When Britain began the industrial revolution, capitalism rose rapidly, in order to expand the market, the West entered the era of great navigation, and the Qing Dynasty at that time due to "closed-mindedness", there was a huge market, the Western powers had advanced guns to open the door to China.
The First Opium War, the Second Opium War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Eight-Power Alliance, the British and French Allied Forces, countless wars made the Qing Dynasty crumbling, in order to be able to become strong, the foreign ministers ran around, Tan Jinyong was one of them.
Tan Jinyong was a diplomat in the Foreign Affairs Movement, and also a military general in the Chinese legation in the United States, he was mainly responsible for negotiating with the United States, but also to train Qing soldiers, he himself was also a skill, on August 13, 1903, Tan Jinyong received orders from the Qing court, he rushed from Washington to San Francisco to deal with some foreign affairs.
Although some unpleasantness was generated in the exchange, but it was solved, Tan Jinyong was in a very happy mood, he walked on the San Francisco Bridge, the pedestrians seemed to have a great curiosity about his braids, one by one cast a strange look, and when it was nearly dusk, an American patrol officer walked past Tan Jinyong.
He opened his throat and said to Tan Jinyong, "Chinese? Yellowpig！ (Yellow Pig)", and raised his hand to lift his hat and insulted him wantonly: "Haha! Long braids, pig's tail", Tan Jinyong suppressed his anger and reasoned with him in English, but the patrolman raised his hand and slapped him.
Tan Jinyong couldn't bear it, so he returned a punch to him, the strength was not very great, but he was beaten back, the patrol police saw that the thin Tan Jinyong beat him back very angry, probably in order to find the field, he rushed forward to fight with Tan Jinyong, Tan Jinyong was originally a military attaché, where the patrol police were his opponents, and they were suddenly thrown to the ground.
The patrol police knew that they could not fight, so they blew the siren and summoned several patrol policemen, the so-called two fists were difficult to defeat with four hands, Tan Jinyong was thrown to the ground, they beat him severely, and also tied his braids to the fence to show the public, Tan Jinyong faced this group of jackals and wolves, and could not defend his dignity, his heart was broken.
It was even more heartbreaking for him, a large group of Americans were watching the hilarity, they were all booing, but none of them wanted to help him, the patrol police teased him in every way, and then escorted him to the police station, although Tan Jinyong showed the embassy military attaché ID, but the patrol police shouted: "All Chinese will be beaten, and no one can break this case."
Tan Jinyong was arrested and spread to the overseas Chinese circle, an overseas Chinese spent money to dredge some relations, only to take Tan Jinyong out, Tan Jinyong was grateful to him, there are still only "brothers and sisters" in this world, after bidding farewell to overseas Chinese, Tan Jinyong did not return to his residence.
Instead, he came to the San Francisco Bridge, where he stood, sighed, jumped, and threw himself into the rough waters.