In modern history, the iron hat king of the Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jue Luo Shanqi, is a constantly discussed figure. He was a prince of the Qing Dynasty. He wholeheartedly supported the imperial court and did many practical things for the benefit of the country and the people. Even Wang Jingwei, who later commented on him, said that Shanqi was a very great politician.
However, because this person was too loyal to the imperial court, he seemed to forget the national righteousness of the country, and finally went to the opposite side of the Chinese nation and colluded with the Japanese. His contradictory life is not only a personal portrayal, but also a portrayal of many princes and nobles in the late Qing Dynasty at that time.
The last iron hat Wang Shanqi
Shanqi was born in 1866, because of the birth of an aristocrat, so when he was a teenager, Shanqi also received a good aristocratic education, but he preferred to practice martial arts compared to literary education, so among many kings, he was a very martial general. According to legend, when he was a teenager, he snatched a foreigner's gun with his bare hands. Although this matter is no longer available, it is enough to show the heroism in the bones of the good age.
Shanqi's loyalty to the imperial court is absolutely evident, after all, he has the blood of the Aisin Gyoro family left on him, and he can even give up his reputation and life for the sake of the imperial court. After becoming an adult, this prince, who was loyal to the imperial court, began his life of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty.
In fact, Shanqi was a smart man, he had long discovered that at the time of his birth, the Qing dynasty's qi had declined, the entire imperial court began to falter downhill, and at the end of the 19th century, it was expected that the rule of the Qing Dynasty was disintegrated to nothing, and uprisings broke out in various places, especially the Boxer Rebellion in Shandong.
At the height of the Boxers, their team broke directly into the capital and set fire to Shanqi's mansion. This matter was very shaken at that time, after all, burning the palace was a big thing, and it was very likely to destroy the foundation of the imperial court, in order to comfort Shanqi, the imperial court gave Shanqi a position of superintendent of Chongwenmen.
In fact, this is a fat gap, because this official position is, to put it bluntly, the modern tax governor. Whoever becomes the supervisor of Chongwenmen means that anyone can make a lot of money just by relying on the tax money collected by the tax bureau. However, the upright and honest good man did not engage in favoritism and fraud in this post, but diligently investigated and filled the gaps, and actively provided suggestions for the fiscal and tax revenue of the Great Qing.
When he found that there was a gap in the tax system of the Great Qing, he carried out drastic reforms, and under his reforms, the tax revenue of the Great Qing multiplied. But these achievements did not make Shanqi complacent, and he worked hard to eliminate shortcomings in his post, never leaving a penny for himself.
In 1900, when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor fled the palace in fear. As the king of iron hats, Shanqi can only wipe his ass with Li Hongzhang and others for these two lords of the Great Qing.
He noticed that the security system in the capital was very backward, and it was precisely because there was no special guard post that exploited the loopholes for the foreigners. So he learned his lesson and established a garrison system at the suggestion of his Japanese friend Namisu Kawashima, and this was the first garrison in history. In a sense, Shanqi is definitely the founder of the mainland police community.
But no one expected that when the Great Qing Dynasty fell in 1911, when Shanqi's life was facing great changes, his three views also underwent tremendous changes.
Shanqi always felt that the demise of the Great Qing was closely related to those forces that opposed the Qing Dynasty. So he began to hate all ethnic groups except the Manchus. But at that time, his kingdom had already perished, his court was over, and his dream of being a king was shattered, so he became paranoid and always wanted to restore the Qing.
Sending 38 sons and daughters abroad
In order to restore the country, Zenji did not hesitate to hook up with the Japanese Kawashima Langsu and actively establish good contact with the Japanese. In order to get the support of this late Qing king, the Japanese also vigorously advocated the so-called "Sino-Japanese support", and sent several large cars and arms to Shanqi.
The ambition of the Japanese, in fact, has long been in the eyes of the good elderly, what a smart person he is, but in the face of his own great plan to restore the country, everything can only stand aside.
Zenji was very happy in the face of the favor of the Japanese, and he vowed that he would never forget the kindness of the Japanese, and even his own child Zenji often taught them to be grateful to the Japanese, and it was the Japanese who gave them the light of hope. During those years, he sent his children abroad in a neat manner and encouraged them to study in Japan.
Ironically, after the death of Emperor Meiji, Zenji actually bathed and fasted at home and paid homage to Emperor Meiji as a filial son. After the new emperor of Japan ascended the throne, Zenji paid homage to the Japanese soldiers in the winter. His approach has actually caused public indignation for a long time, but no matter what the outside world evaluates, Shanqi still goes his own way.
In 1912, the opportunity for Shanqi's great plan to restore the country finally came, and he prepared to ship these arms to Mongolia to continue his so-called "Manchu-Mongolian autonomy".
But he never expected that on the way, he actually killed a Cheng Yanjin and cut off these weapons of him in one fell swoop, just like that, Shanqi was disappointed, and his first plan to restore the country went bankrupt.
With a beginning, there will be results. In 1916, when Yuan Shikai was restored, Shanqi thought that he had seized the opportunity to restore the country, and he happily raised the banner of "Helping Qing and Destroying Yuan" to take advantage of the chaos, but he did not expect that the paranoid Wang Ye did not get what he wanted this time, and his plan failed again.
Seeing that the plan to restore the country for many years had failed, in the blink of an eye, Shanqi had reached his old age, and at this time he gradually sobered up, and it seemed that he had no chance to restore the country again. He spent the rest of his life depressed, and before dying he taught his children not to work for Chinese.
Famous traitor, Yoshiko Kawashima
In fact, when the wheel of history continued to advance, the Qing dynasty had long been the afterglow of yesterday, and after the departure of Zenji, his 14th daughter Jin Bihui became the goddaughter of Kawashima Langsu and changed her name to Yoshiko Kawashima.
Under his father's early teaching and the cultivation of Kawashima Langspeed, Jin Bihui became a murderous traitor. Although she was born rich and beautiful in appearance, under the brainwashing of her father, Jin Bihui has long become a figure with three distorted views, she personally participated in the "918 Incident" and the "128 Incident" in Shanghai, and is a daunting oriental devil in the eyes of the people.
However, justice was delayed, and in 1948, the traitor was arrested and executed for all the evil deeds he had done before, and died at the age of 41.
It is indeed an extremely embarrassing thing that the originally delicate lady finally embarked on such a road of no return, I wonder if he also regretted his poor education when he learned that his daughter was nailed to the pillar of shame in history?
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