The top-secret documents of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reveal a different Puyi, and there is also a "gang" side
Puyi, the last emperor in Chinese history and the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, succeeded to the throne at the age of three, was forced to abdicate at the age of 6, was captured by the Soviet Red Army in 1945 and brought to the Soviet Union, and was escorted back to China in 1950, where he studied and reformed at the Fushun War Criminals Management Institute. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was also supported by Japan as a puppet emperor of puppet Manchukuo, so people have always had the impression of Puyi on the level of various disdains such as weak and incompetent puppets, but is the real Puyi really so unbearable? Perhaps his essence can be revealed from the documents compiled by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs!
When compiling the records of World War II, he found the "top secret meeting record", which was written by an author named Kenjiro Hayashi, who was Puyi's Japanese translator. After the September 18 Incident, Japan invaded the northeast, and in 1932 the puppet state of Manchukuo was established, and with the support of the Japanese government, Puyi became the so-called puppet emperor, and there were two forces at that time, one was the Kwantung Army, and the other was the Japanese government. The reason for the emergence of these two forces is mainly because Japan has a different strategic attitude toward China, so it has produced two different forces, but the overall purpose is to expand its power and thus control China. However, the methods and roles used by these two forces are completely different, which also creates a state of intolerable water and differences, and eventually various contradictions arise between the two and begin to confront each other.
Since this translator is often around Puyi, he is also a witness to Puyi's true situation and true character. He also had the most say in Puyi's evaluation, according to him, puyi became the emperor of Manchukuo at that time, not because the Japanese coerced him, but because he joined voluntarily. Because he has always been troubled by the title of the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, you must know that no one wants to be a slave to the country, let alone become the king of the country, puyi is the same, so in order to restore his great cause, he decided to rely on the power of the Japanese.
After that, he began to play a game with the Japanese, and Puyi at that time only regarded the Japanese as a springboard, from the psychology of not surrendering to the Japanese at all, but also using the chips of the Japanese to achieve their own goals, and now people often talk about the "gang" side. However, although the Japanese agreed to his conditions at that time, after the establishment of Manchukuo, they did not really turn him into a politician with real power, but controlled all kinds of power, Puyi was naturally very dissatisfied with this, so when Manchukuo was first established, Puyi also often negotiated with the Japanese, and gradually developed his own power, and also wanted to ascend the throne as the emperor to achieve the imperial system, under various coercions, the Japanese could only agree to let him ascend the throne in the northeast.
During this time, the Japanese maintained a certain respect for him, but when Muto Yanyi died, Puyi did not have this treatment at all, and his purpose of restoration was completely destroyed, especially after the Harald incident, Puyi after no political chips was officially reduced to a puppet.