In the mid-19th century, the French came here and began their colonial invasion of Vietnam. The suzerain state at that time was the Qing government, which had sent the Black Flag Army of Feng Zicai and Liu Yongfu to fight the French army. After their defeat in 1885, the Qing government signed a new Sino-French treaty with France and gave up its suzerainty over Vietnam. It was from that time that the influence of Chinese civilization in this region began to be weakened.
Nanyang is a land with a strong martial spirit. Just pick any small country that has been the site of four wars. If you look up history, you will find that wars have almost never stopped. Either we are at war with foreign enemies or we are rebelling against each other. Vietnam, with a population of nearly 100 million, is one of the most important countries in the Southeast Asia region and one of the most war-prone countries.
Located in northern Vietnam, Hanoi is the country's second largest city and the political center.
This South Asian city with a population of tens of millions has a long history of more than a thousand years. The main ethnic group is the Kinh ethnic group, and others include the Chinese, Khmer, Dai, Thai, Edi, etc. Fat meat, ginger and green onion red couplets, flags, firecrackers and big rice dumplings. This Vietnamese folk proverb says that when the Spring Festival is here, it is necessary to prepare sumptuous meat dishes and cook rice dumplings for the festival. Red couplets are posted on the door, high flags flutter in the wind, and firecrackers sound.
Hanoi also uses the solar calendar and the lunar calendar. In addition to national statutory holidays such as New Year's Day, International Labor Day, National Day, etc., Hanoi also celebrates Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Spring Festival, etc. Like the Chinese, the Spring Festival on the lunar calendar is the biggest festival of the year.
From the perspective of cultural homology, Hanoi is actually a typical city within the Greater China cultural circle.
Before Li Muye left, Chen Binghui provided him with a very detailed and pragmatic intelligence.
There are many local martial arts schools, and the more orthodox school is called Yue Martial Arts. It is said to be a kung fu that combines Shaolin boxing and French Savate kicks, and uses the two as the main body to create new routines. During the French colonial period, it became popular in order to improve the physical fitness and fighting will of the people. Also referring to the dan system of Japanese karate, different belts are prescribed for different levels.
In the following decades, the Yue Budo Sanshou technique, which was mainly based on Muay Thai, was developed. Compared with the traditional Yue Budo that focused more on improving sensitivity, flexibility and strength, the new Sanshou technique focused more on actual combat effects and pursued consistent strikes. Extremely bloodthirsty, injurious and murderous! There are many moves to viciously attack joints, tendons, blood vessels and arteries, but they are hidden and efficient! He is particularly good at using staggered body positions to instantly complete several disabling blows in close entanglements, causing the opponent to be seriously injured and defeated instantly without even realizing it! Super practical and technical!
Nguyen Thi Hung, the traditional Vietnamese martial arts master, is known as the second master in Vietnam, second only to Voyuan Anh, who lives in Ho Chi Minh City and is known as the master of Vietnamese martial arts for thousands of years. It is said that this person can push dozens of people with a snap of his fingers, and his skill is simply superb.
Although Ruan Shixiong is famous, the Sanshou sect of Yue Martial Arts has the most disciples in the Hanoi arena. This fighting technique that focuses on practical combat was pioneered by Vo Yuan Anh. His personal disciple, the 45-year-old Nguyen Van Giap, has been running a dojo in Hanoi for many years. There are 13 branches and nearly 10,000 disciples. The two thought. Even if it is placed in the Khmer region, which advocates fighting more, it can be called a major genre.
In addition to Yue Martial Arts, which dominates the local area, karate and the White Crane School of Nanhaimen are also important portals in the local arena. Muay Thai, Khmer Boxing, Filipino Magic Stick and Indian Kabat Boxing also have a place in this city.
Among them, the Khmer boxing master Apacha is the most vigorous. Known as the number one martial arts master in Hanoi, it is said that this person has a Khmer warlord background. He is currently the one with the strongest development momentum in the city. Years ago, Zheng Baoshan, the great master of the White Crane Sect, was the lizi of the Nanhai Sect. He was very accomplished in kung fu, focused on practical combat, and was good at martial arts. Challenged by Apacha, it only took one round to knock out Zheng Baoshan into a vegetative state in less than three minutes.
