As a teenager, Ma Longtan was charming, knowledgeable and talented. He loved calligraphy, playing with guns and riding horses. After Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, the national peril intensified. Ma Longtan said: "It is time for a gentleman to give his life to serve the country." He led hundreds of people to take part in the troops of Feng Department. Because of his contribution to the protection of Shenyang imperial tomb and cultural relics sacrificial vessels, the Qing emperor specially rewarded Ma Longtan with four products of Hualing, and was appointed as the general patrol of Liaoyang and Tonghua. In the third year of Guangxu, he inherited the post of captain of Yunqi. At the beginning of the Republic of China, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the army, awarded the third-class Wen Huzhang, served as the commander of the East and was stationed in Fengcheng. To the east, it borders the DPRK, which is coveted by the Japanese and difficult to negotiate. Ma Longtan is both rigid and flexible, and the border is rough and secure.
Ma Shi is well-versed in civil and military affairs, and is allowed to be called a generation of Confucian generals. History contains his extraordinary energy, and he must read it personally in public, and amuse himself with calligraphy in his spare time. Chinese and foreign people are constantly asking for books. Both the script and the official seal are excellent, especially the running script. Although Ma Shi is a military commander, there is no arrogance in his works. The second king of calligraphy, the style of calligraphy is elegant and elegant, and the statutes are strict, which is extremely fascinating. Its refreshing place is like Minangong, and its scattered place is near Wangmenglou, which has a certain influence in modern book circles. Most of his surviving works are couplets. Apart from domestic collectors, they also have a certain stock in Japan, and they have appeared frequently in major auctions in recent years. His paintings and calligraphy works are also very active in folk transactions. Generally, a pair of couplets costs about 2, yuan to 3, yuan depending on the appearance, and some with large scales and excellent appearance also reach about 5, yuan. Ma Longtan is also good at writing Lan and Fa Banqiao Taoist, which is fresh and gratifying.
times have changed, and the family fortune is declining in middle age. In order to make a living, Ma Longtan went to Beijing and Tianjin in 1896 to find a job. After many days, he still found nothing. In desperation, he had to set up a library to teach in Shunyi County, JD.COM to maintain his family's livelihood. His friend contracted a section of Jiaoji Railway, asked him to take care of the accounts, and promised a generous salary, so he stopped teaching and began to manage the accounts. Unexpectedly, my friend absconded after embezzling everyone's salary, including Ma Longtan. Everyone thinks that Ma Longtan is Mr. Accountant, and he is naturally involved in corruption, so they ask for his salary one after another. Ma Longtan was forced to flee to the customs alone and settled in Fengtian (Shenyang) by selling his own calligraphy and painting. When czarist Russia recruited migrant workers to build the Dashiqiao-Yingkou railway, it joined some fellow villagers in the railway construction, and was forced to stop the railway construction project because of the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion. General Fengtian increased Qi's orders to recruit soldiers, Ma Longtan was elected as the leader by the workers, and hundreds of people were recruited to join the army, and they were organized into Gaizi Army. Ma Longtan served as the duct tape (equivalent to the battalion commander) to guard Liaoyang, Fuxian, Haicheng, Gaiping (Gaizhou) and other places.
In July p>19, Tsarist Russia sent troops to the northeast under the pretext of protecting the Middle East Railway and the South Manchuria branch line. In early August, a Russian army committed a crime from the north of Lushunkou, and Ma Longtan led his troops to stop it and defeated the Russian army in a row. After the Russian army occupied Fengtian, Ma Longtan was ordered to protect the ancestral tomb of the Qing emperor in Xingjing (Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province), and Aisin-Gioro Zaitian, the Qing Emperor, gave a special gift of four flowers and feathers. In 193, Zhang Guilin, the leader of the Loyal Army, who was recruited by the Qing Dynasty, was stationed in Tonghua with the Russian army, and was sheltered by Russian military officers, allowing his men to plunder everywhere and arousing public resentment. Ma Longtan decided to get rid of this scourge, so he designed and killed Zhang Guilin. The rest of Zhang Guilin occupied the Weihe River in Tonghua, stubbornly resisting and plotting revenge. Ma Longtan took the lead in climbing the cliff and plunged into the station, as if the magic had descended from heaven. All the thieves were frightened and tackled, and the rest of Zhang Guilin was completely removed. However, due to the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, such a happy thing was taken as an excuse by the Russian army, and under pressure, the court dismissed Ma Longtan. Soon, the Qing Dynasty re-used Ma Longtan as the commander of the 2nd Battalion of Fengtian Middle Road (quite the head).