"Tianyuan?"
The old man who was playing chess with Zhang Liang held back his sleeves and put the white pieces on the chessboard without haste. He raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Liang doubtfully.
The outcome of Go is ultimately determined by who occupies the larger territory.
From the perspective of enclosing space, the corners are the most suitable for enclosing space, followed by the sides, and the center is a difficult place to enclose space.
Therefore, when playing chess at the beginning, you should first occupy the corners and then the sides. Try not to move to the middle, as the middle is the easiest to be surrounded.
"Tian Yuan."
Zhang Liang affirmed with a smile.
The old man threw the white piece between the index finger and ring finger of his right hand back into the chess jar.
"Stop," the old man said.
According to the rules of Go, pausing a move means giving up the piece and allowing the opponent to continue playing.
Zhang Liang's eyes were filled with surprise. He made no move to pick up the pieces and cast a doubtful look at the old man.
What does this mean?
"You first tell me what it means to be in Tianyuan, and then I will tell you what it means to stop."
Zhang Liang placed his right index finger on the chessboard and wrote the word "Han" in Korean, which was abolished by the Qin State. The chessboard looked like Han.
"The Zhang family has been living with Han since Han came out of Jin Dynasty. It has been more than two hundred years. This is something that Mr. Xiang will never be able to do."
The Go board is symmetrical in orientation, and only Tianyuan is unique.
"Ying Chengyu sent Master to Korea, or else he would use weapons to occupy our land in Korea. I will seize Tianyuan first, no matter where Master's next son will land. I only need to compare, and I will be invincible. I think Master has seen Zhang Liang's plan Play imitation chess, so you don’t lose the piece.”
If you keep playing imitation chess in Go, you will definitely lose. But in Korea, the Zhang family behaves like this and has two hundred years of management experience. It is difficult to lose.
The old man chuckled and shook his head.
So that's what happened.
Zhang Liang also laughed, but did not shake his head.
It is not easy to become the prime minister of Qin as a businessman.
"I'm not fooling around. It's you who betrayed Tianyuan beyond my expectation. I also want to keep you from guessing."
Zhang Liang's smile froze.
You are Lu Buwei, not a three-year-old child. Are you childish?
"I thought it was just an ordinary game of chess, but how did I know you had so many ideas? You think too much."
"Sir, you dare to enter my Zhang family just for an ordinary game of chess? Are you not afraid that Liang will take you down?"
Standing behind Lu Buwei, Lu Goujian, dressed as a servant, repeated the word "single" in his heart, feeling offended.
"You have been called a wise man before you entered the government. If you are more than twenty years old, you can reject me. You can be called a rare commodity. How is the danger of meeting you in Xinzheng compared with meeting the late king in Handan?"
Hearing that Lu Buwei called him a rare commodity and compared him with goods, Zhang Liang didn't feel offended, but was flattered.
The last person to be regarded as a rare item was King Zhuangxiang of Qin who destroyed the Zhou Dynasty.
Zhang Liang raised his hands flat to express his thanks.
"Sir, you are so complimentary. The fact that I can refuse you is the result of two hundred years of work by the ancestors of the Zhang family. You have rare things to live in, so you are very capable. Now that I meet you, I know how to write the word "vigor".
After a pause, he shouted loudly: "Come here!"
There are servants who enter the house and obey orders.
"Disperse the swordsmen and axemen," Zhang Liang ordered.
"Wei." The servant took the order.
There was a deliberately sparse sound outside the door, indicating that the swordsmen were gone.
"Liang is offended." Zhang Liang apologized.
"It doesn't matter."
Lu Buwei behaved calmly and showed no fear of the sword and axe-hand, which made Zhang Liang respect Lu Buwei's courage even more.
The fearless Lu Buwei sat back and got closer to Lu Goujian.
Picking up a white piece again, Lu Buwei placed it in the southeast corner of the chessboard and said with a chuckle: "Your Zhang family has been running Korea for two hundred years, but my Lu family's Chamber of Commerce has not been short."
As early as the time of Lu Buwei's father, the Lu Chamber of Commerce was already a large chamber of commerce with branches in various countries.
After getting Lu Buwei's hand, Lu Buwei first spent all the resources of Lu's Chamber of Commerce to support Ying Yiren, who was the hostage, to become King Zhuangxiang of Qin.
Later, he supported the Lu Chamber of Commerce as the Prime Minister of the Qin State. The Lu Chamber of Commerce went a step further and became the leading chamber of commerce in the world.
