Puyi As the last emperor in Chinese history, he is definitely one of the celebrities in modern history. In comparison, his younger brother Pujie is relatively low-key, but in fact, the fate of Pujie and his brother Puyi is closely related. The experience is full of twists and turns.
In 1960, Pu Jie was pardoned as the second batch of war criminals. He found Premier Zhou and told the pain of missing his wife and children, hoping that Premier Zhou could help him.
Pujie
After Premier Zhou saw the photo of his wife from Pujie, he said that he could try his best to help their family reunite, but there was a condition.
What condition did Premier Zhou put forward? How did Pujie's family get separated?
html He was released from prison in 1760, and he wanted to take back his wife who was still in Japan.The last emperor Puyi was not necessarily the worst emperor in Chinese history, but he definitely had a lot of twists and turns, and he was also an extremely special emperor.
" Reform Reform " angered Empress Dowager Cixi , she abolished Guangxu Emperor . Not long after, the young Puyi was ordered to be brought into the palace to be raised.
Empress Dowager Cixi
It is said that Puyi's grandmother fainted when she heard the news. Puyi didn't understand why and cried non-stop, and was finally carried into the palace by his wet nurse.
From the moment he entered the palace, Puyi's life was distorted. The status of "emperor" was imposed on him. This status did not bring him happiness, but endless torture.
After the Revolution of 1911, the feudal monarchy was overthrown, and Puyi basically had no power at all, only some social influence.
Later, in order to save the "ancestral foundation" and restore the imperial system, he was bewitched and got closer to the Japanese, thus embarking on the road of no return.
Puyi
In comparison, Puyi's younger brother Pujie has a relatively easier time, because Pujie is not bound by the status of "emperor".
Although his life trajectory is also tortuous, at least he is not the one facing all this head-on. He just stays with Puyi and helps Puyi share some of the pressure.
Puyi even sent him to study in Japan.
Compared with Puyi, Pujie was lucky. He had a free life. However, both brothers have one thing in common, that is, marital misfortune.
A photo of Pu Yi and Pu Jie
Pu Yi had five marriages in his life. As an emperor, marriages are inevitably linked to politics. Among his five marriages, I am afraid that only the fifth marriage after getting rid of the status of "emperor" can be called Be happy.
Pujie and his wife Sagahao also had a political marriage. He resisted it at first, but later he cherished this relationship.
In 1960, when Pujie was in prison, he expressed to Premier Zhou that he had been missing his wife and hoped that Premier Zhou could help him.
Putting aside his status as a war criminal, Pu Jie is actually a very emotional person. He has been married twice in his life, and he is unwilling to give up on Sagahao no matter what.
Pujie, Sagahao and their daughter Huisheng
Who was Pujie's first marriage to? Why did he end up getting together with Sagahiro?
As a royal family, he cannot control his own marriage.
The reason why Pujie cherishes his marriage to the Japanese woman Saga Hiroshi is not complicated to put it bluntly. It is because his first marriage was too unfortunate.
Pujie’s first wife was Tang Yiying .
Tang Yiying has a coquettish and domineering personality, has opinions and ideas, and is not a peaceful woman.
Her origin is not simple either. Someone in her ancestors once served as a high-ranking official in the Qing court, and two of her aunts were married to Emperor Guangxu as concubines. Therefore, Tang Yiying also had a "concubine dream."
Tang Yiying
In order to achieve her goal, Tang Yiying deliberately tried to please her aunt, Concubine Jin, who was a concubine.
What Tang Yiying didn't expect was that Concubine Jin had her own plans and did not fulfill her wishes.
After Puyi succeeded to the throne, Concubine Jin interfered, causing Tang Yiying to miss the opportunity to become a beautiful girl and be selected as a concubine. Concubine Jin also personally appointed her to marry Puyi's younger brother Pujie.
Yes, this is how Pujie's first marriage came about. It was completely the result of the struggle between various relationships in the palace. Such a marriage is normal no matter how unfortunate it is.
Jin Fei
Pu Jie was unwilling to accept this kind of marriage. Not to mention whether he liked Tang Yiying or not, just the fact that his marriage was being manipulated made him uncomfortable.
However, in the imperial family, still in the turbulent late Qing Dynasty, how could we allow Pujie to be willful?
In this way, the two got married, and as expected, their married life was quite unharmonious.
First of all, Tang Yiying was unwilling to marry Pujie in her heart. She was a woman with a "concubine dream". Her biggest wish was to marry Puyi rather than Pujie.
Neither Pujie's character nor status can satisfy Tang Yiying's inner vanity. She spends money lavishly, covets glory, and yearns for a high life. She also has a loose temperament and does not like restraint. It is really difficult to get along with Pujie, whose personality is more honest and responsible. .
Pujie
Pujie considered the overall situation. Although he was dissatisfied with this marriage, he still tried his best to maintain it. However, he never expected that Tang Yiying would cheat!
not only cheated, but Tang Yiying cheated on a well-known person - Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Xueliang was the son of the warlord Zhang Zuolin, known as the "Young Marshal". He later launched the Xi'an Incident and forced Chiang Kai-shek to join the Communist Party to resist Japan.
