The Republic is so violent

Chapter 99
01 Spokesperson of imperialism

On May 14, the 1925th year of the Republic of China (5), "Shenbao" launched a special issue on characters, telling a particularly interesting story:

In the early years, there was a beautiful young daughter-in-law in Jingzhou, Hebei Province. Her husband's surname was Liu, and she gave birth to a son named Liu Zhensheng.Not long after, Liu Zhensheng's father passed away, leaving him to live with his mother.In those days, a beautiful little widow with a troublesome son couldn't survive.So Liu Zhensheng's mother wondered: Well, should I find someone else to marry me, or at least let him raise my son for me?

It just so happened that there was a cattle dealer named Wu in Xiaonanhe. He was tall and strong, and he was called Big Old Wu.When Big Old Wu was selling cattle, he often passed by Jingzhou, and someone matched him with Liu Zhensheng's mother. Big Old Wu had also heard that the little widow was beautiful and virtuous, so he immediately agreed.So Liu Zhensheng's mother remarried Da Lao Wu and moved to live in Xiaonanhe together.The elder Wu has traveled all over the world and has a little kung fu, but Liu Zhensheng has liked fists, feet and sticks since he was a child. The father and son complement each other very well, which makes Liu Zhensheng's mother feel very comforted.

A few years later, Da Lao Wu went out to sell cattle again, but suddenly he got into trouble, and contracted typhoid fever, which was life-threatening at that time, and fell ill in the inn.The sick travel in a foreign land is the most tormented, but the people in the inn are worried about the infection, and they are clamoring to throw him to a random graveyard.People are still alive, and they will be thrown into the mass graves. One can imagine how intense the pain and anger in Da Lao Wu's heart are!But he was seriously ill and his limbs were weak, but he could only let everyone wrap him in a broken mat and carry him out of the door.

At this moment, a foreigner with a high nose bridge, yellow eyes, and wearing a strange black robe came from outside the inn. He turned out to be the spokesperson of the colonial imperialism's invasion of China, a missionary.Hearing the groan of the elder Wu, the missionary asked in strange Chinese: This man is still alive, why should he be thrown away?

Everyone said one after another: This person is suffering from a terminal illness, it's not that we are cruel to abandon him, if his disease spreads, we will all die.

The missionary leaned over to look at the face of the big old Wu, and said: "This man is only suffering from typhoid fever. He only needs to take a dose of quinine cream and he will recover soon. It is better not to throw him away."

Everyone said: But where can I find frosted chicken?
The missionary said: You savages, you can’t understand human language. Cinchona cream is a blind medicine, not a frosted chicken... While speaking, the missionary took out a small bag from under the black robe, opened it, and inside was a A crystal clear glass bottle, unscrew the cap, and pour out a white tablet from inside.The missionary asked the innkeeper to bring a bowl of water, pried open Da Lao Wu's teeth, and forced down the pills.Then let Big Old Wu cover the quilt and sleep for a while.When he woke up, the big old Wu only felt that his body was as light as a swallow, and he was alive and well, and he was healed.

Escape from death and get a new life.The elder Wu was grateful, and said to the missionary: Hey, Wu Na foreign devil, we Chinese, we pay attention to receiving the kindness of a drop of water, and we should repay it with a spring.You cured my illness, and I must repay you.But I don’t have much money, I only have a few cows that I just bought, why don’t you pick a strong cow, take it away... ride it and then return it to me?
The missionary said: Lord, forgive this poor sinner. He didn't say he gave me the steak for frying, but he just wanted me to ride it. It's really shameful.

The elder Wu asked in surprise: Foreign devil, who is the master you are talking about?
The missionary replied: The Lord is our Father in heaven, foolish people, please repent and believe in the Lord.If you don't convert quickly and repent, you're about as likely to go to heaven as your cow is to go through the eye of a needle...

Unable to bear the flickering of the missionaries, the elder Wu became a Catholic.

This was called foreign religion at the time.The elder Wu, who believed in foreign religions, has since become a "second devil".

After the second devil, Old Wu, came home, he greeted his wife and children: Come here, you two look at it, this is called a cross, and my Lord Jesus hangs on it... Don't ask why my Lord hangs here, the Lord is willing Just hang it wherever you hang it.Hurry up and repent to the Lord. If you don’t repent again, I won’t take you two with me when I go to heaven...

Liu Zhensheng's mother panicked: "Head of the family, don't leave us behind. We will follow wherever you go. If you let us believe in the Lord, we will believe...why does this Lord have no clothes to wear... So Liu Zhensheng's family, They all became bastards who believed in Western religions. From then on, they went to church every day and confessed themselves in front of the cross of Jesus: Lord, I have sinned, I ate half an extra cornbread this morning... and so on.

