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Chapter 177 The only national art

At this time, there was no formal national martial arts museum in Hong Kong.

With the Boxer Rebellion, Xiaodaohui and others continuing, the British were afraid that martial arts sects would gather together to form an uncontrollable force. They not only prohibit the Chinese from opening a national martial arts museum to teach apprentices, but also allow open exchange of martial arts.

This is why the famous Wu and Chen Biwu in the early 1950s were held in Macau.

However, this problem does not exist in Wang Hong’s swordsmanship school.

During the preparation process of the swordsmanship school, Sir He had full support, money, material resources, and venues, and houses. They were all chosen as the best ones to do.

When Wang Hong sat with the British and stumbling about Chinese and British swordsmanship, the swordsmanship school received support from the British and became the only franchise martial arts school in Hong Kong, although it only taught swordsmanship.

Here are the British people's favorable feelings for Wang Hong's swordsmanship, and the reasons for Wang Hong and Sir He's idea of ​​running schools.

According to the British, the National Museum teaches each school of fists, kicks, weapons, and rejects outsiders. There are many internal rules that cannot be seen or understood, but there are no rules to restrict them.

The swordsman school is a public place for swordsman enthusiasts to receive guidance and practice freely. The rules are open, the venue is open, the rules are open, and the British who love swordsmanship and other Europeans are in and out at any time, and there is no place that the British are worried about.

With the support of the British, with the support of Sir He, the swordsmanship school soon opened.

Schools are open to teaching, and there are no different teachings, but this cost is inevitable that ordinary people will sigh.

Sir He’s idea is very simple. Those who can enter this swordsmanship school must at least be rich families. If anyone can enter the door, it will lose the meaning of his investment in this school.

So on the surface, the school can come in if you have money, but after entering, there is a luxurious specialized sword training venue that is not something that everyone can enter.

Except for foreigners, those who are not designated by Sir He will stop outside the door.

If ordinary students want to enter, unless their swordsmanship has reached the level of recognition by foreigners, this will also give some hope to some ordinary rich children.

Because Sir He personally invested in establishing this swordsmanship school, Wang Hong only had this requirement, so Wang Hong also understood it.

What's more, this matter also has the problem of being short-spoken. Sir He asked Wang Hong to teach this swordsmanship school, give him houses and cars, and have high salaries and subsidies. Although it is nothing to him, a Hong Kong rich man, Wang Hong felt uneasy when he got it.

In this way, Wang Hong began his career in teaching swords in Hong Kong.

As soon as the swordsmanship school opened, it attracted not only Chinese people, but Europeans in Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou, Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang). European swordsmanship is a sport that both men, women, young and old can participate. These Europeans are far away in Asia, and only equestrians can communicate and exercise. Now there are more people, so many people spend in swordsmanship schools every day.

They ran to the special venue of the sword school for no reason, and made friends with swords. After the sword practice, there was a special venue for them to have some tea, rest for a while, and chatted and communicated. The sword school suddenly became another fresh high-end social place.

This is Sir He’s true intention.

He himself often came here to learn Tai Chi sword, drink tea, and talked to these foreigners about business and customs of various countries, and was very busy.

But Wang Hong was suffering. He had to teach the students who had just started, assist the students with a certain foundation, and also guide the foreigners who came to practice swords with nothing to do, and use them as a few people alone.

Wang Hong couldn't help but think of recruiting several assistants from national martial arts museums in various places.

In Hong Kong, although there is no open national martial arts museum, there are many places where you can teach boxing in the name of teaching sports, or open private venues at home, or focus on the entrances of villages, alleys, and rooftops to teach boxing.

For example, the Hong Kong Jingwu Sports Club, Cai Lifo’s martial arts hall, etc. The boxing species that teach boxing privately are mainly local boxing species in the Pearl River Delta area and boxing species from Fujian, as well as some boxing species practiced by Hakka people. With Huang Feihong’s Hongquan, Cai Lifo’s boxing practitioners are the most popular.

The northern boxing species have just moved south and there is no widespread practice population.

Wang Hong didn't know if there were any suitable personnel in the National Martial Arts Museums that were familiar to all over the country, so he sent a telegram first and called his three brothers over. If he didn't know how to sword skills, he would help do odd jobs first. He also sent a telegram to his hometown in Shandong, asking his grandfather if he had any idea of ​​coming to the south.

Before these people arrived, because of the two competitions, the swordsmanship school became famous in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

This is not a competition between Wang Hong and others.

The first competition was when two Europeans were fighting with swords duels due to private reasons, and the duel was also placed in the swords school.

At this time, Europe had already banned duels with swords, but in private, it still happened from time to time.

But Hong Kong only has regulations on managing Chinese people, but does not make any rigid requirements for foreigners to compete.

The British disagree or objection on the grounds that the law has no prohibition, and let the situation develop.

With the cheers of a group of foreigners who were afraid of something bad, Wang Hong had to take over the referee of the duel, only demanding that in the swordsmanship school, the duel would be regarded as a game, and both sides must use the protective gear and special swords used for the game.

The two duels wanted to use the real sword at first, but with Wang Hong's insistence, they finally followed Wang Hong's request.

The result of this game has nothing to do with Wang Hong, but the game itself is the big news in the eyes of these foreigners who are in a foreign land.

The British didn't have much to do in Hong Kong. Of course, they liked this duel that did not violate European laws. They immediately notified Wang Hong that the Hong Kong side would sponsor the competition regularly.

In this way, equestrianism and swordsmanship became the most popular sport in Hong Kong. Sir He immediately built a swordsmanship competition venue next to the swordsmanship museum.

The second duel was also two foreigners, which may involve personal reputation, and they insisted on using real swords.

Wang Hong wanted to refuse, but the British encouraged Wang Hong to take on the game.

The reason is that these two foreigners are not British, and the laws in Britain cannot be controlled by others, and the laws in Hong Kong cannot be controlled by Hong Kong either.

It was just the competition venue, which was placed on a large ship parked outside the port.

At this time, the laws of all countries are not comprehensive. As long as they are not disembarked, they are not considered to be entering the territory where the port is located.

On the day of the competition, the foreigners who rushed from all over the place to watch the bustle were crowded with a boat.

In this game, Wang Hong did not have an empty-handed referee. He held a wooden stick like a whip. When the sword was already in his arms, he decisively opened the sword that was stabbing at the critical point, saving the life of the loser.

The result was good, and the biggest winner of the game became him.

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