"Xiaoqiang, are you still sleeping?"

Li Xiaoqiang opened his eyes in a daze. I didn't know what others were doing yesterday. Anyway, Li Xiaoqiang drank a little too much of his own wine, which also made Li Xiaoqiang get up a little later than usual.

"Oh, it's Coach Jiang. When did you come to Beijing? Why didn't you say hello in advance?"

"I came here temporarily. I arrived last night and knew you were drinking, so I didn't bother you yesterday. Didn't I come here early in the morning to discuss something with you?"

"What's the matter?" Li Xiaoqiang got up, brushed his teeth, and washed his face. He did not specifically greet the guests. The visitor was Jiang Chenghua from Ganyuan Provincial Team. Li Xiaoqiang has known him for nearly 10 years, especially in the past six months. Since he was preparing to participate in the first China "Electric League" League that began in May this year, the two had more frequent interactions, so Li Xiaoqiang didn't have to be polite to him.

"What? You mean our team is going to invite a Korean foreign player." Li Xiaoqiang stopped brushing his teeth, staring at Jiang Chenghua in surprise regardless of the foam of his mouth.

"Yes, this was a temporary idea when I watched you play yesterday. Several bosses of our club were very interested. So I flew to the capital overnight and asked me to ask for your opinions and see if this matter is operational?"

At present, various system reforms in China, the Ganyuan Provincial Go team naturally became good. They first changed a relatively fashionable name and established a Ganyuan Go Club. In a few months, Li Xiaoqiang will participate in the first "Electricity" in the name of the Go Club. Jiang Chenghua's identity has also changed from a provincial team coach to a club coach.

This year's first "Entertainment" has 12 teams participated. Among the 12 teams, as a newly promoted team, the overall strength of Ganyuan team is not very strong, but from other aspects, Ganyuan team seems to be quite good. At least one thing, Ganyuan team is not short of money now, and they look like a rich man among all participating teams.

There is actually nothing strange about this. Ganyuan Province has always been a weak economy and has not much to show off in other sports competitions. But it is precisely this "weakness" that has made the Go project very important in the province. For example, from last year in 1994, to the infamous football "A" league in later generations, it still looks beautiful and is still in full swing. Even if the football project is not much foundation, Ganyuan Province can't afford to play.

But Go is different. The cost of running a Go club is naturally much smaller than that of a football project. This is just like Shancheng in his previous life. When Shancheng first became a municipality, he used the Go project as a breakthrough. Now Ganyuan wants to take a path similar to Shancheng in his previous life. Because Li Xiaoqiang has appeared in the province. Because he has just been promoted to Class A this year, it naturally makes everyone enthusiastic.

With the support of the province and enthusiasm, ambition will naturally arise. If you analyze the lineup of Ganyuan team, of course, Li Xiaoqiang needs to be said that Qian Yuping, who has officially signed with Ganyuan team, is also a qualified player in the AFC. However, the strength of the other two is not reassuring. Everyone thinks that it should not be a problem to participate in the AFC with such a lineup, but if you want to get a good ranking, there is basically no possibility.

"You wait first. Let's think about this matter carefully."

After breakfast, Li Xiaoqiang began to discuss this with Jiang Chenghua. Li Xiaoqiang knew very well that it was natural for Jiang Chenghua and the others to take their ideas to the Korean chess player. These days, it was said that marketization is still very obvious, but the traces of the old system are still very obvious. Not to mention now, even if there are 10 years, everyone still attaches great importance to things like "organization". For example, in real history, a person in the chess industry in Shencheng said that if Chang Ren Sheng moved his home, nodded, and Shen Cheng mayor must nod.

Although this statement may be a bit exaggerated, it also reflects the difficulty of domestic chess players moving. Therefore, in this environment, if Ganyuan team wants to introduce a suitable "internal aid", it is basically impossible to even think about it.

If "domestic aid" fails, you will naturally think of "foreign aid". However, as a special feature of Go, the channels for choosing "foreign aid" are also very limited, and it is nothing more than choosing between Japanese chess players and Korean chess players. However, in these days, it is difficult to get a more reliable Japanese chess player to come to China to participate in Chinese leagues, and it can even be said that this is almost impossible.

If you want a Japanese chess player to participate in the Chinese League, there are mainly two obstacles here. First of all, one obstacle is actually a matter of money. According to the current "Electrical" market, you may not be able to invite Japanese chess players at all.

How to explain this problem? To give a simple example: The "China-Japan Celebrity Confrontation Competition" that has continued some years has been suspended last year. The reason for the suspension of the competition is that there are rumors outside that Kobayashi Koji lost to Ma Xiaoji, and he dared not play it anymore. But the real reason is that this competition is suspended because the prize money issue of the competition. The winning of a competition is about millions of Japanese. If Ma Xiaofei can choose, he is of course very happy to continue to play this competition. Because winning a competition is much more than winning a domestic "celebrity" title. Until 20 years later, the championship prize of the domestic "celebrity" has just exceeded 100,000 yuan. So in this year, for example, the title of "national player" Li Xiaoqiang won, his championship prize is less than 20,000. In the next competition, whether it wins or loses, it will be much more than winning a domestic championship.

