Wei Zi plays chess with the emperor.

Ancient emperors loved to play chess, and many people played Go. But I have to say that playing Go with the emperor is really a chore.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Song Ming was a rotten chess basket, but he insisted on finding a master to accompany him to play Go in middle school. The point is, he still has to win to be satisfied with the game. The courtiers knew this well and had to lose to him again and again, but Emperor Song Ming didn't know that the other side let him, thinking that he was a very good chess player. When I arrived at Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, the atmosphere of playing chess was relatively relaxed. When the chess game was tense, there were people to help. Once, Tang played Go with others and was about to lose. Yang Guifei, who was watching the game, immediately ordered a Persian cat to fly on the chessboard and messed up the chess game. Tang didn't lose face, and the other party breathed a sigh of relief. This is the happy ending.

Song Taizong in the Northern Song Dynasty also liked to play Weiqi, and he specially found a Weiqi master to practice with him. Song Taizong's chess skills are obviously poor, but in order to show his magnanimity as an emperor, he had to let the other side have a third son. Of course, Song Taizong still won every chess game. On one occasion, Song Taizong may feel that he is too bored to win all the time, so he said to the sparring master, "If you still lose this time, I will beat you hard with a whip." As a result, the game was tied. This shows how high the sparring partner is. On the other hand, Song Taizong's chess can't bear to look straight, and can be controlled by the other side to this extent.

However, after the lottery, Song Taizong was still unhappy and asked for another set. He even said: This time, I will let you have a son, and if you win, there will be a generous reward; If you lose, I will throw you into the water. The sparring partner thought that Song Taizong was just joking, but nodded in agreement on the surface, and still gave way to Song Taizong in the process of playing chess, so in the end, the two men were tied. Song Taizong was so angry that he ordered people to seize his sparring partner and prepare to throw him into the water. At this time, the sparring partner realized that the emperor was serious and quickly said, "This chess game is not finished yet. I can play another game." Say that finish, he held out his hand to show Song Taizong, the original partner secretly left a venue. In this way, the sparring partner just won Song Taizong's son and was spared the punishment of being thrown into the water.

Although Song Taizong is also very picky about playing Go, which makes his sparring partner really big. He is polite and reasonable, but Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is not so polite and demanding. Zhu Yuanzhang also likes to play Go. No matter who you play chess with, you must take the first step, and then put a piece in the Tianyuan (that is, the center) position of the Go board. In the end, he won no less than one son. As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang is an impatient and moody person. Playing chess with him can be said to be the hardest task.

On one occasion, Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da went to Mochou Lake outside Nanjing, and suddenly fell in love with chess and wanted to play chess with Xu Da. Zhu Yuanzhang may have caught up in a good mood and said to Xu Da, "If you win today, I will give you this lake." Xu Da kept in mind Zhu Yuanzhang's chess rules, and didn't dare to win, but he didn't want to lose because Mochou Lake was so attractive. After careful consideration, he decided to take a chance and win. Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang lost a game of chess. Zhu Yuanzhang was unhappy and threw Mochou Lake's promise to the outside of the cloud nine, leaving only anger in his heart and wanting to kill people. He was about to have an attack when Xu Da immediately knelt down and said, "Please look at the big picture carefully." Zhu Yuanzhang took a closer look and found that the word "Long live" was composed of chess pieces on the chessboard. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy and ordered Mochou Lake to be given to Xu Da. This chess game looks close, but if it were played by someone else, I'm afraid I'd die.

Obviously, it is not easy for a chess player to accompany the emperor to play chess for fun. I'm afraid these selected chess players will spend 120 thousand energy to deal with the emperor every time, because they will have to move their heads if they are not careful.