Zhou Xuan encouraged him: "Okay, the fourth brother tried hard to rush, and I won't give up easily. I want Huang Xing to recognize my strength. Our Zhou family army is not easy to bully."

In the seventh round of the Lantern Festival chess battle, the previously undefeated Fenghua army met with the Zhenhai Army. This battle attracted a large number of senior officials and nobles to watch the game. Although they did not formally bet on gambling, they had gambled privately. The majority of bets on Zhenhai Army were the winners. The Zhenhai Army had the "Guangling Double Stars" in charge. In the previous six rounds, Huang Xingjian's first and Chen Xingyuan's second were both unbeaten, sweeping other chess players, with obvious advantages.

Zhenhaijun is located in Guangling, the eastern capital, and Guangling is in a very prosperous chess style. In the 20 years since the Tang Dynasty held the Lantern Festival chess battle, Zhenhaijun won the championship for seven consecutive times, and the Fenghua Army has always hovered in the bottom three. This time, the undefeated first six rounds has caused a huge sensation. The Zhou family army led by the queen's nephew can be said to have emerged as a sudden attack, completely breaking the original pattern of the Tang Dynasty chess world. It is certain that after the Lantern Festival chess battle this year, the 18th National Congress of the chess players will be reordered.

What makes Zhou Xuan happy is that he guesses first, and he takes the lead first. If he lets first, Zhou Xuan feels that he can compete with his senior professional level.

Huang Xingjian sat in front of Zhou Xuan in a daze. This ugly and strange-tempered mountain hermit played chess with this expression, like a wood carving.

Zhou Xuan started with a complex star-fixed pattern. He had a thorough understanding of this pattern. During this period, he changed his tricks several times, but Huang Xingjian responded correctly, and partly two points, Zhou Xuan did not take advantage of the layout.

Zhou Xuanxin said: "The layout of the star fixed pattern is still too simple. If the captain is abolished, then I can show my skills. What are the 'big avalanche', 'mura demon sword', 'big slanting and changing', these super complex large fixed patterns can be used one by one, so I don't believe it, you Huang Xingjian!"

Huang Xingjian plays chess very steadily and has a strong style. It is like an old bear in charge, which makes Zhou Xuan unable to exert force. Zhou Xuan has provoked the battle several times, but he calmly resolves it.

This game of chess is quite scattered, neither side has big empty space, small battles continue, but there is no large-scale decisive battle. White chess enters the stage of big official with a slight advantage.

Officials are Zhou Xuan's weakness. He always likes to end the battle in the middle of the game. He often can't stand it when fighting for official. Although he has made significant progress with Gu Liuquan in the past six months, he still has a gap with the top experts in the Tang Dynasty. He saw that he had lost a little here and there, and his advantage was almost lost.

Zhou Xuan stood up and walked out of the lecture hall to take a deep breath of the cold air on the spring night. He needed to calm down and he needed to wake up his slightly hot head. If he won this game, he would defeat Huang Xingjian's arrogance. Moreover, he was the one who was in the game. If he lost, he would be in the black next time when he was against Huang Xingjian. It would be too difficult to win Huang Xingjian when he was in the backhand.

He wanted to calm down, but Prince Li Jian came over and said with a smile: "Cousin Zhou, it's hard for the portrait of his mother today."

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "It's my honor. What are Brother Jian busy with these two days?"

Li Jian said: "Mr. Chen from the Ministry of War went to Shouzhou, and I sent him a trip. At present, the Tang army has gathered in Sizhou, Haozhou, and Chuzhou, making Zhao Guangyi dare not put all his troops into attacking Zhao Defang in Shu. However, money and food are quite scarce. Brother Xuan, although the city of Tang is prosperous and the people are rich, these are the result of the father's treasury for 20 years, but it also causes the national treasury and the inner government is untrue. As the saying goes, the country is poor and the people are rich."

Zhou Xuan sighed: "Your Majesty the Emperor is really kind and loving to the people, but it is enough for twenty years to light taxes. We should gradually increase taxes and strengthen our military equipment. The current situation of the countries is chaotic, and there is no strong army that will suffer."

Li Jian nodded and said, "What Brother Xuan said is very true, but it is extremely difficult to increase taxes. I also discussed it once the year before yesterday. The people reacted greatly. Tens of thousands of people opposed it. The ministers in the court also said that this was a fight for profit with the people, so it was left alone."

Zhou Xuan shook his head and said, "The people of Tang are used to enjoying their fortunes. The country refuses to let go of a big profit, but they don't know that once foreign enemies invade, their families will be destroyed and their families will be destroyed! Brother Jian, when I finish this game of chess and enter the palace tomorrow to paint the portrait of the empress, we will take time to talk."

Zhou Xuan was about to go back to the lecture hall when he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Brother Jian, Miss Lin Er went to the palace to meet the Empress today. I wonder what the Empress thinks of her?"

Li Jian smiled and said, "My mother said she likes Miss Lin very much and asked Miss Lin to go to the palace to accompany her in the future."

Zhou Xuan said "Oh" and slowly walked back to the chess table. He felt a little unhappy. He did not go out of the best order when the finale was finished, and he lost with a slight loss of half a son.

Zhou Xuan lost in a suffocating way, and Huang Xingjian said, "It's rare for you to force the mountain man to be like this." He looked like he was more than Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan lost the chess, so he could only endure it. He swore in his heart that he would win him in the next game, but it was not easy to win Huang Xingjian. Zhou Xuan wanted to compete for the position of the chess and wait for the position of Attendant.

Sanchi came over and whispered, "Master, we lost this round."

Zhou Xuan asked: "You lost too?"

Sanchi said: "I won, but the fourth brother's game was defeated."

Zhou Xuan walked to Sichi's side to watch the game between him and Chen Xingyuan. Sichi's stubbornness first, but the two lonely dragons were entangled and attacked by black chess. Chen Xingyuan's moves were so wonderful that the two white dragons could not settle down, and they were one of them. However, Sichi's stubbornness was still struggling to support him and seek the way to live dragons.

Zhou Xuan carefully judged the game of the chess and knew that the chess was hopeless, so he shook his head against Sanchi.

Sure enough, after more than a dozen moves, a white dragon died of anger and the chess game ended abruptly.

The first round of confrontation between Fenghua Army and Zhenhai Army ended with one win and two losses.

On the way back to Mochou Lake, Zhou Xuan reflected: "I am not calm enough recently. It is unreasonable to not lose chess. I must concentrate in the future. The three of us will not participate in the Donggong Yuanshe. Let the Sun brothers participate first. We must win the lost chess."

It was already very late for Zhou Xuan to return to Meixiang Xiaoyuan, but Fairy Jingyi's maid Mingfeng was still waiting there, saying that the second lady wanted her to wait here and that no matter how late she was, she would invite Mr. Zhou to go. Zhou Xuan followed Mingfeng to "Yangchun Baixue Hall".

The Lin sisters talked around the fire at night. When they saw Zhou Xuan coming, Fairy Jingyi quickly covered her veil. It seemed that she had obeyed Zhou Xuan's words and did not wear a veil anymore. She only covered her when she encountered outsiders.

"Brother Zhou Xuan, why are you here now?" Lin Hanyun pouted and complained: "We have been waiting for you for a few hours."

Zhou Xuan sat between the two sisters, looked around, and said with a smile: "I lost playing chess today and I am not very happy."

Lin Hanyun said: "Hey, you still laugh like a flower if you lose the game?"

This was what Zhou Xuan said before, and Lin Hanyun learned it.
Chapter completed!