The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China - Chapter 1044
The Nationalist government indiscriminately issued banknotes in 1944, which also had something to do with the 100,000 US troops stationed in China.
These U.S. troops are mainly stationed in Yunnan, including Army Aviation, Airlift, Ground Support, Logistics, as well as various military advisors and military instructors. There are more than 3,400 US military advisers and instructors sent to various Chinese troops alone, and these advisers and instructors are often assigned a Chinese translator – Mei Yiqi’s son dropped out of school and went to the US military. as a translator.
The salaries of 100,000 U.S. troops stationed in China are naturally distributed by the United States, but food and logistics need to be solved by China.
During the Chinese New Year this year, He Yingqin sent a telegram to Long Yun, which probably meant: The US military wants to eat beef, and Yunnan should try its best to satisfy it.
Long Yun was not in the mood for the Chinese New Year at all, so he immediately sent a telegram to go back: The cattle in Yunnan have been eaten by the US military, and now they must go to Guizhou to buy them. Your request will be difficult to achieve.
According to the statistics of Younger, the US financial advisor in China, the cost of one US military stationed in China at that time was equivalent to the cost of 500 Chinese soldiers. How could he be a soldier? All of them are uncles. By 1945, more than 53% of the fiat currency issued by the Nationalist government that year was used for the expenditure of the US military stationed in China.
does not count as military salaries, raising 100,000 US troops stationed in China is equivalent to raising 50 million Chinese soldiers…
In addition, China is also responsible for undertaking infrastructure projects. For example, when the US military built an air base in Sichuan, China used 100,000 civilians at one time, which had an unimaginable impact on the fragile Chinese economy.
February 8, 1944, the Lantern Festival in the lunar calendar.
Zhou Hexuan took the whole family into the city to watch a play. Tonight, there will be a Lantern Festival performance at the Cathay Pacific Theatre. The content is mainly Sichuan Opera, supplemented by Peking Opera, Cantonese Opera, Huangmei Opera and other operas. Meng Xiaodong is also responsible for singing the patriotic axis.
Everyone went ashore at Chaotianmen Pier and saw some scattered lanterns along the way.
The Chongqing Jiefangbei in later generations, the “spiritual fortress” has been blown up again, and a straight wooden pole was erected in the crater to replace it.
“Drip!”
A jeep honked its horn, and many citizens gathered around and pointed at the jeep.
An American officer was sitting in the car, waving at pedestrians while driving, whistling and laughing from time to time. In the passenger seat, there was a Chinese girl with permed wavy hair and a uniform. If she got out of the car, she could still see stockings on her legs.
For this kind of woman, everyone calls her a “jeep girl”, which is not much different from a prostitute.
Jeep girls first appeared only in Kunming, and they were often regular female translators. Gradually, jeep girls began to appear in Chongqing, and their identities deteriorated rapidly – they may only say “Hello” and “Goodbye”, just for a few pairs of stockings, a few bottles of Coke, a few cans and some tips, Staying around American officers all day pretending to be a translator.
These jeep girls have the most dance girls, and after a while, poor women from good families and vain schoolgirls will join them. While corrupting the social atmosphere, it also brings various social contradictions, and accidental mixed-race children emerge one after another.
What’s more, these American soldiers drove around in jeeps, and when they saw a beautiful Chinese woman, they hugged the car, whether you like it or not, and calling the police after the incident has no effect.
In order to protect the female classmates of their own schools, many universities in Chengdu and Chongqing specially built a one-meter-high stone pillar at the intersection outside the campus to prevent the passage of jeeps, which shows the arrogance and domineering of the US military in China.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, jeep girls quickly spread to Shanghai, Peiping, Wuhan, Xi’an and other cities.
American soldiers like to go to bars, and when they get drunk, they drive jeeps around. In Shanghai in the early days of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was very common for jeeps to kill two or three people every day.
Later, the impact was so bad that the Nationalist government had to order that Chinese women were prohibited from riding in American jeeps.
The U.S. military stationed in China is like a bird everywhere, and China has been greatly harmed by them. The most sensational of them is the “Shen Chong Incident”.
