One of the beggars who is most impressive now is probably Mr. Jin Yong's gang leader Hong Qigong in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", but the two most cattle beggars in Chinese history do not have the helpers of the beggar gang, one of which is zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who made a living begging when he was young, and later devoted himself to the great cause of rebellion and success, which is a very legendary figure, but his reputation is not as good as that of another beggar who is enshrined as a sage, that is, martial arts.
Wu Xun's original name was Wu Qi, because he was the seventh child of the Wu family, born in 1838 to a poor family in Shandong. When Wu Xun was young, he wanted to go to school, but when he was seven years old, his father died, and since then he has completely lost hope of reading and began to support himself by begging, after all, children at that time could not do too much physical work.
When Wu Xun grew up, he began to stop begging, but to earn money and eat by virtue of his own skills, and in that era, people did not have much choice, basically going to the landlord's home to help, and at the end of the year, the landlord settled the wages. Wu Xun began to work in a landlord's house at the age of fourteen, and continued to work for three years, when settling the wages, the landlord took out the ledger and pointed to the numbers above, saying that the wages of the martial arts training had long been spent by him in his daily life, and it was calculated that the wuxun still owed the landlord a lot of money, and it would take several years to pay it off.
Wu Xun was angry, but he could not argue, because he could not read, and when he tried to argue, he was accused by the landlord of being a slanderer, and instructed his subordinates to beat him badly, and then drove him out of the house. At this time, Wu Xun's heart was full of pain, depression was stuffed in his chest, but there was no way, he could not eat or sleep for three days and three nights, and finally decided to let the poor children of the whole world have books to read and no longer have to be bullied like this, so they had the ideal of establishing a righteous school.
It is difficult for an ordinary person to have a house of his own, let alone a school that can accommodate many people and needs to pay the salaries of teachers and the tuition and living expenses of students? However, Wu Xun was not discouraged, he began to beg from the age of twenty, performing on the streets, and singing his own righteous songs, sometimes helping to work for people, always living in rags and rags, and by ten years later, that is, in 1868, Wu Xun had more than 300 acres of land.
But just having land is obviously not enough to support the school, in 1888, Wu Xun with more than 4,000 hanging money saved, finally founded the first righteous school in his life: Chongxian Yishu, he exhausted the method to ask the teacher to go to teach, but also exhausted the method to ask the children of poor families to go to school, all the costs were borne by him, when the teacher did not work hard to learn seriously, he also made every request, so that many talents emerged in this righteous school.
Later, he founded a total of three righteous schools, which were well-known all over the world, and he himself never ate a decent meal in his life. Wu Xun died in 1896 and was recorded by historians in the Qing History Manuscript, and was the only figure in Chinese history who was recorded as a beggar in the history of Zhengyi, and many celebrities such as Guo Moruo and others in later generations regarded him as a sage and called him "a thousand ancient qiqi".