1925年冬,在湘东革命老根据地的平江,暴发了一场震惊一时持续数月之久的阻止“英油起岸”风潮(人称“平江油潮”事件)。对于这场“油潮”事件,广大的劳苦群众、市民、学生,无不喜形悦色,拍手称快,谓之曰“爱国运动”;而那些执掌地方生杀大权的达官显贵、豪绅巨贾,则恐慌异常,调兵遣将,严加镇压,责之曰“土匪”行径。“英油起岸”究竟是怎么回事?何以引起如此轩然大波? In the winter of 1925, in Pingjiang, a revolutionary old base in the eastern part of Hunan Province, a wave of “British oil and oil embargo” (aka “Pingjiang oil tide”) was stormed out of shock for a few months. As for this “oil tide” incident, the masses of working people, citizens and students alike love to clamor for joy and clap their hands and claim that they are “patriotic movements.” And those dignitaries and dignitaries who hold the power of local people’s lives and deaths, Then panic abnormalities, dispatching troops to send troops and severely repress the reproach, calling it “banditry”. “British oil embankment,” what is going on? Why so uproar?