As the saying goes, "No matter how high the kung fu is, I am afraid of kitchen knives, and I beat the teacher to death with my fist." "The more confident the boxer, the more he will be killed by the conspiracy, even if the martial arts are like Huo Yuanjia, it is difficult to escape the conspiracy of the Japanese." In modern history, many heroes and good men have died in the inferior third-rate moves, and the famous Shanghai boxer Ma Yongzhen is also one of them. He ran amok all his life and dominated the beach, but he did not expect to be killed by the cunning of a young man.
Ma Yongzhen, a native of Linqing, Shandong, has learned martial arts since childhood, has a strong physique, and is a famous martial artist in modern China. But behind his reputation as a martial artist, it was his overbearing and arbitrary behavior. Different from the heroic image in the film and television works, Ma Yongzhen in real history is not only not a hero and a good man, but also died a very nest, was entangled by a horse dealer, and murdered his life by the conspiracy of sprinkling lime powder.
Although not a hero in the traditional sense, Ma Yongzhen is undeniably a patriot, and the story of Ma Yongzhen defeating foreign Hercules and promoting the chinese national prestige is recorded in the Qiu County Chronicle. It is rumored that in Shanghai at that time, there was a foreigner known as the "Invincible Hercules" who shouted that Chinese incompetent, which provoked Ma Yongzhen to personally take the stage to compete.
The two sides fought for a total of three innings, the first game was compared to strength, and Ma Yongzhen, who was free to polish his physical strength, was on par with Hercules. In the second set, both sides were able to kick 12 stakes and play freely until the third round. Ma Yongzhen used flexible boxing and footwork to play Hercules, and finally won the game by kicking Hercules offstage with the Mandarin Duck Leg Jade Ring Step, and it is said that the Hercules died the next day.
Since then, Ma Yongzhen's fame in Shanghai Beach has soared, but he is not a martial arts master like Huo Yuanjia, although he has a special skill, he not only does not use it in the right way, but instead oppresses the merchants and dominates the world, and the bright and upright collects the protection fee on The Beach. It was precisely because of his behavior that he angered many people and finally brought him the disaster of killing.
In 1879, five years after Guangxu, Ma Yongzhen was invited by the horse dealer Gu Zhongxi to come to the "Yidongtian" tea house on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai to eat tea. Gu Zhongxi and Ma Yongzhen had a long-standing grudge, and it is said that Ma Yongzhen took a fancy to one of Gu Zhongxi's BMWs, so he forcibly took the horse away. Gu Zhongxi, on the other hand, ran horses in Shanghai and often did not pay Ma Yongzhen's protection fees, which eventually intensified, and the two sides agreed to negotiate tea on April 13.
Ma Yongzhen wore his own martial arts and chose to go to the meeting with a single knife without taking anyone. But after all, not everyone is Guan Erye, Gu Zhongxi saw that Ma Yongzhen was so conceited, of course, he would not let go of this good opportunity. Seeing that Ma Yongzhen had just taken a seat, a tea house guy went forward to pour tea. Taking advantage of the fact that Ma Yongzhen did not pay attention, he poured a packet of lime powder on Ma Yongzhen.
Ma Yongzhen, who was suddenly blind in both eyes, took out an iron ruler and used the hearing body to identify himself. However, Gu Zhongxi's men continued to go upstairs from downstairs, surrounded Ma Yongzhen, and constantly stabbed Ma Yongzhen with a knife. Soon Ma Yongzhen's forehead, ankles, and arms were stabbed, and finally he was hit in the head by a table and chair and unconscious. By the time the patrol arrived, Ma Yongzhen was already in danger.