On December 25, the Imagawa family's year-end evaluation meeting was still held at Sunpu Castle Castle. In the morning, as usual, everyone had to put on noble and elegant kimonos, put some powder on their faces, and perform a tea ceremony with Imagawa Yoshimoto.
Lien Ge, and singing praises of virtue. Yu Qiuping now actually likes this kind of tea party with the palace minister. Although it is boring, boredom also has the benefits of boredom. Don’t take it too seriously. You can be in a daze when others are talking, and you can also take a closer look at your daily life.
Among the samurai who are decisive in killing, which one looks the most interesting - of course Asahina Taehyung - he looks like a clown.
In the afternoon, the biggest reward at this meeting was given to Sena Ujitoshi and Uakiuhei for their actions in defeating Oda at the Owari border and winning over the people. Ukihira performed the other two tasks - border investigation and
As the mission to Asai was confidential, it could not be publicized at the conference. However, the fact that Yu Qiupei himself could become Imagawa Yoshimoto's son-in-law was talked about by everyone.
The banquet in the evening was still a buffet based on Uakiuhei's suggestion. The scene was still as lively as last year, and after eating for a while, Sena Ujitoshi took Ukihira, and all the people from Asahina's group together in a small
Dinner in the room.
When Yu Qiupei came in, Sekiguchi Hiroshi was playing Go with Asahina Yasuhiro. Sekiguchi Hiroshi was holding white and was strangling Asahina Yasuhiro's dragon. Even if he escaped by chance, there would be a large block of Sekiguchi's Hiroshi on the right.
Sora, it's probably going to be doomed.
"Matsuchiyo, your skills are inferior to others." Asahina Taichao sighed aside, "When you were young, you relied on your cleverness and refused to study hard. Now that you meet a veteran like Sekiguchi-sama, you will be in trouble."
"Brother! Don't make sarcastic remarks! You are a true gentleman watching chess without speaking!" Taehyung Asahina muttered impatiently. Suddenly seeing Yu Qiuping coming over, he hurriedly waved, "Boy, boy! Didn't you tell me before that you were proficient in Go?
Well, come and help me take a look!"
Although Yu Qiuping is said to be proficient in Go, he is actually modest. In his previous life, he started learning Go when he was in kindergarten, and reached amateur fifth-dan in sixth grade. Although this was different from his monster classmates who were fifth-dan in the first and second grades.
There is still a lot of difference, but Yu Qiuping, who has mastered a large number of formulas and changes, thinks that he is still somewhat confident that he can be evenly matched against non-top players in ancient times and these amateur samurai players.
"Master Guankou," Yu Qiuping said with a smile, "Do you mind offering me some advice?"
"Haha, Momiji please." Ujihiro Sekiguchi didn't care at all, "Let's see how Momiji breaks the game."
Yu Qiuping picked up a black chess piece from the chess box and slowly rubbed it in his hand - this was his usual gesture when thinking. After calculating various changes in his mind, he suddenly had an idea and used his backhand on the white chess piece.
The pursuer clicked on a break point near the edge.
As soon as this move came out, everyone was shocked.
"Don't run away? Don't want this dragon anymore?" Shiguchi Hiroshi said in surprise. However, as he gradually counted a few steps, cold sweat began to seep out from his forehead slightly. This break, after a few steps of exchange,
, there will be a move where black doubles and wins, and black, which already has an eye, will be alive. And if you want to avoid doubles, you have to twist the sheep's head - but in that case, as long as Yu Qiuping makes a jump on the dragon's head, he will be right on the dragon's head.
On the way to twisting the sheep's head, he had to lift the stone first, and the big dragon ran away - or ran towards the edge he wanted to encircle, which would mess up the real space.
"Wonderful hand." While everyone was thinking hard, no one noticed that Imagawa Yoshimoto had appeared behind everyone and praised Yu Qiuping's hand.