In the Hebei area of ​​Shandong, more and more "two devils" believed in foreign religions, and they got together every day to repent.The boxers gathered together to set up an altar, burn incense and kowtow, trying to kill all the bastards, and drive Jesus, who didn't even have clothes, out of my country, Zhonghua.

02 Boxers in chaos

In May 1900, Yihequan was spread to the world, vowing to destroy foreign religions, the proclamation is as follows:
People in the markets and villages of the provinces in the Central Plains know: Because of Catholicism and the Church of Jesus, slandering the holiness, bullying the Chinese monarchs and ministers, oppressing the people of the Li people, the gods and the people are angry, and everyone is silent, so that we all practice righteousness and magical fists to protect the Central Plains , Expel the foreign bandits, intercept and kill the Christians, so as not to lose their lives.After revealing himself, he told the people in the village that no matter whose village you are waiting for, if there are religious people, they will be expelled quickly, and they will burn the church and other houses without leaving them.If anyone stays and resists and hides believers, we will punish them everywhere and burn them with fire, so as to restrict them.I am especially afraid of being punished without giving instructions, and we cannot bear to be burdened by it for no reason.Do not violate special instructions.

On May 26st of the [-]th year of Guangxu, Yihe boxing equipment.

Within a few days, the Yihe Boxers issued more orders, flying to various places like snowflakes.

Foreigners have been in Beijing for 40 years, and their luck is exhausted.God's will must be destroyed, so God sent the gods to the lower realms to burn down the Western-style buildings, embassies, and foreigners to revive the Qing Dynasty...

The Yihe boxers are ready to attack.

Although it is said that he wants to fight, Yihequan is not unreasonable.If we examine the historical data carefully, we will find that the foreign devils are responsible for the conflicts between the Boxers and the Christians.The historical data are as follows:
Because of the grievances between the common people and the religious people, they seduced Wang Qingyi and Nangong people with the surname Ma to the Songmen to recruit people for group training.There are three kinds of gods for offering, that is, the evil gods recorded in the Romance of the Gods.Fists and eyes can avoid guns, making people fight with guns.Unexpectedly, as soon as the gun was fired, he was hit in the chest, bleeding and fell to the ground to die.It is falsely blaming the disciples, saying that this time they will be seized by the disciples with objects, so the magic is not effective, and the disciples must be killed to make up for it.Since then, more and more people have gathered.

This record is from the "Compilation of Teaching Plans and Proposals".It is said that a stone's throw away from the Xiaonan River where Da Lao Wu and Liu Zhensheng's family live, there is a town of Songmen. Empress and so on.Then the big brother drank the talisman water, took off his shirt, patted his chest hard, and yelled: "It's Erlang God's Roaring Dog in the Lower Realm, woof woof, woof woof, if you shoot me if you don't shoot, I'll just shoot you!" Your sister raised it... So everyone picked up their guns and aimed at the senior brother's chest, there was a bang, the senior brother's body shook, and he fell into a pool of blood, and then touched his breath, he was already completely dead .

This unexpected incident shocked the boxers into stunned, they stepped forward to examine the body of the elder brother carefully, and the boxers all cried, saying: Our elder brother was raised by God Erlang from the upper world, and he was invulnerable to swords and guns.But now that the monster has broken the magic spell, how can this be tolerated?
Where is the demon?

The Boxer turned his angry eyes to the church: there it is!That's right, it was the old devils in the church who did it. If it weren't for the Western magic, they wouldn't be able to break the magic of the roaring dog!

Therefore, in Shandong and Hebei areas, boxers are surging, vowing to kill all foreign devils and religious believers.Big catastrophe is imminent for the family of Da Lao Wu and Liu Zhensheng.

It is said that one day, Liu Zhensheng was practicing martial arts with his stepfather, Old Wu, in the open space at the east entrance of Xiaonanhe Village.At this time, Liu Zhensheng had grown up, and together with a fellow villager named Zhang Wenda, they worked hard all day long, and each of them practiced their own martial arts.

Liu Zhensheng has the greatest strength in both arms, and people in the world call him Iron Arm Liu.Zhang Wenda is quick and light, and he will be nicknamed Shandong Zhang in the future.Both of them are born to practice martial arts, but Naihe's teacher who guides them is half jealous of the big old Wu, so the two of them practiced and practiced, and what they practiced was stupid kung fu. There is still a long way to go before the threshold of martial arts.

Just as everyone was exercising their strength, a faint shout suddenly came from a distance, and the voice became louder and louder. In an instant, countless torches were seen shining brightly in the south of the sky, and countless figures were facing towards the sky in the dark night. Xiao Nanhe rushed over.

At that time, Da Lao Wu jumped up in fright and said: No, this is the Yihe Boxers. They just burned down the church a few days ago, and now they are here to kill us.Run, you two children, I'll call your mother.

