When Qu Tanmo saw Su Wen, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
Su Wen disappeared for five years in the Liang Dynasty. When he reappeared, he was already a extraordinary historian in the fourth sequence.
Qu Tanmo was very sad.
He lived for most of his life, which is only the fourth in the historian's sequence.
But now there is an opportunity, perhaps to cross the ranks of sequence four and become a historian, sequence five: historian.
Yes, only those who are ranked fifth in the historian sequence are qualified to be called historians.
However, the vast majority of extraordinary historians do not receive such a title.
This debate among historians was an opportunity for Qu Tanmo.
The debate among historians may seem mysterious to outsiders, but in fact, once the mystery is exposed, there won't be much magic in it.
Why after every debate among historians, the winner's country will have better weather and more prosperous national fortunes than the other two countries. The reason is actually very simple. During the debate, the historians of the Three Kingdoms actually used the territory of the Three Kingdoms as a chessboard to conduct a game.
A battle.
The winner robs the loser's country's luck and makes up for his own country's luck. For a period of time, the weather will naturally be smooth and everything will go smoothly.
The loser has lost part of the national destiny, and naturally everything goes wrong. The historian needs to find additional ways to make up for it, so that he can make up for the lost power of the national destiny. If the historian does not have extraordinary cultivation, then the country will lose in debates one after another.
If there is more national misfortune, the country will inevitably decline.
The dynasties of various countries have seen the advantages and disadvantages of historians' debates, but each other is unwilling to cancel such a competition. Instead, they try their best to promote it and try to enhance their national strength through such methods.
After Qu Tanmo told Su Wen the secret, Su Wen suddenly realized it.
Even though he was already a transcendent of the Historian Sequence Four, he was unable to obtain relevant information from the Historian's mysterious knowledge.
It can only show that this piece of information is so secret that it was not originally mastered by the extraordinary beings of the Historian Sequence Four.
It's just that the number of historians' high-sequence extraordinary beings is getting smaller and smaller, and even Sequence Five can't be found. Such high-level secrets can only be passed on to low-sequence successors helplessly.
"After this battle, Daliang must win. Once the debate fails and the national destiny is robbed, half of the country may not be saved."
Qu Tanmo became worried when he mentioned the debate.
Su Wen couldn't help but get more energetic and asked about the specific content of the debate.
"Play chess!"
Qu Tanmo's answer left Su Wen stunned.
"You think it's just a simple game of chess?"
Qu Tanmo explained: "Every chess piece on the chessboard is the condensed form of national destiny and culture. If the national destiny is insufficient, there will be a dilemma where a clever woman cannot make a meal without straw. The chess pieces that are strangled by the opponent become the opponent's trophies.
, This is the root cause of the plundering of the national destiny."
"I see."
Only then did Su Wen suddenly realize.
He also thought that the competition was about the mysterious knowledge and history mastered by extraordinary historians. If this was the case, he was not afraid of this debate among historians.
Putting out the historical knowledge he has mastered, Su Wen believed that he could defeat the extraordinary historians in the world.
What a pity...the competition turned out to be chess.
"How many games will determine the outcome?"
Su Wen asked again.
"Of course there are two games, one with Yan State and one with Chu State."
Qu Tanmo said.
"Tai Shi...how is your chess skill?"
Su Wen thought for a while and raised this issue.
He discovered that in addition to the country's luck, which determines the number of chess pieces and how many of them can be used on the chessboard, there is another key factor, which is that the person who plays chess must be a truly great player.
If a bad chess player appears, no amount of wealth will be enough to defeat him.
"Ha...among the extraordinary historians, my chess skills are at least among the top three."
Qu Tanmo said with a smile.
"Then who is first and second?"
Su Wen felt that Qu Tanmo's answer frightened him.
"Hmph... Of course they are the great historian Rong of the Chu State, and the great historian Nanshi of the Yan State." At this point, Qu Tanmo quickly added a few words: "We are not even close to each other, but in the previous debates,
I was first once and second several times, and the national destiny has not been harmed."
"..."
Upon hearing this, Su Wen's face became a little unnatural.
Today is different from the past. The Liang Dynasty is now surrounded by enemies, and the national destiny must have declined. The pressure of Qu Tanmo's debate can be imagined.
As for the Yan State, they must have been prepared in advance, otherwise they would not have started the debate in advance.
"Let me test Taishi's chess skills."
After Su Wen pondered for a moment, he made the request.
"You don't believe me!" Qu Tanmo suddenly became angry, blowing his beard and glaring: "Since you want to humiliate yourself, I won't be polite... Come here, take the chess piece!"
Half an hour later, Qu Tanmo grabbed a handful of chess pieces and smashed them into the chessboard: "Oh, I accidentally got distracted just now. This game doesn't count. Let's start over..."
Two hours later, Qu Tanmo kicked over the chessboard angrily: "It's wrong for you to bully an old man like this... Wait, your chess skills are so high?"
In two hours, the two played three games of chess.
