"Xiaoqiang, are you still sleeping?"

Li Xiaoqiang opened his eyes in a daze. I don't know how others are doing yesterday, anyway, Li Xiaoqiang's own wine is a little too much, which also makes Li Xiaoqiang get up a little later than usual.

"Yo, it's Coach Jiang, when did you come to the capital, why didn't you say hello in advance?"

"I came here on a temporary basis, I only arrived last night, and I knew you were drinking, so I didn't bother you yesterday. Isn't this early in the morning coming to discuss something with you? ”

"What's the matter?" Li Xiaoqiang got up, brushed his teeth, and washed his face. There was no special invitation to the guests who came in. The person who came was Jiang Chenghua of the Ganyuan Provincial Team, Li Xiaoqiang has known him for nearly 10 years, especially in the last six months, because he was preparing to participate in the first Chinese "Weijia" League that began in May this year, the exchanges between the two were more frequent, so Li Xiaoqiang did not have to be polite to him.

"What? You're saying that our team is going to hire a South Korean foreign aid. Li Xiaoqiang's brushing action stopped, ignoring the foam in his mouth, and stared at Jiang Chenghua in surprise.

"That's right, it was a temporary idea when I watched you play yesterday, and several of the bosses of our club were very interested. So I flew to the capital overnight, and everyone asked me to ask for your opinion and see if this thing is operational? ”

At present, various domestic system reforms, the Ganyuan Provincial Go team is naturally as good as a stream, first changed a more fashionable name, and established a Ganyuan Go Club. In a few months, Li Xiaoqiang will participate in the first "Weijia" in the name of the Go Club. And Jiang Chenghua's identity has also changed from the coach of the provincial team to the coach of the club.

A total of 12 teams participated in this year's inaugural "Wai Jia". Among the 12 teams, as a promoted horse, the overall strength of the Ganyuan team is not very strong, but from other aspects, the Ganyuan team seems to be quite good. At least one point, the current Ganyuan team is not bad for money. In all the participating teams, a local tyrant posture.

In fact, there is nothing surprising that Ganyuan Province has always been an economically weak province, and there is not much to do in other sports competitions. But it is precisely this "weakness" that makes the Go project very important in the province. For example, the notorious football "A" league that began in 1994 last year and later looks beautiful and is still in full swing. Projects like football. In the case of not having much foundation, Ganyuan Province can't afford to play if it wants to.

But Go is different, and the cost of running a Go club is naturally much smaller than that of a project like football. This is just like the mountain city in the previous life, when the mountain city first became a municipality directly under the central government, the project of Go was used as a breakthrough. And now Ganyuan, what he wants to take is actually the same path as the mountain city in his previous life. Because there is a Li Xiaoqiang in the province, because he has just been promoted to Class A this year, it naturally makes everyone enthusiastic.

With the support of the province. With enthusiasm comes ambition. Everyone analyzes the lineup of the Ganyuan team, of course, Li Xiaoqiang does not need to say that Qian Yuping, who has officially signed a contract with the Ganyuan team, can also be regarded as a qualified player. But the strength of the other two is not reassuring. Everyone thinks that with such a lineup to participate in the "Wai Jia", relegation should not be a problem, but if you want to achieve any good rankings, it is basically impossible.

"You wait first. Let's think about this matter again. ”

After breakfast, Li Xiaoqiang began to discuss this matter with Jiang Chenghua. Li Xiaoqiang knew it very well in his heart. Jiang Chenghua: It's only natural that they will play their ideas to the Korean chess players. In recent years, it is said that it is market-oriented, but the traces of the old system are still obvious. Not to mention now, even in another 10 years, everyone still attaches great importance to things like "compilation". For example, in real history, a certain chess person in Shencheng City said that if you want Chang Ren to move the nest. No one can be the master, and there must be a nod from Mayor Shencheng.

Although this statement may be an exaggeration, it also reflects the difficulty of domestic chess player mobility. Therefore, in this environment, the Ganyuan team wants to introduce a suitable "internal aid", which is basically not even a thought.

"Internal aid" is not successful. Then "foreign aid" naturally comes to mind. However, as a special feature of the Go program, the selection channels for "foreign aid" are also very limited, and it is nothing more than a choice between Japanese and Korean players. But in these years, it is not very difficult to get a more reliable Japanese chess player to come to China to participate in the Chinese league, and it can even be said that it is almost impossible.

I want a Japanese player to play in the Chinese league. There are two main obstacles. First of all, there is an obstacle, which is actually a problem of money. According to the current market of "Weijia", Japanese chess players may not be invited at all.

How do you explain this question? To take a simple example: the "China-Japan Celebrity Competition", which has been going on for some years, was discontinued last year. The reason for the suspension of the game was rumored outside that after Kobayashi Koji lost to Ma Xiaofei, he didn't dare to go down. But that's not the real reason. The real reason is that the tournament was cancelled because of the prize money. A contest winner is probably a few million Japanese, and if Ma Xiaofei can choose, then he is certainly happy to continue to have this contest to play. Because winning a competition is much more than winning the title of "celebrity" in China. It wasn't until 20 years later that the champion prize money of domestic "celebrities" had just exceeded the level of 100,000 yuan. So in this year, for example, Li Xiaoqiang won the title of "national player", and his championship bonus was less than 20,000. In the next match, whether you win or lose, you will have much more money than winning the domestic championship.

