1928 was a very unsettling year for Puyi, the year Zhang Zuolin was killed, the Tanaka cabinet released the news that the Manchu and Mongolian regions were forbidden to enter the Chinese army, Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek also announced cooperation, and the Americans have been matching Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek... However, in this year, the most important news for Puyi was that Sun Dianying had stolen the Tanglin Tombs. Puyi said in his memoirs: This incident shocked me more than when I was expelled from the palace. He didn't care about the loss of jewelry, he cared about the blow to his clan's feelings.
Countless old and young people have run to Puyi to weep bitterly, send funds for the reconstruction of the Yellow Tombs, and send telegrams to Yan Xishan and Chiang Kai-shek, asking them to severely punish Sun Dianying and make financial compensation to help them rebuild the imperial tombs.
At first, Jiang's reaction was very positive, and he began to put Yan Xishan in charge of supervising the matter, and at one point detained one of Sun Dianying's division commanders, but then news came out that the division commander had been released, and Jiang decided not to pursue it, according to Puyi, it was Sun Dianying who gave Song Meiling a large amount of stolen goods, and the pearl on the crown of Empress Dowager Cixi was embroidered by Song to her shoes. In the face of the excited old and young, Puyi swore to heaven: If I don't take revenge, I will not be a descendant of Ai Xinjueluo! Later, Puyi said that this year, because of the Sun Dianying incident, his thoughts of restoration and revenge reached the peak of his life.
How to restore it? Puyi did two things, the first of which was a curse, and he repeatedly prayed to see when the "Great Qing" could be revived, and when Chiang Kai-shek's government would be able to "dissolve and disperse". The second thing is to send the clan cronies around him to learn the army. Years of experience told Puyi that he must have his own "gun barrel", and under the guidance of this idea, Puyi sent his brother Pujie to Japan.
However, as we all know, neither of these things played a big role, and Puyi gradually began to regard the Japanese as the first powerful foreign aid for his restoration, and the Japanese had been taking great care of him during that time. When Puyi was expelled from the palace by Feng Yuxiang, he was exiled to Tianjin, Yoshida Shigeru ignored Puyi's downfall and invited him to visit Japan, along the way Japanese primary school students welcomed him and shouted long live, Puyi was once moved to tears. When the warlord's war almost burned to Tianjin, it was the Japanese Koizumi Liuyi who told him: Please rest assured that the emperor will never allow them to enter the concession. Puyi thought he had found a reliable foreign aid, but he did not want this foreign aid to become his nightmare in the future.