At around 7:40 p.m., Li Xiangping unexpectedly received a call from his grandfather in his hometown.

"Huh? Hello grandpa, what's the matter? ”

"Oh, blame the grandson, hahahaha......"

Hearing his grandfather laughing so happily, Li Xiangping finally came to his senses, news broadcast! I was on the news broadcast of the imperial court! Although it is only a few seconds, and it is placed in the last part of the domestic news, after all, it has its own close-up, and it can be regarded as showing its face in front of the people of the whole country, right?

And for an old revolutionary like his grandfather, his appearance on the news network may be a more remarkable event than winning this championship, which makes his old man smile so happily.

However, Li Xiangping himself is not surprised that he can appear in the news broadcast, after all, the third Go world championship won in China is the second world champion after Ma Xiaofei, and it is the world championship that China Go regained after a lapse of 6 years.

These factors, coupled with their own identity and age, then looking at the problem from the perspective of domestic journalism, their championship this time is definitely inspirational good news full of positive energy, and such good news appears on the news network, which is of course reasonable.

Since they all appeared in the news broadcast, the aftermath after winning the championship this time naturally did not calm down so quickly.

In mid-June 2002, more than a week after Li Xiangping returned to Beijing, the "Warm Celebration of China's Young Player Li Xiangping's World Championship Celebration Conference" was held in the China Chess Academy.

Yes, the Zhujie conference held by the China Chess Academy this time can indeed be called "grand", and its most concrete manifestation is that in addition to the Chinese Go management headed by Lao Chen, more than half of the vice presidents of the Chinese Go Association attended the conference.

We must not underestimate this "more than half", you must know that there are dozens of vice presidents of the Chinese Go Association, and the vast majority of them are not really people in the Go circle, but just those who care about Go and love Go and other well-known people from all walks of life.

No, maybe it can't be said to give Li Xiangping face, but it is more likely that there are quite a few people among these people, and they are very curious about Li Xiangping, so they took this opportunity to go to the chess academy to see Li Xiangping's deity.

However, in any case, since so many well-known people from all walks of life attended, this Zhujie conference can naturally be called grand and warm.

Since it was so grand and enthusiastic, Li Xiangping, as the protagonist, naturally gained some benefits from this conference.

The first benefit he got was actually something that Lao Chen had discussed before the game, that is, as long as Li Xiangping won the world championship, he would be promoted to nine dans.

The final ceremony of the Zhujie Conference is actually the ceremony of officially awarding the nine-dan certificate of occupation. In a round of applause, Lao Chen, the current chairman of the Chinese Go Association, personally handed the certificate to Li Xiangping.

As a result, when the red book was in the book, Li Xiangping sighed in his heart, in his previous life, he had struggled for several years for a career initial certificate, and in the end he didn't get anything, I really didn't expect that he would also become "Li Jiuduan" one day.

Lao Chen, who awarded Li Xiangping's certificate, also sighed in his heart, in another 2 months, Lao Chen will actually retire, he will step down as the chairman of the Chinese Go Association and the president of the Chinese Chess Academy, and this year's ranking competition is after his retirement, so this certificate is actually his last certificate.

Lao Chen didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to award a certificate of professional nine-dan to a child who was not yet 14 years old, even if he had handed the certificate to Li Xiangping by himself, Lao Chen still had a feeling that it was not very real.

"Xiangping, come on, keep working hard."

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, by the way, thank you Mr. Nie, thank you Mr. Ma...... Thank you all for your help and support, and I will continue to work hard in the future to climb to the peak of chess......"

Li Xiangping's words ushered in bursts of applause, of course others wouldn't know that this was actually just a 30-year-old soul pretending to be tender there.

Of course, there are some things to say again, Li Xiangping's show just now is not all polite, at least Lao Nie and Ma Xiao, he is sincerely grateful, he thinks that if Lao Shi had not accepted the special training of these two people for nearly 1 month, then this championship is estimated to be enough to hang.