Historically, Zhang Xueliang’s contribution cannot be ignored, but from a personal life perspective, Zhang Xueliang’s style is quite problematic. He can distinguish between right and wrong, but after all, he is the son of a warlord. He is young and rich, and has the status of "young commander", so he is inevitably a romantic person.
Zhang Xueliang
In 1926, Pujie met Zhang Xueliang at the Beijing Hotel , which became the trigger for the breakdown of his marriage.
Tang Yiying, who was accompanying him at that time, met Zhang Xueliang for the first time and was deeply attracted by Zhang Xueliang's handsome appearance and chic temperament.
She was not one of those traditional women who kept herself to herself, and her heart suddenly became restless.
said goodbye to Zhang Xueliang that day, and Tang Yiying made arrangements as soon as she returned home.
When Zhang Xueliang was invited the next day, he found that the lady had taken out a quite thick newspaper, which was full of news related to Zhang Xueliang.
Tang Yiying married Pu Jie
Tang Yiying used this seemingly euphemistic way to express her affection to Zhang Xueliang. Zhang Xueliang was a romantic person, and seeing that Tang Yiying was full of talent and could write poetry and draw, he hung out with her.
Later, Zhang Xueliang discovered how scheming this woman was. The poems and paintings she showed that day were not created by her herself, and the heavy paper-cut book was also made overnight to seduce him.
Zhang Xueliang quickly recognized Tang Yiying's true face and felt that she was too "fake", so the two broke off their relationship.
But Pujie suffered great humiliation, and the relationship between husband and wife broke down.
Pujie
Later Puyi was ousted and went to the Northeast "Puppet Manchukuo" to join the Japanese. Pujie could not bear to bear the responsibility for his brother alone and chose to accompany him.
Tang Yiying took the opportunity to draw a clear line with Pu Jie, secretly stole a large amount of property from Prince Chun's Mansion, and ran to Shanghai to live happily. The relationship between the two was only in name only.
"A harmonious marriage" also has true love
After Tang Yiying left, she was happy, but Pujie had a shadow on the marriage from then on and planned to be alone for the rest of his life.
It's just that things in the world are confusing. After Pujie arrived in "Puppet Manchukuo", he fell into the quagmire of marriage again.
The Japanese used Puyi's delusional idea of "restoring the Qing Dynasty" to lure him over, and then revealed his true colors.
Puyi found that he was completely a "puppet", with only a superficial status and no real power at all.
Puyi
The Japanese just used his identity, reputation, his "orthodox" status, and borrowed his hand to achieve the purpose of "justifiably" controlling China. To this end, they also forced Puyi to do many things that were harmful to the country and harmful to the country. Something that insults the lintel of our ancestors.
Puyi regretted it too late. Although he was reluctant, he had to obey the orders of the Japanese in order to survive. There was only one thing he insisted on refusing, that is, the Japanese wanted to have a "friendly marriage" with him.
Puyi's previous marriages were all unhappy. He couldn't bear it, had a tough attitude, and refused to give in.
When the Japanese saw this, they changed their minds and targeted their younger brother Pujie.
Pujie almost collapsed after learning about it. He had already despaired of marriage. If there was another political marriage, he simply didn't want to live anymore!
Pujie
Pujie even used Tang Yiying as a shield for this, claiming that he already had a wife and could not remarry.
But this did not trouble the Japanese. The Japanese sent people to Tang Yiying's home and forced her family members to sign a statement acknowledging that Tang Yiying and Pu Jie were divorced. They also invited people from the local police station to testify as legal protection.
In this way, Pujie was "divorced". He was most likely the first person to be "divorced" in modern history.
Under the arrangement of the Japanese, Pujie was told that he would have a blind date with Sagahao, the daughter of the Japanese Chinese Marquis Saga, and the location was set to be at Pujie's grandfather's house.
Pu Jie and Saga Hao
Before they met that day, Pu Jie felt very complicated, while the woman Saga Hao was even more resistant.
After the Meiji Restoration , people's thinking in Japan was also very different from the tradition. Sagahiro was influenced by Western ideas and was extremely disgusted with this kind of "friendly marriage" arranged by his elders.
Unexpectedly, the two people, who were originally dissatisfied with each other, met their eyes the moment they met and fell in love at first sight.
After some contact, Pujie found that the woman in front of him was dignified and beautiful, with poetry and books in her belly, and she was in the same place as his ex-wife Tang Yiying.
Sagahao
Sagahao was also deeply attracted by Pujie's handsome appearance and elegant and easy-going scholarly aroma. This blind date actually fulfilled the two of them.
The two hit it off and got married. After the marriage, the couple lived in harmony and lived a happy life. Pujie had an unreal feeling. He never expected that true love can also exist in a "harmful marriage"!
Premier Zhou: You have to do her ideological work
Sagahao made up for Pujie's marital misfortune. After the marriage, the couple lived happily together.
