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It is said that in the history of China, there have been more than 400 emperors, and many of the emperors who have fallen into the country are quite famous, of course, there are also many faint and incompetent people, such as Shang Xia Jie, Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and so on.
But there are also some who have to step down because of the general trend of an era, just like Puyi, the last emperor in Chinese history.
It should be said that this Puyi should be the most special "emperor of the fallen country", because his abdication officially marks the end of China's feudal society for more than 2,000 years.
Moreover, as an emperor above ten thousand people, he encountered this general trend, which can be described as unprecedented, Puyi not only was not killed after abdication, but also lived until the establishment of new China and became a citizen of a new society.
Speaking of this, many friends will have doubts, and the ancient emperors of the fallen country have almost been eliminated. Why didn't Puyi, who belonged to the feudal remnants, be killed?
Before Cixi's old wives of the losers breathed their breath, she handed over the power to Xiao Puyi, who was only 3 years old, when the Manchu Qing authorities were already in turmoil, and it was only a matter of time before they were overthrown. At that time, he was still a child who couldn't even walk the road, and it was a joke that he wanted to sit in the world.
When the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, Yuan Datou forced Empress Longyu to issue an abdication edict, and the Manchu Qing collapsed. Although the Qing court no longer existed, Puyi and other royalty were not all killed as in history, but continued to live in the imperial palace.
Later, there was another farce of restoration, but in general, Puyi's life has not been threatened. Later, he was taken captive by little Japan as a puppet emperor of Manchuria, and it was not until his "number one" status changed completely after the defeat in World War II.
There are two reasons why many forces do not assassinate Puyi: First, domestic factors. Although he has abdicated, the feudal ideology that has been rooted in our country for more than 2,000 years still exists. Especially the low-level people who have little culture do not know that the sky has changed, and they will still blindly support the "imperial grace and mighty".
When Yuan Datou forced Puyi to abdicate at that time, the means used were not violent conquest, but through "soft knives" to coerce and induce, and finally "consulted" with Empress Longyu to ensure their personal safety and some "privileges", before agreeing to abdicate and give way. Therefore, their personal safety is officially guaranteed, but in the end, it is difficult to escape the fate of being driven out of the capital.
After the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, various warlords surged up, and all the guns in their hands wanted to become overlords in the chaotic world, and the strongest of them, Yuan Datou, was even more covetous of the false name of the "emperor", and as a result, he was impatient and risked the world to do the emperor's dream for 83 days and died.
In the end, it also ended up with a notorious end. Therefore, although Puyi is the emperor of the fallen country, he represents the end of an era.
Second, foreign factors, after the Japanese Kou abducted Puyi, put him under house arrest in the puppet state of Manchukuo, and completely manipulated him to make him a puppet in his hands, and he became a clear tool for the Japanese Kou to invade China.
During that period, the disaster caused by puppet Manchuria to the people of northeast China was extremely heavy, and after the defeat of the Japanese Kou, puppet Manchuria ceased to exist, and Puyi wanted to live and intend to flee to Japan, but unfortunately, he was captured by the Soviet army, and then he was imprisoned in the Soviet Union.
Why did the victorious powers do this? It is because he has great use value, the purpose is to let Puyi be a witness in the post-war court, because he is a very special person.
In court, Puyi also complained in great detail about the numerous crimes committed by the Japanese Kou in China, and also elaborated in detail how he became a tool of the Japanese Kou's invasion of China step by step.
Puyi's appearance in court for eight consecutive days can be said to be the longest time for World War II war criminals to testify. Later, Puyi was not sentenced to a major sentence and sent back to China to undergo ideological reform, and later received a pardon and became an ordinary citizen of New China.
Speaking of this, some words do not need to be said explicitly, everyone should be able to understand why Puyi, who has a special identity, has not been killed, in short, his special identity has a huge use value, he represents not only him alone, but also represents "that era".
References for this article: "The Last Emperor", "Modern History", "Biography of Yuan Shikai", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Puyi, Pseudo-Manchukuo, The Collapse of manchukuo, etc.