Chapter 58: Business is booming, stay away (seeking further reading)
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In the days that followed, Hua Twelve, the ‘No. 1 Hall in the World’, faced challenges from martial artists from various schools in Hong Kong one after another. Sometimes they fought two or three times a day, and then one day they faced off against mostly boxers.
However, after several failed public challenges, the boxing masters who later challenged basically chose to compete behind closed doors.
After all, they are all the masters who opened the restaurant. It doesn't matter if they fail the challenge, but if others see the embarrassing look of failure, then how can they accept apprentices?
The previous Master Mo Zaiping of Mojia Quan was discredited because of his public defeat. Most of his disciples dispersed, so that his six brothers came to stand up for him. As a result, Hua Twelve gave Hua Twelve another six hundred Hong Kong dollars, nine I didn’t even ask for the 10% discount. After losing, I threw down my money and left.
"Cai Jia Quan Li Hongda, please ask Master Shen for advice!"
"Hong Quan Zhang Yong, please ask Master Shen for advice!"
"Liu Jiaquan..."
"Li Family Boxing..."
Liu, Li, Cai, Mo, Hong, and the five famous martial arts masters from the south who opened a gym on Hong Kong Island all came to challenge.
In addition, the southern boxings that come to challenge include Wing Chun, White Crane Boxing, Wing Chun White Crane Boxing, Cai Lifu Boxing, Drunken Eight Immortals Boxing, Cha Boxing, Tiger Boxing, and Liuhe Boxing.
There are also the northern boxing styles that have opened schools in Hong Kong to teach apprentices, Tai Chi, Bagua, Xingyi, Tongji, Baji, Stamping Foot, etc. In short, writing the names of these boxing styles on paper will be the legacy of future generations. I am asking you whether you are afraid of material cultural heritage.
But without exception, they were all very friendly and left one hundred Hong Kong dollars to Hua Twelve.
With more than 20 years of martial arts cultivation and peak shark power, Chong Yang swept across Hong Kong Island and became invincible.
Of course, some boxers and warriors think that Hua Twelve's fists and kicks are powerful, and some want to compare weapons with him.
But Chongyang's great sage Pi Gua is proficient in eighteen kinds of weapons. Under his great strength, each weapon bursts out with unparalleled power and can directly overwhelm his opponent.
What's more, after listening to Liu Yubai's talk about the big sword Wang Wu, this guy used his strength to directly get an eighty-pound Guandao. He started to move his hands with his hands. He himself was afraid of hurting himself if he took off his hands, so how could others hit him?
Challenge after challenge, although the discussions were held behind closed doors, the results were not announced to the public.
But by looking at the faces of the challengers when they went out, and the fact that Hua Twelve's sign "No. 1 in the world, leader of martial arts" was always hanging there, the people outside could also guess the martial arts masters who came to challenge. , it will inevitably end in failure.
Of course, not everyone who comes to challenge is given money, there are also some who are poor.
Hua Twelve dealt with this kind of person who wanted to be a freeloader and wanted to step on his reputation without paying for it. He did not beat him to death or maim him, he just made him unable to get out of bed for several months.
Hua Twelve's series of operations caused quite a stir in Hong Kong Island. As the news spread, people began to spread rumors that he was victorious in every martial arts competition, and some people began to think that he was 'the best in the world and the leader in martial arts'. The signboard is worthy of its name.
There are so many people who want to learn martial arts from their masters that the threshold is almost leveled. Even though Hua Twelve offers a high tuition fee of one Hong Kong dollar a month, there is still an endless stream of people coming to learn martial arts.
But what he didn't expect was that on the opening day of the martial arts gym, Zhuo Yifei, who failed to challenge him, brought his friend Ma Rulong to join him as a disciple.
To say that Zhuo Yifei is a gangster in Hong Kong Island and the God of Gamblers in Central, he was directly offered an astronomical apprenticeship gift of HK$500 per person.