So what is the concept of millions of Japanese in the Japanese chess world? This amount of money is not at all comparable to the game fee of participating in a "celebrity battle" or "Ben Yin Fang war" round-robin tournament. Not to mention that these two round-robin races will be called the "golden seats".

Therefore, the disparity in game fees is the biggest obstacle to Japanese players participating in the Chinese league. According to the current market of "Weijia", let alone invite chess players at the level of "Six Super", even if you want to invite Yida Kiki, Yamashiro Hiroshi can't invite chess players of this level. As for the lower level, then there is no point in inviting them.

In addition to the money issue, another obstacle is the format of the domestic tournament in Japan. Domestic competitions in Japan are scheduled to be one or two games a week, and the schedule is held throughout the year. This arrangement certainly has its advantages, but sometimes it can also seem old-fashioned. In particular, Japanese Go has always had a boss mentality, and they sometimes value domestic competitions more than international competitions. It's almost impossible to change the schedule for other competitions. This is also true for international competitions. Not to mention leagues in other countries.

Therefore, even if some players don't value the game fee so much, they just like to go to China to participate in tournaments. However, there is this obstacle there, which basically restricts Japanese players from participating in the Chinese league. This is also the reason why in real history, it is rare to see Japanese chess players in China's "Weijia" arena. There is a problem of the strength of Japanese chess players, but in fact, it is more of a problem of other things.

Li Xiaoqiang vaguely remembers that in the early years of the "Weijia" field. It seems that only Mr. Lin Haifeng has appeared in the "Wai Jia" at the invitation of Nie Whirlwind. Of course, only Nie Whirlwind has that face. At least Li Xiaoqiang thinks that with his own face, he should not be able to invite any Japanese chess players.

"So have you figured it out? Who are you going to invite? ”

"Since it's inviting foreign aid, it's natural to invite the highest level. Our initial idea was that if we chose one of Cao Li's apprentices, we didn't know if we could do it. Tut, think about you and Cao Yanzi or Li Shifo teaming up, supplemented by money and equal people...... I believe that we should also have a fight with the Shencheng team or the Zhejiang team. ”

The two teams Jiang Chenghua said were the biggest favorites in the first "Wai Jia". The Shencheng team has always been an old powerhouse. They are superior in terms of having a large number of soldiers and a wide range of generals, and their strength is average. And the only weakness seems to be that the leaders are not outstanding enough. This is very disadvantageous in the "home win" format.

On the other hand, the Zhejiang team has three national team players: Ma Xiaofei, Yu Bin, and Chen Linxin. Although the 4th station is slightly weaker, their main selection is outstanding. Especially for the Shencheng team, this is the biggest advantage of the Zhejiang team. In addition to these two teams. The lineup of the other participating teams seems to be lacking. Therefore, it is generally believed that the championship of the first "Weijia" is most likely to be produced between these two teams.

But as Jiang Chenghua analyzed. If the Ganyuan team can invite a super foreign aid, then the lineup characteristics of the Ganyuan team are actually very similar to the Zhejiang team......

"Xiaoqiang, Xiaoqiang, what are you doing in a daze?"

"Hehe, it's nothing ......" Of course, Li Xiaoqiang teamed up with Cao Yanzi or Li Shifo to fight in the "Siege Armor" in YY. However, Li Xiaoqiang thinks that it is very difficult to invite these two. There is no other reason. These two are iconic figures in the Korean chess world, and they are also super busy people in the Korean chess world. Although Korean players will not be subject to the same restrictions as Japanese players. However, you must know that if you look closely at the current world chess scene, it is the most title battles in South Korea and the number of games played by Korean chess players. It is also necessary to generally surpass Chinese and Japanese chess players.

"Coach Jiang, it is very difficult to invite Master Cao Li to apprentice. I think you've forgotten someone, haven't you considered Yoo Chang-hyuk? I think it would be more operational to ask him. Well, he happens to be in the capital now, so you can get in touch with him beforehand. ”

"Oh? What about Li Shifo and Cao Yanzi? ”

"Cao Yanzi doesn't have to think about it for the time being, as for Li Shifo, after this confrontation, I will do his work."

"Okay, then I'll act first, you better play tomorrow's game first."

An impromptu episode slightly affected Li Xiaoqiang's preparations. Li Xiaoqiang was still thinking before he stepped onto the field:

"Hehe, if I join forces with Li Shifo......"

In real history, Li Shifo first appeared in the "Weijia" arena with Ma Xiaofei. I remember that at that time, Li Shifo had become the first person in the world worthy of the name. And his participation in the Korean chess world has been greatly resisted. Some people in the Korean chess world believe that you are the first person in the world chess world, and Li Shifo really should not deign to participate in the Chinese league.

The reason why Li Shifo finally made the trip was actually a sentence he himself said:

"There's no way, because the inviter is Ma Xiaofei!"

"Hehe, if the inviter is replaced by me, my face should not be smaller than Ma Xiaofei. Moreover, you are not the No. 1 player in the world ...... now" (to be continued......