Puyi had five wives in his lifetime, namely Empress Wanrong, Concubine Wenxiu, Xianggui Tan Yuling, Fugui Li Yuqin, and Li Shuxian, a nurse wife who was rehabilitated from a war criminal. In 1931, Wen Xiu hired a lawyer to handle her divorce, and the incident of divorce with the last emperor Puyi was reported by all the newspapers, the news was overwhelming, shocking at home and abroad, the concubine divorced the emperor, which was unheard of in the entire Qing Dynasty, Puyi in order to protect face, opened generous conditions to keep it, but Wen Xiu, with the support of his family, resolutely divorced.
Puyi and Wanrong
After the divorce, Puyi did not reflect well, but threw the pot to Empress Wanrong, and used practical actions to snub Wanrong, and also found a small three to stimulate the right wife, the small three "Xiang Guiren" is a student, always in front of the Japanese controlled Puyi talk about how to resist Japan when the student era, do not know, these boudoir secret words have been monitored by the Japanese, xiao san is sick, just a small illness, Puyi's personal doctor suggested to go to the Sino-Japanese hospital with better medical conditions, at first doctors and nurses were actively treating xiao san, Puyi's imperial family hanging Yoshioka Anzhi to talk to the attending doctor, the doctor slowed down the speed of treatment, the next day after admission to the hospital, Xiao San died of illness, a move of Yoshioka let Puyi's guess in his heart have an answer, shortly after Xiao San's death, Yoshioka took a lot of photos of Japanese women to let Puyi "choose concubines", how can the Japanese directly install eyes and ears on the pillow, Puyi can only refuse, but Yoshioka did not give up, constantly asking Puyi's concubine selection needs, Puyi also knows that if he does not obediently make a choice, Then Yoshioka's superiors will also directly arrange women to his side, and it will be even more difficult to shirk at that time, considering that it is easier for young concubines to control and transform, so they give concubine selection requirements: young age, primary school culture.
Embroidery
According to Puyi's request, Yoshioka looked for someone in the puppet primary school, let the woman of the right age take pictures, and then gave the photo to Puyi to choose, Puyi casually drew circles on a photo of an ordinary-looking woman, Li Yuqin, who came from a poor family, became the "nobleman" of Puyi who was twenty-two years older than her, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters went to Li Yuqin's home and said that Li Yuqin could go to the palace to study for free, and everyone in her family was half-convinced, not letting the officers take Li Yuqin away, and the people at the headquarters forcibly took Li Yuqin away as soon as they were in a hurry to say that it was the emperor's order. At a young age, Li Yuqin lived a life in a cage, and Puyi customized a "six-point" method for her mother's family: it was not allowed to disclose her relationship with Puyi; it was not allowed to seek officials, job hunting, money and housing land; Li Yuqin is not allowed to visit Li Yuqin; Li Yuqin is not allowed to go home to visit relatives; it is not allowed to do anything in Puyi's name and relationship; if Puyi has an order, it is absolutely carried out.
Li Yuqin was even more severely prescribed twenty-one rules: one must unconditionally abide by the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty; one must obey absolute obedience, and all words and deeds must obey the will; one must serve faithfully for a lifetime; one must not change one's mind, and if one has a wrong thought in mind, one must immediately expose oneself and plead guilty; one is not allowed to seek an official job for one's mother's family, and one is not allowed to go home to meet with relatives; one is not allowed to save a penny privately; one is not allowed to interfere in politics, inquire about foreign affairs, and so on. Puyi who is busy with restoration" meets, not to mention what sincere feelings there will be.
Li Yuqin
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, the explosions near the puppet palace continued, Puyi had to flee with the family members of Bailai to the Dalizigou Coal Mine in Tonghua Linjiang, and then he and his brother Pujie and a group of eight people followed Yoshioka to flee to the Japanese, the Japanese also lied that other family members would have a train to pick them up, they waited in the Big Chestnut Ditch for more than a hundred days, did not wait for the train that came to pick them up, only waited for the news that Puyi and his party were captured by the Soviet Red Army.
The family members of the Bailai finally paid the Kuomintang miscellaneous army to escort them to Linjiang, they just arrived in Linjiang for two days, Linjiang was liberated, and then they followed the Eighth Route Army for half a year, the Fugui people experienced a turning point in fate, the recruits in the Eighth Route Army often concealed the leadership to see the "Imperial Lady", the empress Wanrong, who once had unlimited scenery, is now just a sick smoker, his face is miserable, he is also suffering from mental illness, there is nothing to see, the soldiers have turned to see "Fugui" Li Yuqin, at first Li Yuqin was not adaptable. Gradually, Li Yuqin also boldly became up and chatted with the little warriors.
The Eighth Route Army dismissed some eunuch palace ladies who wanted to go home, and some important personnel, such as Wanrong, Li Yuqin, Pujie's Japanese wife and woman, were sent to the Eighth Route Army Headquarters in Tonghua, where they prepared a sick meal for Wanrong, but arranged for Li Yuqin and the Eighth Route Army to dine together. Work together. ”
At the same time, Li Yuqin's feudal thinking was disintegrated by the frequent "brainwashing" of another female section chief, she began to waver in the identity of "noble", slowly put down the shelf of "noble", played poker with the soldiers in the Eighth Route Army, played checkers, and also learned the waist drum, she and the female eight road in the mailroom established a deep friendship, whenever she looked at the female eighth road and the "husband" in the military camp giggling, grace and love, she could not help but think of her and Puyi's continued sad marriage.
After that, Puyi's family took her to Tianjin and then transferred to Beijing to live, but under the eyes of Puyi's family, Li Yuqin was still a bird who had lost her freedom, could not go out to work, could not talk to strangers, either this etiquette or that rule, and did not help Li Yuqin in terms of money, but only to solve her food and clothing problems. In Beijing, the Public Security Bureau, the Women's Federation, and some people with progressive ideas often talked to Li Yuqin, encouraging her to start a new life and not to continue to be imprisoned by the feudal ideas of the old society.
At this time, she unexpectedly received a letter from her husband Puyi, who was extradited from the Soviet Union and imprisoned in China in the Fushun War Criminals Management Institute, she was happy like a child, and she had a stomach full of grievances to tell, ecstatic to come to the husband whom the war criminals had not seen for many years, and the two people who had been reunited for a long time clasped their hands tightly, but Puyi did not seem to care about how Li Yuqin was living, but just blindly said that her thinking was reformed.
Li Yuqin in his own economic ability is not very good, still many times to visit Puyi in the war criminals' station, in August 1957, under the care of the government, Li Yuqin was arranged to Changchun City Library as a librarian, before and after Li Yuqin went to visit Puyi five times, the last time to go is to show the idea of divorce, although Puyi felt a hint of love during that time, every day looking forward to the reply and visit of the former lover, but after receiving the transformation, Puyi has a qualitative leap in thinking, he does not want to divorce, But he wanted to respect Li Yuqin's choice and eventually signed his name on the divorce agreement.
This marriage with no emotional basis for nearly fifteen years was announced to be over, Li Yuqin was coaxed from being young and ignorant to becoming Puyi's wife, to now finally getting rid of the identity of the imperial wife and becoming an ordinary person, Puyi was pardoned, he had thought of remarrying Li Yuqin, but was rejected by Li Yuqin.
Puyi and his wife