The Chinese government was preoccupied with numerous internal problems , including the issue of the newly independent Guangzhou government of Hu Hanmin , Communist Party of China insurrections , and terrible flooding of the Yangtze River that created tens of thousands of refugees . Moreover , Zhang himself was not in Manchuria at the time , but was in a hospital in Beijing to raise money for the flood victims . However , in the Chinese newspapers , Zhang was ridiculed as " General Nonresistance " ( )
terrible flooding
1931 China floods
Mukden Incident