Riding the wind of rebirth

The red lights on the side of the switch flashed for a moment, then turned into a string of green lights.

Mai Xiaomiao's laptop is now connected: "All set."

There are five lights in total. Maintaining three green lights is sufficient for high-quality communication services. Now that all five lights are green, Zhou Zhi is very satisfied, indicating that the Tianxing Diwang system, with only one-quarter deployed, can already meet the needs of the region in China very well.

"Hahaha..." Seeing the various avatars on Mai Xiaomiao's chat software start flashing, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh: "That's great now. We can work freely anywhere in China, which means we have achieved freedom of mobile work and are no longer restricted by the location of the office."

"Spent three hundred million US dollars just for the freedom of mobile work." Mai Xiaomiao was amused by Zhou Zhi: "You still have the nerve to say that Third Brother used to be a spoiled brat, a spendthrift who would buy luxury cars and yachts all the time? How many could you have bought with that money?"

"In all honesty, this isn't for my own use. It's a strategic investment from the group and the foundation, and also a channel for high-frequency quantitative trading. If my second brother's Yangtze Communications satellite can't be launched in time, our system will have to take on even more important tasks. The amount of work involved is several times more than three hundred million US dollars."

"Besides, we haven't even spent 300 million yet."

"Shouldn't you be getting back to work?" Mai Xiaomiao had already started typing: "I haven't turned on my computer for two days."

“They’ll come to me if they need anything.” Zhou Zhi got up and took out a cylindrical cup from his bag. When he opened it, it revealed a tea set that could be stored together. Inside, there was a teapot, a fairness cup, and two master cups. This set was specially made at Master Zhong’s nine-mouth kiln for firing steamed buns.

We don't usually drink tea on the weekend evenings, but tonight is an exception since we're taking the train. We've just switched from green tea to dark Tibetan tea: "Xiao Miao, you don't need to work anymore. We'll be in Chengdu tomorrow anyway, so let's have some fun."

"playing what?"

"How about trying Gomoku on the Clover Forum?" Mai Xiaomiao quite likes playing Gomoku, but she doesn't care much about winning or losing. She truly embodies Su Dongpo's saying, "Victory is certainly a joy, but defeat is also acceptable." However, she is more likely to be happy than joyful. She is not a master; she is just a relatively low-level player.

Mai Xiaomiao obediently logged off her work software and switched to the Clover Forum: "Wow, the post demanding that your novel be published as a paper book is still pinned to the top."

"I can't be bothered with them," Zhou Zhi said. "Let's play chess."

"Why don't you answer this first? Another reader has pointed out your mistake, saying that Fu Bi was first enfeoffed as Duke of Zheng and then as Duke of Han, but you wrote him as Duke of Qi in the book, which is wrong."

“This shows that the reader doesn’t know enough about Fu Bi’s resume,” Zhou Zhi said with a smile. “Think about it, where else can someone be granted the title of Duke of Zheng or Duke of Han right from the start? Fu Bi was granted the title of Marquis of Henan County in February of the second year of the Zhihe era when he was appointed as the Prefect of Bingzhou and concurrently the Pacification Commissioner of Hedong Road. Six years later, in the second year of the Zhihe era, when he and Wen Yanbo were appointed as prime ministers at the same time, he was granted the title of Duke of Henan County. In the second year of the Zhiping era, he requested to resign due to a foot ailment. Emperor Yingzong tried his best to retain him but failed, and could only send him to Yangzhou. At that time, he was granted the title of Duke of Qi.”

"It wasn't until the fourth year of the Zhiping era, when Emperor Shenzong of Song, Zhao Xu, ascended the throne, that Fu Bi was transferred to the position of Military Governor of Wuning Army, and was then granted the title of Duke of Zheng."