Shen Chong is the great-great-granddaughter of Lin Zexu, the great-granddaughter of Shen Baozhen, Governor of Liangjiang and Minister of Nanyang, the granddaughter of Lin Shu, a great translator, and the daughter of Shen Shao, the former Deputy Minister of Communications.
On Christmas Eve, Shen Chong went to see the movie “Nation First” from his cousin’s house. After the show, he met two American soldiers who were drunk. They saw that Shen Chong was young and beautiful, and his **** was strong, and they forcibly dragged Shen Chong to a corner of Dongdan Square to **** him three times in turn.
Later, a passerby noticed the situation and immediately came to stop it, but was beaten by two American soldiers.
This incident caused an uproar, and students all over the country held spontaneous demonstrations. Hu Shi contacted many parties to try to resolve the matter, and wanted to form a Sino-US joint court for trial. In the end, the two U.S. soldiers were sentenced to 15 years in prison and 10 months in prison, respectively, by a military court.
Before Hu Shi had time to be happy, the U.S. Navy judge revoked the verdict and reinstated the U.S. soldier involved on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
The news of came out, and the anti-American sentiment among Chinese people reached its peak. Because the “Shen Chong case” is not an isolated case, it’s just a microcosm of the wanton rampage of American soldiers in China. These guys who committed rape, assault, and ramming to death have never been brought to justice, and the common people have long suffered from it.
In order to quell public anger, the Nationalist government actually chose to create rumors to divert the topic.
They first questioned Shen Chong’s identity as a college student at Peking University, and asked Chen Xueping, the dean of Peking University and the head teacher of the pre-study class, to deliberately mislead the public, using ambiguous language to imply that Shen Chong was not a female student at Peking University. Abominably, this Chen Xueping is also a distant relative of the victim Shen Chong!
People were furious and questioned the government: “Isn’t it a Peking University student who was raped, so the murderer can get away with it?”
Then, the Nationalist government poured dirty water on the Communist Party, believing that the case was deliberately planned by the Communist Party with the intention of destroying Sino-US diplomatic relations. As a matter of fact, the party organization in Peiping was slow to respond at that time, and it was only nearly a month after the accident that it began to exert force secretly. Obviously, it was not planned by the Communist Party.
During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Lao Jiang wanted to use the power of the United States to defeat the Communist Party. But the American soldiers are so disgusting, and the Chinese people suffer from it, which makes the national government even more unpopular.
It seems that American officers also came to join in the fun for the Lantern Festival. A jeep just passed by, and two quickly followed.
Three jeeps were parked on the side of the road, and there were no women in the next two vehicles. An American officer asked, “Alan, where did you get the woman next to you?”
“It’s pulled up by the side of the road, two military cans and a pair of stockings, you can play all night.” The officer named Allen said.
“So cheap?” the man asked in surprise.
Allen laughed: “The Chinese are very poor, two cans are enough.”
The two guys who were alone immediately got out of the car to look for their targets, and soon found a few female students who were watching the play.
An American officer stopped the female students and asked, “Do you speak English?”
“certainly.”
“That’s great. We are the US military stationed in China to help China fight the Japanese.”
“Thank you American friends.”
“I’m not very familiar with Chongqing, and I don’t understand Chinese. Who is willing to do a temporary translation for me tonight? By the way, I will pay you.”
“Without pay, I am happy to serve American friends.”
“That’s great, let’s go to the bar for a few drinks and I’ll treat you.”
“…”
Several female students disagreed on this. They were all willing to help out of kindness, but two of them were reluctant to go to the bar. And they have already bought the tickets for the theater, so if they don’t go to the theater, it will be a waste.
After whispering for a while, only one girl was willing to accompany the American soldier to the bar, and the rest planned to continue to go to the theater.
The problem is that there are two American officers who are looking for a woman, which is obviously not enough. They looked at each other, and regardless of the objections of the female students, they grabbed one and dragged it to the jeep.
“What are you doing? Let me go!”
“Miss, I invite you to drink, I can give you five cans.”
“I don’t want canned food, let go of my hand! Help!”