In the first game of chess, Qu Tanmo could be said to have been careless, but in the second game, he showed his true skills, and even a few ideas, which he had carefully deduced over the years, and prepared to save them as a surprise for Da Shi Rong and Nan Shi.
, but before he met these two opponents, he brought out these exquisite techniques and then made them useless.
In the third game, he put all his energy into it and even tried several times before he dared to make a move. Despite this, he was still defeated by Su Wen, beating him by more than ten moves.
"Actually, it's not bad..."
Su Wen smiled softly.
In his previous life, one of his favorite things to do was to play chess, and he was also at the eighth-dan level.
When playing chess with Qu Tanmo, he just laid out some famous historical positions that he usually used to score, and then led Qu Tanmo to lead him step by step according to his ideas.
He has even more terrifying tricks.
He usually likes to dismantle AlphaGo's chess records that torture the top chess players, and show off the cold and heart-wrenching chess skills. Maybe Qu Tanmo will never want to see it again in his life.
The chessboard is up.
"Very good, good boy, I understand. It's up to you to debate the debate among historians! I'll be on the sidelines to help you!"
Qu Tanmo was very satisfied.
When he saw Su Wen back then, he wanted Su Wen to replace him as Taishi, so he could practice in seclusion and hit the fifth rank of historians.
"Tai Shigong's noble character is admirable."
Su Wen was also sincerely convinced.
For Qu Tanmo, this debate was certainly risky.
But the opportunities are also greater.
Once he is awakened in this debate, Qu Tanmo can become a true historian. Even if the debate fails, if he is selfish and incorporates the remaining national destiny into himself, he can still save his life and fight for the last chance of promotion.
But the Liang Dynasty also took all the risks, and even faced the danger of national subjugation.
Qu Tanmo asked Su Wen to take his place in the debate with the Taishi of the two countries, which meant that he gave up this promotion opportunity.
It could even help Su Wen, who could even take advantage of this opportunity to become a true historian and scholar.
Once they reach sequence five, the strength of the Shi Family Extraordinary will undergo earth-shaking changes.
Not to mention anything else, Ren Zhengan, who was in the fourth sequence, was held down and beaten by Jin Kaela.
But now, Ren Zhengan is still only the Shijia Chaofan of the fifth sequence, but Jin Jiala, the sixth sequence, dare not take the initiative to provoke him, and is no longer a match for Ren Zhengan.
"Then from today on, you will be Taishi."
Qu Tanmo said with a smile.
"It won't happen, Tai Shigong, it won't happen!"
Su Wen quickly refused.
He just wanted to add a little bit of victory to the Liang Dynasty, but he never thought about becoming a grand historian.
For him, that's not what he's interested in at all.
"The name is not justified. You are not Taishi, so how can you be qualified to debate?" Qu Tanmo said lightly: "Even if I assign you a deputy position as Taishi, there is nothing you can do. This is a rule agreed upon by several countries, otherwise you will find loopholes.
There are so many opportunities.”
Su Wen nodded in agreement.
Qu Tanmo's chess playing level is indeed first-class, but for a chess player who devotes his whole life to chess, it is nothing.
If anyone can replace the historian-official debate, the historian-official debate will eventually turn into a chess game between chess players, which will be boring.
"Then I will take over for a while. After the battle, you can become Taishi again."
"We'll talk about this later... we'll talk about it later..."
Qu Tanmo was still smiling from ear to ear.
Looking at Qu Tanmo's smiling face, Su Wen had an ominous premonition in his heart. Maybe he would really be pressed into this position, which was not the result he wanted.
Soon, the imperial court issued an edict that Qu Tanmo, the Grand Historian of Taishi, was old and weak and resigned from the post of Taishi. Su Wen took over as Taishi and represented the imperial court in the debate between historians and set off on his journey that day.
As soon as the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar.
This edict broke past practice.
In the past, Taishi never said that he would be fine even when he was old. After he took office, he would continue to do so until his death, and then pass the position on to the next person.
If the Taishi official has a high level of cultivation, he can even survive the rise and fall of a dynasty.
Many people believed that this move by the Liang Dynasty broke the convention and was a sign of the country's demise.
But soon, more people noticed that the person who succeeded Qu Tanmo as Taishi was Su Wen.
Since Su Wen fell into deep sleep, his name has gradually been forgotten.
Unexpectedly, after five years, Su Wen's name would appear in front of the world in this way.
Therefore, the debate among historians, which was originally unknown and only paid attention to by extraordinary historians and high-level officials of various countries, suddenly became the focus.
Many people want to know whether Su Wen, who has been silent for so many years, will bring new surprises to the world.
"Daliang, I'm afraid he is really going to die."
When Xiong Qiong, Lingyi of Chu State, heard the news, he sighed repeatedly: "Su Wen's talent is indeed amazing, but the debate between historians is about the deployment and operation of the national destiny, and the level of chess skills. I have never heard of him."
He was gifted in this area, and it was obviously a choice that Emperor Liang made indiscriminately because he was ill and sought medical treatment indiscriminately.
"If this is the case, then we should just follow the trend. If God doesn't take it, we will suffer the consequences!"