It is said that this Apacha is 1.9 meters tall. He is born with strong bones, well-developed fascia, great strength and agility like an ape. In order to practice boxing, I once lived alone in the virgin forest for ten years, and dared to fight tigers and bears with my bare hands. With Xiong Hu's natural ability, even if he received a punch or an elbow from him, he would have to flee in panic.
The situation in the Nanyang region is complex, with intertwined forces and constant overt and covert struggles. The mountainous areas ruled by the Khmer warlords are rich in minerals, and Japan's Mitsui Group cooperates closely with them and occupies an absolute dominant position there. The biggest financial backer behind this Apacha is the Mitsui Group, so as soon as this person came out of the mountain, he was the first to challenge the Chinese White Crane sect's gym.
After Zheng Baoshan was crippled, Nanhaimen sent another Wing Chun master Zeng Song to challenge him in order to regain his position. Zeng Song was only thirty years old. Compared to Zheng Baoshan, who was over fifty, he was in the prime of life. Although he was unknown, he was an important figure in the new talent training plan of Nanhaimen Muyun Academy. Compared with the Jian Wei that Li Muye killed in Moscow, this Zeng Song was stronger, especially better at modern unarmed combat. It is said that the level of boxing and Sanda is already at the top international level.
It's a pity that the so-called top international level is still in the category of ordinary people, and his opponent has evolved into a murderous beast in the grinding of hell. As soon as Apacha came up, he pounced and bit Zeng Song's throat. Zeng Song's practical combat skills that he had practiced since childhood and used countless times in the ring were completely useless. He was seriously injured in a daze.
The interior of Nanhaimen is not monolithic. The three clans of the Lion City, the Li family, the Ziyun Huang family, and the Chen family, who have deep roots in Indonesia and the Philippines, stand side by side and inherit the millennium-old orthodoxy of Nanhaimen. There is a saying within Nanhaimen that the Li family's martial arts style, the Huang family's literary courage and the Chen family's wealth. But in modern times, there have been some changes in this statement. The most capable person in the contemporary Nanhai Sect is Luojia King Huang Yonghao. At least that's the case on a public level. And the Chen family has also developed from a generational chaebol to a powerful one.
The Li family in the Lion City is a typical pro-Western faction. The Ziyunhuang family is closely connected with the country. The Chen family plays an important role in the Nanyang economic circle.
After the disastrous defeat of Tsang Song, the situation that Nanhaimen has been operating in Hanoi for many years is about to be in jeopardy. However, the attitude of the Li family in the Lion City is dispensable. They are determined not to send their elite-level core children to stand out for the family. The attitude of the Ziyunhuang Clan is more ambiguous. They said that although Zheng Baoshan and Zeng Song were defeated, they had paid a huge price for Nanhaimen on behalf of the Ziyunhuang Clan. It was unreasonable for the Ziyunhuang Clan to send someone to take the lead again. .
As the current head of the Chen family and the president of the Nanhaimen Presbyterian Church, Second Sister Chen's status in the Nanhaimen family will be greatly reduced if she cannot find a capable fighter to resolve this matter at this time. Within the Chen family, the most popular people are all top alchemists, and they can do things like lowering their heads and telling fortunes. It was obviously almost impossible to deal with Apacha, who was like a ferocious beast.
If it were before retirement, this would not be difficult. But now she is no longer the director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau and a formal member of the Security Committee. Naturally, it would be difficult to use the power of the Executive Committee of the Security Committee to recruit the top figures in the domestic arena to do this.
Whether or not Apacha can be defeated is actually secondary. The key is that if a capable person cannot be found to help, people within Nanhaimen will question the influence of Sister Chen in the core area of domestic power. It’s not that Second Sister Chen never thought of asking Huang Yonghao to come forward, but after much deliberation she decided not to go to him. The old head of the Ziyun Huang family is watching. If he seeks Huang Yonghao again at this time, it is almost equivalent to telling others that he has lost his previous authority and influence after retirement.
