On the last day of the cold moon of the third year, Dongfang Yuandao was invited by Liu Huaiyin to the Showa Palace in Haizhou City to play Go together.

In the Showa Palace, in Liu Huaiyin's secret room, the chess pieces on the rosewood table where Dongfang Yuandao saw the game were placed in the center of the table.

Dongfang Yuandao secretly envied in his heart, after all, it was the emperor's thing, which was countless times more exquisite and high-end than the chessboard and chess table in Shangjing.

At Liu Huaiyin's suggestion, Dongfang Yuandao sat respectfully in front of the rosewood table. It is unkind to heaven and earth, but he does not want to be a dog from afar; As a human being, you should seek hegemony in the world, is it possible that the prince will have a kind of Xiangning.

Liu Huaiyin asked Dongfang Yuandao to take Baizi first, Dongfang Yuandao left from the chair, knelt directly in front of Liu Huaiyin and said, "The minister does not dare to go first in front of His Majesty." ”

"Let you go first, you will go first." Liu Huaiyin said majestically.

"Then the minister should be respectful, and it is better to obey his orders." So, Dongfang went far and respectfully in front of the table, and Zhibaizi made a hand at will.

Liu Huaiyin held the sunspot, and said when he played the first move: "The land of Shenzhou is like a huge chessboard, I am the chess player, are you willing to play this big game of chess with me." ”

Dongfang said happily: "It's not what Your Majesty said, Your Majesty is a chess player, and the minister is willing to be a chess piece of Your Majesty." Then he made another casual move.

Liu Huaiyin followed and sneered: "The chess skills of the prime minister are very ordinary, at the beginning, Li Yu used the entire Tang Dynasty civil and military officials as chess pieces, and the entire Shenzhou world as a chessboard, so bold, but I didn't see him play a few wonderful chess, Li Yu's eyes were low, and he sat down and talked about it." was slashed and killed by Huang Chaoge, no layout or chess position is useless, what is useful is strong force. ”

Dongfang Yuandao heard what Liu Huaiyin said, immediately put down the white son in his hand, immediately knelt in front of Liu Huaiyin, and said tremblingly: "The minister can just speak and do things, and he won't plan any article or set up any bureau." ”

Liu Huaiyin was very proud in his heart, and then said: "Prime Minister, you are overthinking, what I want is your ability to plan the layout of the article, and the eloquence that can speak well, I am not as proud as Huang Chaoge, and I can't listen to the guidance of the masters." ”

Dongfang kowtowed from afar and said: "My lord is wise, and it must be Your Majesty who will take the people of the world in the future." ”

Liu Huaiyin laughed and said: "The prime minister of the country, please hurry up, this game of chess is over." ”

Dongfang Yuandao replied "obey", and then returned to the chess table and continued to play chess.

Liu Huaiyin continued: "There is also a minister of state in the court, Yun Xinmi, who is an important minister who I have just followed all the way to this Haizhou City, although the ability is not as good as one-tenth of yours, but please also give some face, after all, now fighting for the world, it is the time to employ people, and there is only one post of the Han Prime Minister after this, but it takes two people to hold it, Yun Xinmi is the master of internal affairs, and you are the master of the foreign court." Otherwise, you also know my temper, my scholarly spirit, and my righteousness, these two things, for me, are the most important, and killing is the best way to level the world. ”

Dongfang Yuandao was frightened and was about to get up and kneel again, but was stopped by Liu Huaiyin.

So, Dongfang Yuandao just waited to finish this game of chess on the chessboard honestly.

Next, as long as Liu Huaiyin doesn't speak, Dongfang Yuandao will just play chess honestly.

After several hours of playing, the winner was decided.

After Dongfang retreated, Liu Huaiyin looked at the white son on the chessboard,

The ninth hand, white sticker, black long, white block, black jump and connected...... White defeat.

The tenth hand, white pinch, black lead...... White defeat.

The eleventh hand, Bai Zhengzi is not good...... White defeat.

Bai Zhengzi is not good...... White defeat.

The fiftieth hand, lost in vain.

Ninetieth hand, white defeat.

The hundredth hand, white defeat.

Then he laughed it and said mockingly: "This master is nothing more than that, and he is still a little hot if he wants to guide the country." ”

On the last night of the cold month of the third year, Ma Yinxu, the city lord of the Eastern Wu Kingdom, was also invited into the secret room to play Go with Liu Huaiyin.

Liu Huaiyin said coldly to Ma Yinxu: "Do you know that once a chess player loses with me, the end is death, you don't know that I want talents, not stupid people like you." ”

Ma Yin broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, begging Liu Huaiyin to give him a chance to prove himself.

