After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"Hold a competition, hold a competition!"

"We want to hold a world championship before others do! We want to show the orthodox status of Japanese Go! We want to show the dominance of Japanese Go!"

"What are you talking about! The honor of being the first world championship cannot be taken away by others! If others hold the world championship, we Japanese Go will have no place to stay.

The first world championship must belong to our Japanese Go Kingdom."

"That sounds nice, but why don't you think about what you're going to do if you lose? Don't you think about it in advance?"

"Now that we've lost, everyone is furious. Why don't you give us any solutions?"

"I'm about to take the blame for you guys as soon as I get here!"

"The competition is held! Where's the trophy?!"

"The trophy was taken away!"

"We begged and pleaded with the most high-end designer to design the trophy for us! He took it on the plane and took it away."

"How shameful! How shameful!"

"The headline on the front page of the Maidu News, which sponsored this competition, was: Is the Chinese chess player Zhan Lang really invincible?"

"Can anyone tell me? What is Oda Nobunaga's resurrection?! Is he really someone that no one else can defeat?
Where is Akechi Mitsuhide?! Where is Tokugawa Ieyasu!? Where is Toyotomi Hideyoshi!? Why haven’t they been resurrected!? "

"If no one can win, just say so earlier and end it right away. Don't waste time on others, okay?"

"It's embarrassing to spend money and effort! Japanese Go is almost a laughing stock now! Am I out of my mind to think of taking this position?!"

The newly appointed chairman of the Japan Shogi Association, Takanori Tsujimoto, slammed the table in anger.

In his opinion, if Japan does not host the World Series and only China does, even if the Chinese get the World Series held in China, it can hint at some shady dealings or something.

After all, it is a world championship organized by others. Even if it is a bit of a conspiracy theory, it will definitely have a market to say that there is something shady going on.

But what else can you say when a Chinese person wins the world championship held in Japan?
You can't keep saying that someone is doing something shady, can you?

You Japanese gave the championship to China?
Even the Japanese people themselves don't believe it?!
If there is such a shady deal, then people will not be attacking Zhan Lang, but the Japan Chess Institute.

No, the attack has begun now!
Some people even wanted to write articles to satirize Zhan Lang, the new generation of chess players promoted by the Japanese Chess Institute in the past two years!
"Stop, stop! All these competitions must be stopped! Our citizens' tax revenue! How can we give it away for free!

Holding these competitions now is simply giving money and honor to others, and this cannot continue."

Tsujimoto Takanori looked at the directors in front of him who didn't say a word, and made the decision by slamming the table.

When you guys give advice, none of you have anything to say, and you all act like non-stick pans.

In this case, let’s just treat it as a non-stick pan.

Even if you bury the quilt, Japanese Go is still the best in the world.

Besides, how can you continue to do a loss-making business of giving money to others?

Is it possible that the Japanese Chess Association is being wronged?

That's not how you make money!

It would be better to hold more domestic competitions, where everyone can sit down and share the fruits of their labor. At least everyone here can get something out of it.

Hearing this, Sakamoto Koichi asked Tsujimoto Takanori awkwardly: "Should we stop holding the Fujitsu Cup or... the tournament?

The third round of the competition still has the final stage to go, so even if we want to stop it, we have to finish it.”

"Then stop it after all the competitions! Stop it, all the competitions! A competition has no meaning to us anyway, so why keep it?"

"We thought at the time that Zhan Lang might perform better in the ring competition but not in the cup competition, but we didn't expect him to win the championship anyway."

Staring at Tsujimoto Takanori's decisive words, Sakamoto seemed a little helpless: "Because the closing ceremony and opening ceremony of the last ring match were held together, and the sponsor also said that it will continue, and it has been confirmed that the fourth ring match will be held.

We have already signed the contract, so even if we want to stop the event, we have to wait until the fourth session is over."

In order to divert everyone's attention, the closing ceremony was held together with the opening ceremony. In order to showcase the elegance of Japanese Go, the president of the sponsor directly stated that he would continue to support the competition.

If we breach the contract unilaterally, things will be difficult to deal with.

