"Ah, the Tan family is so good." After listening to Teacher Guan's narration, Tan Xiaotian was surprised, he originally thought that the reason why the Jiang and Tan families were able to fight each other was because of the power of the entire family, but he didn't expect that at the level of top masters, the Tan family would not lose to the Jiang family at all, and it might even be a little higher, otherwise, it would not make the head of the Jiang family unable to get the position of editor of the Hanlin Academy.

"That is, although they are all the four great families of Go, but Jiang and Tan are obviously much stronger than Zheng and Dong, and they can't be convinced, and in the past 20 years, the battle for hegemony in the chess world has been between the two of them, although Zheng and Dong also participated, but basically they all belong to the role of beating the side drum and playing soy sauce." Teacher Guan said with a smile - it is not enough to be above and more than to be below, even if it is a struggle, it must be divided into levels, the battle with the Dong family is a matter of course, and it is unavoidable, although there is a struggle with the Jiang family, but because the goal of the struggle is different, it will not be so fierce.

"In that case, why are there so few Tanmen masters included in the book? Could it be that the Zheng family and the Jiang family are allies, so they are deliberately biased when they include chess players? Scratching his head, Tan Xiaotian thought about it and asked-Jiang, the Tan family is vying for the position of the overlord of the chess world, this is definitely not just a simple battle in chess, otherwise the matter will be too easy to solve, the children in the chess courtyard fight and know how to gang up and strengthen the momentum, those adults must know more than themselves.

"Allies? At that time, the Zheng family has always taken a neutral position on the fight between the Tan and Jiang families, and it is easy not to favor which side, after all, the strength of the two families is equal, and no one dares to say who loses or who wins, and once they stand in the wrong position, the other party will inevitably wear small shoes after gaining power, the so-called Mingzhe protects himself. At that time, all the Go families basically held a similar attitude, and this "Records of the Great Zhou Yitan" belonged to the information book, which only included the introduction and representative of famous chess players, and did not comment on the chess players or chess games, the content was true, no need to look at whose face it was, how to say that the Zheng family was also one of the four major Go families, if they didn't even have the courage to bear it, they would have been replaced by other families long ago. Teacher Guan said with a smile.

"Not for this reason. Why is that? Isn't it contradictory that the number of first-class masters of the Tan family is not less than that of the Jiang family, but the number of people included in the book is indeed nearly half? Tan Xiaotian was even more confused.

"Oh, that's because the Tan family lost a battle with the Jiang family, fulfilled the gambling contract, and the Tan family moved out of the capital and settled in Chang'an, and the Tan family's property in the capital was also sold and transferred. There is not much left, and the power is not as good as before, but the so-called hundred-legged insects are not stiff even if they die. Although it has been hit hard, the strength of the Tan family is still very strong, just because Jiang Yongnian, the head of the Jiang family, is alive for one day, the descendants of the Tan family will not set foot in the capital for half a step. If you want to get the title of Sanpin Chess Player, the main way is to participate in the Imperial Chess Battle and get the top three, so that. Although the strength and number of the disciples of the descendants of Tan and Jiang are almost the same, one can participate in the imperial chess battle, and the other is limited to the oath that he cannot even enter the gate of the capital. Teacher Guan replied.

"So that's the case", Tan Xiaotian suddenly realized that although the strength and number of the junior masters of the Tan family may not be lost to the Jiang family, they were suffering from not being able to participate in the imperial chess battle, and lost the most important channel to advance to the three-rank chess player and obtain the title of national player, and the "Record of Famous Players in the Great Zhou Yitan" is limited to the number of chess players above the third grade, so the number of chess players between Tan and Jiang will be so different.

"Alas, although the old man Jiang is old, he is said to be proficient in the way of health preservation, and he is in his seventies, his eyes are not dazzled, his ears are not deaf, he is tougher than the average person in his fifties, and he may live for another ten or eight years, and if he doesn't go, the Tan family will not be able to return to the capital for a day, and this situation continues, I am afraid that even if the Tan family returns to the capital in ten years, it will not be able to shake the status of the first chess family around the Jiang family in fifty years." Speaking of this, Teacher Guan let out a long sigh, the two Tan Jiang families competed for hegemony, and he had nothing to do with him, from the perspective of a third party, he just felt that the Tan family lost too much that time, and in the past ten or twenty years, it has had a great impact on the growth and decline of the power between the two families with equal strength to each other, and how can there be more than four or five masters who want the descendants of the Tan family to be qualified to enter the Hanlin Academy with their strength, right? Because I can't participate in the Imperial Chess Battle, I can't get the qualification of a three-grade chess player, and I don't know how many opportunities I have to play with the first-class masters in Dazhou and Dazhou, which is not only a loss of honor, but also a loss of opportunities to improve my actual combat experience.

"Why are they betting so much?" Tan Xiaotian's age and experience is impossible to understand the tragedy and cruelty of the chess world, in his mind, the imperial chess battle is the highest stage for chess players to show their skills, and it is the goal that every chess player yearns for.

"Heh, who knows, it may be that Tan Ziqiang and Jiang Yongnian are tired of fighting for decades, so they want to use the topic to play, if they want to fight the country, they will have more than ten or twenty years of leisure." Teacher Guan said with a smile.

"Borrowing the topic to play? , what question to borrow? "There must be a reason for everything, even if it is a question to play, not all kinds of topics can be borrowed, how important is the status of the Jiang and Tan families in the chess world, it is impossible to gamble on their net worth and surname because of trivial things, right?

"Hehe, you can be regarded as asking the right person, and there are really not too many people who know the real reason for this incident." Teacher Guan was proud again, he did have this self-confidence, because first, Yangzhou is thousands of mountains and rivers away from the capital, it is inconvenient to come and go, and the news transmission is not so easy, if it is passed by word of mouth, when it is transmitted here, I don't know how far away it is from the truth, secondly, it has been a long time, after all, it was almost ten years ago, and thirdly, that matter is a scandal for Tan and Jiang, the so-called family scandal cannot be spread, and the two families have given a gag order to that matter, and the clansmen are not allowed to mention it again, and the people in the chess world do not want to offend these two families, It's easy to bring up the old thing, so how many people like him were in the capital when the incident happened, and he knew the whole story of the incident and is now in Yangzhou? (To be continued......)