On November 14, 1908, the night was still very deep, and on the long street outside the door of the Prince of Alcohol of , there were heavy footsteps. Soon after, several eunuchs came with a team of people. The dimly lit prince’s mansion read the decree.
The content of this decree is to let Prince Jin’s son Pu Yi live in the palace and take over the throne.
Puyi's grandmother fainted directly after hearing this. She understood that Puyi might never get out of that city again.
In Puyi's mother's bitter cry, Puyi was held by the nurse and sat on the sedan chair into the palace.
This year, Puyi was three years old, and he was held as the emperor when he was only three years old, but what he didn't know was that he would be the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
The Xinhai Revolution that broke out in 1912 ended the feudal monarchy that had lasted for more than two thousand years.
Someone issued an edict for him. Pu Yi didn't understand what the edict meant, so he retreated from the position of the emperor.
The government of the Republic of China just established, considering the stability of the society, did not judge the emperor. They retained many of the policies of the previous dynasty. Puyi still lives in the forbidden city .
Later, a group of people came in from outside the Forbidden City and came to Puyi's small imperial court, rightly trying to defend their homes and the country. One of them was Zhang Xun , and he said he was a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.
Under the support of this person, Pu Yi became the emperor again. As a teenager, he already understood what the word emperor meant.
He is a great vassal and looks like he wants to do a big business, but everyone understands that he is greedy for the right in his hands.
However, the new era has arrived, and the flames of restoration of the old era have been extinguished as soon as they are ignited.
Puyi had no choice but to withdraw from the position of the emperor again.
In 1924, the Northwest warlord Feng Yuxiang greed for the treasure in the Forbidden City,He sent soldiers into the Forbidden City and drove Puyi out of the palace, thus ending his little court life.
Pu Yi took his queen and walked out of for the first time, and walked out of this place where he could not even go out even after his mother died.
In a panic, Pu Yi fled to the Japanese mansion with a little confused Pu Yi.
At this time, dozens of newspapers controlled by the Japanese mansion, through the arrival of Puyi, created momentum for the establishment of a pseudo-Manchukuo in the future, and vigorously promoted Puyi's experience in the newspapers, saying how pitiful it was.
Although the encounter was rough, Puyi still considered himself the emperor subconsciously.
Japan established the Puppet Manchukuo in the northeastern region to support Puyi as the emperor. He did not understand what the situation was, but he knew that he was the emperor again. At this time, he recalled what the eunuchs had said to him. "I am the emperor, the emperor of ten thousand years."
In this year, Puyi changed the year and country name. As a politician at the time, he appeared on the cover of American Time magazine twice at the moment when the crisis of the Far East could break out at any time. Become an important person who is paying attention internationally.
But Pu Yi did not pay attention to these. In these days in the Puppet Manchukuo, he only cared about eating, drinking and having fun, enjoying the great honor that the emperor's status brought him. Pu Yi didn't know what kind of harm he would bring to people with the documents he signed casually.
In 1945, the invaders were over and the war was coming to an end. Before they had time to prepare, the walls of the Puppet Manchukuo were blasted open by Soviet artillery fire, and the Puppet Manchukuo was destroyed.
Pu Yi reluctantly abdicated again. On the way to the airport with the Japanese, the panicked Pu Yi was captured by Soviet soldiers and was detained in the Soviet Union for five years.
In 1950, Puyi, a group of war criminals, was extradited from the Soviet Union back to China, and he was placed in a prison in the northeast.
Pu Yi sat in the car uneasy, staring at the front with blank eyes and muttering to herself, "Probably everyone is here, and I will be judged soon."
When getting off the car,Pu Yi's whole body trembled uncontrollably, and the muscles in his face twitched. He recognized this place as the place where he used to be the emperor of Manchuria.
At the dinner table, he yelled in a panic, "Go, go on the road", he was so nervous that he thought this would be the last meal of his life.
The execution order did not come down. He was detained in a prison, where his number is 981, and the prisoners call him 981. He was once an emperor respected by thousands of people, and the remaining traces of emperor's dignity were also washed away in prison.
As the last emperor, Puyi can live, he feels very strange. Facing foreign reporters’ questions, he once said with emotion, “No last emperor can live, but I can live. It’s really amazing.”