"Shift! We don't want his prize money and we don't want him to pay for the competition? He still doesn't want to? We are helping them save money! Do they still want to watch Japan's assets flow out?!"

When Tsujimoto Takanori heard this, he didn't understand. Normally, we ask sponsors to pay for our competitions. When did sponsors come to give us money?
If such a good thing comes up, please contact me as soon as possible and we can hold another ten or eight title battles.

Hearing this, Sakamoto said helplessly: "There is no other way. We signed the contract before, and it also expressed our determination to win to the outside world...

If a competition is forced to be stopped due to our fault, we will have to pay the sponsor liquidated damages.”

"...We don't have money to pay?"

Japanese Go players are big and powerful, do they still need this little bit of money? ! Could it be that this little bit of money will make us so poor that we have to sell our building! ?

"Yes, it does, but it will affect future economic plans, including the pre-election, but..."

Tsujimoto Takanori probably knew what the other party wanted to say, so he stopped him directly: "Then finish the fourth session, and stop after the fourth session!"

Takanori Tsujimoto also knows that there are probably some messy things in it. In that case, you should just finish the last one according to the contract.

Takanori Tsujimoto didn't believe that after four consecutive losses, the domestic pressure would not be so great that the competition would be cancelled.

"What if we win the fourth time? No, what if we win the third time?"

Hearing this idiotic question, Tsujimoto Takashi pounded the table angrily: "If we can win, will we stop the game? Can you please stop asking such idiotic questions?! If we can win, will we have so many problems now!

So! We will immediately set aside a small portion of the expenses for the card issuance and a series of other expenses to set up a small fund.

Whoever wins the world championship or makes the winning shot in a ring match can take half of the money from this fund!
Isn’t this temptation big enough?! Is it okay? But can anyone get this money? I’m begging everyone to take a little more money and leave! ”

Hearing this, several people in the room scratched their hair in embarrassment.

Although this condition is set very reasonably, it is actually an explicit condition. If you really look into the real conditions carefully.

The four big words "Kill Zhan Lang" were densely written in the cracks.

Kill the battle waves and share the bonus!

Now there is only one problem standing in the way of all the problems facing Japanese Go: defeating Zhan Lang.

"Or maybe try a motorcycle next time..."

When Sakamoto heard what the person next to him said, he coughed twice and interrupted the other person's topic.

Can this kind of thing be said openly?

There are so many people with so many ears, some things can only be said in private and cannot be made public.

You can't even say it in private! You can only hint at it!
And it’s not like everyone hasn’t thought about this kind of thing before, not to mention that this method didn’t produce a good effect in the end.

Moreover, Chinese officials are present in every match of Zhan Lang. It is too difficult to accurately deal with him alone with a motorcycle or something like that. If other people are injured by mistake, it may directly escalate into a diplomatic incident.

This is where the Japanese chess world is difficult to control.

If the matter gets out of hand, even if it is not leaked, they will suffer a lot of losses, and it may even be that the gain does not outweigh the loss.

Not to mention that once the truth comes out, the problem will become a huge one.

There is no way to describe this matter even if it means showing your butt.

Zhanlang is not a lone traveler in Japan, but a person who comes to Japan to participate in the competition on behalf of the country. The difference between the two is huge.

"If the ring games can't be stopped, the world championships can be stopped, right?"

"We have also signed a contract for three World Series..."

"Bakayaro! What were you thinking?! You signed a three-year contract! We're going to hold the World Championships for another two years?!"

After listening to him, Tsujimoto Takanori didn't know what to say. Don't you know the situation of Japanese Go?
How dare you sign so many contracts?

Can you win?
You still sign if you can't win?
I can't be the one to take all the blame in the end, can I?! I wasn't the one who got any benefit from the contract!

"Chairman Tsujimoto, maybe if there is a world championship in China, our team will win the championship.

No matter how strong a Chinese chess player is, it is impossible for him to win the championship in every competition.

Even top-notch players can be defeated by ordinary players. Even in Japan, there are seven dan titles to be won, not to mention the world championships. "

Even though the top six have a monopoly in Japan, don't players of the seventh or eighth dan also have the chance to get titles?

No matter how much of a monopoly you have, it is impossible not to reveal anything to others.

