After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Ai Xin Jue Luo family quickly split into two factions, one was actively seeking restoration, such representative figures were Prince Su Shanqi and the regent Puyi; the other faction was completely opposite, not seeking restoration, but seeking peace and stability, such representative figures were Puyi's father, the last Prince Zaifeng of Alcohol, and his brother Belle Zaifeng.
At the beginning, Zaifeng can be said to have been exhausted by the title of "Prince Regent". After leaving office, Zaifeng can be regarded as a long sigh of relief. Since then, Zaifeng has also withdrawn from the power center of the Qing Dynasty.
Unlike many Manchu Qing dynasty elders who sought to restore the country, Zaifeng only wanted to be treated unchanged and did not care about anything else. At the beginning, Zhang Xun led the braid army to make a farce of restoration, and Zaifeng also did not say a word, staying in the palace and did not come out.
Subsequently, his own son Puyi fled to the northeast and established the puppet state of Manchukuo under the support of the Japanese. Although Puyi has already passed on to Guangxu, that is, Zaifeng's second brother, after all, blood is thicker than water, Puyi still wants to take his father to his side. In this way, you can fulfill your filial piety, and the identity of the last prince of the father can also add bricks and tiles by yourself.
Of course, not only Puyi has this idea, but also the Japanese. If Zaifeng went to the northeast and defected to the Japanese, this would send a signal to the descendants of the Qing Dynasty or some warlords, and perhaps attract more people to the northeast.
However, Zaifeng was indifferent to the persuasion of his son or the Japanese, and on the surface he hesitated, but in fact he had made up his mind not to go. Moreover, he also firmly kept his young son Puren and his two young daughters by his side, resolutely not letting them follow.
In 1925, Dr. Sun Yat-sen also visited Zaifeng and praised Zaifeng's resignation as "regent" on the eve of the revolution as a patriotic act. Of course, Dr. Sun Yat-sen also expressed appreciation for Zaifeng's cold-eyed observation of the Restoration Movement after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and expressed his understanding of his failure to solve the Yuan Shikai problem.
Zaifeng and Dr. Sun Yat-sen had a good conversation, and Zaifeng was glad that he could have a meeting with Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Unfortunately, Dr. Sun Yat-sen passed away only a month after this meeting.
Zaifeng's daily life is simple and he does not often come out to do activities, but this does not mean that he does not care about national affairs. After the founding of New China, Zaifeng sold the palace to the "National Advanced Industrial School", and more than ten cultural relics and more than 7,000 books in the palace were donated to the state.
In 1951, Zaifeng died of wind and cold, and compared with his son Puyi and his brother Guangxu Emperor, Zaifeng's old age was satisfactory.
As Zaifeng's younger brother, Zaitao also has a similar experience with his brother. After Puyi abdicated that year, Zaitao also lived a life like a crane in the clouds like his brother. Different from his brother's monotonous life, Zaitao's life is extremely interesting, sometimes raising flowers and fish, sometimes wandering on the street, and sometimes running to the racecourse to race horses.
This life ended until Feng Yuxiang launched a mutiny. In 1924, Puyi was expelled from the palace, and the preferential treatment of the Qing Dynasty clan was gone, and Zaitao had no source of livelihood, so he could only sell his old house and live in a new house.
There is no job and no way, Zaitao can only live on a shoestring (of course, much richer than ordinary people). Before the liberation, prices in Beijing soared, and even Zaitao could not survive, so he could only sell the sundries in his home. He even went to the street with his wife to set up a stall.
In fact, Zaitao did not have to be like this, before that, he had almost suddenly "soared" and lived a "happy and worry-free" life. However, he categorically refused this kind of life, and the invitation to this life naturally came from his nephew Puyi, who even said such a sentence - "I will not be a slave to the country." “
After the founding of New China, Zaitao's life was only better. It is said that in 1950, Zaitao gave full play to his strengths and submitted a bill to his superiors to "propose to improve the horse breed to benefit the military".
It turned out that Zaitao was a good hand at taming and breeding horses, and he had also learned this kind of knowledge in France. However, after the Japanese came, they were not allowed to ride Chinese, so Zaitao sold all his horses and stopped riding horses.
Of course, his superiors attached great importance to his proposals, both because of his special status and because of his profound knowledge of military horses. Soon, Chairman Mao personally signed a letter of appointment appointing Zaitao as an adviser to ma Zheng bureau of the People's Liberation Army Artillery Command.
After receiving the letter of appointment, Zaitao did not dare to relax at all, and without wang ye's shelf at all, he personally went to Mudanjiang, Qinghai, Xinjiang,
Gansu and other places inspected military horse farms and patiently guided them.
Since 1954, Zaitao has been a deputy to the National People's Congress for three consecutive terms.
Because of his approachability and high moral standing, Zaitao has always been regarded as the patriarch of the Aixin Jueluo family after the founding of New China.
In 1970, Zaitao died at the age of eighty-four.