Since the beginning of February, major local governments in Jinling have posted many newspapers, discussing state affairs, and promoting words, advocating that "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country." The people see it strangely. How could ordinary people see the newspapers in the past? They were all for the chiefs of major vassal states and prefectures, so they all felt very honored. Those who had time would gather around the gate to read the large newspapers, and those who were illiterate were chanting.

Often the righteous people who slaughter dogs, and ordinary people who don’t know much guidance will be much more passionate than the great civil and military ministers of the court. They gathered to say that once the country has something to do, they are willing to contribute money and efforts. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country.

While proclaiming the emperor's wiseness in the palace, he always kept going to the East Palace, giving the impression that the crown prince was also very wise, and he would not be a foolish monarch in the future. The good days of the people of the Tang Dynasty could be continued.

At this time, there was a rumor that a Hu Shang named Abu, who had been to Tang for three generations, and he donated 50,000 taels of silver as the salary of the border army, made armor and cast swords and guns, and did his best to make the Tang army's strength and not be invaded by foreign enemies.

The Hu merchant’s donation of silver has had a great impact. For several consecutive days, the streets, alleys, teahouses, restaurants, merchants and peddlers, and prostitutes in Jinling City were all talking about this matter. I also heard that the Hu merchant was recently from Jiangzhou and opened three stores in Jinling West City, selling "Xuanjing", "Five-colored Glacier Vessels", "Fenghua Eternal Frost" and "Da Food Carpet".

Now that the four stores in Abu are crowded with customers every day. The first ship of cargo shipped from Jiangzhou was sold out quickly, while the second ship has not arrived yet. Even so, there are still endless people coming to visit every day, and we have to see the patriotic Hu merchant Abu's style.

As for Abu, as Zhou Xuan's instructions, he has not shown up in the past few days, hiding by the Mochou Lake waiting for the official robe to be put on.

Just as Zhou Xuan was in the last round of the Lantern Festival chess battle, Abu's touching deeds finally reached the Shengshen. Emperor Li Yu sent an order to the Honglu Temple and Xuanhu Shang Abu to meet him.

The officials of the Honglu Temple found Abu's shop in the West City. The guy said that Abu was in the Fenghua Military Residence by the Mochou Lake. The officials of the Honglu Temple came to the Fenghua Military Residence again. Gu Changshi had already received instructions from Zhou Xuan and said, "Abu is the friend of the Marquis of Zhou. He is busy with business and is busy everywhere. Only the Marquis of Zhou knows his whereabouts."

"Where is Mr. Zhou?"

"It was the last game to play chess at the Imperial College, not at night, but during the day."

The two chief clerks of the Honglu Temple broke their legs and came to the Imperial College to look for the Marquis of Zhou. However, they saw the Marquis of Zhou sitting upright and concentrating on playing chess. The prince of the Eastern Palace stood behind him and watched the chess. The two chief clerks did not dare to disturb him, so they had to leave one to guard and the other to report to His Majesty.

Emperor Li Yu was painting in the imperial study. He was copying the painting of the little Zhou Hou Ao country painted by Zhou Xuan. Li Yu was good at calligraphy and was good at painting. His pictures of ladies were drawn by Zhou Fang's "Lady's Picture of Flowers with Flowers" by Zhou Fang. The colors were beautiful and soft, and the characters were gentle and delicate. Even Gu Hongzhong was impressed. However, Li Yu could not copy the painting of Zhou Xuan. The brush and color techniques were too weird, and the expression and body shape of the little Zhou Hou was as good as the present.

Li Yu threw his pen and sighed: "This Zhou Xuan is really a genius, his poems and paintings are unique. The day before yesterday, the poem "Qingyu Case" - 'Looking for him in the crowd for thousands of times, when I look back, the man is in the dim light', so deep that he seems to be infatuated with someone. I want to ask him another day, whom I can find? I can fulfill his marriage."

At this time, the chief clerk of the Honglu Temple came to report to find Hu Shang Abu, but only the Marquis of Xinzhou knew his whereabouts, but the Marquis of Xinzhou played chess in the Imperial College.

The news about the Marquis of Xinzhou is always so pleasant. Li Yu raised his eyebrows and nodded, "The Hu Shang, like the Marquis of Xinzhou, came from Jiangzhou. It must be an old acquaintance. Jiangzhou has many loyal and patriotic people. Birds of a feather flock together. The friends of the Marquis of Xinzhou are all heroes and generous people. Even a merchant, Hu Shang, is so clear about the righteousness. I feel comforted." The Imperial: "I will go to watch the chess, and I will also order the chess and wait for the chess."

