On a Go board, the star point at the very center was called "Heaven's Origin," derived from the ancient Chinese astronomical term meaning "the origin point of heaven."
If a stone was placed at Heaven's Origin, ladder captures would inevitably be advantageous. However, according to the etiquette of Go, placing one's first move at Heaven's Origin was very rude.
During World War II, France suffered a disastrous defeat on its own soil and split into "Vichy France," which surrendered to Germany, and "Free France," which went into exile overseas.
"Free France" established a new government in its African colonies and launched its counteroffensive using African manpower, resources, and wealth. It could be said that African supplies not only helped the people of France repay all their loans to Britain, but also supported 400,000 troops from France, 300,000 of whom were African soldiers, leading to the liberation of Paris.
Hitler had originally planned to destroy Paris, but that idea was indeed too mad. Pétain chose another method: demolishing buildings that did not conform to Fascist aesthetics, or damaging them until they were uninhabitable. During Nazi rule, six million residents were left homeless. Industrial goods worth over 200 billion francs were looted clean by the German army, three-quarters of industrial raw materials were stripped away, forty percent of agricultural products were seized, and the Vichy government had to pay more than 600 billion francs in "occupation fees" to the German army. By the end of the war, France owed 1.8 trillion francs to Britain, America, and other countries.
It could be said that West Africa played a crucial role in France's survival. But how did postwar France treat Africa?
In 1995, a bomb exploded in the Paris Metro, killing eight people. The culprit came from Algeria, Niger's neighboring country, another nation rich