The Japanese achieved their goal and immediately forced Puyi to sign the "Emperor Succession Law" . According to this law, as long as Sagahao gave birth to a boy, he would be the emperor's heir.
The Japanese are trying to control the heirs who are mixed blood of the two countries, and in the future achieve the purpose of legitimately controlling China.
Sagahiro
Unexpectedly, things did not develop smoothly. Sagahiro gave birth to two children in a row, both girls.
Japan's popularity returned, but at that time, it had not yet completed its goal of occupying China, and it was not in a hurry. Saga Hiroshi would always give birth to a boy.
As Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to resist Japan, and the people were united as one, the Japanese aggressive war gradually failed. They were busy dealing with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and gradually put aside the affairs of Pujie and Sagahao.
When the time came to 1945, the Japanese defeat in the war of aggression against China was already foreseeable, and the outcome was basically certain.
Pujie had already expected that in order to protect the safety of his family, he asked Sagahao to take his two daughters to Japan to escape. He never expected that this separation would last for sixteen years.
Pu Jie and Saga Hao
In August 1945, the Puyi brothers realized that the situation was not good and planned to flee China. The two brothers fled to Shenyang Airport, but they were discovered by the Soviet army and they became prisoners.
The Soviet Union knew that the identities of these two people were complicated, so they did not make it too difficult and gave them preferential treatment. Although they lost their personal freedom, they were not made difficult.
Puyi was very troubled. He felt that once he was sent back to China, he would definitely be sentenced to death. He applied to stay in the Soviet Union, but was rejected.
The Soviet Union invited Puyi to attend the military court to testify against the crimes of the Japanese invaders. Puyi cooperated for three reasons.
Puyi was captured by the Soviet army
1. Puyi felt guilty. As a Chinese, he took the initiative to join the Japanese and cooperated with the Japanese to do many things that were unworthy of the country. He wanted to try his best to make up for it.
2. He was afraid of being blamed by the Chinese Communist Party, so he tried his best to help the Chinese side testify, hoping to make a living.
3. Puyi also had many dissatisfactions with the Japanese. When he was in Manchukuo, the Japanese did not discuss many matters with him at all and often forced him to do things. He had long-standing resentment in his heart.
Putting all these together, Puyi told the court what he knew about the crimes of the Japanese.
In 1950, the Soviet Union extradited the Puyi brothers back to China.
Pu Yi testified in court
Originally, the two brothers thought they would be sentenced to death, but they never expected that the Communist Party was extremely tolerant and the two were sent to prison as war criminals and participated in labor reform.
Chairman Mao personally visited the two men and urged them to reform and strive for leniency.
Brothers Puyi and Pujie burst into tears for the Party's tolerance. Both of them performed well in prison. During his stay in prison, Pujie always missed his wife and children.
In 1959, Liu Shaoqi issued the "Amnesty Order of the People's Republic of China", which included Puyi among the first batch of war criminals to be pardoned.
The Party’s amnesty decision shocked many people, and the Communist Party’s magnanimity even impressed people at home and abroad.
Pu Yi was pardoned
The following year, Pu Jie was pardoned as the second batch of war criminals.
As early as during the labor reform period, Pujie missed his wife and children all the time.
His wife, Sagahiro, also missed her husband. She even wrote a book, "The Wandering Princess", to express her pain towards her husband and her inability to return to China to reunite with her husband.
The couple's daughter Huisheng once wrote a letter to Premier Zhou Enlai, expressing how much she missed her father. Premier Zhou Enlai was very moved.
China is a friendly country. Even if there has been a war between the two countries, China has always adhered to the idea of promoting friendship and peace among countries in the world and does not want to let hatred expand, so Premier Zhou is very willing to help their family reunite.
Sagahao (right)
Not long after he was released from prison, Pujie found Premier Zhou with a photo of his wife, hoping that Premier Zhou could help him reunite with his wife and children.
Premier Zhou agreed immediately, but also put forward a condition, joking: "It's okay for her to come back, but you have to do her ideological work well and blow the 'pillow wind'!"
Pu Jie was grateful and said that he would definitely Will do a good job in his wife's ideological work.
In this way, Premier Zhou personally summoned Pujie's family, including Puyi, to propose the return of Sagahao.
Because of past experiences, Puyi hated the Japanese very much. Together with others, he initially strongly opposed Sagahao's coming to China.
But Premier Zhou patiently explained to him: "Since everyone here can adapt to New China through transformation, why can't you give Sagahao a chance?"
On May 12, 1961, with the help of Premier Zhou, Sagahao After returning to China, he and his husband were finally reunited. This incident was reported by the media and caused considerable impact in both China and Japan.
And Sagahiro did not disappoint her husband. He actively adapted to life in China and the family lived happily.
It can be seen from this incident that China is a friendly and tolerant country, and Premier Zhou is even more like the father of the country. His care and generosity to Pujie's family reflects China's long-standing demeanor as a great country!
