Angry, sitting in the office of the Fortress Garden Juxiang Book House. The founding of the People's Republic of China should have been a moment of joy for the people of the whole country, but the face of *** showed anger. He rebuked the people around him, "This Ward dares to vent his anger on the people!"."Here's what happened: A bad incident in Shenyang that openly insulted the Chinese people, and the news reached the ears of ***. The protagonist of the incident was Angus Ward, Consul General of the US Consulate in Shenyang.
Ward served in China for nine years and in the Soviet Union for 10 years. In 1946, Ward came to China again and served as the consul general of the U.S. Consulate in Shenyang during the Kuomintang period. In early November 1948, the Northeast Field Army marched to Shenyang, annihilated the Kuomintang troops stationed in Shenyang, and realized the liberation of Shenyang. After the liberation, the mayor of Shenyang met with Ward several times and expressed his friendly attitude to him.
However, the Shenyang City then asked Ward to hand over the consulate's radio station, but Ward refused to cooperate, resulting in the Shenyang Municipal Public Security Department seizing the station. In May 1949, the United States decided to withdraw its consulate personnel from Shenyang, but Ward and his team remained in Shenyang. The victory of the Chinese People's Liberation Army shocked Ward, who was no longer treated by the high ground of the Kuomintang period, which frustrated him in his heart. Therefore, he tried to alleviate his dissatisfaction through some actions.
On September 27, 1949, just before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ward ordered the consulate's courtyard wall to be repaired and asked a 55-year-old Chinese worker, Ji Yuheng, to remove a reinforced concrete pillar in the garage. Ji Yuheng, a messenger who was hired by the former U.S. consulate in Shenyang for a long time, kept his job after the liberation of Shenyang and relied on it to earn a living. At one point, he was assigned a difficult task to dismantle reinforced concrete columns.
Ji Yuheng could only use his iron pickaxe to continuously slam the pillar, even though he was an old man, after a long period of hard work, the pillar was still as strong as ever, only a few pieces of debris fell. When the others saw that Ji Yuheng was so difficult, they all expressed their willingness to help, but they were all loudly reprimanded by Ward and retreated. Ji Yuheng continued to work until the afternoon, gradually exhausting his physical strength, while Ward came over from time to time to watch, smiling and putting his hands in his pockets.
In the end, Ji Yuheng couldn't continue to work and reported the situation to Ward's secretary Rehberg: "The work is too heavy for one person to complete. However, Rehberg insisted that Ji Yuheng do it alone and ignored it. Faced with this situation, Ji Yuheng could only say helplessly: "I really can't continue ...... anymore."Rehberg turned to leave, and when he returned, he announced, "Mr. Ward has fired you because you refused to work."
Ji Yuheng was both angry and helpless, he didn't expect that after so many years of diligence, he would lose his job because of such a trivial matter. He was helpless about the behavior of the U.S. consulate. And Ward almost regained his former prestige by firing Ji Yuheng, and after Ji Yuheng left, he was in a much better mood. However, on October 1, 1949, everything changed, ** stood on the tower of Tiananmen Square, announcing the founding of the People's Republic of China to the world.
From that moment on, the Chinese people stood up and truly became the masters of the country. As an ordinary person, Ji Yuheng was shocked and inspired by the great moment of the founding of New China, which also brought him great courage. Soon after, on October 12, Ji Yuheng went to the former U.S. Consulate in Shenyang again and asked Ward to settle the wages of his past work.
This request was reasonable, but Ward did not approve of it, and immediately became furious and angrily reprimanded Ji Yuheng: "Not a penny!."Get out of here!You've been fired, don't stay here!What's more, several people pushed Ji Yuheng down and even beat him, he was seriously injured, and even the colleagues who came to help were slapped several times. The Chinese rebelled against the beating of foreigners, and a cry of "no beating Chinese" ended the beating suffered by Ji Yuheng. The atrocities of Ward and his companions provoked the indignation of the people.
In Shenyang, Ward frequently caused beatings, and since he arrived, there have been reports of him beating people. This behavior aroused the anger and ** of the people in Shenyang and even the whole country, and they strongly demanded that Ward and others be severely punished. One worker told reporters: "Since we have the power to end the enslavement of the Chinese by US imperialism, we also have the power to punish American nationals who commit any crimes on Chinese soil."
The matter of Ward and Ji Yuheng was quickly reported to Beijing and Zhongnanhai, and New China had just been founded, and **urgently sent a telegram to *** to report Ward's beating of Ji Yuheng.
** After learning about it, he was very angry: "This Wald dares to spread wild on the people!."* immediately said: "Call the Northeast Bureau and arrest those **!So that they can't break the law again**!He personally gave instructions: "In China, no matter who you are, you must abide by the rules of China, and no one can touch China's laws and regulations!"On October 30, 1949, both Ward and Ji Yuheng appeared in court for trial.
Ward argued that he was not beating Ji Yuheng, but was helping him, saying: "I never curse, and in my eyes, employees are like family." However, Ji Yuheng's injuries were so serious that he even fell into a state of delirium on the day of the beating. Ji Yuheng's hospital diagnosis, ** records, and the testimony of his co-workers all clearly prove the atrocities of Ward and others. Faced with a large amount of evidence, Ward and others had nothing to say.
In the end, the court ordered Ward and others to pay Ji Yuheng the wages and severance pay they were entitled to, and deported them. In the capital, 300,000 soldiers and civilians gathered in Tiananmen Square to participate in the founding ceremony. When the verdict was announced, Ji Yuheng burst into tears, as an ordinary person, he had suffered under the bullying of foreigners for many years, and now he finally got his dignity.
He burst into tears with emotion and said, "Thank you to the People's Court for upholding justice for me!""Yes, the Chinese people stood up, and the humiliation of being arbitrarily bullied by foreigners in that era is gone forever. The beating incident occurred in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it has a special significance for hundreds of millions of people, including the great people's leader and the great Communist Party.
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