Chapter 433: A Real Shipwreck

The middle is also interspersed with Wang Qian's explanation in many Chinese.

"There are six surviving Chinese people on the Sandani, these six surviving Chinese are household names in the Western world, and their reputation is extremely negative, and players should have discovered by playing as these six surviving Chinese people that their actions are not as extremely negative as the legend. ”

"The real shipwreck of the Sandani not only has a poignant love story, but also hides ugly racist discrimination. At that time, the St. Dani was a super-first-class super-luxury ship, how could there be Chinese people on it? The reason is simple, they were not passengers, but boiler workers on board, whose registered names were: FangLang, LeeBing, AliLam, ChangChip, ChoongFoo, LeeLing, LingLee, and LenLam. Only 3 Chinese names can be found from historical sources: Zhong Jie, Li Bing, and Bingxin. ”

"In order to save costs, shipping companies at that time liked to recruit Chinese crews, and they only had one ticket, which was very cheap, one for eight people, third class, and only one-fifth of the salary of a white crew member who also worked. What they experienced was also very simple: the Saint-Dani hit an iceberg in the sea on its first voyage, sank two hours and forty minutes later, and 1,500 people died at the bottom of the sea, and 705 survived, including them. ”

"When it comes to the Saint-Dani, people's first impression is that after the shipwreck, the ship was in order, the women and children were given priority to escape from the boat, the band was calm and composed, and the passengers on board showed nobility and fortitude. ”

"Is that really the case?"

"After the shipwreck, a lot of people died on board. At first, the media fired fiercely at the British, because the ship was made by the British and driven by the British. There are also many inside stories: for example, more than an hour before hitting the iceberg, the ship was constantly warned by passing ships, the surviving British sailor Klein said that the lookout was drowsy, and the other commanders and crew members on board were drunk, etc. ”

"In order to defend themselves, the British media made up a series of stories about the spirit of a gentleman. The most outrageous fabrication is about the deeds of a heroine, Mrs. Gordon, who said that she was the last to enter the boat, and she was calm. In fact, as soon as she and her husband got into the lifeboat, they gave the crew five pounds to row away quickly, and the dinghy, which could accommodate forty people, rowed away with only twelve people, seven of whom were still crew members. ”

The head of the steamship company's New York dock said that British parliamentarians, American senators and other bigwigs scrambled to save the lifeboats, and the crew had to shoot them down. The news was followed by a newspaper note calling him nonsense. The next day, the person in charge changed his tune, saying that he had made it up to reporters. ”

"The real situation is that half of the more than 700 survivors of the shipwreck are men, and there is no chivalry of women and children going first, and men from the United States and Britain account for more than half of them. The surviving women and children are basically their family members. According to the grade of the cabins, the survival rate of the first-class cabin is 62 percent, the second-class cabin is 48 percent, and the third-class cabin is 25 percent. ”

"The British and American media initially exposed each other's shortcomings. But then the British and American media suddenly joined forces to boast about the unswerving chivalry of the Anglo-Saxon (Anglo-American Juche nation), the Anglo-Saxon men are the real men, and so on. ”

"The St. Dani belongs to the White Star Company and is registered as a Royal Cruise Line, but the actual owner of this company is Morgan, a native of the United States. In addition, the tourism bosses on the Atlantic coast of the United States are also dissatisfied with the fact that the newspapers of the United States have scolded the British for being irresponsible, because they very much want British tourists to come and play, and do not want to create an irresponsible image of the British steamship company, which makes people worry about cross-sea travel. ”

As a result, the attitude of the British and American media towards the shipwreck made a 360-degree turn, and a chorus began to blow the chivalry and gentlemanly demeanor of the Anglo-Saxons. But for this kind of boasting to be believed, there must be a negative teaching material or a reference. ”

"At that time, Zhong Nationalism was prevalent. There are many outsiders on the chain of contempt in Britain and the United States: blacks, Irish, Italians, Chinese, etc. This has become a PK of national strength. The use of blacks as scapegoats has long been a tradition in Britain and the United States. There was indeed a black man on board the Saint-Dani, but unfortunately, he died in a shipwreck and was already a scapegoat...... Logan Marshall's book "The Sinking of the Saint-Dani" claims that the black man snatched the chief telegrapher's life jacket and was shot dead by the deputy telegraph operator Bright. ”

"There was indeed a life jacket, but when the person who was robbed told the reporter at the beginning, he said that the person who robbed him of the life jacket was a white man. Therefore, it can be seen that the later version was planted to blacks. ”