1956 Mao Zedong published "On the Ten Major Relationships", which clearly stated Put forward that the treatment of Pu Yi and other "big Chiang Kai-shek" "can only be gradually reformed, not simply executed".
Pu Yi does not have a clear understanding of his crimes. He still believes that he is just a puppet emperor. As for what he brings to people in this position, he has not understood.
staff yelled at him angrily, "The suffering of the 30 million people in Northeast China, and millions of people have fallen on their heads, how come it has nothing to do with you, the emperor of Manchuria , ?"
Pu Yi was shocked, this is him It was the first time that he understood how many people had been caused by being the emperor of Manchuria, and he faced his crimes nakedly for the first time. Later in the memoir, Pu Yi confessed that "I am a sinner in China".
He began to accept the transformation sincerely. Puyi's transformation was gentle, and the labor intensity was not high. In his spare time, he also took time to grow flowers and plants and walk around.
During this period of Fushun war criminals management reform, he thought for a long time, and then began to write his autobiography " my first half of my life ".
Puyi during the reconstruction of Fushun,Mao Zedong once said to Puyi's seventh uncle Zaitao, " We are destroying the exploiting class, not anyone. Your family should care about him, help him, and let him transform into an ordinary person." Mao Zedong hopes that loves Xinjue People from the Luo family went to visit Puyi, so that Puyi could complete the transformation as soon as possible.
Under Mao Zedong's instructions this year, Puyi's seventh uncle, sister and others came to Fushun in the northeast to visit Puyi, Pujie and other members of the Aixinjueluo family who were imprisoned here.
Before, members of the Aixinjueluo family called Puyi the emperor in public, but at this time Puyi is no longer the emperor, his code name is 981.
Pu Yi saw Zai Tao in the crowd. He burst into tears and his family members came to see him. His heart was relieved and excited. Pu Yi yelled "Uncle Seven" emotionally. Here, his sister called him "Big Brother" for the first time, not the emperor. They became a family of ordinary people.
This time meeting with my family, Puyi sees the hope of being a new man in the new era.
In 1959, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong decided to amnesty a group of war criminals who had abandoned evil and turned to good through reforming. Among them, Aixinjueluo Puyi was included in the amnesty.
Mao Zedong said, "For to be amnesty, we must first release the emperor. We Communists must have this courage ."
Puyi has been in prison for ten years. At the age of fifty, his temples were white. When he heard the news that he was pardoned, he looked excited, his hands trembled, his crutches fell to the ground, excited almost unable to stand, and then bowed to the staff with tears in his eyes. bow.
After the amnesty, Pu Yi was assigned to work in the Beijing Botanical Garden. Later, he was assigned to the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, where he became a cultural and historical commissioner.People who work here say that they often see Pu Yi with a smile on his face.
In order to set an example for the people, just one month after Puyi was released from prison, Zhou Enlai specially received Puyi and the entire Aixinjueluo family members in the small conference room of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Last week, Zhou Enlai talked about ethnicity from his family. Zhou Enlai said that ethnic groups must learn from each other and accept each other in order to be united in the end. It is a matter of generations regardless of Manchu and Han. Nowadays, the ethnic group emphasizes equality.
These words were actually addressed to Pu Yi’s younger sister Yun He listen. As the youngest sister, Pu Yi was a bad person. She grew up hearing the idea that Pu Yi is a bad person. She has always been ashamed of Pu Yi. Zhou Enlai knew that Pu Yi had changed through transformation. Zhou Enlai was trying to clear the barriers and the barriers between the family and the life of Pu Yi after he was released from prison.
In November 1960, Puyi, who was pardoned for one year, was already a true citizen of the Republic.
On this day, he solemnly put on that Chinese tunic suit.
That is the clothes that he wears only when he meets with foreign guests. He is going to participate in the community election.
Later Pu Yi wrote: "I got the voter card with Aixinjueluo Puyi. I think it’s not as valuable to add up all the treasures of my life. When I put the ballot in the red election box , I think I’m richer than anyone else”, “I have become the master of this 9.6 million square kilometers of land just like hundreds of millions of people.”