Even lions take naps sometimes, let alone humans.

No one can win all the time, Sakamoto has always believed this.

Sakamoto can even be said to be a rare optimist in the Japanese Go community. He does not even regard Zhan Lang as a particularly strong threat.

Because in his opinion, Zhan Lang's popularity will eventually fade away, and after this period of popularity passes, everything will return to normal.

It is normal for Sakamoto to have such an idea, because normally every particularly strong chess player has a period of particularly strong outburst, which lasts about one to two years.

The six top-notch teams have basically all gone through such a period, during which they seemed to have completely overwhelmed the others.

Just like the world's number one players who came after them, there was a period of time when they were at their strongest, and they basically even achieved the feat of winning three championships in a year.

The others were basically unable to breathe due to the pressure, and even humming felt difficult.

But the outbreak period is always the outbreak period, and after the outbreak, it falls into silence.

Although he is still the world's number one, it is basically a good state for him to be able to maintain one world championship a year.

This is already very good, because your dormant period is equal to other people's explosive period. This is the power of being the best in the world.

Sakamoto just felt that Japan had bad luck. When they were preparing to organize the competition, they encountered the explosive period of Zhan Lang, and ended up with a complete failure.

This cannot be blamed on Japanese Go, it can only be said to be bad luck.

The stable period of the six top-notch universities coincided with the explosive period of China's top-notch Zhanlang, so the current result is inevitable.

But it doesn’t matter!
Sakamoto thought that it would take some time before Zhan Lang would relax.

Especially after winning his first world championship, it is inevitable that Zhan Lang would become a little complacent, and slacking off is basically inevitable.

As long as he is a human being, he cannot hold his breath forever.

As long as he lets go of this breath and enters a stable period, if someone else beats him, things will slowly calm down.

In fact, what Sakamoto thought was not wrong. After winning a world championship and completing two boxing matches, Zhan Lang could just stop here and rest on his laurels.

There will definitely be people who will talk about all that nonsense like the story of Zhongyong, but just with his current historical status, Zhan Lang is already enough to leave his name behind.

A normal person would have breathed a sigh of relief long ago.

After all, even later on, winning a world championship is a lifelong goal for most chess players!

Even for the world's number one player, the world championship is an annual task. Winning it means completing this year's KPI, and you can even prepare to give up this year.

So no matter who you are, after winning an honor like a world champion, you will definitely relax for a while.

Just like you worked hard to get into a good university in your senior year of high school, after a long period of struggle, you will immediately enter a long period of burnout after the college entrance examination.

It is almost inevitable that you will be in a bad state during the later period of competition. After all, if you take the same test paper as your senior year of high school and your freshman year of college, do you think you will get the same score? Later, you will have a short burst of strength only when there is external pressure.

For example, buying a house, having a baby... or being trapped in A-shares.

Up to now, Zhan Lang has won so many honors and has erupted for such a long time. Even if it is a volcano, it should have entered a dormant period.

Therefore, Sakamoto firmly believes that as long as he persists, dawn will surely come!

The outbreak of the war wave should be coming to an end. As long as we get through the darkest days before dawn, the light will come.

In any case, the top-notch situation is six to one, and the advantage is on me!
This is also the reason why Koichi Sakamoto can sign a longer contract, just to prevent the newly appointed chairman from stopping all competitions.

If we stop now, what is the difference between that and Japan simply admitting defeat?
They held a competition and gave others a lot of championships, and then they simply stopped holding the competition. Isn't this clearly saying that they are afraid?
I'm afraid that Japanese Go will be nailed to the pillar of shame.

Even if Japanese Go defeats Chinese Go again later, this period of time will be a shame that is difficult to wash away.

Everyone can only briefly mention it in the Spring and Autumn style, and there is no way to explain it in detail.

Zhan Langdu will be rated as the most feared person in Japanese Go.

Therefore, we must defeat him head-on!

Compared to the chaotic situation in Japan, the situation in China is also a mess.

"let me see!"

"What are you looking at? Let me touch it and see how it feels."

"Ah~~"

"It's so smooth! It feels so good!"

"Have you washed your hands? Wash your hands before you touch them!"

