In 1644, under the leadership of Wu Sangui, the Manchus entered the Central Plains with foreign nationalities and established the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than 260 years until the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912. As the last emperor, Puyi was given the reputation of a loser because he buried the Qing Dynasty.
The demise of the Qing Dynasty was not so much a decline in national strength and political corruption as it was a bad luck. Puyi is the tragedy of the times, he bears the name of the subjugation of the country, and he cannot have children for life.
But his brother Puren is very different from him, not only having three sons in a row, all of whom are the pillars of the country, but also living until 2015.
Puyi and Puren
Perhaps the number of a dynasty is about to run out, and in the later period of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor cannot even give birth to an imperial heir. During the Xianfeng Dynasty, there was only one son of Cixi, the later Tongzhi Emperor. Tongzhi died young due to infection with smallpox (also known as syphilis), which actually cut off the bloodline of the Qing Dynasty.
Cixi also needed an obedient little emperor to help her control the government, so she put her sister and the son of prince Shuo on the throne as the Guangxu Emperor.
Guangxu's childhood was all lived in the shadow of his aunt, and he only promised not to dare to confront Cixi at all. When Guangxu finally came of age and could personally govern, Cixi was also reluctant to hand over power. In the end, the two nephews completely tore their faces because of the Pengshu change, and Guangxu was imprisoned by Cixi to death.
In 1908, after Guangxu's death, daqing was faced with the situation of no heirs, and Cixi once again did the same, and put Puyi, the son of Guangxu's younger brother Zaifeng, into the palace as a crown prince.
Although Puyi was an emperor, he was young, and his courtiers inside and outside the court played with him in the palm of his hand. The eunuchs of the inner court, in order not to be worth the night, actually sent the palace maid to the dragon collapse. The young Puyi was hollowed out of his body and had sexual dysfunction, so that he had infertility.
The outside of the Qing Empire was undergoing great changes, and with the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the situation began to become out of control. In order to quell the rebellion, the Qing government invited his gravedigger, Yuan Shikai.
While negotiating peace with the revolutionaries, Yuan Shikai constantly demanded power and money from Puyi and Empress Longyu, and when the time was ripe, he squeezed out orphans and widows, established the Beiyang government, and served as the president himself.
In 1918, Puyi's fourth brother Pu Ren was born in the palace of Prince Alcohol, more than six years after Puyi's abdication. At this time, although the Prince of Alcohol's palace no longer had the glory of the past, the hundred-footed worm was dead and not stiff, the family was still very rich, and Puren also received an excellent education.
Puren also often entered the palace to visit his emperor brother, and the relationship between the two brothers was also very close.
Later, Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City by Feng Yuxiang, and he was invited by the Japanese to become the emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo. The so-called one person won the Tao, the chicken dog ascended to heaven, and Puyi returned to the throne, which attracted the attachment of a large number of Qing Dynasty widows. They gathered around Puyi from all over the country, wanting to revive the majesty of the Qing Dynasty.
Puyi of course will not forget his brother, and has issued invitations many times, hoping that Pu Ren will go north to take office, but he has not received a reply.
Until after the 918 incident, Pu Ren and his father Zaifeng went to the northeast to visit Puyi. After the father and son came to the northeast, they saw that behind Puyi's bright and beautiful appearance, it was a humble knee for the Japanese.
Puyi not only did not feel ashamed, but again invited the two to stay in the puppet Manchu post, and later Pu Ren objected to a hunger strike, which allowed him to return to Beijing.
In 1947, Pu Ren took advantage of the empty house in Houhai Province, sold some of his belongings, built a primary school, and served as the principal himself, and the school was run well under his control, reaching 200 students at the most.
Later, after the liberation of Beijing, due to the lack of office space, the people's government bought the Prince of Alcohol's mansion, and the Pu family moved to a mansion in Weijia Hutong, Dongcheng.
In 1951, in response to the government's call, Puren handed over the antique calligraphy and paintings treasured in the palace to the government, and donated a large number of books to Peking University.
The second half of Pu Ren's life
In his later years, Pu Ren was not only a frugal old man, but also played a generous philanthropist role.
In 1982, he donated the calligraphy relics of Kangxi, Xianfeng and Cixi to the Chengde City Museum, and the following year donated the relics of Qianlong and the portrait of the Emperor of the Qing Palace, which greatly promoted the study of Qing history on the mainland.
In addition, Puyi spares no effort for charity and public welfare. In 1999, Puyi donated 10,000 yuan to Tanying Primary School in the suburbs of Beijing to help many children enter the school.
In the same year, Anhui and Jiangsu were affected, and Puren donated 5,000 yuan again. Later, he donated all 600,000 yen of his calligraphy and paintings in Japan to the Youth Development Foundation.
But behind Puren's generosity and charity, it is his extreme frugality. The house where he lived fell into disrepair, with torrential rains in the summer, rain even leaking into the bed, and cold winds in the winter, freezing and shivering.
When participating in the activities of the Museum of Culture and History, even if the distance is far, Puren never takes a taxi, and always rides his own worn-out bicycle. His dress, except for a cheap suit for formal occasions, was old clothes that were sewn and mended.
On April 10, 2015, Puren died of illness at the age of 97. Unlike his brother Puyi, Pu Ren raised three sons in his lifetime, each of whom was a pillar of the state.
Tiger father has no dog
Pu Ren's eldest son was Jin Yuzhang. As the eldest son, Jin Yufeng was given high hopes by Pu Ren and Zaifeng since he was a child. After graduating in 1968, he was assigned to the Second Geological Team of the Qinghai Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, and his outstanding work ability was unanimously recognized by his colleagues around him.
In 1985, Jin yuling was transferred to the Environmental Protection Bureau of Beijing's Chongwen District to start a mechanic. In 1999, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 2008, Jin Yuling was elected by the Ai Xin Jue Luo family as the leader of the Qing Dynasty royal family, the only representative of the family to the outside world, but he did not care about it, saying that he was not here.
In addition, the book "Oral History of Jin Yuzhang" compiled by Jin Yuzhang was published, which is a qing dynasty oral history published by him through the collation of family materials, which is another powerful promotion of qing history research.
The second son, Jin Yuyu, is a bully with a lateral head and a lateral brain. He has served as a member of the Party Committee of Beijing University of Technology and is also the academic leader of the Air Pollution Control Direction of the Institute of Environmental Engineering.
Jin Yuyue has long been engaged in air pollution control and engineering research, and has also won the first prize of Beijing Excellent Teaching Achievement Award and the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award. He has co-authored 4 textbooks and published more than 70 journal papers.
The third son, Jin Yulan, is a people's teacher, who has been working for 30 years since the 1970s, teaching by example and being deeply respected by teachers and students. After retirement, like his father Puren, he devoted himself to charity.
Although Pu Ren's three sons were born in the royal family, they did not stagnate in the fantasy of the past. What is even more valuable is that they are committed to reality, have worked hard in their respective fields, and become the pillars of the country.