The Japanese army wants to occupy the Qiao family compound, see 1 object hanging at the door, the Japanese army: we can't afford it, hurry up and retreat
Shanxi's architecture, we will think of Pingyao Ancient City, Wang Family Compound and other famous architectural complexes. Indeed, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, many Shanxi people went to the west to break into the Guandong and created a generation of Jin merchants. And this historical event we are talking about today is actually related to the famous Qiao family compound. What many people don't know is that this rich Family of Qiao almost disappeared into the long river of history.
At that time, the Japanese soldiers originally wanted to loot the Qiao family compound, and the team all arrived at the door of the Qiao family compound, but finally saw the flag hanging on the door and turned around and withdrew. Obviously, during World War II, Italy and Japan and Germany were fascist allies, and when Japan saw the Italian flag hanging in the qiao family compound, it would more or less guess that since it was the courtyard that the allies wanted to maintain, it was naturally impossible for it to destroy or invade.
In this case, several Italian nuns fled to joe's compound and were rescued as a result. Since the nuns didn't do anything bad, Joe's family hid them in their home. It wasn't until the matter was over that the Qiao family sent the nuns out safely. Later, in order to thank the Qiao family, the Italian minister sent an Italian flag to the Qiao family.
Related to the Japanese themselves, the Japanese invasion of China, for the characteristic buildings generally will not be bombed indiscriminately, such as Bauhinia City, there are many ancient buildings, because the Japanese at the beginning wanted to occupy China, and live in China for a long time, this is their biggest ambition. Coupled with the local people's resistance to the Japanese, the Japanese army has always hoped for the so-called "common prosperity" and will not be unable to live with most of the Chinese people because of a Qiao family compound, so it stayed.