Later in a speech, Pu Yi once said that he is now too The emperor, he has the right to vote and the right to be elected, and now he is the "collective emperor" on this land just like citizens of the whole country.
In 1961, Mao Zedong met Puyi at the Yi Niantang. This was the first time that Mao Zedong met him publicly since the amnesty.
The chef of Yi Nian Tang witnessed the whole process of the conversation between the two people.
Puyi came to the Yi Niantang very early that day,Wearing a white tunic suit and a pair of glasses with a black frame on the bridge of his nose, his tall figure makes him look very thin, with self-blame and expectation in his expression.
Seeing Mao Zedong, Pu Yi didn't say too much. He held Mao Zedong's hand, tears of old tears.
"I am a person who has committed a serious crime to the country. It is the greatest honor of my life to be interviewed..." He could hardly cry.
"...Welcome back to Beijing...Are you doing well in the research on Qing history materials?...You must also take care of your health. People in their 50s... continue to study. Learn to work. , Learn to live..." Mao Zedong's words are all concerned.
Pu Yi watched Mao Zedong talking with him with a smile, as if two old friends who hadn't seen each other for a while, his eyes were moist again.
"I am a sinner in New China. My biggest concern is that I should not take refuge in the Japanese, and become a tool for them to oppress the people and slaughter the Chinese people... One step wrong, one step wrong, it’s too late for me to look back. , Why have I become the emperor since I was a child..." Pu Yi said to himself, and Mao Zedong listened in silence.
When he heard that he felt guilty and regretful for being the emperor, Mao Zedong comforted him: "You are not to blame for being the emperor. You have to know that the emperor is a product of the feudal system. Even if he is striving to become the emperor, he needs a group of people around him to support him. Only the advocacy of these people will make the emperor feel that he is the supreme true dragon emperor. You must know that you are the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and you are still China 2000 For many years, the last emperor of the entire feudal society, your situation shows a big thing, that is, there will be no more feudal system in China in the future."
Looking at the rich food on the table, Pu Yi's eyes were empty, and his thoughts returned. Once upon a time. At that time, He Long asked him: "I used to be the emperor in your palace to eat incense.Still eating fragrant now?
Pu Yi sneered and said, "In the palace, a meal of forty or fifty dishes was very tasteless. Although the conditions are not as good as that at the time, I can eat a catty of steamed buns in one meal and it is very fragrant."
The two of them talked for a long time. There were only two of them and no one else to accompany this meal.
The conversation lasted for five hours, during which Pu Yi shed many tears, and they did not end until it was getting late, and Mao Zedong reminded him "You are not young, so hurry up and start a family, so that someone will take care of you in your life, which is good for your physical and mental health.
The meeting between the founding heads of state and the last emperor was such a breeze, like two old friends who had reunited for a long time, chatting together.
The following year, Mao Zedong set up a family banquet and specially invited Pu Yi. Puyi was very moved. He wrote in his memoirs: "I am deeply moved, and this has strengthened my determination to contribute to the country."
In 1966, the society became turbulent, and it seemed that everyone was in restlessness, Pu Yi He didn’t quite understand the seriousness of the matter. Once he discussed his views on the current situation with an old colleague. As soon as he spoke, his mouth was firmly covered by his colleague. The colleague was frightened by his bold words and advised him to do so. Don’t make trouble.
During that period, Puyi was forced to work like other cadres, chopping wood and carrying water every day. It’s just that Puyi has been suffering from uremia for a long time, and her body is getting weaker and harder to adapt to such high-intensity labor.
Soon Pu Yi ran out of lamp, and before he died, Du Yuming went to see him. They were friends he met during the transformation together. Pu Yi opened his eyes and moved his body laboriously, his face pale and muttered, "I haven't smoked for a long time. I want to smoke. Give me a cigarette.” Du Yuming lit his last cigarette with tears in his tears.
In 1967, Pu Yi died of illness, which coincided with the troubled times. Pu Yi’s family only bought one. The five-dollar urn, such a five-dollar urn, contained the last emperor of China.
It was placed in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. Later, Pu Yi’s widow Li Shuxian decided,He was buried in the Hualong Royal Cemetery, and a cemetery was selected for him in the center, next to Emperor Guangxu.
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