Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 640

The private money case that swept the court before made the people of Chang'an know the news that the court would issue new money.

For most people in Chang'an, they don't know what the stakes are between the old and new money laws, because these people don't have much savings at all.

As for those rich and powerful who have already received the news, they either quietly buy old money and privately mint new money like Prince Qi, or they are afraid of currency depreciation and frantically hoard food and other just-needed goods.

Fifth Qi's method was quite gentle. He first ordered that all the court funds, including the royal family's expenses, should be settled through Qianyuan Chongbao at a ratio of one to ten.

This naturally includes the salaries of imperial officials, various rewards from the imperial court, and the money paid for purchases by the inner court.

However, Fifth Qi also stipulated that as long as they are merchants or ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty, they cannot refuse to accept Qianyuan Chongbao. At the same time, the imperial court issued a decree at the same time. Qianyuan Chongbao was directly exiled for three thousand miles.

In the Eastern Palace, Prince Li Chu, who is being imprisoned, is playing chess with a young scholar in the courtyard.

Li Longji and Li Chu, the grandparents and grandsons, are a bit like Kangxi and Qianlong. Li Longji hates Li Heng, his son, but likes Li Chu, his grandson.

People in the world even said that the reason why the emperor did not abolish the crown prince was because he wanted Li Chu to inherit Li Tang's power.

However, the players still want to attack the Prince and King Qi who use fake money. During this period of time, the merchant players are all staring at the merchants related to the Prince and King Qi.

This time, Ke Ying narrowly beat Banzi, and Li Chu pulled him to another game on the spot.

For example, Li Mi from Longyou played chess against Li Longji when he was seven years old, and even defeated Li Longji's son-in-law in the end. Li Longji praised Li Mi as the talent of the prime minister.

The young man in front of him was named Ke Ying, and he was just elected to the Imperial Academy this year.

Hanlin is the private minister of the Tang emperor, but he also has a rank, so he must be selected by the foreign court before he can be awarded an official.

When Hanlin Chess was waiting for the edict to be selected, more than 30 national players in Chang'an also signed up.

What surprised the four chess masters even more was that Ke Ying's chess moves were different from those on all the chess records.

The monk clasped his hands together, glanced at Ke Ying beside Li Chu, and said nothing.

From that day on, Li Chu played chess with Ke Ying every day, but every day he lost half a piece of chess, and the game was so exciting that it left people with endless aftertaste.

More than 30 national players played against each other in the Imperial Academy. It is said that Ke Ying won every game and defeated all the national players present!
Ke Ying then uttered wild words that he wanted to play against the four chess players from the Hanlin Academy at the same time.

When it came to the middle game, the four players waited for Zhao to make moves more and more slowly, and sweat came out of their foreheads.

It turns out that Li Chu communicated with the East Palace and the outside world through monks, and Ke Ying secretly recorded the monk's appearance.

"Returning to Your Highness, the Da Ci'en Temple has already started releasing money."

The emperors of the Tang Dynasty loved Go, and Li Longji was even more obsessed with Go. During the Kaiyuan Tianbao period, scholars and bureaucrats also studied Go, and there were many national players in the court.

If the emperor is in a good mood, he will naturally be rewarded. If he can get the emperor's approval like Li Bi, he will have a chance to become a success in the future.

How could someone be able to calculate the situation after a dozen steps or even dozens of steps?
Is that human being?
When the middle game was coming to an end, Ke Ying was still able to announce the move in an instant, but the four chess players were unable to move at all.

Although I don't like Go today, there are still four chess players in the Imperial Academy, all of whom are current national players.

Li Chu and Li Longji had similar interests. Li Longji had outstanding talents and was quite accomplished in music, dance, folk art, Go, etc. Later generations were even revered as the founder of Liyuan.

Now Li Chu's chess skills are even more exquisite, and the chess decrees of the Imperial Academy all say that Li Chu's chess power is unparalleled in the Tang Dynasty.

The theory of Go in the lineage of ancient Go was also formed in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chu was so addicted to Go that he didn't even care about the business of the Eastern Palace.

Although the emperor banned Li Chu, Li Chu wanted to chant scriptures and pray for his mother routinely. Li Heng thought of Li Chu's mother, Empress Zhang Jing, who died of illness, and agreed that monks could enter and leave the East Palace.

Reasonable!
Ci'en Temple is not only a great temple in Chang'an, but also the largest usury bank in Chang'an.

After playing chess with Li Chu for so long, I finally gained his trust!

If you can be selected for chess, you can be appointed as an official. Although the grade is low, you are still an official.

And Li Chu himself also likes to play chess, so he pulls Ke Ying to play chess every day.

The Tang Dynasty was the peak period of the development of ancient Go. The chess masters of all dynasties not only knew how to play Go, but also wrote books and made many famous Go records.

