The profession of dart master has a very long history in China, but its initial germination was purely "official".
For example, in "Water Margin", Yang Zhi escorted the birthday gang to Tokyo for the daimyo Liang Zhongshu, and it was a standard "dart walk". However, at that time, there was no such thing as a dart master, and the transportation of goods between officials was directly responsible for the army, and Yang Zhi's identity was "the envoy of the management army".
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were some scattered "dart masters" in the folk, who were generally martial arts masters, responsible for protecting the personal safety of wealthy merchants and also responsible for protecting the transportation of goods.
However, these people appeared as "self-employed", scattered orders, and did not form an organization. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was the first real "dart bureau", the Xinglong Dart Bureau, whose founder was called "Zhang Hei Wu".
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The emergence of the dart bureau is inseparable from the development of the "ticket number" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, today in Shanxi deposit silver, get silver tickets, in a few days may be in Shandong to withdraw cash, in order to be more convenient for customers to "withdraw cash", the ticket number will open branches in the country, it is necessary to transport the silver around the country.
This kind of pure commercial behavior, the rich merchants have great energy, it is impossible to mobilize the army of the imperial court to protect you, so it gave birth to the birth of the "dart bureau".
After the Xinglong Dart Bureau, Many Dart Bureaus were born in Beijing, the most famous of which is the "Beijing Eight Dart Bureaus", which are Huiyou, Yuanshun, Yongxing, Zhicheng, Tongxing, Yiyou, Zhengxing, and Wansheng.
The founder of the Huiyou Dart Bureau is Song Mailun, the head of the Three Emperors Cannon Strike, born in the Qing Dynasty Divine Machine Camp, and has a close relationship with Prince Yihuan of Alcohol, who has long been li Hongzhang's private residence caretaker; The Yuanshun Dart Bureau, the founder is the famous Great Dao King V.
Inside the dart bureau, there is generally a boss, a chief dart head, a number of dart heads, dart masters, miscellaneous servants, most of these people are martial artists, each with special skills, and some officers or soldiers who come out of the army.
In the beginning, the dart bureau was mainly responsible for escorting silver and silver tickets, called "silver darts" and "ticket darts", and later also undertook to transport goods, grain, and even be responsible for escorting an important person to a designated place, which is called "human darts".
To take a dart, it generally only takes a dart head to lead the team, a runner to open the way in front, and several dart masters to accompany, as few as three or five people, as many as a dozen people.
Don't look at these few people, walking on the road, hitting the big banner of the dart board, the average bandit and thief really don't dare to move them, why is this?
The Dart Board has an official endorsement
In the Qing Dynasty, the dart bureau was not a grass bench team, and several martial arts masters could open a dart board together, which was a formal industry that needed to be "certified" by the imperial court.
Every time you walk the dart, the imperial court must give a "document", and with this document, you can walk unimpeded between the provinces and rob the dart board, that is, against the imperial court.
Moreover, between the imperial court and the dart bureau, there was also a business exchange.
The payment of taxes and silver in various places, the materials procured by the royal family, and the appointment of senior members of the imperial court all need to be undertaken by the dart bureau, just like the "labor outsourcing" of the government now, in the eyes of outsiders, they work for the imperial court, that is, the people of the imperial court.
For example, the "bank cash truck" we often see, do you think it is a police car? Not at all, these are outsourced to the "security company", don't look at people is just a security company, can undertake this kind of business, it is absolutely with a deep background,
This is the same nature as the ancient "dart walking", you go to rob a try, minutes you are on the wanted list.
The first dart bureau of the Qing Dynasty, the Xinglong Dart Bureau, was approved by the Qianlong Emperor to get the No. 001 business license, this relationship, this background, who can afford it.
When a dart board opens, the scene has to be grand, and most importantly, you have to invite some heavyweights. In the official arena, the bigger the official rank, the better, the more people who come, the better, the higher the generations of people who come, the better, and the louder the name, the better.
If you open the business no one to the scene, and even be smashed by someone, then you this dart board closes the door early, whether you can receive business is one thing, even if you receive business, this trip, you are not good, there are a lot of green forest bandits waiting for you along the way.
Therefore, those who can open the dart game, that is, they all have a deep background in the imperial court, not that you can play the dart game with high kung fu, this line depends on the relationship.
The bandits are also aware of this, and generally do not have the idea of playing darts.
The dart board has a green forest background
With the official endorsement, is it possible to sit back and relax? Of course not.
What is the bandit, it is a group of people who do not treat the imperial court as a dish, you mention the imperial court to him, he also dares to spit on you: "What is the imperial court, Lao Tzu beat the imperial court."
What do you do when you meet such a person? You can't reason with him, you have to follow the rules of the jianghu.
As we said earlier, when the dart bureau opened, you not only had to invite court officials, but also invite jianghu friends, which was considered to be a relationship in advance, so as not to meet on the road, and the water washed away the Dragon King Temple.
Moreover, every time he goes to a place, the dart head will visit the local green forest leaders in advance and send a large meeting gift, which is also a bite of food for the good men of the green forest to eat, leaving money in advance to buy road money.