So what does it mean to put millions of Japanese in the Japanese chess world? Such a little money is simply not as good as the game fee for participating in a "Celebrity Battle" or "Honinbo Battle" circular circle competition. Otherwise, these two circular circle competitions would be called "golden chairs".

Therefore, the huge gap in game fees is the biggest obstacle to Japanese chess players participating in the Chinese league. According to the current "Electricity" market, let alone invite players of the "Six Super" level, even if you want to invite players of Ida Kiki and Hiroshi Yamachi, you can't invite players of the level. As for those with lower levels, there is no point in getting them.

In addition to the money issue, there is another obstacle that is the system of domestic competitions in Japan. The arrangements of domestic competitions in Japan are very standardized, basically one or two games a week, and the entire schedule is implemented throughout the year. Such arrangements certainly have their advantages, but sometimes they also look very old-fashioned. Especially the mentality of Japanese Go has always been that they sometimes regard domestic competitions as more important than international competitions. It is basically impossible to modify the schedule for other competitions. Even if international competitions are like this, there is no need to mention the leagues in other countries.

Therefore, even if some chess players do not value the game fee so much, they just like to participate in the competition in China. However, with this obstacle, it basically restricts Japanese chess players from participating in the Chinese league. This is why in real history, Japanese chess players are rarely seen in China's "Army" stadium. There are issues with the strength of Japanese chess players, but in fact, there are more problems.

Li Xiaoqiang vaguely remembered that in the "Entering A" stadium in the early years, it seemed that only Mr. Lin Haifeng appeared in the "Entering A" at the invitation of Nie Zoomfeng. Of course, only Nie Zoomfeng had that face. At least Li Xiaoqiang believed that with his own face, he should not be able to hire any Japanese chess players.

"So have you decided to ask for? Who are you going to invite?"

"Since you are hiring foreign players, you naturally have to hire the highest-level one. Our initial idea is to choose one from Cao Li’s master and apprentice, and I don’t know if it can be done. Tsk tsk, think about your joining forces with Cao Yanzi or Li Shifo, supplementing with Qian Yuping and others... I believe we should have the strength to compete with the Shencheng team or Zhejiang team."

The two teams Jiang Chenghua mentioned are the biggest favorites in the first "Eleventh League". The Shanghai team has always been a veteran strong team. They win because they have many soldiers and wide players and their strength is even. The only weakness seems to be that the leader is not outstanding enough. This is very unfavorable in the implementation of the "main general wins" competition system.

On the other hand, the Zhejiang team has three national team players: Ma Xiaofei, Yu Bin and Chen Linxin. Although the fourth stage is slightly weak, their main players are very strong. Especially for the Shencheng team, this is the biggest advantage of Zhejiang team. Except for these two teams, the lineup of other participating teams seems to be lacking. Therefore, it is generally believed that the first "Electrical Entry" champion is most likely to be between these two teams.

But as Jiang Chenghua analyzed, if Ganyuan team can invite a super foreign player, then the lineup characteristics of Ganyuan team are actually very similar to Zhejiang team...

"Xiaoqiang, Xiaoqiang, why are you stunned?"

"Hehe, nothing..." Of course, Li Xiaoqiang was in the situation where yy joined forces with Cao Yanzi or Li Shifo in the "Embroidered Armor" battle. However, Li Xiaoqiang believed that it was very difficult to invite these two people. The reason was that these two were iconic figures in the Korean chess world and were also super busy people in the Korean chess world. Although Korean chess players would not be restricted by so many Japanese chess players. But you should know that if you carefully observe the current world chess world, it is the most titles in South Korea, and the number of Korean chess players in general is higher than that of Chinese and Japanese chess players.

"Coach Jiang, it is very difficult to hire Master Cao Li and his apprentice. I think you forgot someone. Have you never considered Liu Changhe? I think it is more operational to invite him. Let's do this. He is in the capital now, so you can contact him in advance."

"Oh? Where is Li Shifo and Cao Yanzi?"

"Cao Yanzi doesn't need to consider it for the time being. As for Li Shifo, I will do his job after this confrontation."

"Okay, then I'll take action first. You'd better play tomorrow's game first."

A temporary episode slightly affected Li Xiaoqiang's preparations. Li Xiaoqiang was still thinking before he walked onto the arena:

"Hehe, if Li Shifo and I join forces..."

In real history, Li Shifo appeared in the "East A" stadium for the first time in the same team as Ma Xiaofei. I remember that at that time, Li Shifo had become the veritable number one player in the world. His participation in the competition was actually greatly resisted in the Korean chess world. Some Korean chess people believe that Li Shifo should not condescend to participate in the Chinese league.

The reason why Li Shifo finally succeeded was actually what he said:

"There is no way, because the invitation is Ma Xiaofei!"
Chapter completed!