Behind every old photo is an unforgettable history, there is no politics here, only the loneliness behind history!
This person is the late Qing Dynasty "Janissary Commander" (Janissary Minister), the patriarch of the imperial family, the Zhenghuangqi, the French Sommy Cavalry School, even the last emperor Puyi will hold a headache and cry when he sees this person, so who is he? Why is it so big? In fact, people who know the tragic history of the late Qing Dynasty know that although the late Qing Dynasty lost power and humiliated the country, cut the land and paid compensation, and lost the face of the "flower grower", not every royal family was willing to be slaughtered, such as Puyi's seventh uncle, the brother of the Guangxu Emperor, and the Duke of Fuguo (JiaJun Wang), known as the "Seventh Master of Tao"- Ai Xin Jue Luo Zaitao.
Born in the late Qing Dynasty, this person was an important political figure in the late Qing Dynasty, who personally went to Eight Countries in Europe, the United States, and Japan in February 1910, and was sent to The United Kingdom as a special envoy in May. The above eight countries were the eight countries that marched into Beijing in 1900 to drive Cixi Lafayette to Xi'an, and at this time it can also be seen that the Qing Dynasty also had some shame and courage, after all, it is really impossible to say that it is always beaten and run around.
Therefore, the Qing court began to accelerate the reform process after the Sino-Japanese War, but there was not much time left for the Qing Dynasty. Although Zaitao in the picture above is wearing a Western-style military uniform, he still wears a Manchurian top on his head.
The picture below shows Zaitao wearing a Janissary uniform, which was promulgated by the Qing Dynasty in 1910 in the "Notes on the Color Seal of the Janissaries Uniform" promulgated by the Qing Dynasty, which stipulates that the Janissaries uniform must completely abandon the traditional Manchurian military uniform and wear in the Western style.
Through the changes in military hats in different periods, it can also be seen that the understanding and consciousness of the Qing court are also improving, but they did not think bitterly after the first signing of the "Founding Treaty" like Japan, and carried out top-down reforms to end the history of being bullied by Europe and the United States in one fell swoop.
The Qing court's consciousness was too slow and his thinking was so rigid that it could not be changed, and the law of the ancestors could not be changed, so that China was even more behind the times. When it gradually realized that it had to change, history would no longer give the Qing Dynasty any chance.
Zaitao, who returned to China in May 1911, began to serve as minister of the Janissaries, and when Zhang Xun was restored in 1917, Zaitao continued to serve as the commander of the Janissaries, but in name only in name.
It can be said that Zaitao's life is not timely, if he was born in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties with Zaitao's personality of loving horses all his life, and as a descendant of Ai Xinjueluo, he would definitely wear armor and expand his territory. However, as a last-day royal family, even if he had the backbone to sell his old mansion and set up a stall in the Republic of China and not to go to the northeast to be a traitor, no one would be able to do anything in the face of the Qing Dynasty that was about to collapse.
In 1911, Zaitao participated in the army parade group photo, the character on the left is Li Jingmai, who is the third son of Li Hongzhang, who once followed Zaitao to investigate Europe and the United States. Below is a group photo taken in 1910 during an expedition to Budapest (then the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).
As Puyi's uncle, Zaitao refused to go to the northeast to hold a pseudo-post after the Japanese army occupied the three eastern provinces, and opposed Puyi and the Japanese to collude, so he turned against Puyi and Pujie' brothers.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, because Zaitao was the half-brother of the Guangxu Emperor and the uncle of Puyi, he refused to hold a false position, and his integrity was admirable, and his status was highly respected among the descendants of the imperial family. At the same time, Zaitao is approachable, very enthusiastic about family affairs, has done many things for his relatives, has also participated in the people's congress, and has been received, so Zaitao is respected by family members as "patriarch." ”
In 1955, Zaitao got a task, that is, to visit Puyi, who was undergoing transformation, to help him study hard, make better progress, and strive to become a "new person" as soon as possible. Because the two had not seen each other for many years, when Puyi saw his uncle come to see him, he strode over and hugged Zaitao, saying that Uncle Seven was holding a headache and crying. This kind of crying includes not only the long-unseen pain between flesh and blood affection, and the loneliness endured alone, but also the regret of not listening to the dissuasion of the original seventh uncle, resulting in his being used by the Japanese to be hated for thousands of years.
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