On April 13, 1937, a very special wedding was held at the Military Hall in Tokyo, Japan, which attracted the attention of China, Japan and the world. This was at the height of Sino-Japanese relations, five years after Japan occupied northeast China and established the puppet puppet regime of Manchukuo.
The bridegroom at the wedding is Chinese and the bride is Japanese. The wedding was actually a move by Japan to further control China. The groom is Pu Jie, the younger brother of the puppet Manchukuo Emperor Puyi, and the bride is Saga Hao, the granddaughter of the Japanese Marquis Saga Gongsheng, and there is no doubt that this is a political marriage, and the wedding is basically attended by political dignitaries.
Pu Jie's relatives and friends were pitifully few, and only five of Saga Hao's friends attended the wedding. This is a wedding that keeps relatives and friends out, and this marriage is destined to not be simple.
This year, Pu Jie was already 30 years old, divorced once, and Saga Hao was 23 years old. The wedding is not small, and japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" describes it like this:
On April 3, when the cherry blossoms were about to bloom, at the Kudan Military Hall, The Imperial Brother of His Majesty the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Jieshi, and Miss Hao, the granddaughter of the Marquis of Saga Gongsheng, held a successful wedding ceremony amid the celebrations of the two countries' governments and oppositions, which were more firmly linked to Each other.
Judging from the photos, it was indeed a grand wedding, and both were dressed in aristocratic costumes. At this time, puyi, the brother of the bridegroom, who was in the puppet emperor of Manchukuo in China, was extremely nervous, and he paced back and forth in the room, looking solemn.
Is Japan looking for a puppet that can better replace itself? Is it to create a puppet emperor with Japanese ancestry? Will you lose your use value and worry about your life?
Puyi actually wanted his divorced brother to find a new wife long ago, and the chosen candidate was the late Qing Dynasty's Gege Wanyan Tong, who was born in the royal family and looked outstanding, and was the cousin of Puyi's empress Wanrong.
The most beautiful old photograph of the imperial family at the end of the Qing Dynasty
However, Puyi could not resist the strong opposition of the Japanese after all, and the Japanese said that pujie studying in Japan would marry a Japanese woman, and he would have to be a Japanese nobleman.
When Saga Hao's photo was delivered to Pu Jie's hand, Pu Jie fell in love with this beautiful person. At first, Saga Hao was uneasy about this marriage, but when they saw Pu Jie's gentle and elegant appearance, their worries disappeared.
After marriage, the two got along harmoniously and the relationship between husband and wife was harmonious. After the honeymoon, the two moved to a Japanese-style building near the Pujie Infantry School. At seven o'clock in the morning, Pu Jie rode to school on horseback, and Saga Hao received guests at home and took care of family affairs.
In 1937, Pujie, who graduated, returned to Changchun with his pregnant wife, but Puyi did not welcome them, Puyi looked at Pujie and his wife differently, and he felt that Saga Hao was the eyeliner that the Japanese had planted next to his brother.
Pu Jie and his wife returned to China, and the Japanese asked Puyi to sign the "Imperial Succession Law", which stipulates that Puyi is not alive and has no children and grandchildren, and can pass on the descendants of his brother. Puyi's original concern was real. But Saga Actually has deep sympathy for the Chinese people. When she saw the Japanese soldiers arresting Chinese her heart was full of mixed feelings.
For Saga Hao, marrying Pujie is not a good life, she wants to go to war-torn China, but also endure the suspicion of the Chinese people. Soon after arriving in the northeast, the couple was arranged to live a hard life on a ranch. There, Saga gave birth to her first child, daughter Huisheng.
Huisheng's birth made Puyi breathe a sigh of relief, and the relationship between the two brothers eased somewhat. At that time, Manchukuo's imperial hanging Kwantung Army Daisa Yoshioka Yasunori prepared gifts before the baby was born, boys gave gifts wrapped in water-colored silk belts, and girls gave gifts wrapped in pink ribbons.
After learning that it was his daughter who was born, Yasushi Yoshioka threw down the gift and left. Puyi loves this Chinese-Japanese niece very much, and for him who has no children, the family becomes happy.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, Puyi announced the puppet Manchukuo ladder, and Saga Hao decided to stay in China. But to her surprise, her husband actually wanted to "take refuge" with japanese people in Japan for his own life safety.
The two brothers carried a Japanese plane to Japan, the plane was too small, and both wives were left in China, and this difference was exactly 16 years.
Puyi (left) and Pujie
The brothers did not succeed in reaching Japan, and the two were captured by the Red Army and taken to Burleigh. In the Soviet Union, Puyi wrote to Stalin many times saying that he wanted to stay in the Soviet Union all the time, because he knew that after returning to China, he would be convicted of being a traitor. But Pujie was bent on reuniting with his wife, so he asked the Soviets to contact Tokyo.
However, Pu Jie did not know that his wife was not in Tokyo, and her situation was quite bad. After her husband left, a grief-stricken Saga Hiroshi was arrested and interrogated and imprisoned. WanRong, who was later captured together, died on the road, and Saga Hiroshi fell into the hands of the nationalist army and was convicted as a war criminal.
Eventually, Saga received help from Japanese officials to return to Japan to reunite with her two daughters, during which she constantly inquired about her husband's whereabouts.
Puyi and Pujie pick vegetables together at the Fushun War Criminals Management Center
By 1950, Puyi was escorted back to the War Criminals Management Center in Fushun, China. Saga Hiroshi was a little relieved. 16-year-old Hui Sheng, distressed by his mother, plucked up the courage to write a letter to Zhou Enlai, the premier of new China, stating that his mother missed her father very much and hoped that the premier could help contact her parents to restore correspondence with each other.
Premier Zhou was touched to see the letter and handed it over to Pu Jie. After seeing the letter, Pu Jie burst into tears and was moved, and then he wrote a letter to his wife and daughter.
After receiving the reply, Saga Hao was so excited that he did not close his eyes for several nights. Saga Hao hurriedly prepared to meet her husband in China. But I didn't expect that at this time, Hui Sheng fell in love with the Japanese. Her mother strongly objected that she was born in China and should marry a Chinese man. Unable to do so, Hui Sheng chose martyrdom.
Pu Jie and Saga Hao
In 1959, Puyi was pardoned, and Pujie needed to undergo continued detention and reform because he married a Japanese daughter. At the time of the amnesty, Puyi said to his brother: "I wanted to understand it when I was reforming, your Japanese wife is a spy, and you don't have any contact with her after you go out." ”
Pu Jie did not answer. Over the years, his longing for his wife and daughter has never stopped. In 1962, Premier Zhou personally went out on horseback and invited the Puyi family to his home for dinner in his personal name, and chatted about Saga Hao's return to China. He said that how could a great China not be able to accommodate a Japanese woman?
In 1961, Saga returned to China. At the first sight of her husband, she said that she was sorry for him, and she had not been able to find her husband to accompany him for so many years. The husband hurriedly wiped away her tears and said that he was really sorry for his wife and daughter. After 16 years of separation, the couple was finally reunited.
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