When the mutiny in Qinian Palace happened, there was a rumor that Lu Buwei was going to be executed. On the surface, the Lu Chamber of Commerce collapsed overnight and was removed from the world.
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In fact, Ying Chengxuan changed the name of Lu's Chamber of Commerce and divided it into several chambers of commerce, using these chambers of commerce to make the world's wealth.
If these chambers of commerce join forces and are reorganized into the Lu Chamber of Commerce, there will be a giant chamber of commerce that has never been seen in the world, covering all aspects.
In order to win over Han, Ying Chengxuan established the Lu Chamber of Commerce brand in Han and recruited elites from various chambers of commerce to settle there.
Before Lu Buwei entered Korea, the Lu Chamber of Commerce had already established a firm foothold in Korea.
Lu Buwei wants to seize Han land from the Zhang family with the youth version of Lu's Chamber of Commerce, which brings together the most profitable businessmen in the world.
"The fact that Lu's Chamber of Commerce can be so huge is indeed beyond Liang's expectations and beyond the expectations of everyone in the world."
Zhang Liang placed a black stone in the northwest corner, exactly opposite Lu Buwei's white stone in the southeast corner, which was a clear imitation of chess.
"Sir please."
Then please ask Sir to use the Lu Chamber of Commerce to seize our land in Korea. If you want to fight with commerce, Liang will respond to the war with commerce.
Lu Buwei holds the white piece and lands it in the northeast corner.
"Flying pigeons deliver messages."
When Lu Buwei first entered Korea, he used flying pigeons to send messages instead of galloping horses, which greatly increased the speed of information exchange.
In the shortest possible time, he learned about the trends of various cities in South Korea, made fine adjustments, and always issued orders one step ahead of Zhang Liang.
Zhang Liangzhi's sunspot falls in the corresponding southwest corner.
"Good things also come with paper."
Not long after, Zhang Liang summoned many craftsmen to mass-produce paper based on the occasional green paper.
From then on, Zhang Liang was able to have immersive command and control of major cities in South Korea in Xinzheng.
Lu Buwei and Zhang Liang are on the same starting line again in terms of command.
Lu Buwei held three white stones in his hand, and they all landed on the Tianyuan position of the black stone in the center.
"I can collect iron at three times the price, but you can't imitate this move."
While talking, Lu Buwei played two more white stones.
"Collect iron five times."
After a moment of pause, Lu Buwei played five more white stones.
"Collect iron ten times."
He looked up and chuckled.
"At this point, what has happened to this day has become a foregone conclusion, and the trend is irreversible."
The supplier behind the Korean Lu Chamber of Commerce is Ying Chengxuan, and its financial provider is one of the top ten chambers of commerce in the world.
Lu's Chamber of Commerce was rich and powerful. They first accepted the iron at three times the price, then five times the price, and finally ten times the price. Eat as much iron as is available on the market.
Zhang Liang didn't make a move and looked at the ten new white stones on the chessboard.
"Imitating chess is not about imitating one's own shortcomings and imitating the enemy's strengths. If these ten players had imitated it, they would have lost at this moment."
Zhang Liang didn't know how much money the Lu Chamber of Commerce had, but he knew how much money the Zhang family had.
Asking the Zhang family to accept iron at three, five, or ten times the price may be possible in the short term based on the Zhang family's financial resources, but not in the long term.
The Lu Chamber of Commerce only has financial resources, while the Zhang family has power and financial resources in South Korea.
Zhang Liang is not interested in fighting for money. He will not use his own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points.
If the Zhang family had collected iron three times from the Lu Chamber of Commerce at the beginning and now ten times the amount of iron, the Zhang family would be gone.
"A good man is stupid, but he really doesn't know where the general trend is as mentioned by Mr. Zhang Liang." Zhang Liang grabbed a handful of black stones and threw them on the chessboard, and continued: "The iron of South Korea is inexhaustible and inexhaustible."
On the chessboard, the black stones were clattering and falling, as if they were laughing at Lu Buwei's unnecessary actions.
South Korea was an iron ore concentration center during the Warring States Period. Historical records record that all the best bows and powerful crossbows in the world came from Korea, and the most precious swords in the world came from South Korea.
It is indeed feasible to break up the local market by purchasing and monopolizing a necessity, but only if the necessity can really be monopolized.
It is impossible to break the market by purchasing iron in South Korea, unless all the iron mines in South Korea are taken over and iron is no longer produced.
After the chess pieces were placed, Zhang Liang circled all the black stones next to the white stones and surrounded the white stones.
"On the contrary, Liang's side has become a trend. Sir, would you like to hear it?"
