Chapter 22 The first part is Huo Yuanjia in Shanghai
That night, Rong Hong brought two people to the hospital.
When Hu Xiaoyan heard this name, he couldn't help but feel excited.
"Under Huo Yuanjia! This is the apprentice Liu Zhensheng. The sturdy man in front of him introduced himself.
At this time, Huo Yuanjia was thirty years old. However, martial arts have been passed on and carried forward by his father, and the family tradition of Huo Jiaquan has been improved into a fan of Zongquan. In the following years, Huo Yuanjia's martial arts progressed faster, and gradually formed Huo Yuanjia's style of Lost Trace Boxing. Become a Grandmaster.
Huo Yuanjia's Lost Trace Fist is Huo Yuanjia's Lost Trace Fist, which is neither the Lost Trace Fist of the Huo Family nor the Lost Trace Fist of the Jingwu Guild Hall. Therefore, he is a genuine grandmaster of the generation. This title is worlds apart from the gold content of Ip Man, who was called a grandmaster by Wong Kar-wai. Because Ip Man's Wing Chun is still Wing Chun's Wing Chun, not Ip Man's Wing Chun. Instead, his apprentice Bruce Lee introduced Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee can therefore be called a true grandmaster.
The name of a generation of grandmasters is not compared to who is strong in fighting, let alone who is strong in Confucianism.
A generation of grandmasters, as the name suggests, created a generation of precedent!
Ip Man can be called a grandmaster, but it would be too much of an exaggeration to be called a grandmaster.
At the same time, there was also Sun Lutang, the tiger head Shaobao who founded Sun's Taiji, who could be called a generation of grandmasters; There are a few people such as Li Shuwen, the spear who created the Baji Boxing of the inner family. Others, such as Sword Immortal Li Jinglin, Half-Step Collapse Fist, Guo Yunshen, Foshan Shadowless Foot, Huang Feihong, etc., are not enough to be called a generation of grandmasters in terms of contributions to the martial arts of their sect. The same is true of Ip Man.
So how can you be called a grandmaster? For example: Ip Man's martial arts are invincible, and he feels that his Wing Chun has reached the end of his practice, and there is no room for improvement. So he wondered if I could do a good job in Confucianism, Taoism, etc. So Ip Man began to study knowledge in his later years, trying to reach the legendary realm of refining gods and returning to the void. It's a pity. Although the martial arts are becoming more and more refined, they just haven't taken that step.
And what about his apprentice Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee practiced and practiced under the teaching of Ip Man, and suddenly, like his master, found that there was no way ahead. Wing Chun has been used by him to the extreme, and there are few opponents in this world. Mr. Bruce Lee thought at this time: What should I do? Ip Man said that you can cultivate your mind. Bruce Lee answered. But I thought in my heart: Teacher, you haven't made any reputation, and my intelligence is about the same as you at most. What can I cultivate?
So Mr. Lee walked out of the gym and challenged everywhere, integrating his opponent's boxing skills into his body and training himself non-stop. A few years later, Mr. Bruce Lee found himself breaking through. Created the lineage of Jeet Kune Do. Even so, he didn't seem to have discovered his limits, so he even used electric shocks. In order to break through the trap of Jeet Kune Do, I look forward to going further.
This is the path of Mr. Bruce Lee's generation of grandmasters!
The title of Grandmaster is not available to everyone, and not everyone is qualified to be called. He had to at least make a groundbreaking breakthrough in his own martial arts. Just like Li Shuwen's before, Bajiquan was just a simple foreign kung fu. But Li Shuwen pioneered the introduction of the concept of inner boxing. Therefore, Li Shuwen's martial arts are superb, even surpassing the patriarch of the Kaipai. It also left further clues for later generations.
Huo Yuanjia is also like Li Shuwen.
Sometimes it is easy for the layman to mistake the difference, and always feel that so-and-so is so powerful and how many people have been defeated. But in fact, a line on the movie Jingwumen is very good: The best weapon to kill people is with a pistol. No matter how high the kung fu was, a platoon of guns came over, and they were still killed. Didn't Cheng Tinghua's predecessors of the Bagua Gate die under the guns of the Eight-Nation Alliance?
Is Cheng Tinghua's predecessor's martial arts not high? At that time, he could be called a grandmaster!
No matter how high the martial arts are, they are no match for muskets. As for the saying that many people now learn from the dragon and snake, "If you don't see it, you don't hear it, and you avoid it." "It's a joke. In fact, this statement is only idealistic.
Can anyone really do it? Maybe? But so what? The GPS of the United States and the Big Dipper of China can take a clear picture of your house number! Where can you avoid it? Unless you flee into the depths of the Amazon jungle and never come out for the rest of your life.
This is the sadness of martial arts. It is precisely because of the end of martial arts that there will be so many grandmasters and a generation of grandmasters!
The level of martial arts has never been the criterion for evaluating whether a person is a generation of grandmasters. But a generation of grandmasters must be top masters. To put it bluntly, only one generation of grandmasters can defeat one generation of grandmasters. Because there is only two words of difference between the grandmaster and the first generation of grandmasters. But the vision of the two is no longer on the same level at all. It's like one person holding a May Fourth pistol, while another person is standing a kilometer away with a big sniper. He can see your every move clearly in the scope. Before the fight started, I lost half of it.
Huo Yuanjia is such a grandmaster. His role should not be to die under conspiracy. Not to mention going out to fight the Japanese in person.
Huo Yuanjia's shot really looked up to those Japanese.
There is a legend that I don't know whether it's true or not, and it is said that Japan, known as one of the best kendo masters in Japan, went to challenge Sun Lutang. As a result, Sun Lutang glanced over. The kendo master simply didn't have the courage to shoot the sword. He returned to Japan in disgrace, and then cut himself off amid the shouting and scolding of his own country.
