Puyi, a man who, although he had the name of an emperor, was only the empty shell of the late Qing Emperor, when he was young, he tried his best to restore the glory of the feudal dynasty, and even did not hesitate to cooperate with the Japanese to become a puppet emperor of puppet Manchukuo.
Zhang Zuolin, a "mud-legged man" born, relies on a fierce spirit to find balance among the forces of all sides, and finally kills a bloody road of tyrants, and the town guards the three eastern provinces without giving way.
It is such two people who are completely different from the trajectory of life to their temperament, especially one who is in the middle of the day, and one who meets when he is frustrated and depressed, what kind of plot will appear? Puyi was always startled by Zhang Zuolin. This matter has to start from the restoration of Zhang Xun in 1917.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xun served as the viceroy of Yunnan, Gansu, and Jiangnan, and was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, even if the Qing Dynasty was broken, he still refused to admit it, in order to show his loyalty to the Qing royal family, he was not allowed to cut braids under his troops, so his troops were also called "braided troops".
And Zhang Zuolin? In the early days, he relied on the promotion of Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces, and was considered a member of the Qing Dynasty; after Yuan took the throne, he had a good relationship with Yuan; later Li Yuanhong became the president of the Republic of China, and he was appointed by Li Yuanhong as the governor of Fengtian And governor. In short, it is a knife tip dance, and you can break out of a way to live anywhere.
In 1917, after Li Yuanhong became the president, the contradiction between him and Duan Qirui, who held real power, became increasingly rigid, and Zhang Xun, who held military power in his hands, became the object of their co-optation. But Zhang Xun actually had another plan in mind, that is, to support Puyi's reset. So in 1917, in the name of mediating the "dispute between the government and the courtyard", he led his troops into Beijing, and actually launched the "Zhang Xun Restoration" with Kang Youwei.
And what role did Zhang Zuolin play in this matter? At first, he said that he was a person on the restoration side, and said that he was the boss at the time, Feng Delin, to join Zhang Xun's camp; as a result, after Feng Delin ran to Beijing, Zhang Zuolin surrendered like Duan Qirui and said that he was a revolutionary. In this way, Zhang Zuolin took over all the military and government of Feng Province through the "restoration of Zhang Xun" in less than half a month.
At this time, Puyi is already 11 years old, and it is not very realistic to say that he really does not understand anything, but what is the use of his words? In 1924, Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City by Feng Yuxiang, and could only flee to his biological father, Prince Zaifeng, and went to Tianjin the following year.
At this time in 1925, Zhang Zuolin's Fengzhi warlords were stationed in Shanghai and entered the most prosperous period. Zhang Zuolin wanted money and money at this time, and he wanted power and power, and there was no shortage of anything, so when he met Puyi in Tianjin, he simply hit a thousand and said: "The emperor is auspicious." Zhang Zuolin's greeting directly frightened Puyi.
At this time, the two of them were a fallen royal family, and they could only rely on the praise of others to barely decorate their identities; a "King of the Northeast" who was indeed the most powerful in the sky, how could Puyi dare to bear the gift of Zhang Zuolin? So Puyi said in his mouth: "The general is good", and quickly lifted Zhang Zuolin up.
This funny and interesting scene, in fact, is not Zhang Zuolin deliberately frightened Puyi, but for Zhang Zuolin at that time, a fallen former emperor was not a threat at all; plus he himself started by relying on the Qing government, he himself was a mischievous character, and giving Puyi a salute was not a big deal in his opinion.
Unfortunately, the situation changed rapidly during the Republic of China, and within a few years, Zhang Zuolin died in the conspiracy of the Japanese, and Puyi became a puppet of the Japanese for that illusory position.
Reference: Declaration