At the end of March, the new year's National Go League officially opened.

As usual, during the opening of the siege, there will be several rounds of "competition system" as usual, and most of the opening ceremonies will not be held in big cities, but in some small and medium-sized cities.

After all, compared with other competitive events, the requirements of chess events are really not big, a few sets of chess equipment, and then arrange accommodation, which is basically done, to be honest, the difficulty of holding a siege, it is really better to hold a large-scale conference------

Since we talk about meetings, then everyone understands that we Chinese have long had experience. It is precisely because of this that a project like Go, which looks good and has a lot of cultural connotation, is really popular with some small and medium-sized cities.

The same is true for this year's Weijia, which opened in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, where the famous Go legend "Rotten Keshan" is located.

"By the way, Brother Ding'an, I remember that you are also from Zhejiang Province, right? Where is Zhejiang Province? ”

"Yes, Brother Na Xiping and I are both from Haining, Zhejiang Province."

"Tsk, the three major factions of Go in the Ming Dynasty, the most awesome of them are in your Zhejiang Province, you have three chess saints in the Qing Dynasty, and the two chess saints are from your Zhejiang Province, it seems that you people in Zhejiang Province are still very good at playing chess."

Of course, Li Xiangping's emotion is not indiscriminate, in fact, Zhejiang Province has always been an important town of Go in our country. Not to mention ancient times, even if it is modern Go, in real history, if you mention the leading figures of domestic Go, everyone usually says "Nie Ma Chang Coca".

Look, among the five generations of leading figures, two are from Zhejiang Province, which is very revealing, and it also reflects that the people of Zhejiang Province are really good at playing chess.

Of course, no matter how awesome the people of Zhejiang Province were in the past, but among the armor that opened in Zhejiang Province this year, the one that looks the most beautiful and the most awesome is, of course, Li Xiangping------

Although most of his scenery so far was actually earned for him by people from Zhejiang Province.

And the reason why he is so eye-catching this time, in addition to his results last year, there is actually another reason, that is, before coming here, Comrade Cai Cai Zhixiong had announced the details of his contract to the outside world, winning a game bonus of 100,000 yuan, and successfully surpassed Lee Sedol, becoming the highest single game bonus record in the Weijia arena.

You must know that in this day and age, this bonus is really not low. In last year's 02 years, the average income of the main players in the league was only 200,000, according to statistics, and a small number of star chess players could reach 500,000 or 600,000.

This year's Weijia is the same as last year, with a total of 12 teams, which means a total of 22 rounds, so compared to Li Xiangping's contract amount, he can theoretically get a maximum bonus of 2.2 million, even if the winning rate is only half, his income in the Weijia arena will be more than one million-----

This is already nearly double the highest income of a domestic star chess player last year.

It is precisely because of this that when Comrade Lao Cai was about to announce the details of the contract to the outside world, the old man of Li Xiangping's family still had concerns, he thought that this would be too high-profile, or whether it would attract any criticism.

On this issue, Li Xiangping didn't care about it, and he even instigated Lao Cai to announce the amount. And the reason why he did this, of course, was not to show off for himself, in fact, he won so many championships last year, and he didn't need to use a bib to show off at all.

Li Xiangping's purpose in doing this:

First: overpower Lee Sedol and slightly change the phenomenon of "unequal pay for equal work" between domestic chess players and foreign aid in the tournament.

The phenomenon of "unequal pay for equal work" in the Weijia arena still existed until Li Xiangping crossed over. This situation is nothing in today's era, after all, Korean Go is really awesome nowadays, and the number of foreign aid is not much, so in line with the principle of "scarcity is expensive", it is reasonable for their salaries to be higher.

However, in a few years, Chinese Go will be so powerful, especially the thickness of the middle layer, I don't know how much thicker it is than Korean Go, at that time it was still "unequal pay for equal work", which is obviously a bit unreasonable and very unreasonable.

And Li Xiangping did this, his original intention was to change this phenomenon a little, a person seems to have nothing to do with the overall situation, but isn't there such a saying: The power of example is infinite.

