📚 Jianghu Baiju Mipu — one hundred selected street (jianghu) positions, Qing dynasty
Red to move — and Red must WIN without a single chariot. Red's whole striking force is a knight, a cannon and five pawns; Black holds the board's only chariot, behind two advisors, an elephant and a knight. Red's pawns have pushed deep, but what can they do against a mobile chariot? Yet Giang Hồ Bách Cục Bí Phổ (game 84) concludes flatly: Red wins — a verdict no machine has verified. The name is the Southern Song's most famous escape legend: in 1127, Prince Kang — Zhao Gou — fleeing the Jin, was carried across a river by a mysterious horse; only on dismounting did he learn what that 'horse' really was. A true miracle, or political theatre to legitimise a throne? The anecdote below asks exactly that. On the board: can you find Red's way 'across the river'?
一日700里を走った泥の馬――奇跡か、政治の策略か
1127年、康王・趙構は女真の金軍から逃げる途中、寺で眠りに落ちた。夢の中に寺の神が現れて警告した。敵が追いつきつつある。門の外に馬が待っている、と。彼は目覚め、本物の馬を見つけ、跨って南へ飛ぶように進み、川を渡って無事に逃れた。だが下馬して振り返ると、馬は永遠に微動だにしなかった――それは寺の泥の馬像が命を得たものだったからだ。この奇跡の物語は、神の徴（しるし）なのか、それとも別の何かなのか？ まず標識から。これは宋～元時代の民間の伝説であり、宋の官撰史には完全に存在しない。本当なのは枠組みだけだ。趙構（徽宗の九男、康王、のちの高宗）は確かに靖康の変（1126～1127年）のさなかに南へ逃…
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