MTL - Go Legend-Chapter 821 Western Stud

   Chapter 821 Western Stud

   After the end of the special tenth, Li Xiangping's most important task this year has been completed, but the whole world chess world is still lively, and many world competitions have entered the final juncture.

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

And this year is not only an even-numbered year, but also an Olympic year, it is even more of a big year in the big year. This year not only has the "Ying's Cup" held every four years, but also added a "BC Card Cup". The traditional "Fujitsu Cup", "Samsung Cup", "LG Cup", "Chunlan Cup"... In short, after the end of 2008, the world chess world is very lively, and all world competitions have basically reached the finals or semi-finals. stage.

   The basic situation this year is as follows:

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

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

   Then Da Li and Cui Du of South Korea joined forces for the "Ying's Cup" final, but the final will not be played until May next year.

   The progress of the "Chunlan Cup" is the slowest. At present, it has just passed the first two rounds, and even the quarter-finals have not yet been held. The championship will also need to wait until next year.

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

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

   Before the end of the special tenth, the semi-finals of these two competitions have been produced, and after the special tenth, the semi-finals of these two competitions have started one after another.

  This year's "Samsung Cup" top four lineup is as follows: China's Kong Erjie and Wang Xi, South Korea's Li and Japan's Zhang Xu.

   The matchup is Kong Erjie VS Da Li, Zhang Xu VS Wang Xi.

   The top four lineup of the "LG Cup" is China's Gu Dali, Chen Xiaoqiang, Xie He, plus a Korean Xiao Li, in a situation of 3 Chinese chess players surrounding Xiao Li.

   Especially in this one, Gu Dali once again met Xiao Li in the semi-finals, so there is no doubt that their three-game chess duel has become the most popular game in the world chess after Li Xiangping's special tenth game.

  Li Xiangping is also paying attention to this game. After receiving a call from his cousin, he went through the formalities to go to Hong Kong while preparing to be a melon eater.

On the last day of November, Li Xiangping left. According to the agreement with his cousin, he will go to Yangcheng this time, first to meet him at Lao Xu's base camp, and then to Hong Kong to meet his gang. Hong Kong billionaire.

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

The day Li Xiangping arrived in Yangcheng was a weekend, and this day happened to be the day of the semi-final of the "Samsung Cup", and this game was quite a coincidence. Before the two games, it was 1-1, so he went to the third uncle's house. , Li Xiangping watched the live broadcast online while waiting for news from his cousin.

   "Second brother, don't look at it, anyway, you won't win if these people play, what's so good about it, come and play with me."

   Li Xiangping couldn't help laughing when he heard the words of his little sister Li Yunxin's child:

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

   "I wouldn't."

   "Ah! Why?"

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

   "I'm Li Xiangping's younger sister, so besides you, who is qualified to teach me to play Go."

Li Xiangping didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the time. Just when he was preparing to "educate" his little sister, the two games 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 Join this year's "Samsung Cup" final.

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

  Normal is based on the consideration of strength. Judging from the current situation, Kong Er and Zhang Xu certainly have the strength to defeat anyone except themselves, so it is of course normal for them to meet in the final.

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

   But definitely not Kong Erjie or Zhang Xu.

   Zhang Xu in real history has only won the "LG Cup" once, and that was several years ago, so in this life, his championship has long been snatched away by Li Xiangping.

Although Kong Erjie has won 3 world championships, it was only after 2009, so in 2008 he and Zhang Xu joined forces in the "Samsung Cup" final, which was the most instigated by Li Xiangping, a butterfly. Contest.

Just when Li Xiangping was feeling the power of his butterfly, his cousin Li Weiping came over. He said that he had made an appointment with Lao Xu, and Lao Xu had already booked a hotel. He said that he would entertain Li Xiangping and let him do his best. Do the Lord's Friendship.

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

"Xiang Ping, although I know that you have already made up your mind to be this white knight, you can't be completely unconditional. I think you'd better think about it now, and you'd better put one or two conditions, and you don't have to agree too readily. "

   Li Xiangping smiled after hearing this. Li Xiangping still has a general understanding of Lao Xu's financing.

  This time he is planning to go to Hong Kong to operate an IPO listing. The real purpose is not to make money. It is really that he has spread too much recently and won a lot of land in China.

   But just when Lao Xu was preparing to go ahead, the subprime mortgage crisis in Laomei came, and the country had just carried out a macro-control, and major banks tightened their money, which caused Lao Xu to have a temporary financial crisis.

However, Li Xiangping knows that if the real history does not change much, all this is temporary. Not only will the famous "4 trillion" policy be introduced soon, but Lao Xu's projects are all good projects now, so At this time, lend him some money to survive the crisis, and in less than a year, his income has more than doubled.

