In October 1945, puyi, the last emperor who had been captured for two months, was in the Chita region of the Soviet Union, but his heart was worried about Li Yuqin, a "Fugui man" who had been ruthlessly abandoned by himself in the northeast of Dalizigou.
Li Yuqin
On August 15, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the U.S.-led Allies guaranteed the japanese emperor's safety, but did not take any position against the puppet emperor Puyi. Puyi was held hostage by the Kwantung Army at this time, and there was no other way but to obediently go to Japan. He was nervous about being killed by the Japanese, but because of the shortage of transportation, he could only choose a few people to fly to Japan.
At the critical moment, Puyi brought his brother, nephew, and even the "imperial doctor" who had long treated him, but only chose to abandon the mentally abnormal empress Wanrong and the "fugui" Li Yuqin. No way, women are too troublesome, and in Puyi's heart, they are just useless appendages.
Puyi and Wanrong
Just as he turned to leave, Li Yuqin, a 17-year-old "Fugui" who grabbed Puyi's sleeve and cried: "What can I do?" "In that critical situation, Li Yuqin, who was unaccompanied, was thrown in the big chestnut ditch, and the hope of survival was really slim.
Puyi can't even take care of himself, and he can still manage this concubine? He coped impatiently with a few words and hurried into the Japanese plane.
Although it was abandoned at that time, after Puyi was captured, he missed this obedient and obedient student sister Li Yuqin the most, who knew that when the two met after liberation, Li Yuqin refused to return to Puyi's side.
The first half of Puyi's life was like riding a roller coaster, his starting point was extremely high, but his fate was quite bumpy, and he also experienced three thrilling escape journeys.
Puyi ascended the throne at the age of 3 and abdicated at the age of 6, but Yuan Shikai, who overthrew the Qing government, was extremely friendly to him, allowing Empress Longyu and Puyi, the mother and son of the "bitter fate", to continue to live in the Forbidden City, and also gave generous preferential treatment. Although the outside world constantly changes the Banner of the Great King, when the gate of the Forbidden City is closed, Puyi is still the "True Dragon Heavenly Son" who is high above.
After 13 years of this comfortable life, by 1924, the political situation in Beijing had changed abruptly.
The cause was the outbreak of the Second Zhifeng War between Wu Peifu, the direct boss, and Zhang Zuolin, the boss of the Feng family. In order to seize the mainland territory of Guanguan, Zhang Zuolin, who wore a leather hat, could be described as a bloody capital, and the two sides launched a fierce battle between you and me at Shanhaiguan.
Unexpectedly, Feng Yuxiang, who was originally on the side of the direct family, suddenly turned against the enemy and attacked the city of Beijing. The first thing he did when he arrived in Beijing was to send someone to blast Puyi out of the palace.
Feng Yuxiang
At this time, Puyi was forced to start his first escape journey in his life. With nowhere to go after leaving the Forbidden City, he could only temporarily live in the prince's mansion (hereinafter collectively referred to as the Northern Province) of his father Zaifeng.
The Northern Province was not peaceful, and Feng Yuxiang's soldiers surrounded the gate and strictly forbade people to enter and exit. Puyi was timid, frightened and unable to sleep at night, always worried that he would be killed in his sleep. Under the persuasion of two favored ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zheng Xiaoxu and Luo Zhenyu, Puyisheng fled to Dongjiaomin Lane, where the foreign embassy was located, so that Feng Yuxiang could not help himself.
The first object of Puyi's defection was the British Embassy, and his foreign language teacher was Johnston, who accompanied Puyi from childhood, making Puyi yearn for Britain. Zheng Xiaoxu and Luo Zhenyu strongly recommended that Puyi go to the Japanese embassy, and they used all kinds of words to convince Puyi that only the Japanese were capable and willing to help him.
Puyi's own idea is that no matter whether 3721 first fled into the embassy, then studied abroad to stay away from danger, and then returned to China to achieve his ultimate goal - restoration.
The problem was that the princes and nobles led by Old Father Zaifeng did not agree to Puyi's departure at all, and in their hearts, the emperor was going to sit in the city of Beijing, so how could they grease the soles of their feet? To this end, Zaifeng sent people to keep an eye on Puyi for 24 hours to strictly prevent him from making any changes.
Puyi, who was determined to flee, took advantage of the slack of Feng Yuxiang's soldiers, and under the pretext of going out to rent a house, fled to the German hospital in the embassy district, hummed and pretended to be ill and was admitted to a single room, waiting for the teacher Johnston to go to the British embassy for help.
