Chaos in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 8
Li Fengnian and Chang Zhen proposed to let their son compete with Guan Ziyang in terms of elegance. In fact, they had heard that Wei Yiqing loves piano and chess, so they wanted their son to show his face in front of her, so as to leave a good impression in advance, so that they can propose marriage in the future. .

Marriage between gentry and gentry is to increase the chances of the bloodline awakening of the offspring, and the heirs of the bloodline descendants also have a greater chance of being able to awaken the bloodline.

Moreover, if both parents are descendants of bloodlines, the offspring will have a better chance of becoming dual bloodlines. People with dual bloodlines can learn the family martial arts of both parents.

The Chang and Li families are now low-class gentry, and there are very few bloodline descendants in the family. If Wei Yiqing can marry back home, it is very likely that they will give birth to a bloodline descendant for them.

So taking advantage of the promotion ceremony of the Wei family nobles, the two families said they came to congratulate, but in fact they came to pave the way for the marriage proposal.

Both families had the same goal, so they naturally had a secret rivalry, which made Guan Ziyang suffer, because they both planned to take a knife from his nominal fiancé.

Outside the gate of Weijiabao, a large platform with a height of three meters was built as the stage for this grand ceremony. At the moment, there are huge crowds of people below the platform, and there are many people from the entire Fuling County and even the neighboring counties to join in the fun.

Looking around, there are densely packed human heads.

Officials of all levels around Fuling County and guests of the gentry lived in the VIP box on the top floor of Weijiabao, so they could see the scene here without mixing with the 'lower' common people.

"Old man Wei Xuan is quite capable," everyone in the VIP box praised unanimously.

Scholars and commoners cannot stand side by side...

This is also the rule.

Wei Xuan led the crowd to the platform, and shouted loudly with a smile like a host.

"Thank you to all the folks and elders in Fuling. Today is the promotion ceremony of our Wei family. Everyone can witness this moment together. My Wei family is very grateful."

"I, Wei Xuan, as the head of the Wei family, I would like to assure everyone on behalf of the entire Wei family in Fuling. My Wei family is a tenant, and I don’t have to pay rent for three years, and all the government taxes will be borne by my Wei family..."

Guan Ziyang chuckled secretly: "Hey, this old Wei Xuan really can't wait, he has not officially become a gentry, and he has already started to win people's hearts!"

Isn’t it just to search for land in the future, Guan Ziyang helped him translate it, which means: “Come on, sell your land to me, and come to be my slave! I guarantee you will live happily ever after!”

Guan Ziyang was too lazy to listen to Wei Xuan's hypocritical speech, and he had already started to plan the competition in his heart.

Based on his understanding of the current level of the four great tastes of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, if he dares to compare, he must still have some confidence in his heart.

The native Guan Ziyang has dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in order to become an official in the future, although he only knows a little bit about it.

If the competition was books and paintings, he really didn't think he would be able to beat 'Little Fatty' Li Chengkang and 'Bamboo Pole' Chang Rong.

Coincidentally, one of them is going to play piano and the other is going to play chess.

Guan Ziyang was delighted in his heart: "Compared to these two, it's still easy to grab, hehehe..."

Seeing Guan Ziyang's smirk, Hei Nuer felt chills in his heart: "Master, why is he smiling so sinisterly..."

After Wei Xuan finished making noise, the competition finally started.

The first is Chang Rong and Guan Ziyang's hands-on talk, that is, a game of chess.

The servants of the Wei family set up a chessboard on the platform and prepared the chess pieces. Wei Xuan specially sent someone to set up a five-meter-square gate board in front of the stage, with nineteen horizontal lines and vertical lines. Nineteen paths (historically the Eastern Jin Dynasty chessboard was seventeen paths), used as a "live broadcast big screen", on which the chess records of Guan Ziyang and Chang Rong were drawn for onlookers to taste.

Although most of the people in the audience are ordinary villagers, since the Western Jin Dynasty, Go has flourished in an all-round way, from the emperor to the common people.

When Guan Ziyang was waiting under the stage to be bored, the spy black slave came to report, "Master, guess what I heard over there just now? I will show you!"

After finishing speaking, he put his hands on his hips and imitated Chang Zhen's appearance of being potbellied: "You unlucky thing, I told you that Wei Yiqing prefers melody to hand talk, why didn't you choose melody just now!"

Hei Nuer helped the crooked cap, imitated Chang Rong, lowered his head and replied: "Although I am sure that the melody can beat that Guan Ziyang, but if Li Chengkang also chooses the melody, we will perform it one after another, and compare it." Wouldn't it be too bad that I might be under Li Chengkang!"

"Things that don't live up to expectations, among the sons of your uncles, there are descendants of awakened blood, if you don't live up to it, otherwise you won't let me, a dignified captain, come to this Wei family to humbly!"

"If you don't compare that Li Chengkang to Wei Yiqing today, I will interrupt your hand when I go back and make you play chess all day without doing your job. Since you don't practice martial arts, it's useless to be good at it!"

After watching Hei Nuer's performance, Qingchan covered her mouth and kept laughing: "Little Shutong learns quite like..."

Guan Ziyang also smiled and said: "Chang Zhugan, Chang Zhugan, although it's pitiful that you have to lose your hand, I still have to win you! I hope your father didn't take it seriously..."

After everything was ready, Wei Xuan invited Guan Ziyang and Chang Rong to enter.

