Puyi (second from right)
Puyi, the last emperor of the Forbidden City, was riding his beloved baby bicycle in the imperial garden one day, riding to a corner, and almost bumped into a person. The person who was hit was the person in charge of the electric light in the Forbidden City, and when he saw that it was the emperor, he looked surprised and quickly knelt down to ask for peace.
Blocking the emperor's way, this is the crime of deceiving the king, but Puyi, who has a car addiction attack, has no time to pay attention to it, and he has to go around in a circle.
The emperor who managed the electric lamp was not angry, and quickly hit the snake and the stick, asking the emperor to give him a knighthood.
Where does the person who manages the electric lamp know that this last emperor who was under house arrest has been unable to protect himself, and it will not be long before he will never leave the Forbidden City where his ancestors have lived for more than two hundred years and live in the rivers and lakes.
And it is said that this ending was caused by the emperor's precious bicycle.
Puyi (center), Runqi (right)
It is said that once, Puyi and his brother-in-law Guo Buluo Runqi chatted, and learned that Runqi had added a new thing - a bicycle, riding on it can be a substitute for a palanquin, not only at home, but also riding all the way to Xiangshan.
As soon as Puyi heard this, he asked the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to buy several foreign imported bicycles from outside the palace, and specially opened a practice field in the Yangxin Hall to let Runqi teach him how to ride.
After riding for two days, Puyi launched a complaint against Runqi, I am not as good as you, you can ride to visit Xiangshan, I said to go to Xiangshan, even this Forbidden City can not go out, just say go to the Royal Garden, but also have to get on the car and get off the car toss several times.
It turned out that the road from the Yangxin Hall to the Royal Garden had to pass through many palace gates, each of which had a threshold, and every time Puyi rode by, he had to get off the car and carry the bicycle over. Really too much trouble.
Runqi told Puyi that in order to facilitate the children's bicycles, the family sawed off the thresholds that blocked the road. He asked Puyi to also let people see off the threshold that stood in the way.
As soon as Puyi heard that it made sense, he ordered someone to saw off the threshold of the Forbidden City to facilitate cycling.
Puyi and younger brother Pujie
When the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs heard that it was impossible, they all spoke out to block it, saying that the threshold was the treasure left by the ancestors to ensure the peace of the Great Qing and refuse to let the ghosts and monsters be polluted outside the door, and sawing off was destroying the feng shui.
Puyi, who had received a new-style education, did not care about three seven twenty-one, it was necessary to saw, and the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not do it. In the midst of people's trepidation, in just five days, the threshold of the Yangxin Hall leading to the Imperial Garden was sawn empty. Puyi and Wanrong and others can finally ride back and forth unimpeded.
After the threshold was sawn off, many royals were very dissatisfied, especially the two old concubines in the palace were very angry, believing that the feng shui left by the ancestors was now destroyed, which would definitely bring disaster. For a moment, the Forbidden City was filled with an ominous atmosphere.
Feng Yuxiang
In October 1924, there was a mutiny in Beijing. Feng Yuxiang, who controlled the capital, led his troops into the Forbidden City on November 5, puyi's telephone line to the outside world was cut off, and all people inside and outside the palace were forbidden to enter and exit.
Puyi's uncle Zaitao hurriedly found Puyi's English teacher Johnston, hoping to use his status as a foreigner to rescue Puyi, just as the two ran to Dongjiaomin Lane to seek help from various legations, Puyi had been driven out of the Forbidden City by Feng Yuxiang's men, and even his beloved bicycle was too late to pack.
At four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Feng Yuxiang's right-hand man Lu Zhonglin led a team of twenty pistols to "escort" Puyi and his party out of the Forbidden City and live in the Palace of Prince Alcohol.
At the gate of the palace, Lu Zhonglin shook hands with Puyi while asking, Mr. Puyi, do you plan to become an emperor in the future, or do you want to be a commoner?
The terrified Puyi hurriedly said, I am willing to be a commoner from today onwards, being an emperor is not free, now I can be free. Lu Zhonglin smiled, well, then I will keep you safe.
At that time, puyi wanted freedom, in fact, to freely realize his ideals according to his own ideas - to sit back on his lost throne.
So there was a series of subsequent farces. Under the operation of Luo Zhenyu and Zheng Xiaoxu and others, Puyi began his short puppet career.
Unfortunately, no one can stop the wheel of history, and Puyi not only did not achieve true freedom, but lived trembling in the pseudo-M palace.
On August 6 and 9, 1945, after two deafening noises over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Puyi embarked on the road of escape on the night of the 11th.
When Puyi was planning to flee to Tokyo by plane at Shenyang Airport, he was arrested by the airborne paratroopers of the Soviet Red Army and escorted to Russia, where he was imprisoned in Morovka Special Prison No. 30.
In August 1950, Puyi was escorted back to China and entered the Fushun Zhan F Management Office to undergo a 10-year labor reform. On December 4, 1959, he was granted an amnesty.
Since then, Puyi has truly begun his life of freedom. More than twenty years have passed since he rode his bicycle in the Forbidden City.
It is said that after Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City, he also regretted that he had been Meng Lang for a while and sawed off the threshold. This kind of nonsense is nothing more than the laughing stock of future generations.
Puyi in his later years
Regardless of whether there is really feng shui or not, history has developed into the 1920s, and the Qing Dynasty, which has existed for nearly 280 years, has reached a dying juncture. I am afraid that no matter how thick the threshold is, it will be difficult to resist the fierce revolutionary tide.