In 1987, a film about the story of Puyi, the last emperor of China, was released, and soon won an Oscar for the richness of its pictures, the thickness of history, the authenticity of the characters and the restoration of historical facts. As the last emperor of China, Puyi's ups and downs of life are gradually understood by people in the form of audiovisual communication.
Since the Western Zhou Dynasty had a clear sub-feudal system, there has been no shortage of princes in Chinese history, and in the Qing Dynasty, they were called princes. Since there is the last emperor, who is the last prince? After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi finally lived an ordinary life through labor reform, so where did this last prince go?
And this last prince's name was Wen Kui. In 1908, after Empress Dowager Cixi crowned Puyi as the Son of Heaven, she immediately cried out for her life. Puyi, who was only two years old, lived in the vast Forbidden City. In 1912, the Republic of China was established, and how to deal with the Qing dynasty royal family became a problem.
The last emperor Puyi was only 6 years old at the time, and he could not do anything but dou jiao'er, and he could not pose a threat to the Republic of China at all. In addition, the founding foundation of the Republic of China was the "Three People's Principles", and now the Qing Dynasty royal family has become their people, and at that time, the domestic and foreign affairs were difficult, and the Republic of China had no time to deal with this mess.
Therefore, the measures taken by the Republic of China against the Royal Family of the Qing Dynasty were that Puyi had a special status and was still young, and he still lived in the Forbidden City for the time being, and the Republic of China was responsible for the corresponding expenses. And the local princes, for so many years, have plundered a lot of people's fat and people's anointing, and the Republic of China has no energy to interrogate them, so it has allowed them to fend for themselves under the premise of ensuring that there will be no rebellion.
Therefore, the princes left over from the Qing Dynasty have become isolated islands, fighting for survival and continuation. However, because they have been pampered for many years, they have now lost their real power, and at the same time, they do not have the strength of the army, and they can only eat the old money if they cannot pull down the face of the nobility.
And Wen Kui's family also fell into such a situation. Wen Kui was born in 1911, and as a result the Qing Dynasty ceased to exist the following year. By the time he remembered, the family's money had been consumed. In 1917, Wen Kui's uncle died, leaving no heirs under his knees, so Wen Kui inherited his uncle's family property, and also received the title of uncle - "Shuncheng County King", becoming the last prince in Chinese history.
By 1920, Wen Kui's big son had really sat on the mountain and eaten the sky. Fortunately, at this time, the great warlord Zhang Zuolin took a fancy to his family's house and asked for 75,000 yuan to buy Wen Kui's house. Wen Kui immediately agreed, Zhang Zuolin was rich, this price was only a lot more, and he could also explain Wen Kui's urgent needs, and it didn't take long for Wen Kui to hand over the house.
But always, one day we will be in the same situation again. Fortunately, the "King of Shuncheng County" has always been good friends with Puyi, and Wen Kui will go to pay homage to Puyi every year. In 1935, Wen Kui also went to pay homage to Puyi at that time as usual, and went to the northeast that had been occupied by Japan. After the September 18 Incident in 1931, the Japanese army divided the northeast and made Puyi the emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo in 1932.
When Wen Kui met Puyi, although Puyi was controlled by Japan, at least his life was safe, although it was not like the real emperor's power, but he had some privileges in his hands, and he squandered a lot of money. Wen Kui gave Puyi a farewell to his birthday, originally thinking of going to Japan to study and learn some real materials to feed a big family.
However, Puyi saw that he was once a prince, and now he was quite frustrated, and he felt pity for him, so he arranged for him to go to the army unit of the puppet state of Manchukuo. Wen Kui took the artillery section, and after three months of training, he became a second lieutenant in the Shenyang artillery team under Puyi's arrangement, and then became a soldier for two full years.
Although he is a military officer, he is actually an idle post focusing on teaching, and his income is not bad, but he can never go to the battlefield to make military merit. Ke Wenkui has been quite ambitious since he was a child, and when he was a child, he loved to read classics such as "Sun Tzu's Art of War". In 1937, Japan launched the July 7 Incident and began to invade China in an all-round way, wen Kui saw that the mountains and rivers were victimized everywhere, but he was in the enemy camp and secretly survived, and his heart was quite painful.
In 1938, Wen Kui left puppet Manchukuo on the pretext that her stepmother was ill and needed to be cared for, returned home to study calligraphy and painting, and lived a reclusive life. After 1949, Wen Kui also became a commoner and began a peaceful life.
In 1958, Wen Kui also handed over the royal seal to the state, which was a symbol of the status of Prince Wen Kui, but he handed it over so easily, perhaps for him, this seal was actually a burden. Because of this contribution, in 1960, Wen Kui became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the previous Wang Ye's style of doing things has long ceased to exist.
Later, Wen Kui specialized in calligraphy and painting, immersed in artistic creation, and also had some refreshing works. Later, because of her identity, although Wen Kui encountered some difficulties, she finally survived peacefully and died in 1992 at the age of 81. The story of China's last prince came to an end.