On the day of qualifying.

The lights inside the house were shining brighter than the sunlight outside.

Yang Zheng sat on the judge's seat in the room, and his eyes had long since been confused and indifferent.

Now, all he sees is the forty tables in front of him and the eighty professional chess players in front of him.

Having finally made a decision yesterday, he also plans to do something about his beloved chess in the future.

As for why he sat on the judges' seat, it was thanks to Wang Yifan.

Today, as the most exciting day of the entire professional chess player assessment, the Xiangqi Association has invited a full ten well-known chess masters as judges for the competition.

But one of the chess grandmasters temporarily refused to show up today.

The absence of a heavyweight chess grandmaster undoubtedly made this qualifying match a little more imperfect. However, when everyone felt regretful, Wang Yifan took the initiative to recommend Yang Zheng as a substitute for the judges.

His reason is also very simple, that is, he believes that Yang Zheng's apprentice Dongdong will reach the top 16 in today's game.

This also made many judges feel a little incredible, because in their eyes, Yang Zheng, who is not even a professional chess player, can be favored by chess grandmasters for his apprentices, and they can't help but feel curious about Yang Zheng's teaching ability.

Coupled with Peng Fei, who is also a chess master, highly respects Yang Zheng's chess ability, Yang Zheng became a judge as a special guest.

To be honest, perhaps because of the change in mentality, Yang Zheng has also unconsciously become a lot stronger.

At least, he sat on the judges' bench and didn't feel like he was half a point behind the nine chess grandmasters.

The act of changing the judges this time was naturally noticed by the president of the Chess Association. He looked at Yang Zheng, a young descendant, and suddenly asked his restless second-generation son with a stern attitude: "This is your college classmate and brother who started a business together, right?" How did he end up here? ”

"Yes. I fired him. The rich second generation nodded and generously admitted.

"I remember him as a very good and loyal companion, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't be fired by you." The president's face became gloomy.

The rich second generation was a little confused about his father's gloomy attitude, he knew that in the early days of his business, his father had also helped him a lot, so he knew Yang Zheng and another start-up employee with him, and he also remembered that his father had also given them two very good reviews.

But in the eyes of the rich second generation, although Yang Zheng in the audience is an employee with excellent technology and loyalty to the company at work, as his father said. But he was not the company's management after all. Moreover, Yang Zheng in the audience is about to turn 30 years old, which also shows that he can only create value for the company for five years at most in the position of programmer. Even if he is fired, it will do more harm than good.

"He doesn't know how to be a man and offends the leader." The rich second generation said frankly: "And the leader he offended was arranged by the financing party." Firing him is also the meaning of the financier. ”

The rich second generation said it lightly, although he sometimes regrets that he lost Yang Zheng, an employee and friend, but based on the actual situation, he doesn't think there is anything wrong with what he did.

He will even be proud of his decisiveness, because it is his decisiveness when he laid off the patriarch that he will now be valued at hundreds of millions by many commercial organizations.

The president looked at his indifferent son, and he smiled angrily.

"Remember what I said to you when you started your business?"

"As I said, the most valuable resources on the road to entrepreneurship are not money and relationships. It's the most basic person who has been with you all the time! ”

"Times are different!" It is rare for the rich second generation to refute his father, who is regarded as a mountain in front of him, on this topic, he paused and said: "In your time, the Internet was nothing at all, and it is precisely because there is no dependence on the Internet that many things, including the people you said, will be more important than money and relationships!" ”

"But in this Internet era, people are the least valuable."

"People can be replaced in this day and age. The old man is replaced by the young, the old man is replaced by the new, and the stupid and reasonable person is replaced by the person who does not follow the rules and acts alone! Take the chess association you now control, how many old people will not be replaced by young people? And how many young people will not be replaced by computer AI? ”

"Maybe there won't be any!"

The young rich second generation looked at his father, whose face was getting more and more gloomy, and he said again: "In this era, everything is about value. I admit that you are right, Yang Zheng in the audience is indeed an excellent and loyal person. He can work from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day, and he can also give up his entertainment and social rest life for the sake of the company's progress. But he was twenty-nine. In this world full of programmers, he is already an old man who is about to do anything. How much value can he create in the company? ”

Besides, he was self-defeating from the beginning, and according to his qualifications, he could have been promoted to management. But he couldn't learn to be a man. It is also clear that many things can be allowed to make mistakes and tolerate them, but his low emotional intelligence does not allow any mistakes. ”

"I know his original intention is for the good of the company, but in an Internet company, any mistake can be allowed!"

"After all, as long as the Internet company makes a mistake, all the people who need to bear the consequences are those who are stupid and lazy and blindly trust the future!"

"Moral character is higher than emotional intelligence!" The president listened to the more and more outrageous son, and his face was no longer gloomy, but disappointed.

He was still standing, while his son slowly sat by and said nothing.

Perhaps, in his eyes, his father, an old antique who adheres to tradition, will eventually be slowly annihilated in the general trend of the Internet.

At that time, it will be the days when they can recognize the reality of "young talents" come out.

But why did he feel a little uneasy inexplicably?

"I heard that the AI in your chess software has reached the world-class level?" The president suddenly diverted the subject.

"Yes, it is the top AI on the island country, although it is not as powerful as the computing power of superpower AI, but at least it is also among the top ten in the world!" The rich second generation is also interested, and he didn't continue to talk about the topic just now.

"That's... Why don't you do that? When the qualifying match is over, let that kid named Yang Zheng play a game of chess with the AI you're proud of, right? ”

"He? Can he? The rich second generation looked at Yang Zheng who was sitting in the audience, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

"If he can hold more than fifteen hands, I count him as a winner!"