"Go away and let me touch it! We agreed to touch each other twice, don't occupy the toilet without doing anything! This thing is not yours, don't hold it in your arms!"

"Don't worry! Let me take care of it first!"

“What a good deal!”

“It’s more exciting than the new game!”

Looking at the people passing the trophy around, Zhan Lang couldn't help but wave his hand: "Don't worry, everyone has a share, and everyone can touch it!"

"It's the world champion's trophy! Be careful not to touch it."

Fang Yuan reluctantly handed the trophy in his hand to another person, and warned the other person to handle it with care.

This is a currently out-of-print trophy. If you break it, you won't have anywhere to exchange it for.

When will I be able to own such a trophy?

"What are you afraid of? It's just a vegetable jar. I don't know what the Japanese were thinking when they designed the trophy like this."

Zhan Lang didn't know how to complain about this jar-shaped trophy. He really couldn't understand the design principle behind it.

The design concept of "Go is the universe" is really not discernible at all. All that can be seen is a jar of sauerkraut.

It's even missing a lid!
A jar without a lid...

Zhan Lang inexplicably thought of the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, but even so, he didn't feel that it was anything too impressive.

Because if you say that, it won’t work...

To be honest, if you put this trophy next to someone and tell them it is the championship trophy, they will probably think it was designed in Korea.

Because you can use it as a kimchi jar when you take it home, which is very consistent with Korean customs.

When Zhan Lang took it home, his mother An Qi thought it was a kimchi jar that Zhan Lang bought from outside, so she took it and prepared to pickle the vegetables, and even asked where the lid was.

Even when Zhan Lang explained to him that this was a trophy, he didn't believe it. Whose serious trophy would be designed like this?

After Zhan Lang said a lot, An Qi finally believed with some doubt that this was the World Championship Go trophy held in Japan.

Even Zhan Lengfeng, who originally wanted to take the trophy out to show off to his comrades, gave up the idea after seeing the style of the trophy.

Otherwise, if you take this out and brag about it to others while drinking, not to mention being laughed at, if you drink too much, you might actually vomit it in.

After confirming that there would be a world championship and the trophy style would be different, Zhan Lengfeng could only postpone the time for showing off in advance.

In fact, even in South Korea, the Fujitsu Cup trophy design has been ridiculed.

For example, in the famous TV series Reply 1988, the male protagonist won the Fujitsu Cup championship prize and gave it to the female protagonist.

The heroine didn't know what it was and thought it was so ugly, so she gave it to her mother.

Then the heroine's mother used this jar to wash bean sprouts, and only later did she discover in the newspaper that it was actually the championship trophy of Japan's Fujitsu Cup.

I can only say that the other trophies are obviously championship trophies at a glance, but the Fujitsu Cup championship trophy...

I can only say that it is very recognizable. It stands out among a pile of trophies.

"I suddenly felt that my life was complete... It's boring."

Zhan Lang sat in his seat and watched a bunch of people in the room passing around his championship trophy, and suddenly he felt bored.

It's that lonely feeling when you reach the top.

What can you say? Zhan Lang has basically won all the honors in Go.

The ring match ended and the first world champion was born.

To put it bluntly, even if there are more world champions in the future, everyone will remember that the first world champion in history was won by Zhan Lang.

How should I put it now? Zhan Lang really feels like he doesn’t have any big goals in life.

Since we are already number one in the world, what else should we strive for to go higher?

It wasn't just Zhan Lang, even Zhan Lang's parents' control had loosened.

Zhan Lang has been hanging around for several days, and no one even said anything.

One is that Zhan Lang is now in his twenties and an adult, and is not suitable for strict discipline.

Another thing is that Zhan Lang’s current achievements have reached a level that no one can criticize.

Even now, wherever Zhan Lang goes, everyone praises him, and it is impossible for anyone to say that there is anything wrong with Zhan Lang.

If you dare to say that, someone will immediately say, what qualifications do you have to criticize others? !

After all, Zhanlang has now reached its peak, bringing a resounding victory when the country needs it most.

It even directly hit the self-confidence of some people, and its impact has reached the ears of the gods.