"Main Hall!" "Your Highness!" There were exclamations all around, "Main Hall, are you still there--" Asahina Taehyung looked at the main hall from the window in surprise, and there was indeed Imagawa Yoshimoto sitting on the main seat.
"Kagemusha, it looks quite realistic." Imagawa Yoshimoto laughed.
"This is the Kagemusha that the main hall was looking for before! I heard that he has been with the main hall for ten years?" Sena Ujitoshi said.
"Indeed." Asahina Taichao nodded and said, "At that time, I found a loyal and brave warrior under my command who looked exactly like His Highness, so I recommended him to Your Highness."
"You can't even see it from a distance, and others can't even see it." Imagawa Yoshimoto laughed and continued to look at Yu Qiuping's hand, "It's really seconds, a backhand blow. The pass, I can catch up.
Are you forgetting yourself and not even bothering to fix the broken points?"
"What your Highness is blaming is that one careless move will lead to a loss." Shihiro Sekiguchi shook his head with some annoyance.
"I wonder if we can part ways," Imagawa Yoshimoto pointed at the chessboard, "Let Yuqiu and I play another game. I don't know if this kid is so capable."
"It's a great honor to see His Highness take action!" Hiroshi Sekiguchi and Amakihei began to clean up the chessboard. After a while, they finished cleaning up. Amakihei and Yoshimoto Imagawa sat opposite each other on both sides of the chessboard. Toshi Sena, brother Asahina, and clan Sekiguchi
Hiro, as well as juniors such as Itami Yasukiyo, Okuhira Sadakichi, etc., all gathered around to watch.
"I wonder what rules Japan uses?" Yu Qiuping really doesn't know what the rules are in Japan in this era.
"Just use the ones from Ming Dynasty." Imagawa Yoshimoto said with a smile.
"Um..." Yu Qiuping had to admit that he couldn't clearly remember what the rules were in the Ming Dynasty at that time. It seemed that white moved first? When judging the outcome, was the number of pieces or the number of pieces or something different?
"Before I played, I didn't learn chess in the Ming Dynasty, but in Nanyang." Yu Qiuping found a perfect excuse, "The rules of the country people may be different from those in the Central Plains. Your Highness, don't mind."
"It's okay, Yu Qiu, please tell me." Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at Yu Qiuping playfully.
"It's better not to place opposite corners on the four star positions, but to start directly with black's move first. In the end, it's not about counting the pieces, but calculating how many of the 361 items on the board each side occupies. Black's move first will cost 185
The winning number is 177. White's winning number is 177," Yu Qiuping said.
As soon as this statement came out, everyone except Imagawa Yoshimoto was shocked. Sekiguchi Hiroshi, Asahina Taitomo, and Sena Jitoshi immediately began to discuss the pros and cons of this method.
"How did you get the four-and-a-half-eye patch?" asked Sekhiguchi.
"This..." Yu Qiuping replied bravely, "Many Han nationality players have been to Nanyang. Everyone discussed with each other and felt that this number is the most suitable."
"I see, this is really a major breakthrough in Go. Such a wonderful method has not yet been introduced to Japan. Thank you Hongye for your guidance today. It has contributed a lot to the progress of our Japanese Go." Ujihiro Sekiguchi sighed with emotion.
, making Yu Qiuping blush even more.
"Without further ado, please." Imagawa Yoshimoto made a "please" gesture to Yu Qiuping.
Yu Qiuping grabbed a handful of chess pieces from the chess box, held them in his hand, and sent them to Imagawa Yoshimoto. "Your Highness, please guess first."
"No need, just give way." Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled confidently, "If you can pass half of it, I'll count it as Yuqiu, you win!"
Imagawa Yoshimoto's words aroused Yu Qiuping's fighting spirit. Being so underestimated made him feel very unhappy!
"That would be disrespectful!" Yu Qiuping's eyes flashed, and he placed a black chess piece on the star position close to him. Imagawa Yoshimoto also placed a black chess piece on the star position in the opposite corner. Yu Qiuping again placed a small chess piece on the other corner close to him.
