Chapter 1166 1168 [Wing Chun Sports Club]
Secondly, the most important practice method of Wing Chun is Chi Shou. If you want to learn it, you must be led by an expert master to guide the apprentice to feel the correct flow of power in the hands of the Chi, so one-on-one teaching is often required.
If Xiang Nan recruited hundreds of disciples in one go, then he wouldn't have to compete with anyone else, he would be exhausted to death from the Guangjiao disciples. Also because of this reason, Wing Chun has been handed down for four generations, each generation has only a few disciples, and it has not been widely spread.
Xiang Nan didn't break the rules either, and only accepted eight disciples in the end.
Three of them were the sons of the bosses who helped him before, Wang Jinbang, Liu Tianci, and Zeng Huazhi. One is Zhou Qingquan's son, Zhou Guangyao.
There are four other children of wealthy local families in Macau. At that time, there were four major families in Macau, namely, the Fu Laorong family and the Gao Kening family who operated the gambling industry, and the other two were the Ho Tung family and the Luo Wenjin family who were engaged in foreign comprador business.
The four disciples of Xiang Nan are the children of the Gao family and the Fu family. Four brothers Gao Wenyuan, Gao Wenpei, Fu Jinghong and Fu Jingrong.
For the name of the Wuguan, Xiang Nan named it the Wing Chun Sports Club.
This is also the name of the martial arts gym Ye Man founded in Xiangjiang back then.
Xiang Nan now opens a martial arts gym, which just happens to fulfill Ye Wen's dream of carrying forward Wing Chun.
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The Wing Chun Sports Club opened with great fanfare.
On the day of the opening, many big families and famous figures in Macau sent flower cards, flower baskets, plaques, and banners. It was very lively.
The reason for this is that Xiang Nan's deeds have spread all over Macau, and everyone knows that he is a master of martial arts, and he can defeat a hundred with one. Such a fierce person, if he can not be offended, he will not be offended. Being able to get acquainted is naturally better.
Secondly, the children of the two major families in Macau came to learn boxing with him. This also shows that the two families have the tendency to unite him. And Xiang Nan is not only strong in martial arts, but also comes from the Fushan Ye family, a descendant of a famous family.
Talents like this will be beneficial to any side they join. Therefore, other families will naturally not remain indifferent. It's not surprising to send a congratulatory gift and take the opportunity to get acquainted.
Xiang Nan also understood this. Therefore, after the establishment of the martial arts school, I personally brought gifts for a return visit. Initially established a relationship with the local forces in Macau.
This is also a necessary process for foreign forces to integrate into the local area.
Every time foreign forces go to a new place, they will be squeezed out by the original forces. When they find that they are not being pushed out, they will allow outside forces to join in and share the cake together. And use cooperation, alliance, marriage, apprenticeship and many other means to unite as one.
For example, in "Crossing the Guandong", when Zhu Kaishan settled down in Yuanbao Town, Han Laohai, a local rich farmer, cooperated with the Zhu family through marriage; Zhu Kaishan opened a restaurant in Harbin, but was run off by Pan Wuye and his gang. Finally, it ends with Chuanwen and Chuanjie worshiping Pan Wuye as his godfather.
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When the Wing Chun Gymnasium opened, no one left the pharmaceutical factory to make trouble.
The local gangs are not without their brains.
The two major families in Macau all worship Xiang Nan as their teacher. How courageous they were, they dared to take his bamboo off, so they gave up one after another.
Seeing this, Xiang Nan couldn't help but sigh again.
If it wasn't for his ability, he could establish his prestige and let people know that he is not easy to mess with. I'm afraid that these hooligans, gangsters, and rascals will eat him up.
It’s no wonder that the ancients relocated to their hometowns, and they refused to leave their hometowns unless there was a catastrophe or famine. This is the reason.
After no one made trouble, the preparation speed of the pharmaceutical factory was greatly accelerated.
After discussions between Xiang Nan and Zhou Qingquan, the pharmaceutical factory was named Renji Pharmaceutical Factory. At the beginning, only three types of medicines were produced: Dieda Medicine, Jinchuang Medicine, and Biwensan.
Xiang Nan provided prescriptions, taught workers the skills of making medicine, and supervised the quality of medicinal material procurement, processing, and combination. Zhou Qingquan is mainly responsible for management and sales.
It also happened that when the Renji Pharmaceutical Factory was completed, severe cholera broke out in Lingnan.
Cholera is an acute diarrheal infectious disease caused by ingested food or water contaminated by Vibrio cholerae.
Because people had food and clothing problems at that time, they didn’t pay much attention to food and drink. Drinking unboiled water and eating moldy food were common things. Coupled with perennial hunger, the people's physical fitness is generally poor, so cholera often breaks out. Once it happens, hundreds or thousands of people are often infected, and the fatality rate is quite high.
Since there are historical records, there have been more than a dozen large-scale cholera outbreaks in Macau alone.
Thirty-six people died in 1858; in 1888, more than 500 people were infected with cholera, and more than 30 people died; in 1905, cholera caused 15 deaths; One hundred and twenty-three died; in 1913, thirty-two; in 1927, cholera, 409, and 320 dead...
This shows how terrible the cholera epidemic is.
Seeing this, Xiang Nan immediately confronted him and launched a special Chinese patent medicine against cholera—Renji Dan. In the name of Renji Pharmaceutical Factory, he gave the drug free of charge in Macau, Zhongshan, and Shunde.
Because Xiang Nan inherited Xilaile's medical skills, it has a miraculous effect on curing the plague. Therefore, after the launch of Renji Dan, a large number of patients were cured very quickly.
One pill will see the effect, two pills can stop diarrhea, and within three days, you can recover as before.
Because of this, Renji Dan and even Renji Pharmaceutical Factory became a hit, and various drug dealers came to purchase it one after another. As a result, Renji Pharmaceutical Factory was full of orders, and had to recruit people just after it opened.
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Zhou Qingquan was overjoyed by this.
"Awen, it's all thanks to you." He said sincerely.
The prescription of Huisheng Dan was drawn up by Xiang Nan, and the process of combining the medicines was supervised by him, and even the idea of free medicine was all his idea. Really great.
"Brother Quan, don't say that, the factory belongs to you as well as mine, so I should help." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said with a smile, "Besides, I am usually busy teaching boxing, so don't you worry about the management of the factory? .”
Zhou Qingquan nodded with a smile when he heard it.
In any case, Renji Pharmaceutical Factory has succeeded.
Even if the 200 yuan donated to doctors and medicines is excluded, the profit for this month will be 200 to 300 yuan. Therefore, he is very confident that he will pay back his capital within half a year.
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After helping the pharmaceutical factory get off to a good start, Xiang Nan focused his energy on teaching his apprentices and accompanying his wife.
In terms of apprenticeship, Xiang Nan is actually not too strict.
Because most of the people who practice martial arts with him are from rich families, their purpose of practicing martial arts is only to strengthen their bodies, not to be brave and fierce.
So, what Xiang Nan taught them could not be said to be a show, but it was not a real skill either.
It’s like when Yang Luchan taught Taijiquan to the Eight Banners in the capital, he took into account that they lived in luxury, were weak and sick, and were impatient with hardship.
So he simplified his boxing techniques and created a set of Yang Style Taijiquan. The so-called cloud hands, holding the bird's tail, white crane spreading its wings, etc., are basically ostentatious, and they are in the same pattern as radio gymnastics.
In this way, these rich children can keep fit, and they can save time and effort, killing two birds with one stone.
(end of this chapter)