Now the convenient transportation, can give birth to a rapid growth of the express delivery industry, and in ancient times, the car and horse is very slow, encountered in the turbulent years, social security is not good, businessmen want to carry out cross-regional trade, the way will encounter great danger, so like the express delivery industry, there is a dart board this industry. There are many stories about dart boards in history, and today we talk about the last person who can be called the dart king, he served as a bodyguard for the empress, choreographed martial arts for Mei Lanfang, and a Japanese who invented fighting was defeated one after another.
This person's name is Li Yaochen, born in an ordinary family in the late Qing Dynasty, because of the social turmoil at that time, the atmosphere was not good, and the parents of ordinary people would let them learn a craft from an early age so that they could support themselves in the future. Many people in Li Yaochen's hometown chose to learn martial arts, and he was sent by his parents to learn Taizu Quan from his master. Li Yaochen was a hard-working child, and when he was idle, he went to practice with his master, and when he encountered a farmer, he finished his work and lit a kerosene lamp to learn, so his martial arts skills were very solid.
When Li Yaochen was 14 years old, he left home and went north to the bustling capital to make a living. Although he had trained in martial arts, it was not easy to find a suitable job, so Li Yaochen first became an apprentice in the purse shop, at least to solve the problem of eating and living. After that, Li Yaochen was introduced by someone and went to work at the Huiyou Dart Bureau, which had the longest operating time, the best reputation and the largest scale in Beijing at that time.
After Li Yaochen became a professional dart master, in order to improve his martial arts, he found the well-known dart master In the Friends Dart Bureau, The Dart Master Mo Cai Chen worshiped the master, under the training of the Last Cai Chen, Li Yaochen practiced all eighteen martial arts, and when he was out of the division, he officially began to walk darts.
Dart life is very hard, is the knife on the head of the work, every time the dart, not only to get up early and greedy for the road, but also to withstand the sun and rain, in order to prevent the face from cracking, do not dare to wash the face. The key is to ensure the safety of the dart, the dart masters should be nervous, always keep their concentration, and sleep at night can not sleep to death, although some people are on duty at night, but the slightest wind and grass must also get up immediately to check.
It was such a hard work that Li Yaochen did it for more than 27 years. During the eight-nation alliance attacked Beijing, the empress dowager fled with the emperor, and Li Yaochen was the personal bodyguard responsible for the safety of the empress. When this mission was successfully completed, Li Yaochen became a well-known figure in the capital, and even Mei Lanfang's drama team had to rely on him to choreograph martial arts, and the days were bitter and happy, and Li Yaochen was also very satisfied.
However, with the development of trains, posts and telecommunications and other industries, the dart bureau industry has obviously not caught up with the times, and the friends dart bureau has to be dissolved. After losing his job, Li Yaochen began to start a business, opened a tea house, the business was doing well, and his life was still passable, after all, relying on his own martial arts, no one else dared to easily provoke him.
Later, after the September 18 Incident, Tong Linge, deputy commander of the Twenty-ninth Route Army, found Li Yaochen and asked him to do him a favor. It turned out that before, in the confrontation with the Japanese army, the strength was comparable, when it came to close hand-to-hand combat, we were always at a disadvantage, and many soldiers suffered the loss of japanese bayonets. Tong Linge had already heard of Li Yaochen's martial arts, and he wanted this old jianghu to help him think of a way to see if there were any weapons that could deal with the Japanese bayonet.
In this way, Li Yaochen became the martial arts instructor of the Twenty-Ninth Route Army, and after thinking about it, Li Yaochen improved the original large knife, which could be used as a knife split and a sword stab after improvement, and combined with the wuji knife method he orchestrated, the aggression of the improved large knife was greatly enhanced. Soon after, in the Battle of Xifengkou, Li Yaochen's improved large knife showed a huge effect, and when engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, the Japanese bayonet could not be approached closely, and the Japanese army killed and wounded hundreds of people, and captured more than a dozen cannons.
Later, in order to deal with Li Yaochen's big knife, the Japanese army also had a new invention, they made a similar neck ring thing for the Japanese soldier system, put on the neck, but this thing is too heavy, it is very inconvenient to run, it is conceivable that in a battle, the Japanese army was still defeated by our big knife, the bayonet was defeated in front of the big knife, Li Yaochen also became famous in the army, and became a respectable martial artist of the older generation.
In his later years, Li Yaochen not only trained generations of outstanding martial artists for the country, but also donated 39 ancient weapons with cultural relics value, and even the inscriptions, calligraphy and paintings donated by important leaders were also donated, until his death in Beijing in 1973, 103 years later.