After the special ten episodes, Li Xiangping's most important task this year has been completed, but the entire world chess world is still lively, and many world competitions have also entered the final moment.

According to general rules, as long as it is an even-numbered year, it is considered a "big year" in the Go world. Even-numbered year competitions usually have a little more than odd-numbered year.

This year is not only an even year, but also an Olympic year, which is also a big year in the middle of the year. This year, not only will the "Yingshi Cup" be held every four years, but also a "BC Card Cup" has been added, plus the traditional "Fujitsu Cup", "Sanxing Cup", "LG Cup", and "Chunlan Cup"... In short, after the end of 2008, the world chess world is particularly lively, and all world competitions have basically reached the finals or semi-finals.

The basic situation this year is:

Lee Sedol defeated Gu Dali and won his second world championship trophy "Fujitsu Cup".

Gu Dali defeated Zhao Hancheng and also won his second world championship trophy, "BC Card Cup".

Then South Korea's Da Lee and Choi Du met with the "Yingshi Cup" final, but the final will not be held until May next year.

The "Chunlan Cup" is the slowest. It has just passed the first two rounds and has not even held the quarterfinals yet. It also takes a wait until next year to decide the championship.

So at the end of this year, the winners will be decided immediately are the "Samsung Cup" and "LG Cup".

Among them, the "Samsung Cup" will be earlier, and the final will be held before New Year's Day, while the "LG Cup" will be a little later, and the championship will not be produced until before the Spring Festival.

Before the end of the special tenth round, the semi-finals of these two competitions had already emerged, and after the special tenth round, the semi-finals of these two competitions began one after another.

This year's "Samsung Cup" lineup is like this: Chinese Kong Erjie plus Wang Xi, South Korea's Big Lee and Japanese Zhang Xu.

The matchup is Kong Erjie vs Dali, Zhang Xu vs Wang Xi.

The top four lineups of the "LG Cup" are Chinese Gu Dali, Chen Xiaoqiang, Sheikh, and a Korean Xiao Li, showing three Chinese chess players siege Xiao Li.

Especially in this, Gu Dali encountered Xiao Li again in the semi-finals. There is no doubt that their three-game matches became the most popular game in the entire world chess world after Li Xiangping's special ten games.

Li Xiangping was also paying attention to this game. After receiving a call from his cousin, he was preparing to be a melon-eating crowd while completing the procedures to Hong Kong.

On the last day of November, Li Xiangping set off. According to the previous agreement with his cousin, he would go to Yangcheng first, first to meet him at Lao Xu's base camp, and then go to Hong Kong to meet his Hong Kong rich people.

Li Xiangping's third uncle is in Yangcheng, so after arriving in Guangdong Province, the two brothers naturally had to visit their elders first.

It was the weekend that Li Xiangping arrived in Yangcheng, and this day happened to be the final day of the "Samsung Cup" semi-finals. This match was quite coincidental. Both games were 1-1 before, so when he arrived at Uncle San's house, Li Xiangping waited for news from his cousin and watched the live broadcast online.

"Second brother, stop watching. Anyway, you won't win if these people are all over the place. What's so good about this? Let's play with me."

When Li Xiangping heard the words of his little sister Li Yunxin's child, he couldn't help but smile:

"Okay, my second brother plays with you. By the way, little sister, can you play chess now?"

"I don't know."

"Ah! Why?"

"No one dares to teach me," Li Yunxin, who is already in junior high school, said seriously:

"I am Li Xiangping's sister. Who else has the right to teach me how to play Go except you?"

Li Xiangping was amused and crying at that time. Just when he was about to "educate" his younger sister, both sets were over. As a result, Kong Erjie defeated Da Li and Wang Xi lost to Zhang Xu. In this way, Kong Erjie and Zhang Xu met in this year's "Sanxing Cup" final.

For Li Xiangping, this result is both normal and unexpected.

Normality is based on strength considerations. Judging from the current situation, Kong Er and Zhang Xu are of course capable of defeating anyone except themselves, so it is of course normal for them to meet in the finals.

As for the accident, of course it is a comparison with the situation in real history. To be honest, Li Xiangping actually doesn't remember who the "Samsung Cup" champion was in real history.

But it is definitely not Kong Erjie or Zhang Xu.

In real history, Zhang Xu only won the "LG Cup" once, and that happened several years ago, so in this life, his champion had long been stolen by Li Xiangping.

Although Kong Erjie won three world championships, it was all after 2009. So in 2008 he met with Zhang Xu in the "Samsung Cup" final, which was a relatively large competition that Li Xiangping, a butterfly, incited.

Just as Li Xiangping was feeling the power of his butterfly, his cousin Li Weiping came over. He said he had made an appointment with Lao Xu, and Lao Xu had booked a hotel and said he wanted to entertain Li Xiangping well so that he could do his best to be a landlord.

That night, when Li Xiangping and Li Weiping went to the banquet, their cousin said to Li Xiangping:

"Xiangping, although I know you have made up your mind to be this white knight, it cannot be completely unconditional. I think you'd better think about it now. It's better to ask one or two conditions, and don't agree too easily."

Li Xiangping smiled and said that Li Xiangping had a rough understanding of Lao Xu's financing.

This time he is preparing to operate the IPO in Hong Kong. The real purpose is not to make money. It is because he has been spending too much recently and has acquired a lot of land in China.

But just as Lao Xu was about to do a big move, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States came, and there had just been a macro-control in China, and major banks tightened their money, which led to a temporary financial crisis.