Guan Ziyang is wearing a green shirt, his long hair is scattered on the green shirt like ink, and the front hair is tied behind his head with a white ribbon. Because he is only 13 years old, his handsome face is slightly childish and cute.

Guan Ziyang's appearance immediately aroused the exclamation and shouts of men and women in the audience.

"What a handsome young gentleman..."

"The Guan family' idiot is so pretty..."

Most of the people who came to see the excitement were young people. At this time, many bold young women had blushed and threw their sachets on the stage to show their love.

The uninhibited etiquette of women in the Eastern Jin Dynasty can be seen.

On the other hand, after the appearance of 'Changzhugan', his timid appearance was in stark contrast to Guan Ziyang's.

More young women in the audience began to squeeze forward in the crowd, without him, the sachet was too far away to be thrown on the stage...

At this time, on an attic in Weijiabao...

"Hongye, why is it suddenly so noisy outside, what happened!"

"Miss, I'll come back when I ask. It's too far away for me to see clearly."

After a while, the maidservant named Hongye returned to the attic and reported: "Miss, I asked the steward, and he said that it was Mr. Chang and Mr. Guan who were going to talk on stage. I don't know which of the two is handsome and extraordinary. The men in the audience shouted, and the women threw their bags."

This young lady is Wei Yiqing, the pass for the Wei family to be promoted to a noble family!
A bloodline awakened descendant of the Wei family!
Because of her status as a commoner, she has studied literature since she was a child, and loves rhythm and hand-talking.

Hearing that there was a game of chess, she wanted to go out to watch chess, but her father Wei Xuanqian insisted that women from noble families are not comparable to women from common people or ordinary women.

An unmarried woman of the gentry is not allowed to show her face in public, not to mention the scene of hundreds of people at the grand ceremony, even at home, if there are guests coming to visit, if it is a man, she can only talk through the curtain.

"Hongye, hurry up and send two swift-legged servants, I want to watch chess..."

In the stands, Guan Ziyang and Chang Rong knelt on both sides of the chessboard. They bowed to each other, and then stretched out their right hands at the same time, making a gesture of please.

After the two guessed first, Chang Rong held the white first. He glanced at Guan Ziyang, sneered, and directly settled for the 'Tianyuan position'.

Go pays attention to the layout. The common sense is to occupy the corners first, then remove the sides, and then develop to the middle. There is a Go term "golden horns and silver borders with grass belly" which refers to this matter.

It is a very conceited behavior if the first step is to lower the Tianyuan, which means contempt for the opponent, and it is disrespectful to the opponent.

Chang Rong was born in a noble family. Although martial arts is his main business, this Chang Rong is a big chess fan. He often plays chess with his brothers and sisters. Since he was eight years old, he has never lost a game. The Chang family who are much older than him are all Not his opponent, that's why he is so conceited.

The family background of the gentry is much higher than that of the common people. In this era of hand-copied books, books are also one of the greatest advantages of the gentry. They can learn much more than the common people.

He believed that he had read the works of the Go masters, but this Guan family's idiot probably had never heard of them!
Seeing that Chang Rong was so conceited, Guan Ziyang didn't respond, and thought to himself: "You bumpkin from more than 1000 years ago, let me show you what the real game of Go is!"

I saw Guan Ziyang stretching out a pair of jade hands from his sleeves, clamping a chess piece with his index finger and middle finger, he dropped the chess piece silently and smiled happily.

The grandpa of Guan Ziyang's later generations liked Go very much, but after a round of competition with the old men in the elderly activity center, he found that he couldn't win anyone...

In order to let his eldest grandson play chess with him, he used pocket money to 'lure' Guan Ziyang to learn Go.

Although Guan Ziyang lost to his grandfather every time, he found that as long as he made progress every time, his grandfather would be extra generous.

But let Guan Ziyang really learn chess seriously, he will never have that patience.

So he began to memorize Go routines...

Da Xue Beng, Yao Dao, and Da Xie are known as the world's three most difficult Go formulas.

Guan Ziyang has memorized these three fixed forms and several variations by heart, so his grandfather is often killed by Guan Ziyang's memorized fixed forms...

Every time he ran out of pocket money, Guan Ziyang went to play chess with his grandfather...

These three fixed forms are the products of modern Go, and the crystallization of the great wisdom of many senior masters in the Go world of China, Japan and South Korea.

Therefore, although Guan Ziyang's level of Go is mediocre, he can only play, not to mention proficient, but this Chang Rong's opponent is not Guan Ziyang, but the collective wisdom of many Go masters in the future.

Guan Ziyang started with a big avalanche and laid out his moves in one corner of the chessboard, because the formula is dead and people are alive, if he wants to win this game of chess, he must make a quick decision and strive to win in the middle.

If he is dragged to the final stage by Chang Rong, his routines won't work very well.

Chang Rong also secretly inquired about Guan Ziyang, and when he heard that he was a well-known "fool" in Fuling, he naturally felt contemptuous.

Seeing Guan Ziyang's strange chess moves, he also said that his level is limited, so he directly strangled him at a corner, wanting to eat his corner directly.

As everyone knows, this is a deception and ultimate move hidden in the avalanche style, Chang Rong's head is hard, and he bumps into it with a dull head!Guan Ziyang was overjoyed, and thought to himself: "I haven't released the bait, and this little fish has bitten the hook?"

(End of this chapter)