Due to the Qing government's isolation from the country, China was disconnected from the world, and the gap between China and the world after the Industrial Revolution became wider and wider. In order to open up the market, the industrial countries of the West began to open up colonies to the world, and China became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. Although China is constantly resisting, its sovereignty is constantly lost because of the disparity in strength. Because the loss of sovereignty led to one tragedy after another, the Jingminglou incident was even more sensational. At that time, the families of senior Nationalist officers were insulted by the U.S. military, and the youngest victim was only 15 years old. However, what makes people even more angry is that the court does not punish the murderer severely, but blames the victim for scratching his head. Next, let's take a look at the beginning and end of the Jingminglou incident and see if the National Government loses the hearts of the people step by step.
As we all know, "one mountain does not tolerate two tigers," and a civil war broke out shortly after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan. At that time, the US Policy toward China was to eliminate our Party by aiding the Kuomintang and large-scale military intervention, and then supporting its own compradors. The National Government's efforts to curry favor with the United States for the sake of U.S. aid can be described as doing everything in its power, and it is so biased in its judicial favor toward foreigners that it has led to one tragedy after another. In mid-July 1948, the deputy general manager of the Hankou branch of Mobil (Lifu) was returning to China, and his good friend (George Lincoln, an officer in the United States Air Force) said that he would give him a farewell party. The Nationalist government at that time had long banned the ball, and in order to give Lifu a good memory and to get rid of some troubles, George decided to give this task to the prom master (Seraphim).
At that time, the American requirement was that the participants in the prom must be female, men were forbidden to participate, and women who also participated in the prom were to accompany the dance and accompany the dormitory. Obviously, Americans are not looking for dance partners, and everyone knows what to do. After consultation with his sister-in-law (Zhang Yueming), the organizer of the dance decided that Serafin would find the band, and Zhang Yueming would be responsible for finding the woman. Seraphim himself is in charge of the dance, it is not difficult for him to find a band, and Zhang Yueming knows a bunch of, and it is not difficult to find a woman. It's just that they concealed the conditions for the Americans to ask for companionship, and fooled a group of celebrities to participate in the name of the fraternity ball. Many of these ladies were concubines of Kuomintang officers, and one of them brought his fifteen-year-old daughter to the ball (Cao Xiuying's mother and daughter).
At 7 p.m. on August 7, 1948, a group of people gathered at JingmingLou, except for the Chinese celebrities, who were all foreigners. At 9:30 p.m., the ball was held as scheduled, but when the ball was halfway through, the foreigners tore up the appearance of the gentleman and began to do dirty things, and none of the Chinese women present were spared, including the little girl who was only 15 years old. Until 12 o'clock in the evening, the singer who luckily escaped from the Jingming Building went to the police station to call the police. By the time the police got to the scene, the ball had long since ended, and George and Riffy refused to say what had happened. After this incident, the National Government tried its best to block the news and demanded that the victims should take care of the "national reputation" and "allied friendship", which is not the shame of the victims, but the shame of the entire nation.
With the fermentation of public opinion, the National Government sentenced Zhang Yueming and others to prison for violating morality. However, the Nationalist government only mentioned the perpetrators of the crime, and complained that these celebrities scratched their heads and seduced the Allied forces to commit crimes. The impact of this incident was very large, and the news reported that the second wife of Zhang Michuan (a lieutenant general in the nationalist army) and a group of celebrities were all humiliated. The Nationalist government also gradually lost the hearts and minds of the people, leading to the peaceful liberation of Wuhan in the future.