The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China, although it was once strong, but since the late Qianlong period, it has lagged behind the world, and because of the stubbornness of the rulers, it has lagged far behind the West, opening the prelude to China's century-old shame.
The cannon of the Xinhai Revolution shattered the decadent dynasty, and finally Yuan Shikai completed the final step, and the Xuantong Emperor issued an edict of abdication on February 12, 1912, and the Qing Dynasty collapsed.
However, after this, there were still some people who wanted to restore the Qing Dynasty and made a scandalous restoration, and Zhang Xun and Kang Youwei among the courtiers were very enthusiastic about this matter, and the most active among the royal family may be the good old.
The most peculiar thing about him was that after he had planned two failed restorations, he was discouraged, put his hopes on his children, sent all 38 of his children abroad, and warned them not to be Chinese officials or Chinese citizens.
Shanqi was the tenth grandson of Hauge, the eldest son of Emperor Taiji, and hereditary prince of Su, in fact, he was very contradictory, and in the early days he was not a stubborn old nobleman, on the contrary, he was more sympathetic to the revolution. At that time, the Qing court faced the revolutionaries, and the way to deal with them was one word--kill, the good elderly were much more tolerant, and they rescued too many people.
Liu Jing'an, the leader of the Japanese Propaganda Association, was a revolutionary activist, and after the Qing court arrested him, he was ready to be beheaded, and after the good elderly were punished by many parties, the death penalty became permanent imprisonment;
Cheng Jiaqi was a member of the Alliance, very famous at that time, Shanqi also knew this but still hired as a shogunate, Cheng Jiatao provided help to the Alliance under the eyes of Shanqi, Shanqi was the attitude of disregard, and even later Shanqi also took 30,000 pieces for Cheng Jiaqi to bring back to the headquarters of the Alliance;
There is also a big man who also escaped the disaster because of his good old age. "Lead the knife into a fast, live up to the young man's head", Wang Jingwei assassinated the regent Zaifeng failed and was arrested, originally he had to die, but the main trial of this case was Shanqi.
During the handling of the case, Shanqi learned about Wang Jingwei's many deeds and read many of his articles, and finally became greatly infected and exempted him from the death penalty, so Wang Jingwei was first sentenced to permanent imprisonment, and then released not long after.
At this time, Shan Qi was very sober, and the reason why he did this was because he understood that the Great Qing Dynasty and Tang Rusi could not be saved by killing a few revolutionaries.
Of course, Zenki was not the kind of person who ate inside and outside, on the contrary, he wanted to protect Daqing more than anyone, and he knew that relying on the Manchus was no longer enough, so he hoped to use the power of the Japanese.
As early as the time of the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, Li Hongzhang and Yi Xi went to negotiate with the group of bandits, and Shanqi also went, and in the process of this negotiation, he became acquainted with a Japanese named Kawashima Nanasu. Kawashima Issei is a translator on the surface, but in fact, there is a layer of identity as a Japanese spy, which is highly valued by the Japanese military.
Kawashima Nanasu will Chinese, and he is also hoping to take advantage of the Qing court and let Japan steal greater benefits, so he talks with Zenki very happily, and the two come together with their own purposes and worship as brothers.
Because of this relationship, Shanqi was on the line with the Japanese, and had been trying in vain to maintain the Qing court through Japanese power, but unfortunately he had mistaken the object, the Japanese would only serve their own interests, and as for whether China was ruled by the Qing court, they did not care at all, but thought that the more chaotic China was, the better.
After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Empress Longyu and the regent, who had previously been loyal to the emperor, both advocated abdication, but the sympathetic revolutionary Shan Qi said that he would fight to the end and never give up the imperial power, so he also participated in the organization of the Zongshe Party and fought the revolution to the end.
However, the tide of history could not be stopped by a few princes, and liangbi, a member of the zongshe party, was injured by the explosion, and when Shanqi saw that the situation was not good, he immediately led the whole family to flee to Lushun.
People are gone, but the heart of restoration has always been there, so he gave up his dignity as a prince and began to flatter the Japanese, and in 1912, Emperor Meiji died, and on the day of the great mourning, Zengi wore a hemp and wore filial piety for three days, which was really beautiful.
In 1914, when the Japanese Emperor Taisho ascended the throne, Zenki went to the White Jade Mountain in Lushun to pay homage to the soldiers who had fallen under the Japanese army, all he did was to get the Japanese to support his restoration.
For the goal of restoration, ShanQi really paid two actions.
In June 1912, Shanqi organized the QinWang Army in an attempt to engage in the so-called Manchu-Mongolian independence movement. In September of the same year, he transported 47 military trains to Inner Mongolia, but on the way he was intercepted by Wu Junsheng's troops, and the rebellion was stillborn.
In 1915, Yuan Shikai first turned back and declared himself emperor, and Shanqi was ready to take advantage of the great chaos in the country to carry out restoration and establish a kingdom in Manchuria, Mongolia and northern China, or Puyi became emperor.
Shanqi pawned all his property, borrowed huge sums of money from the Japanese, and recruited a large number of bandits and outlaws for military training, but just as he was preparing to start an incident, Yuan Shikai suddenly died. Now there is no name, and the Japanese believe that without a name, they will no longer support it.
This restoration ruined the family, and since then he has been discouraged, knowing that it is impossible to rely on himself, so he put all his hopes on his own children.
Although he was full of thoughts, but the matter of having children was not idle, he had a total of 38 children, 21 sons and 17 daughters, three of whom were sent to Britain, Germany, Belgium, and all the others except those who died early were sent to Japan to study. He did not allow his children to be Chinese officials, nor were he allowed to be Chinese citizens.
Some of these children did it, such as the fourteen-year-old Xianxuan, the famous Kawashima Yoshiko, a famous spy, and the seventh son, Xiankui, who later became the mayor of The New Beijing City of Puppet Manchuria.
Some children have their own way of life, such as the seventeen-year-old Xianqi, who later returned to China to live, founded the Beijing Oriental Training Institute, and had a marriage with the painter Ma Wanli.
38 people, all listed too long and some really can not find the information, so still give up.
Shanqi himself died of illness on February 27, 1922, at the age of 56, Puyi also posthumously gave him the nickname "Zhong", if nothing else, this loyal word Shanqi is really deserved.
He can be regarded as an outlier among the princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he can recognize a certain situation, but unfortunately he still has his own limitations, perhaps for the sake of the "loyalty" in his own heart.