However, Li Xiangping knew that if the real history did not change much, all this would be temporary. Not only would the famous "4 trillion" policy be introduced soon, but Lao Xu now has good projects, so he borrowed some money to survive the crisis at this time, and he would have more than double the profit in less than a year.

Just like in real history, Lao Xu raised 500 million US dollars from Hong Kong's "Hudi Gang". Then in less than a year, the wealthy people from Hong Kong's "Da D Association" benefited a total of nearly 1.1 billion.

Among them, the Zheng family, who invested the most, made a profit of 600 million US dollars by his family alone.

And Li Xiangping also knew that in real history, according to Lao Xu's original intention, he wanted to raise 1 billion US dollars first, but the Hong Kong people might not have a good vision, and of course they were more likely to have doubts about domestic policies, so they only agreed to borrow half of them.

So Li Xiangping's current purpose is to fill the gap left by Lao Xu and become the largest white knight in this idiot.

Of course, although Li Xiangping had already made up his mind to make this wave of good money, his cousin's words were not wrong.

As the saying goes, "Mi En fights with Mi You, and Li Da Tuhao and Lao Xu are still with each other, so if you don't mention any requests, this is actually not good. Maybe Lao Xu will really have any doubts.

"Well, what conditions will be better to ask then..."

After meeting in the evening, before reaching the official intention, Lao Xu indeed raised this question and asked Li Xiangping what conditions and requirements there were.

"Mr. Xu, it's okay to spend 500 million US dollars. I can even consider it if you want to ask for a little more, but I do have an extra request, so I don't know if Mr. Xu can agree."

Now Lao Xu is not as arrogant as in the next few years, so after hearing Li Xiangping's words, he hurriedly said:

"You said you said."

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "My requirement is, if it is successfully listed in Hong Kong this time, can Mr. Xu consider organizing a Go competition in China? Yes, it is best to have a world competition with high specifications after all."

"ah?!"

Lao Xu was stunned when he heard this:

"That's it?"

Li Xiangping nodded and said, "This is the only additional requirement."

Lao Xu quickly laughed, and because he met Li Xiangping, he must have done his homework in advance:

"Haha! I promised you Xiangping. The competition with the highest prize is Yingshi Cup now, right? OK! No problem. If the listing is successful this time, I will definitely hold a competition with a prize of more than Yingshi Cup."

Li Xiangping nodded with a smile when he heard this, and he thought to himself that this is right-----

To be honest, in the domestic real estate industry, Lao Xu is actually a rising star. Not to mention the "Zhaobao Wanjin" in his early years, even compared with the Wanda Lao Wang, his qualifications are even worse.

He can have such a great reputation nationwide and make the company a national big real estate developer, which of course has a lot to do with his Evergrande football team.

As a professional chess player, Li Xiangping feels a little psychologically unbalanced whenever he thinks of this.

Just the level of the national football team, every time Evergrande wins the AFC Champions League, let alone always invests. Perhaps the championship bonus of a certain star player is enough to hold a super high-standard Go competition.

Although the influence of the two projects cannot be compared.

However, the levels of the two cannot be compared, right?

The Chinese national football team is already barely second-rate in Asia, but Go is definitely the top in the world. So Li Xiangping thought about it for a long time on the road, and then he thought of such an additional condition.

After meeting Lao Xu, Li Xiangping's mission has actually been completed. After all, for someone like him, he can only make a decision to set the tone. As for the specific operation, it depends on his cousin Li Weiping.

But Li Weiping refused to let him go and insisted on letting him go to Hong Kong.

One of the reasons given by my cousin: In the past two years, the two brothers actually only did one thing "Weixiang Investment" that they did, that is, shorting Lehman Brothers.

Now this matter has been completed, and after more than a year of development, the company has nearly 50 employees in Hong Kong. So what should the company do next? Of course, Li Xiangping, the real boss, cannot ignore it, and always ask about it.

After giving this reason, Li Weiping smiled at Li Xiangping:

"Let's go to Xiangping. I'll accompany me to Hong Kong this time. No, this time it's mainly Macau. Didn't you say that your Western stuart is very high? I really don't agree. How can you always win my money with your amateur level? Let's go, there's a high-priced gold medal game in Macau this time, so you can play with me."

Li Xiangping laughed when he heard this. The "Western Stud" mentioned by Li Weiping is actually Texas Hold'em, the most popular gambling game in the West.

Li Xiangping himself has no feelings for this thing. Although he can play, he has no addiction at all.

However, Li Weiping loved this deeply. Not only did he be addicted to Texas Hold'em, but he also claimed to be a master. No matter how good he said that at his level, being a professional player is not too much.

It’s a pity that when he, a master, met Li Xiangping, he was completely blind.

During the holidays, Li Xiangping would occasionally play with him for a while. In Li Xiangping's memory, his cousin never won. Every time he won, he looked dissatisfied...

"Haha, brother, why are you still playing that? I'm not talking about you. Your technical flow that relies solely on logical calculations is really not good. Do you know what the highest level of playing Western Soha is? You can't just rely on your brain. Actually, I always think that this kind of game should be more about the mind, and the mind is better than the mind."

Of course, the top students of Shangcai did not believe Li Xiangping's argument at all:

"Okay, okay, don't you sell your style there. Haven't you beat me a few times occasionally? This time I'm serious, I have made an appointment with a few friends and I'll go play with me this time."

Li Xiangping smiled slightly:

"Okay, I will definitely give up this time."
Chapter completed!