At the 10th afternoon of the 2nd month, Li Yu wore a black veil and a red belt on his waist. He was surrounded by a group of Jinwu Guards and the eunuchs came to the lecture hall of the Imperial College. Seeing that everyone was about to kneel down and bow, Li Yu waved his hand and said, "Don't be too polite, play chess as usual."

Li Jian quickly came up and Li Yu asked, "Where is the Marquis of Xinzhou playing chess?" The chess hall held fifteen games at the same time, but Li Yu didn't see where Zhou Xuan was.

Li Jian then led his father to come straight to see the game between Zhou Xuan and Wu Weinan. Li Yu had heard of Wu Weinan's name. Wu Weinan ranked seventh among the 18th chess players and was the second best player in this Lantern Festival chess battle after Huang Xingjian.

Li Jian whispered: "Father, Wu Weinan won and lost with Huang Xingjian this time, and the difference was equal, but he lost the first game with Zhou Xuan. In this game, his cousin Xuan played white and made a smooth game. His cousin Xuan seemed to be above Huang Xingjian and Wu Weinan."

Li Yu can play Go, but his skills are mediocre. He can't tell the subtle situation of this master's game. He was amazed by Li Jian's words. Huang Xingjian is the fourth-ranked chess player!

After Zhou Xuan defeated Huang Xingjian with the cosmic flow, his confidence increased. This time he played against Wu Weinan first, and he was unrestrained and firmly grasped the advantage of being the first, always defeating Wu Weinan, and finally defeated his three sons.

At this point, Zhou Xuan's match in this Lantern Festival game ended, with a total of 18 games, including one game against Lai Xiushan, which was won without a fight. In the nine games in the first round, Zhou Xuan lost to Qi Yaowen and Huang Xingjian one after another, but Zhou Xuan then fought hard and became more and more brave. He was unbeaten in nine rounds in the second round, just like Huang Xingjian, with 16 wins and 2 losses. However, the Fenghua Army ranked second among the top ten prophets after Qujuzhen Navy. This is the best record that the five southwest prophets have achieved in more than 20 years.

Li Yuxi said: "The chess of Xinzhou Hou are superb and outperforming all the heroes. The chess-serving guard of the Tang Dynasty's palace is the chess-serving guard."

Huang Xingjian felt very uncomfortable when he heard it. He was quite arrogant. It was not embarrassing to lose to Wu Weinan when he was the first to lose to Zhou Xuan. He felt that he had lost all his face. He ignored the emperor here and said with a voice: "Your Majesty, the people are not convinced."

Zhou Xuan knew that Huang Xingjian was going to cause trouble, so he stood aside with laughter. If he wanted to implement the new rules of Go, he needed an influential chess player like Huang Xingjian to make a fuss, and the more sensation the better.

Li Yu asked: "Why are the people of Huangshan dissatisfied?"

Huang Xingjian said: "Caomin and the Marquis of Xinzhou both won and lost 16 times. How could Your Majesty say that the Marquis of Xinzhou beat all the heroes? The people are not competing for chess and waiters, but Caomin is just dissatisfied with the Marquis of Xinzhou to be the Marquis of Xinzhou to be the Marquis of this chess and waiters."

The emperor Li Yu was so easy to talk to, and immediately said, "The people of Huangshan also joined the Hanlin Academy to be chess and wait for the chess and wait for the chess and wait for the chess and wait for the chess in our Tang Dynasty."

Huang Xingjian and Zhou Xuan were irreconcilable and said stubbornly: "Your Majesty, Cao Min is used to being lazy and unwilling to be a chess. Cao Min only wants to play a few more games with Zhou Xuan to see if the Marquis of Xinzhou is overwhelming the heroes!"

Li Yu's face showed an unhappy look, and Huang Xingjian was really ignorant of being polite.

Zhou Xuan bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to accept the challenge of Huangshan people, but I have a proposal to modify the current Go rules."

Li Yu said: "How should Zhou Aiqing modify the rules of Go?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Only two modifications are made, one is to abolish the post, and the other is to post first." Then he said in detail.

