On July 16, 1923, the last batch of eunuchs still on duty in China were expelled from the Forbidden City by Puyi's order, and after being paid a one-time compensation severance payment ranging from 20 to 200 yuan, they began to find a way out.
It is false to say that Puyi does not hate eunuchs, his physiological function is buried in the hands of these irresponsible guys, and it was precisely because they frequently pushed the palace ladies down on the dragon bed of the young Puyi that Puyi quickly transitioned from getting up and dazzled to being depressed and falling into a permanent disease.
Twenty days ago, his patience with the eunuchs was extreme, because the Jianfu Palace had caught fire, burning more than a hundred houses, destroying all the treasures inside, and there was a strong smell of kerosene at the scene of the fire. Puyi knew that the only one who could set fire to the treasury and cover up the deficit in the treasury was probably these guys. Steal something and put up with it, set fire to the house, right? According to this trend, will it burn me one day?
All for Ma Li'er to get out of the egg!
Among the eunuchs, the more indignant jumped into the tube river on the spot, and a small number of specially rich people built houses and went back to enjoy the blessings, most of them had no skills, and they had long been prepared for the rain and saved money to offer to the monastery, in order to end up here in the future. The day finally came, except for a very few who did not prepare to go to the Yan Wing Tower in Di'anmen, the rest went to the monastery that had been in business for many years.
Thirty years apart, the vicissitudes of the sea changed into a mulberry field, Puyi returned to Beijing after the amnesty in 1959, in the face of the ancient capital of all kinds of new people and new atmosphere, at first very excited, free time to walk around.
Speaking of Puyi, he has always treated the next person around him well and does not remember revenge. When he was the "emperor" in the puppet state of Manchukuo, the bodyguard Li Tiyu had an affair with the empress Wanrong, and even the children were born, and Puyi gave him 400 yuan for sealing fees. Coincidentally, this Li Tiyu also came to Beijing, the place where puyi lived is not far, one day actually met on the street, Puyi saw Li Tiyu wearing, knew that the economic conditions of his family were general, and also sent money and goods to the door.
Subsequently, Puyi was taken by the Japanese to his Manchu hometown of the three eastern provinces, and became the emperor of the puppet manchukuo under the "support" of the Japanese Kwantung Army, but all military and political power was still firmly controlled by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and Puyi once again became a tool and puppet in the hands of others. In 1945, the Soviet Union sent troops to northeast China, quickly defeated 600,000 Japanese Kwantung Army, and captured a large number of Japanese Kwantung Army, including Puyi, who was about to escape. In this way, Puyi and the captured Japanese Kwantung Army were escorted to the Soviet Far East together with the Soviet Red Army. In the Soviet Labor Camp, Puyi spent five years in prison.
Subsequently, under China's diplomatic note, Puyi was escorted back to China as a war criminal and imprisoned in the Fushun War Criminals Management Center to receive the new China's labor reform, where Puyi once again spent ten years of labor reform life. Until 1959, when New China issued an amnesty order for the first batch of 33 war criminals, Puyi's name was included in the list of 33 amnesty personnel. This year Puyi was 54 years old.
After his release from prison, Puyi temporarily lived in the prince's mansion in Beijing, and after decades of passionate turmoil, Puyi began to slowly give up his former emperor status under the influence of new ideas, and completely became a citizen of new ideas. He found an errand at the Beijing Botanical Garden, and under the care of the state, Puyi married a nurse again.
Puyi, who was idle, planned to see the old acquaintances, and the so-called acquaintances of Puyi, who grew up living in the cage of the Forbidden City in Beijing, were the former eunuchs and palace women and guards, and the old acquaintances who were still in Beijing were the eunuchs.
Soon Puyi found out about the residences of several old eunuchs who had served him, and Puyi was very excited to visit these old friends, but what Puyi never expected was that when Puyi stepped into the residence of these old eunuchs, at first these old eunuchs did not recognize Puyi, but when Puyi read the names of several of them, these old eunuchs knelt on the ground: Long live Grandpa, you are Long Live Grandpa, the old slave kowtowed to you!
Seeing this kind of behavior, Puyi quickly stopped it, and went forward to support several old eunuchs, and said to these old friends in a serious voice: Now I am no longer an emperor, I am also a citizen of a new era, today is to come to see the old friends, you will still call me comrade in the future.
These old eunuchs excitedly agreed, but we can guess that the hearts of these old eunuchs are still not calm. After all, the traditional feudal ideas have left too deep a mark of the times in the minds of these old eunuchs.
Later, Puyi still often visited these old friends, and everyone never used the title of Long Live Grandpa again, but the old eunuchs still maintained a respectful attitude towards Puyi.