This is the true Grandmaster's demeanor!
Let Huo Yuanjia fight? No kidding. Huo Yuanjia is good-natured and doesn't care, and is willing to go up in person. Hu Xiaoyan is still not happy! Why do I have to teach you how to be a human being? Why do you have to tell you that you are actually a Form 2?
The best weapon to kill is with a gun! What Japanese would dare to take on the challenge? Hu Xiaoyan will definitely sneak a black gun.
Huo Yuanjia, Sun Lutang, Li Shuwen and the sect masters of each sect should be tasked with disciples. In this era, because of Hu Xiaoyan's intervention, there will never be a Jingwu Sect. But Hu Xiaoyan gave them a place in the National Art Hall at the university. He has been greedy for the so-called special forces such as wolf teeth in later generations for a long time.
With the opening of Shanghai Chengxin University Hall, there will be more and more universities in the future. At the same time, there will be more and more kokushu halls in the university. That's where the Grandmasters develop.
Hu Xiaoyan deeply knows that the future is the world of aircraft carriers and the world of special forces. The first is to provide China with researchers, and the second is to provide China with knowledgeable and idealistic pilots and special forces.
If you have a million college students, 100,000 researchers, 10,000 pilots, and a thousand Ip Man. Who else in the world can be an opponent?
And if that's not enough, then add the army and navy composed of millions of students with ideals in middle and high schools. Is there anyone else in this world who can defeat China?
Hu Xiaoyan smiled and looked at the heroic two heroes. There was a roar in my heart.
College is only the first step, and with college, there will be more new middle and high schools. The cultivation of talents is never an overnight thing. But Hu Xiaoyan has already taken the first step. He could afford to wait.
Huo Yuanjia came at the call of Hu Xiaoyan. However, if there was no handwritten letter from Ye Chengxin, he would not have been invited to come.
Rong Hong's arrival was not a call, but a touch. Because Hu Xiaoyan nominated Rong Hong as the first president of Shanghai Chengxin University. Hu Xiaoyan and Ye Chengxin only hung the name of honorary principal. With Sheng Xuanhuai's endorsement, Rong Hong can finally walk on the streets of Shanghai openly and without worrying about the wanted people of the imperial court. That's how power sometimes works.
In addition, Rong Hong is also here for the equipment and teachers of major research institutes. School construction can't stop Rong Hong, and if you have money, you're afraid that you can't build a school? Rong Hong had four million taels of silver in his hand at the moment, and there were really few people who could take out so much cash at any time in Shanghai in 1898.
Rong Hong has long been coveted by the equipment and teachers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the past, because of capital problems, I didn't dare to think in that direction at all, but now I have the opportunity. How could he not be zealous?
Hu Xiaoyan knew this, and he was also greedy. But it can't be helped. U.S. President McKinley, the god bless American, is not a good thing for him. It is too unlikely that he will agree. There is no other way to go. Hu Xiaoyan already has an idea about this, but he can't tell Rong Hong for the time being.
Rong Hong asked a few times, but Hu Xiaoyan was just playing dumb riddles. Rong Hong was disappointed and prepared to leave. Looks like he's going to rush the U.S. Embassy.
But Hu Xiaoyan stopped him.
"Please Mr. Rong help contact Zhang Taiyan, Cai Yuanpei and others. I want to meet them in Beijing. "Hu Xiaoyan was very suspicious of the assassination of the Guangfu Society led by Zhang Taiyan. Because the Restoration Society has a history of meowing. But this time Hu Xiaoyan really thought badly. Because in 1898 the Liberation Society had not yet been established.
Rong Hong didn't ask why, he was still in extreme disappointment. Rong Hong knows very well that although he has some connections in the United States, it is not to the point of influencing the national policy of the United States.
Shanghai Chengxin University, on the other hand, is the first modern university that is related to China's future. No one can handle it without a mandate from the president and Congress. Of course, smuggling is another matter.
When Rong Hong walked out of the door, he remembered: Hu Xiaoyan and Cai Yuanpei Zhang Taiyan don't know each other, right? Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked him to pass it on. But since you don't know, what's there to talk about? Let them come and teach at the university?
After thinking about it, Rong Hong, who still didn't know the essentials, had to leave.
There are three left: Huo Yuanjia, Liu Zhensheng and Lawrence.
After Huo Yuanjia arrived at Shanghai Tang, he asked Ye Chengxin who Hu Xiaoyan was. Ye Cheng didn't say a word, and stuffed the Rise of the Great Power series to him. Huo Yuanjia was shocked at first glance. Therefore, as soon as he heard that Hu Xiaoyan had been assassinated, he didn't even eat, so he came to work as a bodyguard. And Lawrence actually wanted to leave a long time ago. But he found that the more he followed Hu Xiaoyan, the more problems he would encounter. So far, he has to stay, lest Hu Xiaoyan be killed by unknown forces.
For example, since Hu Xiaoyan has a connection with Wu Yijun, he has a relationship with Li Hongzhang. But the problem is that this guy has a fart relationship with Li Hongzhang.
And since Hu Xiaoyan helped Wu Yijun buy arms, why didn't he go through official channels? There is a possibility that the official route is cheaper. And smuggling is much more expensive. Why?
And why would anyone want to assassinate Hu Xiaoyan? According to the records, Hu Xiaoyan has no enemies! Could it be that this Hu Xiaoyan is a spy from another country? Otherwise, it cannot explain how Hu Xiaoyan knew so much about foreign intelligence that he could write such a book as the rise of a great power, otherwise it cannot explain why Hu Xiaoyan would help Wu Yijun buy arms and not go through the official channel. Otherwise, it would not explain why he was assassinated for no reason.
The more Lawrence thought about it, the more confused he became, and he felt like he was trapped.