If you really encounter bandits on the road, the dart leaders will not panic, and will first shout: "Hewu a dart car to go, half a year of the jianghu safe return." This "Hewu" is said to be synonymous with Zhang Heiwu, the grandfather of the dart bureau. This sentence, whether it is a dart walker or a robber, knows what it means.
The two sides will not start a war at once, the dart head will come down first, the archers and bandits will talk to some "black words", and between three words and two words, you can know which hill the other party is, who the boss is, and see if there is any misunderstanding.
Usually, leave some tea money for the little minions, and they will be safe.
If you forcibly use the background of the imperial court to suppress them, not only will it not have an effect, but it will bring trouble to yourself. In the eyes of the bandits, the words of "big brother on the road" were far more effective than those of the imperial court.
The dart board has an alliance relationship
In ancient times, the dart bureau never fought alone, they always maintained an alliance relationship in the spirit of "the world is one to practice martial arts", and the whole family supported the difficulties.
In 1901, the Huiyou Dart Bureau received a big business to escort 100,000 taels of silver from Hebei to Tianjin, and this money was not the landlord's old wealth, but the "salt tax", the "imperial court business" of the Eight Classics.
At that time, the Huiyou Dart Bureau sent 8 dart divisions to take the waterway and install 4 large boats. There was no trouble along the way, and when they were about to arrive, suddenly a few people dressed in imperial court uniforms boarded the ship and said that they wanted to conduct an inspection.
No matter how cattle the people in the dart bureau were, they were no bigger than the imperial court, and as soon as they saw the people in official uniforms, they obediently stopped the ship for inspection. Unexpectedly, this group of people was a bandit fake, and as soon as they got on the boat, they revealed their true faces.
Of the 8 dart masters, 4 died, and the remaining 4 rushed out to report to the officials.
Whether it is the same thing in charge of the imperial court, the big boss of the friends dart bureau can't sit still, and the officials of the court actually let him smash it, and who dares to look for him to walk the dart after this.
Not only is it the friends dart board, this matter is a provocation to the entire dart board industry. So, the eight dart bureaus in Beijing united and vowed to find this group of bandits.
Soon, this group of bandits was locked down, and their leader was called Song Xipeng, who had practiced some martial arts since childhood, and gathered thousands of bandits on the seashore to dominate one side.
The Eight Dart Bureaus sent hundreds of dart divisions to encircle and suppress Song Xipeng. Don't look at his large number, they are all rabble-rousers, that is the opponent of the dart masters, and soon, these bandits are eliminated, leaving Song Xipeng alone to escape from Shanhaiguan and become a beard outside the customs.
A few months later, Song Xipeng thought that the limelight had passed, and quietly sneaked back to his hometown, and the eight dart bureaus that got the news organized more than 40 people, and finally caught Song Xipeng.
After robbing the imperial court's silver, the dart bureau did not dare to make a decision on their own, so they handed him over to the imperial court for disposal. It is said that When Cixi heard that he had been caught, she asked to see for herself what kind of person dared to rob the court of silver.
In the end, Song Xipeng was executed in public.
Therefore, if the bandit wants to fight against the dart board, he must first weigh his own weight and whether he can withstand this consequence.
The dart board also understands the rules
Don't look at the relationship, there is a background, there is strength, the dart board dart, that is also quite low-key, absolutely not bullish, and the dart board dart masters are very aware of the rules.
Under normal circumstances, the darts have a "dart flag", which is written with the name of the dart board, and the runners open the way in front of them while walking and shouting. However, once you get to this place in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, it is a dragon that you have to coil, a tiger that you have to lie on your stomach, the dart flag is put down, and the whipper hand closes its mouth and quietly passes.
Cangzhou is the hometown of martial arts, there are many good people here, if anyone does not know how to pass by here in a high profile, then you will definitely plant a big heel.
The veteran dart masters who have been walking darts for many years understand a truth: "The rivers and lakes are not fighting, killing, killing, and killing, the rivers and lakes are human feelings."
Opening a dart game requires you to have strength and kung fu, but to really walk safely to the next dart, not by your skills, but by human feelings.
A qualified dart master knows the principle of "three points to ensure peace", which is a compulsory course from a small white dart master to an old bird dart master.
See people three points of laughter, three points of reasoning when things happen, eat three points of wine.
The dart master walks the dart, the picture is to arrive safely, definitely not on the road to be a hero, showing off kung fu, so no matter where you go, what kind of people you meet, always smile. It is really a problem, and I will never argue with others, and I can let it get three points. Wine should never be drunk more during meals, three points is enough.
Putting a good relationship in all aspects is the problem that the dart masters should consider, if they really encounter hard stubble on the road, the dart masters will not hesitate to show their own guys. Of course, this is the next strategy, as a last resort, dart masters generally do not do it.
Although the dart game, all aspects of the relationship have been considered in advance, but the dart master is definitely a high-risk profession, every time before the dart, will give the family a good account of the aftermath, is afraid of their own time to go out well, hey, can't go back!
Because there will always be bandits in this world who do not play their cards according to reason.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the dart bureau gradually disintegrated, and the last batch of dart masters either entered the army and became martial arts instructors, or retired to the jianghu and taught martial arts for a living in the folk. It is said that Feng Yuxiang's big knife team received the true transmission of Sun Yaochen, the dart master of the Huiyou Dart Bureau.