A gentle gust of wind awakens the body that has been sleeping for a thousand years; a gentle gust of wind blows away the mysterious veil of history. Standing on the shoulders of time, I talk to history.
Speaking of the "last emperor" Puyi, I think everyone is no stranger! He succeeded to the throne at the age of three, and was ousted at the age of six, although nominally emperor, in fact he had long since died in name. But no matter what, under the guarantee of the republic of China government's annual living expenses of four million yuan, Puyi's family is still very happy, and the pomp and circumstance has not been reduced.
Most importantly, the "big marriage system" stipulated by the imperial court was not abolished. In early December of the eleventh year of the Republic of China, Emperor Xuantong Puyi got married and married a concubine, namely Empress Wanrong and Concubine Wenxiu.
According to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor will begin to pro-government after the big wedding, but at this time, the Qing Dynasty has collapsed, and there is no pro-government at all, but it is just a symbolic walk under the support of the old and the young in the former dynasty.
However, the good times did not last long, and in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, Feng Yuxiang launched the "Beijing Coup" and completely expelled the Puyi family from the Forbidden City. And the next thing we all know very well, Puyi's family moved to Tianjin, and then with the support of the Japanese, established the puppet state of Manchukuo.
During this period, Puyi took two more concubines, namely the Xianggui 'Tan Yuling' and the Fugui 'Li Yuqin'. After liberation, he married his wife Li Shuxian.
However, whether it was empress Wanrong in the front, or Shufei Wenxiu, or the two nobles and Li Shuxian later, they failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter for Puyi. What's going on here? Didn't Puyi have this ability?
Don't you say, really! Why?
Let's take WanRong as an example! Wanrong married Puyi in the eleventh year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1922, when she was 16 years old and Puyi was 17 years old. During the period from the small imperial court to the puppet state of Manchukuo, Wanrong had no record of childbearing.
However, after Wanrong and Puyi's two bodyguards, Li Tiyu and Qi Jizhong, committed adultery, they became pregnant. Therefore, this is enough to show that Puyi really has no fertility.
In fact, the matter of WanRong was mentioned in Puyi's later autobiography "The First Half of My Life", but it was only deleted:
Wanrong became addicted to the addiction of opium, and committed adultery with the guards, secretly married a beaded fetus, gave birth to a daughter, and later the child died, Wanrong remembered the woman's madness, and smoked opium to live.
But the question is, why can't Puyi have children? Just look at what the palace ladies did to him when he was a child!
On this issue, the most uploaded on the Internet is that Puyi was in his infancy, making a lot of noise all day long, and in order to let him sleep well at night, the eunuchs called some adult palace girls to sleep with Puyi. But Puyi was still a child at that time, he didn't understand anything, and the palace ladies would force Xiao Puyi to act in order to do routine things.
In the long run, Puyi began to be afraid when he saw women, and he also suffered from the so-called "kidney disease", that is, from that time on, Puyi had no fertility.
In addition, there is another corroboration for this explanation, that is, Puyi's death from uremia in his later years is also related to his childhood experience.
Of course, there is also a saying, that is, in order to get more rewards from Puyi and make their lives better, the palace ladies in the palace took the initiative to seduce Puyi.
At that time, Puyi was still young and ignorant, and after experiencing the joy of clouds and rain once, he was obsessed with that feeling, and finally due to excessive indulgence, coupled with immature body, he left a physical defect.
In addition, some people say that the reason why Puyi failed to have children is related to family genetics! How to say it?
Because from the generation of the Xianfeng Emperor, the qing emperor had very few heirs! The Xianfeng Emperor had two sons: the eldest son Zaichun (Tongzhi Emperor) and the second son, King Mercy (who died early). The subsequent Tongzhi Emperor left no heirs, and was succeeded by Zai Xiang (Guangxu Emperor), the son of Yi Zhen the Prince of Alcohol.
Guangxu also left no heirs, and after his death, he was directly replaced by his nephew Puyi.
But in fact, this is not very accurate, because Prince Yizhen of Alcohol has 10 children in his lifetime, and Puyi's father Zaifeng also has 11 children, so this does not have much to do with family genetics.
So in general, the reason why Puyi failed to have children is mainly related to those experiences in the early years, which we can also find the answer in Puyi's autobiography "The First Half of My Life" in his later years!
Of course, this does not exclude the huge psychological pressure brought to him by the change of dynasties and the destruction of the country and the death of his family, which leads to physical defects.
Of course, these are just speculations, not accurate answers! What do you think?