Huang Xingjian immediately opposed: "The system of semen has been around for thousands of years, how can we change it just by saying it? It is not feasible to post it first. It is completely unfair to measure how much it is posted, and it is unfair!"

Zhou Xuan refuted: "There was no seat at the beginning of Yao's creation of Go. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Go has gradually developed, from thirteen to fifteen, and then to seventeen, and finally became today's thirteen paths. Three hundred and sixty-one points are in line with the number of Zhoutian. If we follow the views of the people of Huangshan, then we should be playing thirteen paths now."

Zhou Xuan was very rude and said that Huang Xingjian was a pedantic view. Huang Xingjian said angrily: "You are making a point of reason!"

Zhou Xuan said: "If you can take away the truth, it means you are unreasonable. The people of Huangshan are great chess players. They must have played chess. For example, playing chess two chess pieces, and only two white pieces on the chess board, and the black chess pieces are gone. Isn't this equivalent to abolishing the chess pieces?"

Huang Xing is speechless.

Zhou Xuan said: "Let's talk about the first post. As long as you have a certain chess ability, you know that the first post has obvious advantages. Two masters with equal chess ability often wins whoever advances first. If you encounter a game that determines the outcome, then the latter will be very unfair. The first post is to make up for this disadvantage."

Huang Xingjian asked: "According to you, how many times should I pay first?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Two and a half sons."

Huang Xingjian was silent for a while and asked, "When the Marquis of Xinzhou is going to play chess with Shanren with the new rules?"

Zhou Xuanying said: "That's right, I'm afraid that the people of Huangshan are afraid of fighting."

Huang Xingjian said angrily: "What are I afraid of? Do you really think your chess is stronger than me? I have seen your chess game, and they often win with danger. If the official is poor, how can you defeat my upright soldiers!"

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Don't be impatient if you have few mountain people. Go is also called a hand talk. It is not a person who boasts about being strong on his mouth, but also shows the best on the chessboard."

Huang Xingjian's face was swollen and nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay, okay, then let's see the best on the chessboard. The mountain man wants to fight with you in the next nine games. Do you dare to fight?"

Zhou Xuan shook his head and smiled, "There are too many games. I am not as leisurely as the mountain man. I only know how to play games all day long. Let's do this. If you win three games, you will be a chess and wait."

Huang Xingjian said angrily: "The mountain man said that he would not be a chess and waiter. If the mountain man loses, he will never touch the chess pieces for his life. If the Hou of Xinzhou loses, he will not have to be this chess and waiter."

Zhou Xuan said with concern: "It doesn't matter if the people of Huangshan lose, but if they don't play chess, how can they play chess if they don't play chess? If the people of Shanshan lose, they won't touch chess pieces for the rest of their lives. Isn't this too cruel for a person who is obsessed with the chess? What if they change to not play chess for three years?"

Huang Xingjian became even more angry. Zhou Xuan's tone clearly said that Huang Xingjian would definitely lose, and shouted: "Your Majesty is here, the people have no jokes. If they lose, they will never play chess for the rest of their lives. When do you think the game will start?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Since the people of Huangshan are so stubborn, they are going to fight. But the Lantern Festival chess battle has just ended, so I guess the people of Shanshan are also very tired. How about the battle after resting for half a month?"

Although Huang Xingjian was eager to defeat Zhou Xuan, Zhou Xuan was right and he was indeed tired. After the eighteen rounds of the game, he worked very hard and nodded, "Okay, I don't know where to play?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Since it is a battle to promote the new rules of Go, the more people watch the game, the better. I think Xiangrufang's cockfighting hall is good. We will play three games in the cockfighting hall, allowing the people who love Go to watch the game. By the way, the chessboard is too small to see, so we will make a big chessboard that is ten feet square, and specially placed black and white chess pieces in the middle of the cockfighting hall. We invite two big chess players, Wu Weinan and Chen Xingyuan, to talk about chess. This is the real way to promote the chess. What do people in Huangshan think?"

Zhou Xuan advanced the chessboard talk about later generations by a thousand years, and made great contributions to Go.

Before Huang Xingjian could speak, Li Yu had already applauded and smiled: "The Marquis of Xinzhou is really full of tricks. While playing chess, he asked the masters to talk about chess. Wan people watched. This is a wonderful suggestion, I'm sure."

Since the emperor was correct, what else could Huang Xingjian say? So he agreed to hold three games in half a month, that is, on February 25th, at the cockfighting hall of the Wei Wang Mansion in Xiangrufang, one game a day, and the craftsmen will now be ordered to start making the chessboard and chess pieces.

