The Guangxi warlord Lu Rongting gave people the feeling of being a reckless hero, with no culture, relying on boldness, not afraid of death, and not stingy, breaking out of the world in that chaotic world.
But in fact, Lu Rongting is not a simple reckless hero, and people have also gone to Japan to study military affairs!
In the thirty-second year of the Qing Dynasty (1906), cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, admired Lu Rongting very much and decided to send Lu Rongting to Japan to study military affairs at public expense.
Cen Chunxuan chose Lu Rongting for two reasons: first, Cen Chunxuan and Lu Rongting are both Guangxi people and zhuang people; second, Lu Rongting is indeed a material that can be built.
After going to Japan, many students learned to speak fluent Japanese, but Lu Rongting learned awkwardly, some Japanese classmates laughed at Lu Rongting, Lu Rongting sneered: "Can speak Japanese is superior?" Lao Tzu came to study the military, not to be a translator, Lao Tzu can't practice penmanship, but Lao Tzu can't practice guns! ”
Lu Rongting practiced guns very hard, every day before dawn, others are sleeping, Lu Rongting is practicing shooting on the playground, every day does not fall, wind and rain.
When it came time for the exam, Lu Rongting had no false hair, and none of those Japanese classmates could match Lu Rongting, and even the Japanese instructor held out his thumb and said: "Lu Rongting is good, china has people like Lu Rongting, and it will be difficult to deal with in the future." ”
Others have to aim first when shooting, but Lu Rongting doesn't need this, he shoots by feeling, throwing his hand is a shot, a hundred shots.
Some people praised him as a natural wizard, but Lu Rongting smiled and said, "Where in the world is there any natural wizard, who will shoot when he comes out of the womb?" It's not hard work? ”
Once, Yuan Shikai asked Lu Rongting to go to Beijing to do business, and after hearing that he was a sharpshooter, he asked him to perform marksmanship in public.
Lu Rongting said: "I am old, and my marksmanship is not as accurate as before. Yuan Shikai was secretly happy, what he wanted was For Lu Rongting to go out of the ocean.
Lu Rongting also knew that Yuan Shikai was a little careful, so he said, "Then I will take the fish in the fish tank as a target." ”
Lu Rongting walked to the fish tank, pointed to an anchovy and said, "If I can't hit this fish, I will resign and not do it!" ”
After saying that, Lu Rongting walked back for a while, did not look at it, turned back to be a shot, the fish tank was smashed, and the fish inside were dead.
These fish are Yuan Shikai's beloved things, and their heart is very painful, but in front of everyone, it is not good to have a seizure, and they can only swallow this dumb loss.
Another time, Lu Rongting met Zhang Zuolin, the marshal of the northeast, and both of them had good marksmanship, and some people instigated them to try their marksmanship to see who had a higher marksmanship.
Someone brought up the target, but both said that the difficulty was too low not to use that thing. So how does that compare? Lu Rongting looked around, pointed to the two wires in the distance, and said, "I will hit those two wires, one shot at a time." ”
The wire can be much smaller than the target of the target, and it also sways with the wind, which can also hit? Everyone was half-convinced.
Lu Rongting smiled slightly, raised his gun, snapped two shots, and the two wires broke in response, and everyone applauded.
It's Zhang Zuolin's turn, what's good to play? Only to see Zhang Zuolin take off the hat on his head, throw it into the sky, raise his gun and shoot five shots in a row. When it fell, everyone picked up their hats and looked at it, and there was only one hole in it.
In other words, Zhang Zuolin fired five shots, all of which passed through a hole!
Everyone was suddenly applauded again.
So, who won this contest? In fact, it doesn't matter, both of them are people with a bold temperament, and neither of them cares.
Lu Rongting not only was himself a sharpshooter, but he also gathered his family together and said, "I am a sharpshooter, but you are not, and you will not be able to hit the target when you go out in the future, and it will be my face that Lu Rongting loses!" ”
Lu Rongting built a shooting range in his backyard and asked everyone to practice at least once a week, and if they dared not come, they would not be allowed to eat.
Lu Rongting also established a reward and punishment system, hitting the target reward of five oceans, hitting the target, first go to the kitchen to be a cook for three days, the meal is not delicious, and then punished.
Under the supervision of Lu Rongting, all the Lu family members were sharpshooters, and no one was easy to mess with.
A sentence that Lu Rongting often said was: "I have the ability, but if the people around me are not capable, I have the ability to become incompetent." ”
The later Gui clan tycoon Li Zongren, who was once a subordinate of Lu Rongting, personally saw Lu Rongting practicing guns, and later said with admiration: "Lu's marksmanship is amazing, he casually takes out a unique skill, and no one here can compare with him." ”
(References: "The Biography of Lu Rongting", "How Many Things in the Republic of China", "Extraordinary Tao")