Liu Zhensheng hurriedly said: "Father, I will go with you to find my mother... The three of them hurried back to the village, but they could already hear the sound of crying in the village. Thousands of people sneaked to the entrance of the village, and suddenly lit torches, shouted loudly, rushed into the village, first set fire to the houses in the village, and the people in the house escaped from the panic, and were being stabbed one by one by the Yihe boxers. In an instant, the corpse lay on the ground.

The horrific scene of that night is forever condensed in Liu Zhensheng's heart.In the raging fire, there are countless boxers in brown shirts and red scarves. The bright steel knives shone frighteningly in the firelight. The ear-piercing sound on the joints turned the peaceful Xiaonan River into a slaughterhouse in an instant.

Boxers killed Xiao Nanhe, this incident was lost in history, and there is no record.However, according to the book "The Chronicles of Boxing Bandits", it is described that Yihequan killed Zhang Dengzhen, but it was extremely cruel:
...When the lamp was lit, I heard the sound of people shouting and crying, and I realized that the boxers burned and killed dozens of religious families.The workers went to watch and found that the boys had fled away, but the women were left behind, and they were all burned to death in the house.A few women escaped, and the boxers stabbed their stomachs with knives. There was a loud noise, and several boxers grabbed their thighs and threw them into the fire.

It is not sure whether Liu Zhensheng witnessed his mother's death, but his mother was indeed surrounded by a group of strong boxers and hacked to death with knives.Liu Zhensheng's eyes were red with anxiety, and he and his adoptive father, the elder Wu, rushed up to fight desperately, but there were thousands of boxers, and a good tiger couldn't stand a pack of wolves, and Liu Zhensheng's kung fu was not good enough, so the elder Wu was messed up by the boxers on the spot. Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda ran for their lives in the dark with tears in their eyes.Thousands of boxers are frantically chasing after them, and they must kill these two bastards.

Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda fled for a whole night, and ran to the shore of Haihe Wharf in one breath, and finally exhausted their strength and collapsed to the ground.

03 Dock boss
But it is said that Tianjin Haihe Wharf is a territory occupied by the French, that is, the French Concession.There were more than a dozen foreign soldiers entrenched in the concession, each holding a musket in his hand. The boxers who were chasing after seeing this did not dare to move lightly, which allowed Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda to escape.

Beside the Haihe pier, there are many porters who are carrying goods to the ship.A yellow-faced man in a black shirt was supervising the work of the porters with a stick in his hand.Seeing Liu Zhensheng lying down by the river, the yellow-faced man came over and asked, "What's wrong with you two?"Why are there so many people chasing after you?
Panting, Liu Zhensheng replied: I am from Xiaonanhe, and my name is Liu Zhensheng.Conscience of heaven and earth, I have never done anything bad, I am just a believer in the Lord... Last night, the Yihe Boxers burned Xiaonanhe and killed all the villagers. dead past.

Hearing this, the yellow-faced man frowned and said, "It turns out that you two are two-haired sons, so it's no wonder...but you are from the same village as me. I can't ignore this matter... Come here two people, take them both together." Carry it to the medicine store.

A few porters walked over timidly and said, "Boss, these two people are dude, take them to the medicine store, if you offend the Yihe Boxers, it will be a disaster."Those Boxers are all killers without batting an eyelid, they can't be provoked...

The yellow-faced man said: "It's nonsense, the Yihe boxers have to be reasonable, how can we open a medicine store and die?"These two bastards are from my village, if I don't save them, how can I hang around here in the future?

Under the scolding of the yellow-faced man, several porters carried Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda, who were unconscious, to the medicine store, quickly boiled the soup, and poured it into the two people. They saw their bodies tremble suddenly, and there was a sound of splashing. He spat out a mouthful of purple-black gore, and fell asleep again.

The yellow-faced man smiled and said: "These two people will be saved when the blood is spurted out. The boss will find out about this when he comes back, and maybe he will give everyone a raise."

Just as he was talking, a porter rushed in: "Brother, brother is not good, Yihequan has sent people to come to visit the post."

While talking, four strong men walked in from outside the door, wearing brown shirts, red scarves on their heads, and a sharp steel knife behind each. After entering, the four of them stood in front of the yellow-faced man: Wanli cigarettes hit their faces, Yihe Shenquan became a Taoist immortal.Ancestor Hong Jun descended to the altar to help the Qing Dynasty destroy the foreign countries and protect the country.Porter surnamed Huo, listen carefully, Yihe Shenquan senior brother Han has an order, ordering you to immediately kill the two second-haired sons who were carried back to the medicine store, otherwise, Guan Shengdijun descends to the altar, and Yihe Shenquan is as powerful as ever , I'm afraid that this little medicine store of yours will never hear the cry of orphans and widowed mothers again!

Hearing this, the yellow-faced man's complexion suddenly changed.