The chess player who participated in the Lantern Festival chess battle withdrew from the Imperial College. Li Yu stayed alone in Zhou Xuan and said with a smile: "Nether Xuan is really good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Huang Xingjian is the number one master of my Tang Guoyidao, and is better than his former chess and waiter. Today, he was so angry that he was dizzy by Nephew Xuan. Haha, it's really interesting. Nephew Xuan is sure to beat him?"

Zhou Xuan said: "My nephew is not sure. It should be a battle of even power. If you don't play the chess, you must not lose your momentum. You must always overwhelm your opponent."

Li Yu praised: "It should be so energetic! Nephew Xuan, do you recognize a Dashi merchant named Abu?"

Zhou Xuan was secretly happy that Abu's official fortune had come and reported: "Abu is a friend his nephew met in Jiangzhou. Why did Your Majesty ask him?"

Li Yu said: "This person donated 50,000 taels of military funds. Isn't Nephew Xuan not unaware of this matter, right?"

Zhou Xuan hurriedly said, "I knew that when Abu read the newspaper of the dei that day, he learned that the country of Tang was surrounded by tigers and wolves, the country of Tang was surrounded by tigers and wolves, the country of Song was in the north, the southwest, and the southeast, and the country of Wuyue was in the southeast. Although the wise king was above and the country was peaceful, these foreign troubles always made people worry. Those rogue countries coveted the wealth of our country of Tang and always wanted to plunder. If the country of Tang was not prepared properly, they would inevitably be invaded by their invasion. My friend Abu, although he was a Hu Shang, was influenced by his nephew, always had a loyal and patriotic heart, and had no way to serve the country. Therefore, after reading the newspaper of the dei, he made a great wish, saving food, eating porridge for the whole family, and offering 50,000 taels of silver without asking for any reward. Your Majesty has such a loyal and courageous subject, why worry about the country's prosperity!"

Zhou Xuan's words were very contagious. Even Li Yu, a person who was so obsessed with inaction, was so excited that he nodded and said, "What Nephew Xuan said is very true. It is my blessing that I have such a subject. Nephew Xuan brought Abu and I want to see him. I will summon him in the Imperial College. Go quickly."

Zhou Xuan hurriedly left the Imperial College and took two Honglu Temple clerks back to the Fenghua military residence. After a while, he found Abu, who was bearded, on his face.

The two chief clerks were surprised that they had just come to ask Abu and said that Abu was not here, so why is he here again?

On the way to the emperor, Abu's thick lips trembled, his palms were covered in sweat, and he asked Zhou Xuan in a low voice: "Mr. Marquis, what should I say when I see the emperor? I am afraid of making a mistake."

Zhou Xuan said: "You say less, I say more."

When I entered the lecture hall of the Imperial College, the Abu people fell to their knees before they could see clearly. They were nervous.

When Li Yu saw Abu's blue eyes and purple beard, he looked very simple and honest, he was quite happy and said warmly: "Flat, look at the seat."

The eunuch brought a chair for Abu to sit on, and Abu sat carefully half of the pp.

Li Yu asked him again how he thought of donating silver? Abu had already received guidance from Zhou Xuan and said it loyally.

Li Yu was very happy and said to the prince Li Jian, the secretary of the Secretariat Qi Zhang, and Zhou Xuan on the other side: "A Hu Shang is so loyal, it is rare. He should be rewarded - Abu, what do you want me to reward you, just say it?"

Abu said: "The people of Cao do not ask for any reward, but only seek prosperity and longevity of the country."

Li Yu was very happy. Li Jian said deliberately: "Father, Abu is so loyal, he will definitely receive rewards, but how to reward is a difficult problem? He donated 50,000 taels of silver, so it is naturally difficult to reward him with his property."

Li Yu thought about it, too, someone donated 50,000 taels of silver and rewarded them with a few pieces of silk. Isn’t this a joke that the royal family is stingy!

Li Yu asked Qi Zhang: "How should Qi Aiqing think he should reward Abu?"

Qi Zhang had already received the hinting from the prince, but he was unwilling to come forward to suggest Abu as an official, for fear of being criticized by the government and the opposition, so he said, "The Marquis of Xinzhou is resourceful, so your Majesty might as well ask the Marquis of Xinzhou?"
Chapter completed!