Liu Huaiyin agreed, so until the middle of the night, Ma Yin won the second game with Liu Huaiyin with great difficulty.

Liu Huaiyin laughed coldly again, knocked the chessboard to the ground, and at this time, the knife and axe knife, which had been waiting in the secret room for a long time, slashed out indiscriminately, and directly hacked Ma Yinxu to death on the spot.

Liu Huaiyin admired Ma Yinxu's death and mocked: "What a fool, today you have to die if you win or lose, because the Eastern Wu Kingdom you control is too important for the current situation, so you can't master this resource." ”

Due to the importance of the geographical location of the Eastern Wu Kingdom, after the death of Tang Emperor Li Yu, the Tang Dynasty was separated from each other. Ma Yinxu, the city lord of the Eastern Wu Kingdom, because the Five Dynasties were established, and the Dongwu City, where the city lord's mansion of the Eastern Wu Kingdom was located, was the closest to the Haizhou City of the Later Han Dynasty, and he was afraid that Li Ketian of the Later Tang Dynasty would not be able to protect him, so Ma Yinxu quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Huaiyin.

For example, today's situation, Liu Huaiyin and Shi Jingfeng have become an alliance, and the geographical location of the Eastern Wu Kingdom is particularly important, so Liu Huaiyin beheaded this wall-headed grass horse Yin Xu, who can only ride the wall, and replaced it with Ma Shicheng, a cronie he secretly observed and supported for a long time.

Ma Shicheng was originally Ma Yinxu's nephew, but Ma Yinxu was too cunning to control, so Liu Huaiyin beheaded him, and let Ma Shicheng, the most heartless of his many nephews, replace him as the city lord.

Just because after the alliance of the Later Han and Later Jin Dynasty, the geographical location of the Eastern Wu Kingdom became a choke point, so Liu Huaiyin had to find a well-controlled person from the Ma family to serve as the city lord of the Eastern Wu Kingdom.

In the middle of the rainy month of the fourth year, an eagle falcon flew out of the Showa Palace in Youzhou City, rushed to the sky like an arrow over the head of Youzhou City, flew to Jizhou, and then entered the Dongwu Kingdom, and then came to the Zhaoming Palace in Haizhou City, and stopped.

Subsequently, Liu Huaiyin's palace guards took down the secret letter at the foot of the eagle falcon and entered the palace secret room to hand it over to Liu Huaiyin.

After the attendants withdrew, Liu Huaiyin opened it and saw that it read: "At the time of the wind and the moon, the Later Tang Dynasty, which attacked Chang'an City from the north and south, did it act together." ”

After Liu Huaiyin read it, he slowly returned to his desk and wrote on the spread of rice paper: "Act together, after the matter is completed, Chang'an City and Jinzhou will belong to you, and Tangzhou and Hanzhou will belong to me." ”

Then he ordered the guards to tie the written secret letter back to the feet of the falcon, and feed the falcon so that it could fly back to Youzhou City.

After 30 years of misdeeds in the first 30 years of Tang Emperor Li Yu, Huang Chao launched the Wuyue Uprising three years ago, and now when Li Ketian took over as the emperor of Chang'an City and established the Later Tang Dynasty, only Tangzhou, Jinzhou, and Hanzhou of the five states in the Central Plains were left under the orders of the Later Tang Dynasty. Therefore, if Liu and Shi destroyed the Hou Tang, they would only be able to share the spoils of these four places.

In the late rainy month of the fourth year, when the falcon flew to the Zhaoming Palace again, Liu Huaiyin received a secret letter that read: "On the fifteenth day of the wind and moon, Chang'an City will meet the division." ”

After receiving the secret letter, Liu Huaiyin summoned Yun Xinmi and Dongfang Yuandao, the two ministers of the Later Han Dynasty, to the secret room of the Zhaoming Palace to discuss strategic countermeasures.

After Dongfang came to the secret room of the Zhaoming Palace, he gathered his mind and walked into the secret room respectfully, and saw at a glance that Liu Huaiyin, the emperor of the Later Han Dynasty, and Yun Xinmi, the dean of the Yunzhong Academy, were concentrating on the game, and the battle on the chessboard was in full swing, but they did not look up.

After playing in the secret room last time, I heard that since he left the secret room, Ma Yinxu, who came to play next, was directly hacked to death by a knife in the middle of the night, and the idea of fearing Liu Huaiyin was planted in Dongfang Yuandao's heart since then, Dongfang Yuandao was a few steps away, and when he looked at the chess game, he almost spurted out a mouthful of blood.