When the biological mother encounters difficulties, of course her son cannot watch. At this time, Li Muye brought An Yiru to Hanoi.
An Zhiyuan bought a property in the commercial area east of the One-Pillar Temple, a holy site of Theravada Buddhism. It has a courtyard with two entrances and two exits. It has a wide space in the front and a quiet environment of pavilions and pavilions in the back. As soon as Li Muye and An Yiru took Bai Qi and Eilai off the plane, An Zhiyuan personally took them here.
It has been eight months since the White Horse Club came to Nanyang to develop, and An Zhiyuan has only done one thing, buy, buy, buy.
These three purchases are: buying property, buying people's hearts, and buying power.
Buying a fixed property in the city is to show your firm determination to invest in Vietnam's economy. By building schools and health centers at the village and town levels, he won the favor and love of many local people. As for buying the rich, it refers to his cooperative relationship with the famous Hanoi entrepreneur Vo Wey Ninh. The grandfather of Wu Weining was the former commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, the famous Marshal Vo Yuan Yi. Uncle Vu Phu Nen is a powerful member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and this guy is a second-generation ancestor with a false reputation as a business genius.
An Zhiyuan had done enough homework before coming here. Knowing that the locals were always wary of people from the Republic, he asked Brother Ono to use his privileges to get him a wanted hat before coming over. Then, in a congenial way, he dragged Wu Weining to Las Vegas for a romantic trip. During this, he deliberately caused trouble and used Li Muye's influence to show off his strong connections in North America to the bumpkin among the second generation ancestors, which made Wu Weining, who had always been pro-Western, admire him. From then on, the two brothers became friends, and Wu Weining became An Zhiyuan's die-hard brother.
Doing this will of course cost a lot of money. More than half of the funds invested by the White Horse Club in Nanyang came from Baiyuntang. In just eight months, money was spent like water. An Zhiyuan wanted to explain the flow and use of funds to Brother Xiaoye several times. Li Muye only said back to him, it's my problem that I don't have enough money, and it's your problem how to spend it. When the time comes, I want the results. I don’t ask about the process, because I believe in you!
I believe you, these three words hit the softest part of An Zhiyuan's heart.
A scholar dies for a confidant.
An Zhiyuan was afraid of Li Muye before, but now he is grateful and respects Brother Xiaoye from the bottom of his heart.
This can be seen from the inside and outside of the building. The pavilions and pavilions outside the house are all newly renovated, and every detail in the house is decorated with meticulous thought. An Yiru is a Taoist woman. Without knowing her relationship with Li Muye, An Zhiyuan specially came from Hong Kong Island. We hired a designer who was proficient in Feng Shui patterns and asked the designer to try his best to reflect the Taoist cultural concept of the unity of nature and man in terms of decoration and layout.
Four watchtowers were built in the four corners, and heavy firepower security forces were deployed. The security design of the entire building was contracted by a well-known professional company in North America. It looks antique, clean and elegant, but in fact, there is a keen eye hidden in an inconspicuous and very critical corner. Strong security force.
All in all, the whole building feels low-key, luxurious, connotative, cultural, interesting and safe.
When he first arrived in Guijing, Li Muye planned to hold a dinner party. The guest of honor would be Second Sister Chen and Nanhaimen's more influential figures in the city. The leaders of other dojos in the city also sent messages, so you can come or not as you like. Finally, An Zhiyuan was ordered to invite a person with enough weight in the local police circles to attend.
There are three purposes for arranging this dinner. The first is to push An Yiru out. The second is to show the young and old people in Nanhaimen who are waiting to see Sister Chen's jokes. The third is to show their strength a little, raise their spirits and save some money. Things that only lower-class people in the world would encounter, such as small police officers coming to blackmail, local gangsters coming to cause trouble, and so on. An Zhiyuan has been planning for eight months, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into it. Brother Xiaoye will check and accept the results tonight... (End of this chapter)