Because the threat of the Yihe Boxers was too terrifying, and the cries of orphans and widows were no longer heard... It meant that everyone who had anything to do with this drug store would be exterminated.

04 The hero Huo Yuanjia was born

Before dark, thousands of names and boxers came from all directions, and surrounded the small Huaiqing medicine store.

The big brother of Yihequan is surnamed Han. He is a man with martial arts skills, bright eyes and dark complexion.Wearing a bright red cloak, he sat on a chair with horizontal bars tied on both sides, and was carried by sixteen strong boxers. down.

Seeing the senior brother raise his hand slightly, thousands of names and boxers roared in unison:
God assists boxing, boxers, only because devils make trouble in the Central Plains.

To follow the teachings is to disobey the heavens, to disrespect ghosts and gods and to forget one's ancestors.

Men have no sex, women are only adulterers, and devils are not born of humans.

If you don't believe me, look carefully, the devil's eyes are blue.

It doesn't rain, the ground is dry, and the sky is full of churches.

The gods were also angry, and the immortals were also annoyed, so they went down the mountain together to pass on the Tao.

……As soon as the big brother dropped his hand, the roar of thousands of boxers was like being cut by a knife, and they fell silent for a moment.The deathly silence only made people feel cold.

At this time, Big Brother Han finally said: Get out of here, you bastard!
With a creak, the door of the medicine store opened, and the yellow-faced man who had saved Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda appeared in front of the door.Judging from his expression, he was obviously a bit afraid, he lowered his hands, and stood at the door with his head bowed.Senior Brother Han looked at him sideways with disdain: What's your name, what's your name?
The yellow-faced man seemed frightened, and replied in a low voice.

Brother Han roared: "Speak louder, I can't hear you clearly!"
The yellow-faced man raised his voice, but his voice was still weak and trembling:

Fearless.

There are different religions: the boxers made trouble in Zhili, and the church was smashed into mud.The chivalrous men escaped misfortune and went to Shanghai, leaving their fragrance in history.It is said that this yellow-faced man is exactly Huo Yuanjia, a well-known Jinmen hero in Chinese folklore.

Speaking of Huo Yuanjia now, it can be said that everyone knows everyone.He has formed an integral part of our classical culture and has become a symbol of the martial spirit of the Chinese nation.But tradition is only the value orientation of national culture and has nothing to do with history.Huo Yuanjia in history is very different from Huo Yuanjia in traditional culture.

In fact, Huo Yuanjia is also from Xiaonanhe, Tianjin, so Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda fled to join him under the pursuit of the boxers.It is said that when Huo Yuanjia was young, his body was thin and weak, and he was not suitable for martial arts, but once he caught a huge crab in the river, boiled it and ate it, his body became stronger immediately, and when he had strength, he went to Looking for a job in Tianjin, it happened that the Huaiqing Drug Store was recruiting porters to carry sacks, and Huo Yuanjia successfully applied.He has been carrying labor by the river since then, but because of his great strength, he has naturally become the boss of the porters. In addition, Nong Jinsun, the owner of the medicine store, looked at him highly, so Huo Yuanjia, the big porter, At this time, he is already a figure in Tianjin.

At the beginning of the Boxer Rebellion, the boxers nearby sent a sincere invitation letter to Boss Huo, inviting him to join the boxers, and everyone took knives to kill people together.Huo Yuanjia discussed with his boss, Nong Jinsun, but Nong Jinsun dissuaded him.

Nong Jinsun said: "Little Jiazi, you are so lacking in mind, you actually want to go into the muddy water of the Boxers, you can do such a stupid thing, you are so stupid!"
Huo Yuanjia muttered: ...Boss, I didn't say I would go into this muddy water, I was just discussing it with you.

Nong Jinsun said: Just discuss with me, do you know what my real identity is?Speaking out scares you... not yet, keep it a secret.In short, when I was studying in Japan, I met the most powerful hero in China. As long as you are obedient, I will take you to Shanghai in a few days, pack it for you, hype it up, and make you a hit. Famous martial artists should all eat shit.Believe me, in the Chinese martial arts in the future, only your name Huo Yuanjia will be passed down forever, even if you are a scumbag, you can't change the ending.

Because of Nong Jinsun's dissuasion, Huo Yuanjia ignored Yihe Boxer, which angered Boxer, and regarded him as Ermaozi's fellow traveler, and wanted to kill him quickly.Because Huo Yuanjia was the boss of the porters after all, and he had a lot of brothers, the Yihe boxers had no choice but to swallow their anger.This time Huo Yuanjia took in the desperate fellow countrymen Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda, and finally completely angered the boxers, so they spread the word to the four villages, gathered crowds, vowed to kill Huo Yuanjia and then quickly.

05 One Sword Kills

Seeing the fearful look on Huo Yuanjia's face, Senior Brother Han became more courageous and shouted: Kneel down!

(End of this chapter)