Money is only valuable when it is in circulation, and fake money must be spent as soon as possible.

In this round, because of overthinking, Li Chu made a wrong move in the middle game, and lost again.

This Ke Ying's chess moves are weird, the antelope hangs its horns, and the idle piece that was dropped a dozen or even dozens of steps ago can become a killer move in the middle game!
How can it be!

If the emperor hadn't been present, the four chess players would have left in a huff. Seeing Ke Ying's arrogance, the four of them would have shown their strongest form one after another, and wanted to teach Ke Ying a lesson.

Although Li Chu put down the chess piece, he did not leave the pavilion, but asked his servants to summon him to the pavilion.

The four chess masters originally didn't want to agree, but unexpectedly, the emperor Li Heng came to the Imperial Academy suddenly, just in time to see Ke Ying challenging the four chess masters, so he ordered the four to fight.

After playing a game, Ke Ying was really good at chess, but in that game, Ke Ying only won Li Chu's son.

But after Ke Ying entered the Hanlin Academy, Li Heng didn't have much interest in Go, and he didn't call Ke Ying to play chess much.

But Li Chu said: "Ke Daizhao is someone I trust, but it doesn't matter."

Li Chu knew about Ke Ying's massacre in the Hanlin Academy, and found that he and Ke Ying were only half a son away, so he began to study hard, and the next day he took Ke Ying to a game.

Ke Ying just lowered his head, but secretly turned on the system's camera.

Ke Ying was surprised. Today was the day when the imperial court issued Qianyuan Chongbao. In the case of the crown prince that day, both Wang Chengwei and Shan Tao believed that the fake money workshop in Wannian County was just one of the prince's many workshops. The prince must have other counterfeit money workshops near Chang'an. money workshop.

The four of them conceded defeat and resigned to Li Heng as a chess player in shame.

Ke Ying sat on the futon with his back, he reported the position of the chess piece, and the four eunuchs made the chess instead of him. To the surprise of the four chess players, Ke Ying's moves were extremely fast, as long as the eunuch reported the position of the chess player, Ke Ying was able to report his move in an instant.

However, with a smile on his face, Li Heng retained the positions of the four of them, and then announced in public that Ke Yingqi would be granted the position of waiting for the imperial edict.

It's just that I didn't expect that the backer of Ci'en Temple turned out to be the prince!

The players stared at the properties of the prince and King Qi, but they did not expect that the prince released the fake money through the Temple of Mercy.

Moreover, Qi Daizhao not only played chess with the emperor, but also with other members of the royal family, or officials in the court who loved playing chess.

Li Longji also has a deep study of Go, and his chess skills are also ranked first in Datang.

Later, the prince's fake money case was discovered, and the prince was imprisoned in the East Palace. After Li Heng, the emperor, lost his anger, he thought of his son's goodness, so he sent Ke Ying to the East Palace to play chess with Li Chu to relieve his fatigue.

And to be able to lend money in Chang'an, it is definitely not possible without a background.

But Ke Ying's chess did not follow the existing chess theory at all, but he still defeated the masters of more than 30 chess players who were candidates.

It’s not in vain for me to play chess with you while driving AlphaGo, I’m really exhausted playing chess like this!
Ke Ying continued to lower his head, only to see a foreign monk walking into the pavilion.

But at this moment, Li Chu was holding the black chess, looking at the chessboard with sweat profusely, and he was even more puzzled, how could this chess be played like this?

The four of them could only lay out the chessboard, but Ke Ying turned his back and asked the emperor to play blindfolded chess with the four of them.

Li Chu also likes to play Go. He used to learn Go from Wang Jixin back then, and was often summoned by Li Longji to play Go in the palace when he was young.

But today, when Li Chu and Ke Ying played half a game, someone hurried over, and Li Chu reluctantly put down the chess pieces.

It's just a pity that the emperor ordered the case to be closed, and Wang Chengwei and Shan Tao failed to find more fake money workshops.

It can even be said that Ke Ying's chess style has no chess theory to speak of.

Li Longji was able to play chess with Zheng Guanyin and Wang Jixin, the national players at the time, and each other won and lost.

Li Longji loved Go, so he formally included the imperial edict of the Imperial Academy into the official position system of the imperial court, and awarded him the official position of the imperial edict.

Li Chu was naturally very happy. His father sent Ke Ying to play chess with him, which showed that his father was about to forgive him.

It is indeed a very genius way to use fake money through the Temple of Mercy!

The Ci'en Temple itself is a lender. Wouldn't it be more powerful to lend money with fake money?

And only the Temple of Mercy can release so much fake money privately minted by the prince!
But Ke Ying didn't know about these things, he just sent the content of the shooting to Shangbo, all of which were analyzed by Zhang Leyan.

But now that they know how the crown prince distributes the fake money, the players will have a way to collect the wool.

(End of this chapter)