Who knew that the Johnston Yellow Crane was gone, and Puyi was dumbfounded. At the critical moment, Zheng Xiaoxu appeared like a god and told Puyi that the Japanese minister welcomed him to the embassy.
Puyi happily accepted this invitation, in fact, he had nowhere to go. The British were worried that taking in the Chinese emperor would cause a huge wave of public opinion, so they refused Puyi's request for asylum, and only the Japanese threw an olive branch at him, and Puyi, who was eager to escape from the Northern Province, could only accept this ending.
The Japanese were courteous to Puyi and specially vacated a building for his small court. They gathered a large group of widows and widows to kowtow to Puyi, and also held a 20th birthday party for Puyi, which made Puyi feel the warmth of home.
Always staying here is not the way, Puyi began to think about studying abroad. The Japanese did not oppose his grand ambitions, but only suggested that Puyi first go to Tianjin to plan a series of matters.
Puyi had no idea that he had fallen into the trap of the Japanese. The political situation in Beijing is complex, with many forces intertwined, and Japan is powerless to control the situation. Tianjin is relatively stable, and close to the port, land and water transportation is very convenient, convenient for the Japanese to hold Puyi in the palm of their hands.
In this way, under the strict escort of the Japanese gendarmerie, Puyi completed the route of his first escape, from the Forbidden City - Beifu - Dongjiaomin Lane - Tianjin.
Puyi, who arrived in Tianjin, lived a relaxed and happy life, playing tennis and drinking coffee every day, and often came to a banquet with celebrities, completely unaware that he had become a Japanese bag.
He spent seven years in Tianjin. In the past seven years, Puyi has not been worn down by a comfortable life, and every cell of his body is clamoring for the word restoration.
At that time, the situation abroad was also unclear, so Puyi temporarily shelved his plan to study abroad and turned to the warlords to show his overtures, intending to use the power of the warlords to lift himself back to the throne of the Golden Ruan Palace.
The warlords are also very good at selling his face, Puyi's residence, every day in and out of the warlords, among which the Fengzhi warlord is the most attentive, "dog meat general" Zhang Zongchang is Puyi's regular guest, even Zhang Xueliang has come to visit.
Zhang Zuolin
Ginger is old and spicy, and the one who gives Puyi the most face is Zhang Zuolin. When he first met Puyi, he put up enough shelves and insisted that Puyi visit his residence. But when Puyi stepped into the gate with both feet, Zhang Zuolin fell to his knees on the ground and shouted "The emperor is good", which moved Puyi badly.
Seeing what the Feng family had done, the direct family could no longer sit still, and Wu Peifu specially wrote a letter to puyi to claim his subjects. It was these warlords who gave Puyi an unrealistic illusion that there was no need to rely on foreign forces, and that he would achieve great unification through cooperation with the warlords.
In fact, the reason why these people seduced Puyi was to see that the skinny camel was bigger than Ma, hoping to cut some money out of his hand. From 1925 to 1931, Puyi, like a boy who scattered wealth, gave countless cash, antiques and other valuables to this group of warlords.
By the second half of 1928, Puyi was very disappointed with the warlords. Zhang Zuolin, the top pillar of the Feng dynasty, was killed by the bombing, and Zhang Zongchang and Wu Peifu were defeated and retreated by Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expeditionary Army.
Right one Sun Dianying
Seeing that the bodies of the old ancestors were mercilessly exposed and the valuable items in the mausoleum were looted, Puyi was so hateful that he almost bit his teeth. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek handled this incident very lightly, the surface movement was quite large, and in fact it was lifted high and gently put down, so that Puyi had a very heavy prejudice against Chiang Kai-shek.
During this period, Puyi heard that Sun Dianying was at large, and the pearls on the crown of Cixi Phoenix were sewn on the shoes of Chiang Kai-shek's newly married little wife, Song Meiling, and the British and American governments were very fond of Chiang Kai-shek, and all kinds of indications showed that Chiang Kai-shek absolutely could not tolerate him, the king of the subjugated country, so Puyi began to plan a second escape.
In 1931 "Nine. After the "18" incident, Japan quickly occupied the northeast, and the Kwantung Army, worried that the people's resistance was too fierce, decided to push the "old friend" Puyi to the front of the stage to take the stage for them.