It is said that someone above has already planned to award Zhan Lang a certificate of honor, but is just thinking about what to write in the certificate.

After all, Zhan Lang is now the first among the top ten athletes. As an athlete alone, he has actually reached the top.

Even Chen Long, thanks to Zhan Lang, is now directly responsible for the overall work of the three chess and one card games.

Everyone thinks that since you have managed to make the Go work successful and have cultivated outstanding talents like Zhan Lang, you should work harder and take on other tasks as well.

Not long ago, Chen Longqian also proposed a four-step strategy for chess.

She first won the women's individual world championship, then the women's team world championship, then the men's team entered the top ranks of the world championship, and finally won the men's individual world championship.

There is no way. Compared with Chinese Go, it is more difficult for Chinese chess to survive in the world.

Even the goal does not explicitly state that one wants to win the world championship, because that represents the highest wisdom of the West.

It was even one of the important soft power competitions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

To be honest, in such an environment, although Zhan Lang knew that he was drifting, he could hardly stop himself from drifting.

It’s like everyone knows that one is born in misery and dies in comfort, but when you are really born in comfort, no matter how much you warn yourself, you will gradually sink into chronic death.

Only when reality gives you a harsh blow will some people be willing to wake up, but for others, it will be too late to wake up because of the accumulated problems.

This is the case with Zhan Lang now. Although he repeatedly tells himself not to be complacent, there are still many world championships to come, and he must win a dozen world championships no matter what.

But another voice inside him told him, isn't it enough to just have hands to win a dozen world championships?
Is there anyone who can stop me now?!

Who else is my equal?
They're all scum!

I've been playing chess all my life? Can't I just enjoy myself?

Then play music! Dance on!
Zhan Lang couldn't help but lean back in his chair when he thought of this. He decided to give himself a day off today and relax a little.

As he spoke, Zhan Lang turned around and saw Fang Yuan sitting next to him: "Come to think of it, there's still 9th ​​dan Toya Masao left on the Japanese side in the third tournament. Can you try to defeat him so that I can also experience the thrill of winning without doing anything?"

Zhan Lang really envied Lao Ke during his peak period. Most of the time, he didn't even have to play in the Nongshim Cup, as his teammates would directly clear out the opposing team.

At that time, you can just sit back and lie down to divide the bonus, but the amount will be smaller.

However, it is already a very good thing to be able to share the bonus without having to play.

It serves as a gate. If we fail to defend it in the end, we will become war criminals.

No one cares how much you lost before. Everyone only knows that you lost the game because you were the last one to lose.

Hearing Zhan Lang's words, Fang Yuan moved unconsciously: "Don't worry, no matter what, I can't let you appear every time. This time I will definitely try to kill the opponent.

I've already beaten Mitsuba Kenichi, so beating Toya Masao won't be a problem!"

After hearing Fang Yuan's words, Zhan Lang didn't know what to say.

Every time Fang Yuan said he could win, he basically won.

If he hadn't said that, he might have actually won.

Well, this time I have to clean up the mess again.

Zhan Lang couldn't help but stretch when he thought of this. When he was about to go to the toilet, he happened to meet Dean Chen Long who came in.

Seeing Zhan Lang, who had just collided with him, Chen Long looked at Zhan Lang with a serious expression.

"Come out for a moment, I have something to tell you."

"whats the matter?"

After Zhan Lang came out, he looked at Chen Long with a serious expression and asked curiously, "Why do you look so unhappy?"

Chen Long sighed helplessly when he heard this: "Old Master Wang Yaozu passed away two days ago.

The old man was also 80 years old, it was a happy death, you were competing in Japan at the time, so the news didn’t come over there.”

PS: I suddenly fell into a short window period without any games and have to wait for the Chinese Go League the day after tomorrow.

The list of participants for the King of Kings has also been announced. Li Xuanhao, Ding Hao, Li Weiqing, Yang Kaiwen, Dang Yifei, Wang Xinghao, Mi Yuting and Lian Xiao will gather in Shengzhou to compete for the title of King of Kings in the country.

...There will be a free market commentary on site, Nie and Ma will be there, but all the tickets have been snapped up.

(End of this chapter)