In 1912, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the last feudal dynasty, and the feudal monarchy that lasted for more than two thousand years also collapsed. For the aristocrats of the late Qing Dynasty, the time to enjoy the superiority of the people has come to an end, and they are about to face an era of equality for all.
In this regard, the most unaccustomed is the Aisin Kyora family. Although Puyi was forced to sit on the throne, after being forced to abdicate, he still felt a great gap in his life. From the top of ten thousand people to the reduction of civilians, the huge gap has put him on the road of no return again. Even as a puppet emperor, he was determined to sit on the dragon chair again.
This was the most wrong decision in his life, and if he had accepted the fate of becoming a commoner at that time, Puyi's life might have spared him a lot of suffering. After the Surrender of the Japanese Army, Puyi fled in panic, and was subsequently imprisoned abroad for several years before being transferred to china to guard. By the time I was fortunate enough to be pardoned, it was 1959. In order to be emperor for a few more days, he eventually ate an extra ten years in prison.
In contrast, another person of the Aisin Kyora clan was very calm in the face of life changes. After the decline of the family, he saw a business opportunity to pedal a tricycle in the capital. After living for most of his life by selling his strength, he became a well-known coachman in the capital. Today, he charges a high-profile fee of 150 yuan an hour, but the people who look for him to pull a car are still endless.
A coachman who can tell a story
Inside the city of Beijing, there is a famous tricycle driver. Over the years, he has done a good job in the capital. Others pull cars purely by strength to make money, but this person is a cultural person, while making money to pull cars, but also telling stories to make money. After decades of accumulation, if you want to ask this person to pull a car to tell a story, you already need to pay a fee of 150 yuan an hour.
Pulling a car can pull out such a high price, the driver's ability is naturally not ordinary. Take a walk around the capital in the driver's car and you'll find that he knows the story of any alley. The stories told are not all copied from the book, but combined with the reality of life for many years, the history of the alleys is told to life.
So that even if the high price of more than one hundred yuan an hour was reported, the people who came to ask him to pull the car to tell the story were still in a long line. This is still a business that needs to be taken seriously by both sides, if someone comes to the car to listen to the story, but there is little interest in listening, the driver will not be happy, so he will ask someone to get out of the car and ask for it back.
What is the origin of such an arrogant and special coachman?
The peculiarity of this man is that his own identity is very historical. His name is An Lin, and he seems to be ordinary and nothing special, but he is named "Ai Xin Jue Luo". This is not a gimmick for fame, as an earlier, when he first pulled the car decades ago, Anlin had never hidden his former royal status.
His father was the prince of the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately he caught up with the era of the fall of the dynasty. When I came to the generation where Anlin lived, my family was already a commoner, living off my father's work.
After he started his family and chose a career, An Lin did not become a carpenter like his father, and he aimed at another business opportunity in the capital - pedaling tricycles.
A tricycle driver who works tirelessly
The first time Anlin decided to pedal a tricycle on the street was in the 1980s. In the era of very backward transportation, traveling by tricycle is still people's first choice. Anlin saw this business opportunity and thought it was a good opportunity to make money, so he spent a lot of money to buy a tricycle.
At that time, he also spent a lot of his savings to buy a car, but it is clear that Anlin is a person with a long-term vision, and after the first day of the car, he almost earned almost all the costs, which was easier to earn than the work of his predecessors facing the loess with their backs to the sky.
At first, Anlin was also as simple as others, after all, it was pulling a car, immersed in hard work was once the best way, Anlin's success came from his natural chattiness, and when he accidentally pulled a family with customers, he told the other party a historical story on a whim.
Originally, it was just to relieve the boredom, but I did not want to make the other party very satisfied, and finally gave him a lot of tips when he finally gave money. Anlin was already very business-minded, and after this serendipitous gain, he also began a new attempt: telling stories as part of the fee.
More than thirty years ago, there were still relatively few people who went to the car to listen to stories. An lin concentrated on pulling the car while looking for opportunities to earn cultural money. Nowadays, the memory of Beijing's old hutongs has gradually been forgotten, and the true story told by this coachman has aroused people's interest even more.
Nowadays, most people who go to Beijing to play must also follow the trend and listen to the stories told by the coachman. Even if he asks for one hundred and fifty yuan an hour, he still has a good business every day.
Since then, the physical work of the coachman who has been pulling for 38 years has also begun to change significantly. People are more like him as a cultural person, a cultural person who understands the story of old Beijing.
In addition to him, there were also people in the Ai xinjue luo clan who did the work of pulling a cart after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. But compared with An lin, this person's awakening was more than ten years late.
From arrogant brother to rickshaw driver
After 1912, all those who loved the shin Kyora royal family faced the same fate. Even Grandpa Belle had to face the fact that he no longer had power or a large amount of property in his hands.
But in the beginning, Yan Sen, the last King of dorokqin County, of the Qing Dynasty, refused to accept reality. He was still accustomed to the life of a brother who had nothing to do all day, and even though he knew that he did not have the original living conditions, he still refused to change his lifestyle honestly.
At first, in order to continue to support his luxurious life, he even began to sell his property. First there are antique vases, then there are literary paintings. However, this is still not enough for Yan Sen's expenses. If it were not for the fact that daqing was already dead, others would still think that he still had the financial support of the rich royal family. After gradually sitting on the mountain and eating the sky, Yan Sen gradually began to wake up from the embarrassment of life, and it was time to find another business.
Similar to Anlin's choice, in the absence of any way to survive, he preferred the physical work of pulling a car.
In this way, the once invincible Grandpa Belle began to face the reality and pulled up a rickshaw in the city. Unfortunately, because he is not low-key, while pulling the car, he has been revealing his former scenery.
In 1931, I don't know who revealed the past of Yan Sen as a prince, and it also caused a great sensation in the newspaper, good things do not go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and there are many people who come to see the liveliness for a time. After all, it is the down-and-out story of the former Wang Ye becoming a rickshaw driver, most of them rushed to see the joke, and those who really dared to let Wang Ye pull the car again became very few.
This also made his hard-won business ruined, and after becoming an Internet celebrity, others did not dare to look for him to pull a car as usual. Although the Qing Dynasty has long ended, Wang Ye is just a vain name in the past, but looking for Wang Ye to pull a car, many people are just a joke.
brief summary:
The difference in the final ending of Yan Sen and An Lin was still harmed by the false name. When it comes to Yan Sen pulling the car, he also has his own skills. Anlin can tell stories, and he speaks English, so there are many foreign guests. Other coachmen kept waving their hands in front of foreigners, so as long as there were foreign guests, Yan Sen did not have to fight, and naturally it was the first choice of foreigners. Unfortunately, his financial path has also been affected by his own identity.
When faced with life's difficulties, the best way is to face them, rather than escape in another way. The death of the Great Qing dynasty is naturally the beginning of a new era, and there is no situation in which the sky collapses because of this.
If you are like Puyi, you can't accept the sudden and huge changes in your life, and you will only end up with a more difficult ending. Restoring the imperial system is a foolish approach, Puyi should not be a puppet emperor of Japan, and the imperial system cannot be revived in the new era.
In the new era of Beijing, when a coachman who pulls guests through the streets and alleys, it is also a happy thing to talk about the glorious history of the past. Anlin's frankness and fearlessness have made him a great coachman.
From frugality to luxury, from luxury to frugality. After the great changes from the imperial family to the commoners, An Lin could still be so calm, but it should make those who could not recognize the reality of the restoration of the royal family feel ashamed. In such a vast city of Beijing, listening to the story told by An Lin, you may be able to understand the attitude of this former royal family after being transformed into a commoner.