"Many readers know Fu Bi mainly because of his performance during Wang Anshi's reforms, which was after Emperor Shenzong of Song ascended the throne. Therefore, they only remember his titles after that, but ignore the fact that Fu Bi was already a veteran minister of Emperors Renzong and Yingzong before Emperor Shenzong. He served as prime minister under both emperors and had long held a high position and great rank."

"Really?" Mai Xiaomiao said, "Then you type it in and give the readers a reply."

"I'll use your number, so people won't say I'm not humble." Zhou Zhi smiled and took the notebook, quickly typing in what he had just said, and then pressed enter to reply.

"That's fine, that way even if I remember it wrong, I won't embarrass the author." Mai Xiaomiao made a face.

Zhou Zhi flicked her nose: "Just kidding, these characters are all key research subjects, no doubt about it. Let's play chess."

The two formed a chess team and started playing against each other online.

However, Zhou Zhi's chess skills were also mediocre, and as a result, even when the two of them teamed up, they couldn't beat their opponent and suffered a crushing defeat.

If Mai Xiaomiao were playing herself, she would just accept the loss and might even compliment her opponent, saying things like, "Your chess skills are really great."

However, Zhou Zhi has a stronger sense of winning and losing. When he can't win, he starts thinking of unorthodox methods: "No, I have to win at least one game." "But what if I can't win?" Mai Xiaomiao found it amusing.

"How about... we ask Xiao Zhi to help us?" Zhou Zhi rolled his eyes.

"Isn't this a bad idea?" Mai Xiaomiao frowned slightly. "Changing the backend user? That's hacking, and if Chunjia and the others catch us, it'll be very serious."

"Indeed, no matter how much power we have, we can't act recklessly. Besides, we don't have the authority."

The principle is very simple. Just like a bank president, no matter how much power he has in the bank, he cannot touch customer accounts. Similarly, no matter how much power Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao have, they cannot arbitrarily change their users to Xiao Zhi's virtual accounts.

Just when Mai Xiaomiao thought Zhou Zhi was about to give up, Zhou Zhi said again, "But it's not like there's no way."

He then pulled out his laptop: "I'll use my account to play with Xiaozhi."

"What do you mean?" Mai Xiaomiao didn't understand.

"Don't worry about me for now, get started on your end quickly, don't keep the other side getting impatient."

"Oh." Mai Xiaomiao placed a black piece on the chessboard.

The other side responded quickly.

"Wait a minute!" Zhou Zhi let Xiao Zhi play black. After Xiao Zhi placed his piece at the center, Zhou Zhi made a move in the same position as Mai Xiaomiao's opponent.

Xiao Zhi quickly agreed.

"Click here! Click here!" Zhou Zhi quickly said.

Mai Xiaomiao finally understood: "You're so mean, you stole Xiaozhi's moves."

"Hmph! I refuse to believe I can't beat him this time!"

Xiao Zhi started playing Gomoku (Five in a Row) first. Gomoku has a much simpler logic, but one disadvantage is that Black has the first move and a clear advantage.

To address this issue, Gomoku developed the "forbidden move" rule, which sets restrictions on black pieces to counteract their first-move advantage.

However, even the rule-makers themselves cannot accurately say how much of an advantage these restrictions actually suppress, or whether they are fair or unfair.

Xiao Zhi finally solved the problem, leveraging the advantages of non-linear calculations to clearly calculate the strengths and weaknesses of various forbidden moves, and ultimately arrived at the most scientific rule for forbidden moves.

After this scientific rule was introduced, it quickly received praise from many Gomoku enthusiasts and was known as the "Four-Leaf Clover Forbidden Move". It has now been adopted by the Chinese Chess Federation, the World Gomoku Championship, and the World Gomoku Team Championship.

Xiao Zhi's AI capabilities in Gomoku have advanced to the master level after establishing forbidden moves, making him virtually invincible.

Sure enough, once Zhou Zhi activated "Little Smart Mode," his opponent became noticeably more cautious in his moves, and then began losing game after game. (End of Chapter)