time it was Lao Shi's turn to laugh: "Not bad, Xiangping Xiaoyou's perspective is unique, but the inference is reasonable, Ding'an admires, this person really doesn't like chess, and his level is very low." ”

Lao Shi paused, and then continued in a deeper voice:

"Not only does this person not love chess, but he may even hate Go, and my ancient chess has turned from prosperity to decline, and this person is really the culprit."

"Ancient chess? Haha Ding'an, why do you call yourself a second-hand chess now? ”

"This ...... Didn't I hear you say this every day, so I learned it, by the way, Xiangping Xiaoyou, why did you suddenly talk to me about this person today. ”

Li Xiangping didn't answer immediately, but asked rhetorically with interest: "The culprit, do you also think this person is the culprit?" How did he harm the ancient chess? ”

Lao Shi was silent for a while, and then simply spit out a few words: "Two Huai Salt Merchant Fraud Case."

When he said this, he suddenly remembered something: "Huh? I just heard you say "yes", could it be that before that, someone else said that this person was the culprit? ”

Li Xiangping smiled, and then he took a moment to explain to his plug-in: In fact, in modern academia, some people have analyzed the reasons for the decline of ancient chess.

Of course, those more metaphysical reasons, such as "national fortune chang, chess luck chang" and the like, Li Xiangping is too lazy to talk to the older Shi, in the braid dynasty, there are two specific major events, the blow to the ancient chess is huge.

The first thing is the "Two Huai Salt Merchant Fraud Case" that Lao Shi just mentioned. In particular, the "Two Huai Salt Merchants Fraud Case" initiated by Emperor Qianlong after middle age and vigorously carried out for more than 10 years had a huge impact on the ancient chess-------

Of course, everyone knows that a project like Go must require a certain economic foundation, and in the Braided Dynasty, the biggest economic support for Go is, of course, from the two Huai salt merchants at that time, and Emperor Qianlong's behavior at that time was actually equivalent to directly eliminating the father of the gold master of Go.

Well, in fact, in ancient China, there were usually two kinds of gold masters and fathers of Go, which had always been like the two Huai salt merchants, and the other one, that is, the dignitaries at that time, or directly the magnates at that time.

However, in the Qianlong Dynasty, because he himself did not love chess and even hated Go------ he was the most powerful, this road had long been broken, and when he cut off another road, the ancient chess directly began to decline from that time.

Speaking of this, Li Xiangping wanted to say more, he really didn't love the house and Wu, and thought that Emperor Qianlong's cleanup of the "Lianghuai Salt Merchant Fraud Case" affected Go, so he thought that this matter was going on.

In fact, the "Two Huai Salt Merchant Fraud Case" itself is a very disgusting and bad thing.

In fact, the so-called "salt class" of the Braided Dynasty implemented a tax package system, well, similar to the very primitive tax package system in the late Middle Ages in Europe.

So here's the question: you made all the rules, and then you can't stand it after you see that the salt merchant has made some money? Are you upset? You're going to take a shot at them?

Isn't this how the lighthouse country of later generations dealt with our country?

Emperor Qianlong's routine of dealing with the two Huai salt merchants at that time was exactly the same as that of the Lighthouse State.

The only difference between the two is actually that the reasons are different, the beacon country of later generations is looking for the reason of the "free world", as for our perfect old man, of course he doesn't know anything about the free world, so he basically finds a reason for corruption, and in the name of punishing corruption, he rectifies those salt merchants.

There is no doubt that although they are all wool gathering in essence, Emperor Qianlong's approach must be more confusing, and it is easier to stand on the moral high ground.

So from this point of view, the lighthouse country in the future doesn't seem to be as good as our bullshit old man?

The second major event that led to the decline of medieval chess was the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement.

How so? If it is said that the "Two Huai Salt Merchants Fraud Case" initiated by Qianlong made the ancient chess from prosperity to decline, then the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement dealt a devastating blow to the ancient chess.

After all, for Go, although the father of the gold master is important, Li Xiangping personally believes that this is not the most important, because Go is a kind of culture, as long as its cultural heritage is still there, then a few less fathers of the gold master for a period of time will not be a devastating blow to Go.

And the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the past caused this devastating blow to Go.

Li Xiangping remembers that in his previous life, he had seen a statistic made by a senior hardcore chess player, and this statistic was as follows: Go has been developed and inherited in China for thousands of years, so in modern times, how many ancient books related to Go have been preserved?

Many people may not believe it, but there are only more than 200 copies.

And among the more than 200 ancient books of Go, there are also purely theoretical articles such as "Thirteen Chapters of the Book of Go" and "Fu of Go".

In other words, even if these are added, there are only less than 300 copies.

Obviously, in the real antiquity, there could not be only so few books related to Go, so when did the other books be destroyed? It was basically destroyed during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Because at that time, the Jiangnan area was an important town for Go, and the local literary style was prosperous, there were many private libraries------- and most of the ancient books of Go were actually collected in private libraries.

One of the more typical examples of this------ Li Xiangping remembered that he had just debuted, he once played an ancient chess style "Tie Chongguan", and later Lao Shi told him that he was actually making a mistake at that time, as for the specific mistake, Huanglongshi Chess Sage elaborated in his "Longshi Quantu".

This book, Lao Shi himself said that he had read it.