Familiar with the nineteen vertical and horizontal cloud heart secret, or the sea huge immersion, subtle and far-reaching, condescending. Or fine, dense and strict, step by step. Liu Huaiyin often hesitated and pondered for a long time.

In the eyes of Go expert Dongfang Yuandao, this Yun Xinmi is a leopard who dares to play against Liu Huaiyin like this. Looking at Yun Xinmi's chess situation, his chess strength should be equal to Yun Xinmi, and if they play against each other, I am afraid that they will be inseparable.

The most unacceptable thing for Dongfang Yuandao is that Liu Huaiyin thought that he had made a strong move, and said with self-affirmation: "If you don't play waste chess, you won't be angry, you have to go straight to big chess, and you will be a big dragon and a big dragon."

Dongfang stared wide-eyed from afar, but he didn't see the subtleties, only to see the continuous faint moves, which was miserable.

But Dongfang Yuandao still has to cater to Liu Huaiyin and said: "Your Majesty, this hand is really wonderful, it can be described as the hand of ascending immortals."

Liu Huaiyin finally took the time to look up at Dongfang Yuandao and asked, "Dongfang Guoxiang, do you think that my light son should be abandoned?" ”

Dongfang Yuandao slowed his breath and said with a smile: "It's hard to say, Your Majesty's chess layout is meticulous, super remote, and most of Yun Guoxiang's black chess pieces are going to lose." ”

When Liu Huaiyin heard Dongfang Yuandao say this, he lost his interest in playing chess, and directly threw away Bai Zi and said: "Yun Guoxiang's chess strength, I'm afraid I won't be able to reach it in my lifetime." ”

Dongfang Yuandao immediately changed his tone and said: "Yun Guoxiang's chess strength is really the first person in the world, and he has never been defeated, Your Majesty must not be discouraged." ”

Yun Xinmi snorted coldly, obviously not accepting Dongfang Yuandao's sycophant, and retorted: "When has there been a person in the world who has never been defeated, if there is, it is only because that person will only play against someone who is worse than him. ”

At this time, Liu Huaiyin suddenly opened his mouth and said to Dongfang Yuandao: "Fengyue Fifteenth, Shi Jingfeng and I are preparing to capture Chang'an City, can you ask the Prime Minister of Dongfang to go to the Houzhou Imperial Court, after all, you have had a relationship with Zhou Zetian, and you can talk to it, can you ask Zhou Zetian to watch on this matter." ”

Dongfang Yuandao was stunned for a while, it turned out that the two of them had set up a bureau and waited here, but the matter had come to this point, if he dared to say a "no" word, I was afraid that the knife and axe man who had been in ambush in this secret room for a long time would hack him to death again, after all, how Ma Yinxu died ten days ago, he knew.

As a result, after lobbying the Zhou Emperor Zhou Zetian to watch the task of watching from the wall, Dongfang Yuandao could only take it over in the end.

As a result, Dongfang Yuandao showed that he was willing to go to the soup for Liu Huaiyin, and knelt on the ground to take over the task of lobbying.

The reason why Liu Huaiyin would give such a special trust to Yun Xinmi is because in the past, when he had just taken Haizhou City and became the emperor, when he was giving a speech in Yunzhong Courtyard, when he was assassinated by Li Ketian, if Yun Xinmi hadn't carried Huang Chaoge's dried corpse body from the Showa Palace to Yunzhong Courtyard in time, I am afraid that he Liu Huaiyin would have died at the hands of Li Ketian.

The second reason is that Liu Huaiyin and Huang Chaoge were still studying in Yunzhong Academy when they were young, and Huang Chaoge was the first student in that year's junior class, and Liu Huaiyin was the second. At that time, Yun Xinmi was a teacher in Yunzhong Academy, and the three of them had been married decades ago.

Because of these two conditions, Liu Huaiyin gave high trust to Yun Xinmi. This world has made a group of very talented people lose their way out, so it is only a matter of time before these talented people join forces to rebel, so the world of Tang Emperor Li Yu has been foreshadowed by turmoil as early as 20 years ago.

Seven Words Summary:

I was invited to play chess from afar, and I didn't want it to be a Hongmen game.

I have the heart to calculate others, and I don't want to be a chess piece.

Liu Huaiyin and Shi Jingfeng, the two joined forces to plot the disaster of war,

Prepare Fengyue to attack Chang'an, and act as a lobbyist from afar.