"Italians were also often hacked at that time. As a result, the New York Times reported that the third-class passengers frantically rushed into the lifeboats, and three of the Italians were killed by the ship's mates. At the Senator's hearing, Novi, the fifth mate of the Sandani, said: The Italians have a fierce light in their eyes, like a pack of wild beasts, ready to leap into the lifeboat from there. ”

After all, Italy was also one of the great powers at that time, and the then Italian ambassador to the United States, Gusani, and Vincenzo, a staff member of the legal department of the embassy, immediately approached the fifth deputy and protested. The fifth mate hurriedly changed his words and said that he guessed, but the situation was panicked at that time, and he couldn't see it at all. ”

"The blacks are dead, and the Italians can't afford to mess with them, so they choose and choose, and only the Chinese are left with negative teaching materials and references. What's more, six of the eight Chinese can survive, and this proportion is really too high! Who are you looking for if you don't look for the Chinese?"

"After the ship's accident, the crew first notified the wealthy in the first class, which caused the panic that was later concealed. But the people in the third class didn't know that the ship was sinking, and even if they did, they couldn't escape because the hatch to the upper cabin was locked!"

"Later, the hatch was forced open, and people in the third class swarmed out. But by this time, many lifeboats had already been launched and rowed away. There were a few left, but there were guns that threatened them not to get on board. At this moment, five of the Chinese found a broken and unrepaired boat on the deck of the ship, and the people who were running in horror did not expect that it could also be used for survival. ”

The five Chinese people worked together to throw this small boat, which was actually unable to save their lives, into the sea, and then jumped into the sea, immersed themselves in the water, and carried the boat in the sea. ”

"The last of them were put on deck and not allowed to get on the lifeboat, and they miraculously survived for three reasons: first, they were lucky enough to see a broken boat, and the wisdom of unity was also the reason for their survival. The last reason is quite ironic, because the first people who were given a chance to escape, mainly the British and the United States, were too panicked, and many of the lifeboats hurriedly lowered the water and rowed away before they were full, but instead gave several Chinese seats when they were rescued. If the lifeboats had been full, no one would have saved them. ”

At that time, this kind of fact would not have been told, and it was even more impossible for the people of the shipping company to apologize and compensate them. On the contrary, the media first fabricated that they were stowaways who had infiltrated the ship, carrying women's shawls with them, and successfully camouflaged their escapes when the crew organized female passengers to enter the lifeboats first, and despicably stole the chances of survival given by the heroic Anglo-Saxon men. ”

"But after all, the six people are crew members, and there are documents to prove it, and it is difficult to be convincing to make up that they are stowaways. So they made up again that they were not disguised as women, but took advantage of the orderly queue of the gentlemen on the ship, sneakily touched over, and lurked under the lifeboat to escape. ”

"But that's not enough, because it has been reported that they were rescued from the sea. ”

A third version was coined: they jumped from the deck into the lifeboat and trampled on the female passengers. This is true, but it was not them who jumped into the lifeboat, but the rich men of the United States, Stenger and Solomon. What is even more surprising is that these two men were named heroes by the media of the United States, because they helped paddle on the boat, embodying the heroic courage of Anglo-Saxon men. ”

"At that time, China's national strength was already weak, and the revolution happened to break out, so it was too busy to take care of itself. The Western media have no scruples about smearing them, and there is no need to worry about what happens when smearing Italians. It is also impossible for any eyewitness to speak for them. The New York Times once revealed that in order to prevent the surviving crew from revealing the actual situation of the shipwreck, the White Star Company isolated them in the bilge of a ship, sent detectives to strictly guard them, and ordered them to keep quiet, otherwise they would lose their jobs at the White Star Company. ”

After continuous smearing, these six Chinese people who escaped death were said to prove that the Chinese people were unruly, cunning, and treacherous, and became a symbol of the inferior nation and a well-known villain in the West. These six rescued Chinese people did not know about these things at the time. The rescued men of the Sandani were first sent to an island called Da Ellis, and then to New York. There was a Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States at that time, and they were not allowed to enter the United States, so the next day, they left and got on another ship to continue their crew life. ”

"Except for them, all the other rescued people were allowed to enter the country. The media in the United States dared to make rumors about them so violently at that time, which is also one of the reasons. Anyway, they are working on a ship to Cuba, and it is impossible to know what the media in the United States say about them, and even if they do, because they don't know English at all, they can't defend themselves. The most important thing is that no one will look for them at all. ”