Tongxinggong escort agency

Tongxinggong escort agency was founded in 1855 by Wang Zhengqing, a famous martial arts master in Pingyao. His son, Wang Shumao, got his true biography and became one of the famous escort agencies at that time.

In the escort agency, there is a dragon circling pillar, which is the treasure of the town. Because the whole Pingyao is like a tortoise, and the place where the pillar is located is just the heart of the tortoise. The Fengshui is first-class, and the Tongxing public escort agency will be infinitely developed in the future. The Wangs also served as Cixi's bodyguard. After the successful completion, they got a plaque from the empress dowager, which is still on the former site of the Wangs.

Tongxinggong escort agency

Tongxinggong escort agency is located at No.105, South Street of Pingyao ancient city. It was founded in 1855 by Wang Zhengqing, a famous master of Wulin in Pingyao, and his son Wang Shumao was well-known. Therefore, tongxinggong escort agency became one of the famous escort agencies at that time.

founder

Tongxinggong escort agency was established by Wang Zhengqing, a native of nanliangzhuang, Pingyao, with the name of songan and the name of "mianwang". Born in the sixth year of Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty (1801 A.D.), he studied in a private school for two years when he was young, but his family was poor. At the age of 16, he left his hometown and went to a noodle shop in Beijing as an apprentice. At that time, there was no noodle mill. Wang Zhengqing had to knead the noodles with his elbow, so he developed amazing strength. After Wang Zhengqing, he learned martial arts for three years and made rapid progress. After that, he paid homage to Liu Liu's elder martial brother Jia Diankui, who taught Emperor Daoguang martial arts. Jia liked Wang Zhengqing very much, so he subsidized his living expenses and asked him to concentrate on practicing martial arts. Wang learned many martial arts from Jia Diankui, such as Shaolin Sanshou 108 Shi. At the same time, he often exchanged martial arts with Chang Yi, a master of his own family. Three years later, Wang Zhengqing had mastered both internal and external martial arts. At the age of 30, Wang Zhengqing became a martial arts teacher of Zhuwen in Daotai, Jiangxi Province. At the age of 36, he took office in Henan with Zhu Wen. For nine years, he subdued numerous thieves and helped the local government solve the problem of public security. In the 28th year of Daoguang (1848 AD), 47 year old Wang Zhengqing bid farewell to the world and returned to Pingyao. The following year, he opened the "tongxinggong" escort agency. Wang Zhengqing, together with Dai Longbang of Qixian County and Li Yuxiu of Wenshui County, is known as the "three heroes of North China". They all have the business of an escort agency. They often communicate with each other, and sometimes their subordinates will escort together. Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan Province, once carved a tablet for Wang Zhengqing, which was recorded in the history of Wulin. His son, Wang Shumao, was well-known for his true biography and had the potential to excel in the blue. Therefore, tongxinggong escort agency became one of the famous escort agencies in China at that time from the beginning of its establishment. It is said that in 1900, when the Eight Power Allied forces attacked Tianjin and entered Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Emperor Guangxu. On the journey to the west, she had to spend money on food and drink. On the ninth day of August, the second palace arrived in Pingyao, where 930000 taels of cash silver were counted. No one dared to be the bodyguard of the Royal silver. Only the Wang family in Pingyao, Shanxi Province, dared to take over. It happened that in troubled times, the Wang family bodyguard team was dusty all the way Night journey, only half a month to send silver to Xi'an, no difference. This plaque, which is still hanging on the former site of the Wang family, is the reward given by Empress Dowager Cixi after the emperor's mission.

Tour guide

First of all, you are welcome to visit Tongxing public escort agency. In a narrow sense, the escort agency is a specialized agency that provides security for some businesses and individuals. Escort agency is an old insurance industry that charges a certain fee for escorting some cash or valuable goods. After the rise of Pingyao ticket office in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Pingyao commerce began to enter the golden age. The prosperity of ticket office industry and Commerce inevitably brought another prosperity, which is the prosperity of the bodyguard industry. You are now in tongxinggong escort agency, the only former site of an escort agency in Pingyao County First of all, take a look at the word "bodyguard". In the past, bodyguard was a kind of weapon used by martial arts practitioners. However, bodyguards are all martial arts practitioners. They often use this so-called "bodyguard". As time goes by, they call this industry "escort agency". With the ticket number, we feel that this explanation is more vivid. Let's take a look at it. The word "gold" stands for 18 kinds of metal weapons at that time, and the word "ticket" stands for the money in the ticket number. In a word, it is to use force to escort silver. In modern words, it is to use force to protect the safety of money (the nature is the same as that of current security companies).

