Speaking of the emperor, there must be many people's first reaction to feel that they have enjoyed all their glory and wealth.
But on the mainland, there is such an emperor, although as an emperor, but his life is full of ups and downs, this person is the last emperor - Puyi.
Although he suffered humiliation in the first half of his life, fortunately he met a good time. After the founding of New China, Pu Yi was released after nine years of labor reform, and the nine years of reform also made Pu Yi's thinking much more advanced and he became a normal citizen of the People's Republic of China.
Let's take a look at Puyi's story together.
Puyi's career as emperor
Puyi's full name is Aisin Juelo Puyi, he was born on February 7, 1902, although he was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi was not the son of the previous emperor, his father was the regent Zaifeng.
The regent Zaifeng only had one son, Puyi, so after Puyi was born, he was cared for and loved by the whole family.
However, the good times did not last long, and after the coup, Empress Dowager Cixi had a premonition that the Guangxu Emperor had gradually fallen out of her control, and his related reform measures also touched the interests of Empress Dowager Cixi.
So Cixi had the idea of deposing the emperor, and it was at this time that the Guangxu Emperor suddenly fell seriously ill, and Cixi knew that the opportunity had come.
But the Guangxu Emperor had no heirs, and after thinking about it, Cixi set her sights on the young Puyi, and she made a surprising decision to assist Puyi in ascending the throne.
This news was undoubtedly a thunderbolt for Puyi's family, and the whole family was unwilling to hand over the child to Cixi, but forced by Cixi's power, they did not dare to stand up and resist, and could only watch Puyi enter the Forbidden City with the eunuchs under the coaxing of the nanny.
On November 14, 1908, the Guangxu Emperor died of illness, and Puyi, who was only three years old, ascended the throne with the assistance of Cixi, becoming the youngest emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Although he became emperor, the rule of the Qing Dynasty was already in jeopardy at that time, the great powers wantonly encroached on the rights and interests of the mainland, and the people faced the oppression of imperialism, capitalism and feudalism.
On October 10, 1911, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and after the uprising, Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the revolution, and under his coercion and lure, the six-year-old Puyi issued an edict of abdication on February 12, 1912, with the help of Empress Longyu, becoming the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Because he and Yuan Shikai reached "eight preferential conditions for the Qing Dynasty" before the promulgation of the agreement, Pu Yi still lived in the Forbidden City after his abdication, and in the small Forbidden City, Pu Yi was still the emperor, everything around him remained unchanged, and consumption was paid by the National Government at that time.

Puyi underwent labor reform
During the Forbidden City, Empress Longyu arranged for Pu Yi to teach Pu Yi some traditional culture of the mainland and Manchu language, but due to feudal and conservative thinking, she did not arrange for Pu Yi to learn arithmetic and other related subjects.
But on February 22, 1919, Pu Yi met a man who changed himself, Johnston, who was from England and was responsible for teaching Pu Yi arithmetic, English, world history and geography.
In his spare time, Johnston told Pu Yi the story of the outside world, telling what he saw and heard in the West, and Pu Yi also began to yearn for the West in Johnston's description, and he cut off the pigtail representing the Qing Dynasty despite everyone's opposition.
On October 22, 1924, Feng Yuxiang turned against him and staged a coup d'état in Beijing, leading troops into the Forbidden City and driving Puyi out after looting
It was at this time that Puyi left the Forbidden City, where she had lived for decades. Because of his special status, Pu Yi attracted the attention of the Japanese as soon as he came out, and they invited Pu Yi to cooperate with them and jointly take charge of the puppet Manchukuo established by the Japanese.
Tempted by the Japanese, Pu Yi followed the Japanese to the northeast, and in March 1934, Pu Yi appeared in Changchun and became a puppet of the Japanese to rule the puppet Manchukuo.
On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Soviet Union's million-strong division swept through the puppet Manchukuo established by Japan, and under their powerful offensive, Japan was quickly defeated.
Pu Yi knew that the Japanese could not be relied on, and he was afraid that he would be punished, so he began to escape, but he could not escape, and in the waiting room of Mukden Airport, Pu Yi was arrested by the Soviet army.
After that, Puyi was extradited back to the mainland and sent to the Fushun War Criminals Management Institute for ideological education and labor reform.
The second half of Puyi's life
Because Puyi performed well during the reform period and made rapid progress in his thinking, he was pardoned in the ninth year of his labor reform.
After being released from prison, Pu Yi was arranged to work in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the state also took good care of Pu Yi, not only arranging work for him, but also caring about his family life.
Under the concern of the Party Central Committee, Pu Yi soon re-formed a new family, and he liked a nurse at a hospital in Beijing, who was also satisfied with Pu Yi, so the two became a couple.
After marriage, Puyi and his wife's life has always been very happy, they love each other deeply, and Li Shuxian, who is immersed in the happiness after marriage, did not take long to notice something different.
As a nurse, Li Shuxian found that Puyi had a little problem with physiology, and he would have blood in the urine from time to time.
At his wife's insistence, Puyi went to the hospital for examination, but the doctor misdiagnosed it as "bladder fever".
But after taking some drugs, there was still no improvement, so Puyi went to Peking Union Medical College Hospital for examination, but this time the result was "prostatitis".

However, Puyi did not improve after taking several medications, and finally had to be hospitalized.
Only later did he conclude that Pu Yi's disease was uremia, but the medical conditions in the mainland at that time were not very perfect, and there was nothing that could be done about this disease.
After a series of treatments, Puyi was also very weak, the whole person was emaciated, and he also had a hunch that his time was running out, so he asked Li Shuxian to bring placenta powder for himself to take.
On October 16, 1967, he suddenly came to his senses and was able to sit up, but after a while he was very weak and relied on injections to stay alive.
He was so tormented by uremia that he could only rely on infusions to stay alive, and in the last moments of his life, he still persevered, unwilling to stop breathing for a long time.
It was not until two o'clock in the morning on October 17 that Puyi's heart stopped beating in pain at the age of 61.