Do not underestimate the influence of Puyi, China has experienced more than 2,000 years of feudal rule, the sense of imperial power has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, as long as Puyi waved his arm, there must be a large number of followers. Moreover, the Western powers also maintained an ambiguous attitude towards him, all of which were seen by the Japanese.
The Japanese first chose Puyi's cousin Puwei as their lobbyist. Pu Wei was the grandson of Prince Gong Yi Bi, and when Cixi was crowned as The Regent of Puyi's father Zaifeng before his death, he cried and made a fuss at the door, thinking that he should be the regent, and this stuttering uncle he could not look at half an eye.
Anyway, no matter what happened in the Qing court, he could see Pu Wei carrying the great treasure sword given to his family by the Daoguang Emperor. This time, he lived up to the mission of the Japanese vanguard and tried to persuade his cousin Puyi to go to the northeast. First, the northeast was the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, and second, he really thought that the northeast was safer under the control of the Japanese.
Pu Wei's words touched Pu Yi's heart, and then Kenji Toihara, the number one big secret agent who invaded China, appeared on the scene and secretly talked with Pu Yi about going to the northeast overnight. Originally, the two thought that the conversation was unconscious, who knew that the next day, the newspapers all over the street were clamoring about the emperor's collusion with the Japanese.
Kenji Toihara
Soon, Puyi's concierge received a basket of fruits, opened it to see that there were two bombs hidden inside. Puyi's guts were smaller than rabbits, and he was frightened when he boarded.
It is said that this basket of fruits was given by the young marshal Zhang Xueliang, intending to warn Puyi not to get too close to the Japanese, but Puyi in his later years insisted that this was a trick of Kenji Toihara.
Anyway, after meeting with Kenji Toihara, Puyi did not have a few days to stop. Either gunshots rang out near the house, or the streets of Tianjin suddenly became chaotic, and the Japanese closed the concession in the name of protecting him, completely isolating Puyi from the outside world.
Puyi could no longer sit still and began his second run on November 10, 1931. He first hid in the trunk of his car and escaped from the residence, then took a boat and sailed from the sea to Lushun.
What Puyi didn't know was that just as he was taking a boat to the northeast, a large barrel of gasoline was hidden behind his ass. The Japanese prepared for the worst, and if the Chinese soldiers on the shore found Puyi's tracks, they immediately set fire to him to avoid any trouble.
Not long after arriving in the northeast, Puyi found that he had fallen into the conspiracy circle of the Japanese. The Japanese called him to come, not to help him restore at all, but to make him a mascot, and even he did not even fall to the title of emperor, and served as a "ruler" for several years.
It was not until 1934 that Puyi became the "Kant" Emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo. This emperor is a complete puppet and has no power at all. Recalling his two thrilling escapes, from the Forbidden City to the palm of the Japanese, Puyi was so aggrieved that he wanted to vomit a mouthful of old blood.
Even if there is resentment in the heart, it cannot be shown on the face, otherwise the small life cannot be saved minute by minute. Puyi was a puppet under the Japanese for 13 years, until the Japanese surrendered in 1945.
When Japan surrendered, Puyi first retreated with the Kwantung Army to Tonghua Da chestnut ditch, read the abdication edict in this beautiful mountain, and then embarked on the third escape journey with mixed feelings.
This escape was forced to be helpless, and the destination was very clear - Japan. Puyi resisted going to Japan, but his small arm could not reach his thigh, so he could only abandon his wife and concubine and come to Shenyang Airport with 8 of his cronies, preparing to change to a large plane to Japan.
Just as the group stepped out of the plane, teams of Armed Soviet soldiers suddenly appeared in front of them, and Soviet planes were circling in the air. At this moment, Puyi was full of sorrow and joy, sad that he had not yet come out of the tiger's den, he fell into the mouth of the wolf, and the joy was that he did not have to go to Japan, even if he did not understand the Soviets, he also knew that old Maozi was still soft-hearted compared to the Japanese devils. Although it is not a happy thing to become a puppet to a captive, his life seems to be saved.
Puyi and his family
Although the top brass of the Japanese Eastern Army became prisoners, they still did not give up their hope of bringing Puyi to Japan. They sneaked outside Puyi's lounge and found high-level negotiations with the military, but unfortunately the answer they got was "no."
On August 18, 1945, a Soviet transport plane flew from Shenyang Airport to the Chita region of the Soviet Union, and the last emperor Puyi was seated on the plane, and at this point, his third and final exile finally came to an end.