After a while, Imagawa Yoshimoto made up for the last star position.
Yu Qiuping smiled at the corner of his mouth and played his third piece, his best opening - Chinese flow.
"Oh?" Imagawa Yoshimoto seemed to have noticed the deeper meaning of this arrangement, "What is the name of this move?"
"Chinese flow." Yu Qiuping proudly announced the name of his motherland for future generations.
"In that case -" Imagawa Yoshimoto pondered for a moment - this was also his only hesitation in the set - "then I'll hit you in the eye!"
Next, the battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, completely beyond the basic rules, and it dazzled Asahina Taehyung and several other juniors with low attainments. The battle clearly seemed to be unfinished here, but the two sides were already fighting on the other side.
The battle begins at the same place. The difference between Yoshimoto Imagawa and Yu Qiuping is that Yu Qiuping pays attention to actuarial calculation. Before every move, he must calculate the various changes in each situation in detail, and his moves are impeccable; while Yoshimoto Imagawa relies entirely on his sense of chess.
, raised his hand to make a move, but in an instant, the moves were opened and closed.
I have to say that Imagawa Yoshimoto's chess sense is really very good. In the middle game, Yu Qiuping was not able to find the opponent's loopholes even once, and only took advantage in two less rigorous places, but Imagawa Yoshimoto
He immediately counterattacked and fiercely pursued the black piece that Yu Qiuping had scored together. His moves were so fierce that Yu Qiuping couldn't handle it, and he frequently fell into long exams.
Until the end, Yu Qiuping and Imagawa Yoshimoto had all three chess pieces strangled together, and the masters fell out, making it difficult to tell the difference. Two chess pieces had already entered the robbery. And Yu Qiuping figured out at this moment that as long as they were looking for robbery materials, in
After five exchanges near the breakpoint, and then jumping in and out from the opposite tiger's mouth breakpoint formed by the two third chess pieces, the third robbery will be formed.
That means——
There will be a rare chain of three tribulations - there are three tribulations on the chessboard that are related to the outcome. If both sides refuse to give in to each other and raise pieces in sequence, the chess game will never end.
This is a very bad omen.
It’s so…day…
Yu Qiuping cursed secretly. It happened to be at this time...it happened to be in 1560...
In 1582, before the Incident at Honnoji Temple, two of Japan’s national players committed a series of three calamities at Honnoji Temple...
"I give up." Yu Qiuping threw in the towel and did not dare to go any further.
Just when Hiroshi Sekiguchi wanted to persuade the group, Yu Qiuping's piece had already fallen on the chessboard. However, Imagawa Yoshimoto seemed not to be surprised at all, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he stared at Yu Qiuping.
"Hey! Hongye, what a pity. Things were promising just now. There was obviously a chess piece there." Although Ushihiro Sekiguchi didn't calculate the three calamity chain, he could see at a glance that the third piece of chess was not simple.
"However, Momiji is really amazing to be able to fight His Highness until the last moment." Sena Ujitoshi praised, "We usually have to admit defeat in the middle of the game when we play against His Highness."
Everyone around heard the words and laughed, but Imagawa Yoshimoto and Yu Qiuping did not laugh, but looked at each other.
Can you really not figure it out?
No...I'm afraid.
"Okay, there's not much else to say." Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly put his hands on his hands and laughed, "Asahina, Okudaira, Itami, you three go and call Okabe, Iio, and Katsurayama here, you don't have to
came back."
The faces of Amakihei, Asahina Taitomo, Sena Toshi and Sekiguchi Hiroshi who were left behind tightened, knowing that this was the time to talk about business.
"That's right, we are going to talk about our family's big move." Imagawa Yoshimoto snorted and snapped his fingers, pointing his index finger to the west.
"Shangluo."
Chapter completed!