During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Ma Guangcai, a large landlord in Xuzhou, raised a bull, weighing only more than 1,000 kilograms, with a large horn and a sharp body, and was incomparably strong, and had not been cultivated in three years, because this cow saw people on top, and injured several people in a row, so no one dared to use this cow.
After the New Year, it was the peak season of spring ploughing, Ma Guangcai asked the housekeeper to write a notice to post on the street, the content of the notice: Father and fellow villagers, my family raised a big bull, three years failed to cultivate the land, no one can use, and irritable and hurtful, ask for management and subdue the bull of the cultivator, double the salary of the superior treatment.
On the third day after the notice was posted, a farmer in his 50s came from safflower port in Shandong Province, speaking in a thick Lunan accent, and he unveiled the notice and came to the Ma family, explaining that he had the ability to use and subdue this bull. The farmer said that his surname was Zhang Minghan, and there were no other excessive requirements, only three pounds of soft cowhide needed to be used to weave the bull whip. Ma Guangcai agreed and ordered the housekeeper to buy it.
Moreover, after Master Zhang had eaten lunch, he woven a bull whip at the side of the cattle shed in front of the landlord's house, the bull whip was short-handled, long and thin, the whip was eight feet and three inches long, the whip was slightly woven with high-grade hemp, and the whip was also woven into seven square hole copper coins. After the bull whip was prepared, Master Zhang lifted the bull whip and threw it in the air, only to hear a "pop" sound, and then Master Zhang instructed the butler to open the bullpen, the bull pen opened by the butler, the bull came out of the bullpen and rushed straight to Master Zhang, Master Zhang took two steps forward, and then suddenly threw the bull whip in his hand hard towards the bull, and heard "Snap! There was an explosion, and then the bull's two hind legs were soft and lying on the ground, this whip, impartial, just hit the cow's egg, the bull was lying on the ground in pain, sweat dripped down the cow's hair, Master Zhang put away the whip and walked to the bull's side, shouting: "Livestock! Bow your head and go. The old cow listened to Master Zhang's cheers, attached his head tightly to the ground, Master Zhang, asked the butler to bring a cow nose skewer, passed through the cow's nostrils, took the mouth of the cow dragon, and then drank again: "Stand up!" Plough with me. The bull obediently followed Master Zhang down to the ground to cultivate the land.
The bull was very energetic, and the 300 acres of wasteland of the horse landlord's family were deeply cultivated by Master Zhang and the bull. Ma Guangcai was very happy, and since then the bull has been very docile and has never hurt anyone again.
Time flew by, and at the end of the year, after the end of the collection, Master Zhang asked the landlord to resign, and after Ma Guangcai could not keep it, he asked Master Zhang what other requirements did he have? Master Zhang said, "In addition to settling the salary, please ask the old man to give me the bull whip." Ma Guangcai said, "This bullwhip is a good thing, just take it." After saying that, Ma Guangcai arranged for the kitchen to make a banquet for Master Zhang to send off.
In the evening, Master Zhang bid farewell to the landlord's old wealth and hurried away with a bull whip on his back.
Master Zhang had just walked for less than half an hour, when suddenly someone in the courtyard of the landlord Ma Guangcai's house shouted, "No, the bull is crazy again!" ”
The bull's eyes were red, and the broken rope rushed out of the bullpen and ran wildly toward the mouth of the village.
Master Zhang, who had just walked to the entrance of the village, heard someone shouting, "Cows are crazy!" ...”
Master Zhang lowered the whip on his shoulder and looked back, and the bull gasped and rushed towards him.
Master Zhang dared to take out the bull whip, and then suddenly threw a sound in the air: "Snap! The bull stopped abruptly, and the bull stopped not far from Master Zhang, gasping for breath and not daring to move forward.
Master Zhang put away the bull whip, lit up at the bull and said, "The animals will not go back!" The bull heard Master Zhang's scolding and obediently got up and went back.
Later, I heard that after Master Zhang left, the bull crashed into the south wall and died.
The bull whip was an insurmountable psychological obstacle for the bull.