Nowadays, we feel that one of the phenomena of the rapid development of the times is that express delivery is getting faster and faster, and in the past when technology and infrastructure were not developed, it may take two or three weeks for us to send a letter closer, and three or four months to wait a little farther.
After the author grows up, the speed of express delivery can be described as a crazy speed, and generally express delivery can be delivered within half a month. Nowadays, most areas can be guaranteed to be delivered within four days, and such a rapid increase in speed is the best evidence of the rapid development of the times.
In ancient times, goods needed to be sent to other places, not only with horse-drawn carriages and men but also by local dart board escorts in order to ensure the goods. These dart masters can be regarded as one of the prototypes of today's couriers.
In the chaotic era of the late Qing Dynasty, the business of the dart master can be said to be bitter and sweet. Because of the chaos in the world, there are more and more goods to be escorted, but the increasing popularity of firearms has also made it much more difficult to carry darts.
Therefore, those who can mix their reputations in the dart circle at the end of the Qing Dynasty are all skilled. For example, Li Yaochen, known as a dart master, told his truest dart walking career.
A strong member dart board
Li Yaochen's life can be described as legendary, he once taught Wusheng Taidou Yang Xiaolou Monkey Fist, also instructed Mei Lanfang's swordplay, and even performed the Eight Immortals Qingshou Sword to Cixi, and even taught a set of sword techniques he studied to the big sword team of the Twenty-ninth Army. However, under the aura of many, Li Yaochen is a dart master who makes a living by walking darts.
Li Yaochen reflected on his life in his later years, and he said this: "I was able to live until now, all of which I spelled out little by little in the shadow of the sword and light, and even more so my brothers exchanged their lives for them." Li Yaochen commented on the profession of dart master: This is the business of licking blood on the tip of the knife, although others look at us with great prestige, but our income is very pitiful.
According to the tradition of the dart bureau at that time, if the escort was the official government's salary, 10,000 taels of silver could get fifty taels, but only four or five taels of silver per month in the hand of the sign, and the dart head could get more than seven or two. It was such a salary treatment, which was already a high salary in the dart circle at that time.
However, although the salary is not high, the treatment of the dart master is very good, not only the dart bureau manages to eat and live, but also the food is meat, meals and wine.
In fact, it is understandable to do this, after all, the dart master industry, only by raising the body well, can it cope with various unexpected situations. Otherwise, if you encounter a robber dart, you can only obediently tie your hands and grab them without the strength of the chicken.
At the age of eighteen, Li Yaochen joined the most famous huiyou dart bureau in the capital, which not only had more than a thousand dart masters who were skilled in assassination and fighting, but also two late Qingwulin masters, Song Caichen and Song Myron, the head of the head of the sect, who could be said to be the existence of other dart bureaus at that time.
Two magic weapons on the road of the dart
It was in such a game full of capable people that Li Yaochen gradually learned the use of many weapons. In addition to the common swords, Li Yaochen also learned the "Emei Thorn", "Three Emperors Cannon Hammer" and other weapons, and also had unique insights in the field of dark weapons.
Although the government did not allow firearms to be carried at the beginning of the dart board, as the world became more and more chaotic, the government tacitly accepted that the dart board carried a handcuff for self-defense.
Although the weapons carried by the dart board are one of the important magic weapons of the dart, the bandits who rob are not so many. They often greet with long guns and cannons, which makes the dart board rely on another magic weapon to make the dart smooth, that is, human feelings. The dart board and the mountain thief reached some kind of agreement, and the two parties helped each other to give each other a convenience.
If there are mountain thieves who come to the capital to wander, then they will let the dart bureau protect them next to them, because the official government is responsible for catching the thief's interview bureau, and generally quietly follows after the mountain thief enters the city, but as soon as the mountain thief enters the dart bureau, the people of the interview bureau do not dare to arrest it.
The reason why the people in the interview bureau are so afraid is because the boss behind the huiyou dart bureau is Li Hongzhang, which makes the people in the government helpless against the huiyou dart bureau.
When the people of the Friends Dart Bureau go out to dart and encounter the mountain thief, they will report the name of the Friends Dart Bureau, and the mountain thief will move the things that block the road according to the rules and sell the dart board a face. However, everything has accidents, Li Yaochen encountered two thrilling moments in his dart walking career, and both times his brother was killed.
Two thrilling escort trips
The first time was when the Huiyou Dart Bureau received a deal from the government and asked to send 100,000 taels of silver from Baoding to Tianjin. Because of the importance of the matter, the dart bureau sent eight masters, including Li Yaochen, to protect the dart. Because the 100,000 taels of silver weighed four tons, Li Yaochen hired four large ships from the docks to transport them.
Just a few dozen miles after the four big boats, a group of tax collectors came to search with weapons, and Li Yaochen did not pay attention to them, but when the ship docked, he found that these tax collectors were all disguised by a group of Jiangyang thieves.
Originally, Li Yaochen reported his own door number, but he did not expect that this group of thieves did not care at all, and in desperation, Li Yaochen could only fight with the thieves, and after several rounds of fighting, Li Yaochen lost four dart divisions on his side, and seeing that the other side was crowded, Li Yaochen took other dart divisions to break through to the government for help.
Because the silver ingots were very heavy, when the supporting officers and soldiers arrived. The thieves only took two thousand taels of silver, but also caused the dart board to lose four dart masters.
The final price of this group of Jiangyang thieves was also very heavy, and the Huiyou Dart Bureau gathered more than a hundred martial arts masters to kill them all, but this also made the people of the Dart Bureau and the Green Forest completely bond.
During a dart escort, Li Yaochen was attacked by local bandits at Badaling, and this time the escort was Li Yaochen's uncle Jiao Penglin, and a total of more than a dozen dart masters participated in the escort. Although more than a dozen dart masters are highly armed, this group of thieves hides in the jungle and attacks in the shadows through homemade earthen guns.
Jiao Penglin was also very calm when he encountered a sneak attack, he surrounded the donkey cart to avoid bullets, and then let several dart masters go to the nearby dart board to ask for a break. However, in the midst of this conflict, li Yaochen's two division brothers were still hit and killed by thieves.
As the situation gradually became chaotic, the mountain thief's equipment became stronger and stronger, not only with foreign guns, but even with machine guns. Coupled with the popularity of trains and ships, Li Yaochen also chose to change careers and become an instructor who taught military martial arts.
brief summary:
Li Yaochen, who had become an instructor, was not willing to be lonely, and he and his uncle Jiao Penglin passed with Japanese martial arts masters in Nanjing and Tianjin, and both of them defeated each other, greatly increasing the popularity of the country. Nowadays, Guotai Min'an, the martial arts master who licks blood on the tip of the knife has ceased to exist, but the Chinese kung fu that we have always been proud of has gradually changed its taste, is this the inevitable result of the development of the times?