   As in real history, Lao Xu raised US$500 million from Hong Kong's "Hoe Dadi Gang", and in less than a year, the tycoons of Hong Kong's "Big D Club" benefited a total of nearly 1.1 billion.

   Among them, the “Shark Dantong” Zheng family who invested the most, made a profit of 600 million US dollars alone.

And Li Xiangping also knows that in fact, in real history, according to Lao Xu's original intention, he wanted to raise 1 billion US dollars first. As a result, those Hong Kong people may not have the vision, of course, it is more likely to be domestic policies and other issues. Doubt, this only promised to borrow only half.

   So Li Xiangping's current goal is to fill the other half of the gap left by Lao Xu and become the biggest white knight in this IPO.

   Of course, although Li Xiangping has long made up his mind to make this wave of tailwind money, his cousin's words are not wrong.

   The so-called Shengmien fights rice enemies, and the big local tyrant Li and Lao Xu are still together, so if you don't ask for it at all, it's actually not good, maybe Lao Xu really has any doubts.

   "Well, what conditions should I mention at that time..."

   After meeting in the evening, before reaching a formal intention, Lao Xu really raised this question, and he asked Li Xiangping what other conditions and requirements.

   "Mr. Xu, 500 million US dollars is no problem. Even if you want a little more, I can consider it, but I do have an additional request. I don't know if President Xu can agree."

   The current Lao Xu is not as arrogant as the next few years, so after listening to Li Xiangping's words, he said hurriedly:

   "You say what you say."

  Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "My request is, if the listing in Hong Kong is successful this time, can Mr. Xu consider holding a Go competition in China? Yes, it is best to have a high-profile world competition."

"what?!"

   Lao Xu was stunned when he heard it:

"That's it?"

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

   Lao Xu laughed quickly, and since he was meeting with Li Xiangping, he should have done his homework beforehand:

   "Haha good! Xiangping, I promise you, now the competition with the highest prize money is the Ying's Cup, right, okay! No problem, if this listing is successful, then I will definitely hold a competition with more prize money than the Ying's Cup."

  Li Xiangping nodded with a smile, he thought this was right—

   To be honest, in the domestic real estate industry, Xu is actually a rising star, not to mention compared with the "Zhaobao Wanjin" in his early years, even compared with Wang Da Wang, his qualifications are almost the same.

   He can have such a big reputation nationwide and make the company a national 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 unbalanced every time he thinks of this.

   As far as the national football team's level is concerned, every time Evergrande wins the AFC Champions League, let alone the total investment, maybe the championship bonus of a certain star player alone is enough to hold a super high-level Go competition.

   Although the impact of the two projects cannot be compared.

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

  The national football team is barely second-rate in Asia, but Go is the world's top player, so Li Xiangping thought about it for a long time on the road just now, and he also thought of such an additional condition.

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

   It's just that Li Weiping didn't let him go, and insisted that he go to Hong Kong.

One of the reasons given by   ’s cousin: In the past two years, the “Weixiang Investment” that the brothers engaged in actually only did one thing, 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, can't ignore it. Always ask.

After    gave this reason, Li Weiping smiled at Li Xiangping again:

"Xiangping, let's go, this time, you will accompany me to Hong Kong to play. No, this time it's mainly Macau. Didn't you say that your Western Stud level is very high? I really don't accept it, what about your amateur level? If you can always win my money, walk around, this time there is a high-stakes poker game in Macau, you can play with me."

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

  Li Xiangping himself is not interested in this game, although he can play it, he is not addicted at all.

   However, Li Weiping loves this way very much. He is not only addicted to Texas Hold'em, but also a self-proclaimed master. It is not too much to say that he is a professional poker player at his level.

   It's a pity that when he, a master, met Li Xiangping, he was completely blinded.

   In the past, Li Xiangping would occasionally play with him during the festivals. Anyway, in Li Xiangping's memory, his cousin had never won, and he was full of dissatisfaction every time he won. .

"Hehe, brother, why are you still playing that? I'm not telling you, your technical flow that relies purely on logical operations is really bad. Do you know what the highest level of playing Western Stud is? You can't just rely on your brain. In fact, I I have always believed that this kind of game should be more about the heart, and the mental arithmetic wins the brain arithmetic."

   For Li Xiangping's rhetoric, the top students of Shangcai certainly don't believe it at all:

   "Okay, okay, don't sell your suits there, don't you win me a few times now and then, this time, I'm serious, I've made some good friends, let's play with me this time."

  Li Xiangping smiled slightly:

   "Okay, I'll make you give up this time."

   (end of this chapter)