Hua Twelve took into account that Zhuo Yifei was bound to win every bet, and knew that this small amount of money was nothing to him, so he accepted it directly and asked the two of them to kowtow over tea and become their disciples.
In this way, Zhuo Yifei and Ma Rulong became his first and second disciples for a price of 500 yuan. Business matters must be in place.
As for the other disciples, although they came before these two, they still want to be the monitor because they don’t have enough money... Ahem, they want to be senior brothers. As for my dream, some studies are good!
Ma Rulong is the character played by Long Ge in the movie "Plan A". Now he is Sha Zhan of the Marine Police, that is, the sergeant. His position in the police force is higher than that of Chong Yang.
But it doesn’t matter if you have a high position, why don’t you call Hua Twelve Master!
Zhuo Yifei didn't go to the casino to hang out these days. Ma Rulong also came to the martial arts hall to help after his shift. The two of them registered the disciples who came to be apprentices, arranged time to learn martial arts, and managed all the matters in the martial arts hall in an orderly manner without any fuss. Twelve, the worry of being a master.
The 'No. 1 Hall in the World' has grown rapidly due to the unbeatable record of its leader. In just one month, the number of disciples under the Twelve Hua Sect has reached more than 2,000.
Although this number cannot be compared with the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of disciples of those masters who opened schools in Hong Kong in later generations, but considering that in 1906, the population of Hong Kong Island was only 340,000, this ratio is already not small.
There are more than two thousand people, spread across both black and white streets, from all walks of life. There are officials' children at the top, traders and lackeys at the bottom, and there are even many Chinese police officers who work during the day and then go to learn martial arts from him after they go on duty at night. Call him master.
When Hua Twelve was working at the police station, other colleagues respected him very much. Even Smith, the Chinese assistant in the central district of the police station, were very polite when they saw him and called him "Master Shen".
It can be said that Hua Twelve's influence is spreading to every corner of Hong Kong Island with the increase of his disciples.
Many of the disciples in the martial arts school are members of gangs. Hua Twelve has set rules for them. They can join gangs, but they cannot do heinous things, betray the nation, and are not allowed to bully fellow disciples.
As for the territorial grabs between gangs, he turned a blind eye. After all, in troubled times, it is not easy to have food to eat.
With more than two thousand disciples and the money earned from martial arts competitions, Hua Twelve temporarily gained financial freedom. He rented a house at the beginning of June and found Uncle Wang at the end of the month to convert the house in the martial arts hall from renting to buying, and directly transferred the house here. It became his own industry.
After collecting the tuition fees from his disciples, Hua Twelve also taught with great care. He taught Chongyang in accordance with his aptitude, including the Great Sage Pigua Quan and the Twelve-step Shaolin Kung Fu, which he had learned since childhood.
Don’t think that the Great Sage Pi Guaquan and the Twelve-Way Shaolin Kickboxing are just two-way boxing techniques with nothing to learn.
In fact, the Great Sage Pigua is a martial arts school that combines two martial arts.
The Great Sage refers to the Great Sage Sun Wukong, also known as Monkey Fist, and Pi Gua means Pi Gua Fist.
Pigua Quan's three-way main attack is fast attack, open and close widely, the waist and horse are strong, it is unparalleled in strength, and it often attacks the upper three-way.
The five-way monkey fist is flexible and changeable, erratic and real, and can be hard or soft. The five-way monkey fist mostly attacks the lower three paths. The combination of the two is fast and agile, taking into account both the upper and lower directions, and complements each other.
Only two boxing techniques, Pipai and Monkey Fist, are enough for the disciples to learn for several years.
What's more, the Great Sage's cleaver door has seventy-two grasping hands, which are mainly used to grasp the main joints of the human body, and each grasping method has three breaking methods, a total of 216 grasping hands.
Weapons cover eighteen types of weapons, all with routines and techniques.