Accounting room:

There are all martial arts practitioners in the escort agency, and the culture is not necessarily very high. But this accountant must be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He used to be called "Mr. Wendu", which is equivalent to the present university literature. Here, you can have a look at this abacus. Its bottom is blocked with a piece of wood, which is the hope of the shopkeeper at that time Mr. Wang is based on the traditional Chinese "four column inventory" to make a good deal. The "four column inventory" refers to the fact that the old management plus the new collection minus the dismissal is equal to the reality. Old management refers to the end of last month; new income refers to the amount of income in this month; expulsion refers to the amount of expenditure in this month; actual refers to the amount of balance in this month. If you look at these two dart boxes, this one is the earliest and that one is the heaviest. It's made of elm and weighs more than 100 Jin. You can try to uncover its cover, and its lock uses the original secret lock, which plays a role of anti-theft. You need to use two keys side by side to open it. The big shopkeeper and the second shopkeeper are in charge of it respectively, playing a role of mutual supervision effect. At that time, such a large ingot of silver was equal to 50 Liang, which is equivalent to three Jin and six Liang now. About 1800 grams is equivalent to about 3600 yuan. For example, people can only exchange 100 copper coins for one liang of silver. Wang Zhengqing was a bodyguard for 64 years from 1849 to 1913. He was born in nanliangzhuang, Pingyao. At the age of 16, because of his poor family, Wang Zhengqing was called "Mian Wang" because of his excellent strength. He was taught by Liu Liu, the Beijing big gun. He had outstanding savvy and was introduced to Jia Diankui, the martial arts boxer of Emperor Daoguang. In other words, Wang Zhengqing and Daoguang were brothers of the same school Wang Zhengqing and the abbot of Shaolin Temple in Henan Province won the contest. The abbot wanted to worship as a teacher. Zhengqing said: "the master is the direct ancestor of Shaolin school, Shaolin boxing is famous all over the world. If the master worships me as a teacher, I will never dare to be a close friend.". From then on, they became close friends. Later, master Haichuan built a stone tablet for Zhengqing in Shaolin Temple, praising his virtue and art.

Wang Shumao's son inherits his father's career, and his youth is better than the blue. Under the watchful eyes of the people, Wang Zhengqing did not let his son care laden with martial arts. But he did not like to read books. He loved to dance with the dance knife. His potential was that he was impatient and did not want to make progress. Wang Zhengqing was worried about it. He met his brother on the way one day - Li Huan, and then he tried to motivate Wang Shumao. He was so disgraced by the public view at Town God's Temple's temple fair. After that lesson, he began to practice martial arts with his father and vowed that he would be a superman in martial arts in three years and master 18 kinds of martial arts. Moreover, the only personal dart he protected at that time was to escort Empress Dowager Cixi to flee West. Take a look at this bed. It's unique in China. The yellow on it is not gold powder, but pure gold. Moreover, it has a very nice name called "Qing Fenghuang opera peony wooden bed". Phoenix opera peony stands for good luck, and shelf bed is one of its advantages. How did it carry in such a small door and big bed? When it is used, it can be pieced together, and when it is not used, it can be disassembled into small wooden blocks, which is equivalent to the current combined furniture. And this is the underground vault at that time. It leads to the backyard and is set in front of the bed, which means to be carefree. Now let's go out and have a look at the main means of transportation at that time - escort cart.

At that time, there were two routes for escorting, one by water and the other by Han. Shanxi belongs to the Loess Plateau, and there are many Yangchang trails. It's easier to push with this kind of unicycle, because it has only one wheel, so it's difficult to master the balance. At that time, it was always very close to push. In other words, you have to squat into a horse step, kick up your butt, and move forward. If you are interested, you can try it Give it a push. The indispensable things of the escort agency are the escort cart, the escort box and the escort flag. The name of the escort master is written on the escort flag. It means that you will meet some robbers on the way. If you are the bodyguard of a powerful master, the bodyguard of a famous master will not dare to rob. Therefore, before robbing a bodyguard, you should first look at the name on the escort flag. As time goes by, it will become the code name of the escort agency. If you look at it, the background color is yellow, which means that Shanxi is located on the Loess Plateau. The word is red, which means that we hope the escort agency will have a prosperous business. It is surrounded by blue, and the water is blue, which means that the money is rolling. And our name "tongxinggong" also has a certain meaning. "Tongxing" has three main meanings: "Tongxin" has three main meanings: (1) internal staff working together; (2) customers working together; (3) bureaucrats working together. "Xing" means prosperity after success. "Gong" is a common business. Let's go this way again. You can see that this is the big smoking room at that time. It's not surprising that you see the big smoking room at the ticket number. The escort agency must be surprised that the front page rules of the escort agency at that time are not allowed to smoke big cigarettes, and this place is a place to attract business. You see, at that time, some means were emphasized in doing business. Maybe this kind of means has continued to this day. To put it in a bad way, "it's not harmful to others, it's easy to do business when you're dizzy." it's the same meaning as our present treat, dinner, cigarettes and wine. But here you are

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