To say that when the Qing Dynasty fell, don't look at the weakness of the country, among them, there are still many righteous people, and it is precisely with their existence that the integrity of the Chinese nation can be continuously inherited. Counting these righteous people, in addition to tan si and the like that many of us know, there are many capable people who we are not familiar with, but their heroic deeds will still shine in history.
According to legend, in the late Qing Dynasty, there were ten masters of the rankings, among them, in addition to Huo Yuanjia, Yanzi Li San, Huang Feihong, there is also such a master of the world, in addition to his martial arts superiority, his extraordinary courage and patriotic deeds can be described as famous in history, this master is Wang Zhengyi, who was once famous. Later generations would always use such an evaluation to praise his loyalty: "With Tan Si as a brother and a brother, Huo Yuanjia risked death to bury him", such an evaluation is enough to see Wang Zhengyi's heroism in that year.
And as one of the top ten masters of the late Qing Dynasty, how good is he? Presumably, it must not be the kind of person who blindly carries the courage of the puppet, but hearing wang Zhengyi's deeds, in addition to admiration, gives us more feelings and deep touch.
This Wang Zhengyi, born in 1844, his ancestral home is Cangzhou, Hebei, because he once studied under the martial arts master Li Fenggang, and then ranked fifth in the division, and also inherited that Shi En mastered a set of skilled knife techniques, which also had the nickname of "Great Sword King Five". And this martial arts master came from a poor background, and then trained a strong martial art, which made him always have a very strong sense of justice in his bones, and in the chaotic years of the late Qing Dynasty, this righteous warrior was even more dedicated to his own enthusiasm.
Because he was born poor and lost his father at an early age, Wang Zhengyi, who grew up dependent on his mother, always knew how to act heroically for the poor group when he had the ability, and it was precisely this kind of integrity that he had made friends with many good martial artists for many years. And his real heroic life began after coming to the capital.
During the Tongzhi period, Wang Zhengyi had traveled back and forth to Beijing and Tianjin, coupled with his original acquaintances, Shunshi led a group of masters to set up the Yuanshun Dart Bureau, originally he was righteous, and when he operated the dart bureau, he was also adhering to justice and reasonableness, coupled with the fact that everyone collected firewood and flames, the humble Yuanshun Dart Bureau gradually flourished, and when it was brilliant, the business scope was as far south as Jiangsu and north to Shanhaiguan, which was also one of the well-known dart bureaus at that time. At the time when he was proud of his life, he did not focus on interests, but paid more attention to the national conditions and current politics at that time, and Wang Zhengyi was even more fond of the reformists who were very active at that time, after all, people with patriotic feelings in their bones could always come together.
After this, Wang Zhengyi and Tan Sitong formed a deep friendship, in 1898, the Penghu Reform Law entered a climax period, Wang Zhengyi was really Tan Sitong's behind-the-scenes supporters, Tan Sitong all the daily expenses and security work, are arranged by Wang Zhengyi, which shows the deep friendship between the two.
At the time of the coup d'état, looking at Tan Sitong, who was arrested and imprisoned, Wang Zhengyi of course could not sit idly by, fortunately, there were a number of masters around him, who bought the jailers and successfully robbed the prison, but unfortunately Tan Sitong's heart to die at that time was already determined, even if the vitality was in front of him, he still chose to awaken the people's wisdom with death. Since then, it has also deeply stimulated Wang Zhengyi's patriotic enthusiasm, and since then, he has also followed Tan Si and his followers to start the road of patriotic struggle.
After Tan Sitong's death, Wang Zhengyi once tried to assassinate the diehards of the Cixi Party, but unfortunately the times were unlucky and he did not succeed in the end. In 1900, he led a cadre of people and others to fight side by side with the Boxers, and at that time still achieved a lot of achievements, from this point of view, Tan Sitong's generous death still inspired the patriotic enthusiasm of many people, which is gratifying.
Unfortunately, such loyal soldiers did not get a gratifying ending, just when Wang Zhengyi and others collaborated with the Boxers to achieve success, on October 25 of the same year, the Qing government still sent troops to surround the Shunyuan Dart Bureau, and in the end, Wang Zhengyi was outnumbered in the north, and was later shot and killed by the Eight-Nation Alliance at the front gate, only 56 years old.
It should be known that at the time of the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, Wang Zhengyi had successfully escaped, but he still finally died in order to protect the safety of more than a hundred righteous soldiers led by him, and finally died generously like Tan Sitong, and proved the great righteousness he had always adhered to in his heart with practical actions.
After Wang Zhengyi was killed, the brutal foreigners also brutally cut off his head and hung it high above the city gate, causing his family to be unable to clean up and bury him, and at this time, Huo Yuanjia happened to be heard by Huo Yuanjia in Tianjin. After this, Huo Yuanjia went to the city gate alone and stole Wang Zhengyi's first rank in the middle of the night, and finally allowed him to be buried, and everything Huo Yuanjia did was moved by Wang Zhengyi's righteous deeds.
The fair management of the dart bureau, the bold rescue of Tan Sitong, and the righteous collection of the body by Huo Yuanjia all show the glory of Wang Zhengyi in that year, you know, before his death, there were people who gave plaques engraved with "Derong Reformation" and "Righteousness Andi Re-liberation", which is enough to see what kind of extraordinary status this loyal martyr had in the hearts of the people at that time.
Therefore, it is such a Wang Zhengyi who has been famous in history, and his loyal deeds have always inspired future generations to forge ahead on the road of safeguarding justice.