Chongyang has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. It took ten years to learn the great sage's technique of splitting the door and it took twenty years to achieve success. Therefore, no matter how many apprentices he has, Hua Twelve is not afraid of not being able to teach him.
Hua Twelve accepted challenges one after another, and the impact on Hong Kong's martial arts community became more and more influential. It was even reported in many newspapers on Hong Kong Island.
"South China Morning Post", "Overseas Chinese News", "Hua Zi Daily" and other Chinese newspapers have published interviews with him. Among them, "Far East", a monthly magazine founded by the British, also mentioned Chong Yang and "The No. 1 Pavilion in the World". 'The incident spread to the Magic City and the East.
Most of these newspapers praised Chung Yang very highly, calling him an invincible fighter in Hong Kong Island and a true grandmaster.
Hua Twelve felt that this was a bit exaggerated and was not a good sign. Originally, if he made a fortune in a small place like Hong Kong Island, martial arts masters in the mainland would not necessarily pay attention to him, but now that it was published in the newspaper, the problem was different. Regarding the issue of face, he always felt that a master would come to trouble him.
Therefore, on the grounds of raising the threshold, the challenge jackpot was raised from 100 Hong Kong dollars to 200,000 silver dollars. This price made everyone confused.
His external statement is that he raised the price because he no longer wants to accept the challenge of those with low martial arts skills, because he has conquered all over Hong Kong Island, and now he is taking a chance and wants to step on him to become famous. There are countless people, and he cannot bear to be disturbed. .
If you increase the lottery, you will be able to make waves and block those who are lucky. Only those masters who have extreme confidence in themselves will come to challenge.
This guy sounds nice, but what he actually thinks is that even martial arts masters like Li Shuwen and Huang Feihong can't raise so much money, so he will be safe and can develop with peace of mind.
I believe the newspapers spread the signboard and couplets of his martial arts gym to the mainland. Even if those martial arts masters wanted to teach him a lesson, they would probably give up after seeing the price.
Of course, not all newspapers praised him, and some published articles belittling him. For example, in the plot of "October", the "Flower Planter Times" where Chen Shaobai was the editor-in-chief published an article about the martial arts gym Hua Twelve.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Chen Shaobai, personally commented that Chong Yang was just a sensationalist.
In addition, the martial arts community in Hong Kong Island is not developed at all. Most of the people who come to Hong Kong to open martial arts schools are low-end disciples of various sects and unqualified boxers. Defeating them does not mean anything.
In Chen Shaobai's opinion, Hua Twelve saw through this and took advantage of the martial artist's mentality of being the best in martial arts to seek opportunities to make money and gain fame.
After Zhuo Yifei and Ma Rulong read the newspaper, they wanted to find trouble with the Flower Planter Daily. They went to Chen Shaobai to talk, but they were stopped by Hua Twelve.
There was no other reason. Everything they said was right. Hua Twelve was also wondering, how could Chen Shaobai see it so accurately?
It suddenly occurred to me that in the plot of "October Original", Chen Shaobai often went to Li Yutang to fight against the autumn wind in a big name. Although his methods were different, they also had the same purpose. They were the same people in the co-authorship.
In addition, what Chen said about the current situation of the martial arts community in Hong Kong Island is also very accurate. There are almost no masters among the boxers who have opened martial arts schools in Hong Kong Island today. They are all small shrimps of various sects.
The development of the martial arts community in Hong Kong will start from the later spread of Northern Boxing to the South, until Grandmaster Lin Sai Wing of Hong Quan, Grandmaster Yip Man of Wing Chun, and Grandmaster Cheung Lai-chuen of White Eyebrow came to Hong Kong Island to open their own halls. Only then did the martial arts community of Hong Kong have grandmasters, forming a battle of flowers.
Gorgeous power.
So Chen Shaobai was right when he said he defeated an inferior boxer.
For revolutionaries like Chen Shaobai who were worried about the country, Hua Twelve still respected him very much.
Chapter completed!