In addition to being promoted to the ninth dan, the second benefit that Li Xiangping obtained was that after receiving the certificate, Deputy Coach Luo of the national team directly announced: From today on, Li Xiangping will become a member of the Chinese national Go team.

Ordinary people may not be very clear, the weight of this identity is actually very heavy, in a sense, the benefits in it, and there may even be more than a professional nine-stage identity.

Because what Lao Luo just said is an "official member" of the national team, not a member of the national training team.

How to describe it, anyway, as far as Li Xiangping knows, after the "Seven Little Dragons", there are actually very few official members of the Chinese national Go team, and non-world champions cannot be selected at all.

One of the most famous examples, the calm brother Sheikh of the "Little Tiger Generation", he has been in the top 5 in the domestic rating for a long time, but with his strength and level, he has never been an official member of the national team, and can only be called a member of the "national training team".

In real history, "Brother Calm" once experienced a transfer in the Weijia arena, and the reason for his transfer may sound a little incredible to the outside world, that is, because the new owner can solve a "preparation" for him, so he wants to transfer.

The difference between "official members of the national team" and "members of the national training team" is actually the difference in the establishment, the former is like a regular worker, the latter is like a temporary worker, and the difference between this is understood by those who are familiar with our national system.

To tell the truth, the situation of calm brother Sheikh is not bad, and after the later generations, the results of Chinese Go are getting better and better, and even the conditions of the "national training team" have become strict, the most famous example is the world champion Dang Yifei, after he won the championship, Yu Bin, the head coach of the national Go team at that time, sighed: Fortunately, he won the championship this time, otherwise he would have been removed from the national training team.

Look, if he hadn't won the championship at that time, he wouldn't have been even a "temporary worker" of the national Go team.

Therefore, Li Xiangping can now become an official member of the Chinese national Go team, to tell the truth, he is also in a good time, after all, the domestic Go world champion is still very scarce in these years, it is the only two, plus he is still so young, giving people the feeling that there is still a lot of potential, so he can get this identity, otherwise if he wants to get this identity in a few years, it will be very difficult.

The third benefit that Li Xiangping has obtained, that is, he has now attracted the attention of almost all the teams in China, and almost all the teams want him to join.

Of course, this situation is also very normal, after all, such a young world champion, how to look like a high-performance stock, if Li Xiangping can join, in fact, don't mention the issue of improving the team's performance, with Li Xiangping's current popularity and topicality, it can be said that if any team can sign Li Xiangping, it will definitely be a sure win.

In addition to this reason, more importantly, the biggest performance stock in the current Go world, he is still a real free body, he does not have an old club, and because he was only an amateur chess player before, he doesn't even have a place to register, so signing this kind of person seems to be a little easier than digging the corners of other teams.

To tell the truth, this is actually the reason why there are so many vice chairmen today, because the vice chairman of the Chinese Go Association is mainly composed of two parts, one part is a well-known person in the system, and the other part is of course a big tyrant, a big money tyrant who hosts the Go competition, and a big money tyrant who sponsors the Weijia team, and most of these vice chairmen who are here today are composed of these big money.

Among all the teams in the armor, it is the team sponsored by Lao Cai Cai Zhixiong that is the most dominant, after all, Lao Cai and Lao Li had a personal relationship before, and more importantly, Li Xiangping participated in the Samsung Cup this time through Lao Cai's help and temporarily registered in his team.

Although it is temporary, in the terminology of Go, Lao Cai can be regarded as taking the lead.

Therefore, although Lao Cai is not the vice chairman, he is also here today, and he is still jumping around the venue very happily, especially after the meeting, he even held Li Xiangping to make an affectionate gesture:

"Haha Xiangping, come with me, I've already made an appointment with your father, let's find a place to continue celebrating."

Li Xiang said in his heart that he wouldn't go to heaven and earth again, right? But he said with a smile in his mouth:

"Okay Uncle Cai."