The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

The Nationalist Government's excessive issuance of banknotes in 1944 also had something to do with the 100,000 U.S. troops stationed in China.

These US troops are mainly stationed in Yunnan, including army aviation, air transport troops, ground support, logistics troops, as well as various military advisers and military instructors. There are more than 3,400 US military advisers and instructors sent to various units in China alone, and these advisers and instructors are often assigned a Chinese translator - Mei Yiqi's son voluntarily dropped out of school and went to work for the US military as a translator.

The salary of the 100,000 US troops stationed in China is naturally provided 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 beef, and Yunnan should try its best to satisfy it.

Long Yun was not in the mood to celebrate the New Year at all, and immediately sent a telegram back: Yunnan's farm cattle have been eaten by the US military, and now they must go to Guizhou to buy them. I will not be able to fulfill your request.

According to statistics from Young, the financial consultant of the United States stationed in China, the cost of one US military stationed in China at that time was equivalent to the cost of 500 Chinese soldiers. How can we be soldiers? They are all uncles. By 1945, more than 53% of the legal tender issued by the Nationalist Government that year was used for the expenditure of the US military stationed in China.

Not counting military pay, supporting 100,000 US troops stationed in China is equivalent to supporting 50 million Chinese soldiers...

In addition, China is also responsible for undertaking infrastructure projects. For example, when the US military built an air force 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 of the lunar calendar.

Zhou Hexuan took his whole family to the city to watch a theater. There is a Lantern Festival performance at the Cathay Theater tonight. 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 keynote.

Everyone disembarked at Chaotianmen Pier and saw some scattered lanterns along the way.

In later generations, the Chongqing Liberation Monument, the "spiritual fortress", was bombed again, and a straight wooden pole was erected in the crater to replace it.

"Didi!"

A jeep flew past with its horn honking, and many citizens gathered around and pointed at the jeep.

There was an American officer sitting in the car. He waved to pedestrians while driving, and whistled and laughed from time to time. There was a Chinese girl sitting in the passenger seat. She had wavy hair and was wearing a uniform. If she got out of the car, you could see she was wearing stockings on her legs.

For this kind of woman, everyone calls it "Jeep Girl", and she is no different from a prostitute.

Jeep girls first appeared only in Kunming, and were often regular female translators. Gradually, Jeep girls began to appear in Chongqing, and their identities quickly deteriorated - they might only say "Hello" and "Goodbye", and they would pay for a few pairs of stockings, a few bottles of Coke, a few cans and some tips. He stayed with the American military officer all day long and pretended to be a translator.

Most of these jeep girls are dancers. After a while, poor women from good families and vain female students will also join them. While corrupting social morals, it also brings about various social conflicts, and accidental mixed-race children emerge one after another.

What's more, these American soldiers are driving around in jeeps and hugging beautiful Chinese women in the car. Whether you want it or not, calling the police afterwards has no effect.

In order to protect their female classmates, many universities in Chengdu and Chongqing specially built one-meter-high stone pillars at intersections outside the campus to block the passage of jeeps. This shows the arrogance and domineering power of the US military in China.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Jeep Girls quickly spread to Shanghai, Peking, Wuhan, Xi'an and other cities.

American soldiers liked to go to bars and drive jeeps around when they were drunk. In Shanghai during the early days of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was extremely common for a jeep to hit and kill two or three people every day. Sometimes the jeep would collide with another jeep, both of which were so drunk.

Later, the impact was so bad that the Nationalist Government had to issue an order banning Chinese women from riding in US military jeeps.

The U.S. military stationed in China looks the same everywhere, and China has also suffered a lot from them. The most sensational one is undoubtedly the "Shen Chong Incident".

Shen Chong is the great-great-granddaughter of Lin Zexu, the great-granddaughter of Shen Baozhen, the governor of Liangjiang and Nanyang Minister, the granddaughter of the great translator Lin Shu, and the daughter of Shen Shao, the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications. She studied in the preparatory class of Peking University in 1946.

On Christmas Eve, Shen Chong went to watch the movie "Nation First" from his cousin's house. After the movie, he met two drunk American soldiers. Seeing that Shen Chong was young and beautiful, they became lustful and took Shen Chong to a corner of Dongdan Square and took turns raping him three times.

Later, a passerby noticed the situation and immediately came to stop him, but was beaten up by two American soldiers.

This incident caused an uproar, and students across the country held spontaneous demonstrations. Hu Shi contacted many parties to try to resolve the matter, and wanted to set up a Sino-US joint court for trial. In the end, the two American soldiers were sentenced to 15 years in prison and 10 months in prison respectively by the military court.

Before Hu Shi could be happy, the U.S. Navy military judge revoked the verdict and reinstated the American soldier involved due to insufficient evidence.

As the news spread, anti-American sentiment among Chinese people reached its peak. Because the "Shen Chong Case" is not an isolated case, it is just a microcosm of the rampage of American soldiers in China. These guys who committed rape, assault, and death have never been brought to justice, and the common people have long suffered.

In order to quell public anger, the Nationalist Government actually chose to create rumors and divert the topic.

They first questioned Shen Chong's identity as a Peking University student, and asked Chen Xueping, the dean of Peking University and preparatory class teacher, to deliberately mislead the public and use ambiguous language to imply that Shen Chong was not a Peking University girl. What's damning is that this Chen Xueping is also a distant relative of the victim Shen Chong!

People were furious and asked the government: "Could it be that the person who was raped was not a Peking University student, so the murderer can go free?"

Then, the Nationalist Government poured dirty water on the Communist Party, believing that the case was deliberately planned by the Communist Party to undermine Sino-US diplomatic relations. In fact, the party organization in Peiping was slow to respond at the time and only began to secretly exert force nearly a month after the incident. It was obviously not premeditated by the Communist Party.

During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to use the power of the United States to defeat the Communist Party. But the American soldiers were so disgusting, and the Chinese people suffered so much, which made the National Government even more unpopular.

It seemed that American military officers had also come to join in the fun of celebrating the Lantern Festival. A jeep just passed by, followed quickly by two more.

Three jeeps were parked on the side of the road, and there were no women in the two subsequent vehicles. An American officer asked: "Ellen, where did you find the woman next to you?"

"There are two military cans and a pair of stockings on the roadside. You can play with them all night." The officer named Allen said.

"So cheap?" the man asked in surprise.

Allen smiled and said: "The Chinese are very poor, so two cans are enough."

The two lone guys immediately got out of the car to look for targets, and soon discovered a few female students who were watching the show.

An American officer stopped the female students and asked, "Do you know English?"

"certainly."

"That's great. We are the US military stationed in China, helping 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 be my temporary translator tonight? By the way, I will pay you."

"I am happy to serve my American friends without any reward."

"That's great. Let's go to the bar and have a few drinks. I'll treat you."

"..."

Several female students had differences over this. They were all willing to help out of kindness, but two of them did not want to go to the bar. Moreover, they have already bought the theater tickets, and it will be wasted if they don’t go to the theater.

After discussing quietly for a while, only one girl was willing to accompany the American soldier to the bar, while the rest planned to continue going to the theater.

The problem is that there are two American officers looking for women, and they are obviously not divided enough. They looked at each other, ignored the objections of the female students, grabbed one and dragged him to the jeep.

"What are you doing? Let me go!"

"Miss, let me invite you to drink. I can give you five cans."

"I don't want the can, please release your hands! Help!"