As for Li Xiangping, he knew about the existence of this book from other sources, but it was impossible for him to see this ancient book, because this book should have been destroyed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement.

After Li Xiangping told his plug-in the reason for the analysis of modern people, Lao Shi was silent for a long time, and after a long time, he spoke:

"By the way, you didn't answer me just now, why did you suddenly ask me about it today?"

Li Xiangping replied with a smile: "What else, of course, it is for the sake of that "big country". ”

"Great powers?"

"That's right, you also heard it yesterday, and now I'm going to send a film and television drama related to you, Brother Ding'an, let me tell you, in my previous life, this drama has already appeared, and in that play, there is Hanlin Qi to be edicted, haha, your Hanlin Chess of the Qing Dynasty is to be edicted."

"Huh?! This, how can this be so nonsense? ”

Li Xiangping selenium said: "It's still a trivial matter to just wait for the edict, after all, this official position has really existed in real history, so it is harmless for film and television dramas to be fictional here, Brother Ding'an, let me tell you, the former "big man", that bullshit perfect old man is a very important character, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it seems that he is the big boss of the whole work, it seems that all the plots, all the dark lines, are promoted by this person. ”

"Huh?! This..... This....... So, what does Xiangping Xiaoyou want to do now? ”

Li Xiangping didn't reply to Lao Shi's words immediately, he stood in place for a while, and then replied:

"Brother Ding'an, I just told you that there are less than 300 ancient Chinese Go books left so far, so do you know how many ancient books related to Go they have in Dongying and Goryeo?"

"How do I know how many they have now?"

Li Xiangping smiled: "It is also counted by senior die-hard chess players, not counting modern ones, only 100 years ago, in that Dongying, there are only 34 original ancient Go books." ”

"Ah, so little?"

Li Xiangping continued to laugh: "How can you decide that Brother Nunnery is too little?" I'll tell you that there are a lot, after all, although there are few ancient books in the Dongying chess world, there are still such huge works as "The Theory of Fayang", and the real thing is that the Goryeo chess world, do you know how many original Go books they can have as of 100 years ago? ”

"How much?"

Li Xiangping stretched out three fingers: "Three books, ancient books really related to Go, there are only three books in Goryeo." ”

"Hey, hey."

Hearing Lao Shi's "hehe", Li Xiangping sighed:

"It's just that although they have few ancient Go books, they are completely ahead of us in the production of Go film and television dramas."

"Oh?"

Li Xiangping nodded, and at this time, he didn't continue to explain to Lao Shi.

In real history, in China, Japan and South Korea, in fact, they have all filmed Go-themed film and television dramas, Japan is the famous "chess soul", and South Korea is "Please answer 1988", this is a TV series based on Da Li, which is actually similar to Li Canghao's biopic.

China has a little more, respectively "Wu Qingyuan", "Go Boy" and "Great Player".

It's just a pity, from Li Xiangping's personal point of view, he thinks that China's Go-themed film and television dramas are of the worst quality, especially the "big player", which is simply terrible, and belongs to the kind of big bad movies that can't be put on the stage at all.

If this is still in his previous life, then Li Xiangping may just spit out, and even as a non-film and television fan, he may not even bother to spit out.

But in this world it is different.

After all, Lao Shi has become his own plug-in, so after getting along for so long, Li Xiangping has long had a very wonderful feeling, or a unique feeling that only a traverser can have-------

He now has an inexplicable "sense of substitution", feeling that he and Lao Shi are no longer separated from each other, and if anyone insults Lao Shi, it is no different from insulting himself.

Obviously, the "great hand" in real history, Li Xiangping thinks that he has insulted Lao Shi.

It not only insulted Lao Shi, but also insulted Fan Xiping Chess Saint, and also insulted Middle Age.

In this case, of course, the current Li Xiangping can't be indifferent, and he decided to take care of this matter.

No, the use of "out of control" here may be a misnomer, it is too big a word for Li Xiangping, it should be said that he has decided to mix this matter now.

But how do you mix it? Now he can't say one, two, three, four, or even have any clue.

After all, in his previous life, he didn't mix in the entertainment industry, not even film and television fans, and more than ninety percent of all his knowledge about the film and television industry came from gossip on the Internet.

Obviously, a knowledge reserve like him is definitely not qualified to mix in the production of a film and television work, and he now only has two advantages:

First, he is also a golden slam in the world chess world, and he is recognized as a leader and representative figure in the Chinese chess world and even in the world chess world.

Since you have this identity, it seems that making a Go-themed film and television drama always has a little bit to do with it.

At least say a few words yourself, and when the time comes, no one should feel that it is disobedient.

The second and more important favorable condition: because Zhao Daokai's father Zhao Jiadong, in real history, he will start his own media company from next year, and I heard Zhao Daokai say yesterday that Zhao Jiadong seems to be mixed with the production of "big powers".

So Li Xiangping decided to find a time to chat with Zhao Jiadong to see what was going on.

Of course, this matter is still in a hurry, because a few days later, it will be the final of the "Fujitsu Cup" with Gu Dali, and Li Xiangping will finish this game first.

"Brother Ding'an, wait a week, when we come back from Japan, I'll take you to visit my Uncle Zhao, okay?"

"Huh."

August 2005 soon came, and on the first weekend, Li Xiangping boarded a flight to Tokyo, Japan, to compete with his teammate Gu Dali for the title of this year's "Fujitsu Cup".