Li Xiangping believes that as long as there is his own "role model" erected here, then under the subtle situation, this situation can always be more or less improved.

Li Xiangping's second purpose in doing this is actually related to "role model", he wants to use such a high prize to erect a new example and a new benchmark for the Go market.

When it comes to money, that's a good thing. For example, when Lao Nie won the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, it really made many people know and understand Go, and played an immeasurable role in the promotion and popularization of Go.

However, then again, the significance of Lao Nie's victory, Li Xiangping believes that it is actually more at the popularization level, but for professional Go, then Lao Nie's victory may not be comparable to the holding of a "Ying's Cup".

In 88 of the last century, the championship prize of the "Ying's Cup" was as high as 400,000 US dollars, so there was no need to hide it at all. Li Xiangping believes that if a questionnaire is conducted at this time, a questionnaire will be conducted for young professional chess players of appropriate age:

Were you influenced by Lao Nie or by $400,000 to embark on the path of professional Go?

Li Xiangping believes that if everyone tells the truth, then the latter will definitely be higher than the former.

And Li Xiangping's meaning of "winning a game of 100,000" is actually the same as 400,000 US dollars.

Even from a certain point of view, he may be more realistic, after all, there is only one champion, and there will always be a few who can win it. But his "win a game of 100,000" is just a siege, which is more universal.

Others look at it, oh? Playing Go turns out to make so much money, and the next game will be 100,000? Although this is the number that the best chess player can earn, even if I am not as good as him in the end, the next game is only one-third or even one-quarter of his, but if I can also play the armor, it will be hundreds of thousands of dollars that year, which is already a lot higher than the income of most ordinary white-collar workers......

The above is the positive impact that Li Xiangping can think of, as for the negative impact of this, of course Li Xiangping has also thought about it, but to be honest, Li Xiangping doesn't care about it at all.

The consequence of this is nothing more than to attract some gossip and jealousy. Specifically, it is the gossip of the outside world and the jealousy of peers.

However, Li Xiangping analyzed it himself, and he thought that the situation in both aspects should not be too serious.

Let's talk about the gossip of the outside world first, it is undeniable that after the spread of "win a game of 100,000", it will definitely cause a little discussion in the society, and it will become a topic of conversation for some people after dinner, however:

"Hey, what's the point of 100,000 in the armor, even if he keeps winning all seasons, it's only in his early 2 million that year, you may not know, this guy won 3 world championships last year..... I do the math, the prize money of these three world champions alone is already more than 5 million, and they also won a runner-up, and there are other competitions...... That's why I'm telling you, this number is really nothing to other people, and people are so powerful......"

Everyone understands that in the eyes of most Chinese people, "winning the world championship" can be equated with "winning glory for the country", so the prize money obtained by winning the world championship will definitely not be criticized. Therefore, Li Xiangping believes that as long as there are remarks similar to the above, this "100,000 plates" will not cause much criticism.

As for the jealousy of his peers, Li Xiangping thinks it's not a problem either.

Of course, this is not to say how well Li Xiangping thinks of professional Go players, but Li Xiangping asked himself:

If this didn't happen to him, but Chang Hao or Gu Dali, what would Li Xiangping think:

“..... Well, this guy is awesome this time, but it doesn't matter, if I can reach his level or overpower him, then I'm sure I'll have that one day....."

Li Xiangping has always believed that the so-called jealousy is only an idea that only medics can have.

And the group of professional chess players, especially the group of top professional chess players, is not a mediocre person, so there is no need to worry about this at all.

Of course, this matter is not without a little disadvantage, and the biggest disadvantage is that when their peers meet Li Xiangping in the competition, they will be very energetic and high-spirited.

Li Xiangping believes that this cannot be called "red-eyed", but a very normal emotion.

It's a pity that before the first round of the game, Li Xiangping didn't realize this, and he was still joking with Gu Dali:

"Haha, Brother Gu, you shouldn't have forgotten, you were a little ruthless in the second round of the armor last year, and you devoured me alive and froze me as long as a dragon, so hurry up, you come over today and suffer ...... death."