The axe called democracy hangs above the feudal dynasty, and the blade called equality stabs at the representative of the feudal dynasty - the emperor.
The Forbidden City, where the blood and tears of countless people were buried, no longer saw the solemnity and depression of the past, and everything around it fell into chaos, whether it was the master who was on his toes on weekdays, or the most humble slave fled in panic.
The gun was aimed at the dynasty that had exhausted its breath, and with a "bang", the emperor, who symbolized royal power, fell from the Golden Luang Hall to the chaotic world.
The bright plaque is opposite the "Edict of Sin" on the table, the name of the emperor who clings to it has not been able to save his peace of mind, the wheel of history finally runs over the vested interests, and the Forbidden City has become a nominal empty shell from this moment on.
The actions of the small imperial court, Yuan Shikai as emperor, and Zhang Xun seemed to be about to play out jokes that had not been seen in a thousand years.
The exploiters of that dynasty are still living in peace, still fantasizing about returning to the throne and continuing the "solid inheritance" of his ancestors.
Warlords, politicians, secretaries, and even invaders were powerful weapons that could help him return to the Golden Luang Palace, and the signing of the treaty and the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo pushed the feudal symbol that had already declared defeat to "success" again.
At this moment, he was once again at odds with the people. The wheel that ran over the emperor did not completely run over feudalism, and until the farce dissipated, the wheel of history was not completely biased towards the people.
Until the red flag really floated in the Forbidden City, where countless people's blood and tears were buried, the trajectory of history finally shifted to a drop in the torrent, freedom and democracy finally ceased to be utopian luxuries, and the mountain of feudalism and imperialism finally collapsed.
And what kind of life trajectory did the last emperor, who had committed several karmic obstacles for the benefit of the imperial power, go after this?
Or should it be called Puyi, a new citizen under freedom and democracy, can spend the rest of his life with wealth under the shadow of royal power after experiencing the ups and downs of high-rise buildings?
The answer is obviously no, but why does his estate still amaze people after his death?
The fall of absolute interests, a farce staged one after another
The few words of the holy decree are like a golden hairpin cutting through the galaxy pushing the children who are still babbling to the solemn and depressing Forbidden City, and it is not a long distance from the palace to the palace gate, but the palace watched for a long time, until the carriage disappeared in the alley in front of him, and the pent-up emotions finally broke out.
No one can resist absolute royal power, and even if they are in high positions, they cannot rebel against the authority of Cixi who is now in power, and they may be crying about whether their young children can be safe and healthy away from their families.
Or perhaps the crying is mixed with the joy that the young son of today will be the heir to the throne, the future king, and this will be the most powerful weapon to protect himself.
The babbling young son would not understand what kind of emotions were mixed in the crying in the palace that day, only knew that the carriage was gradually moving away, and the relatives around him turned into a small dot in his eyes and could no longer see their faces, and all he could do was cry.
The youngest son was Puyi, and the person who used the regime to bring other people's children into the palace was Empress Dowager Cixi, and Guangxu's misfortune did not seem to be repeated in Puyi.
And later, in the day-to-day life in the palace, there was no record of the crying of this child who was far away from his relatives in his childhood, and Xu became an emperor above all people, even if there was trembling, most things could still be fulfilled.
Weeping no longer filled Puyi's life, but tens of thousands of people in the land of constant war were shrouded in despair and pain, and crying once enveloped their lives.
But then death followed, and the constant dashing of hope made them numb and lose the ability to perceive sorrow and joy.
Until a gunshot rang out, the Golden Luang Hall was no longer as solemn as before, everything fell into chaos, or crying, or fleeing, and no one was still in place wanting to be the funeral of the dynasty that was exhausted.
Only at this moment, there was continuous crying in his ears, despair shrouded Puyi's body, and for the first time he heard the desperate cries of the people at the bottom, but he was indifferent. Perhaps at the moment he was only thinking about how the dying king would live.
Being alive at this moment is a luxury. In ancient times, the Son of Heaven guarded the social grain, and the general died on the battlefield, but how could he, the emperor who was sent to the Golden Luang Hall by a holy decree, guard this long-unbearable social order?
How should he deal with himself?
Puyi should have had the question for the first time that the people at the bottom did not know how to live, but after the question?
Frozen three feet, not a day's cold, the building will fall, not a day can be done, it is the accumulation of generations that has long decayed and runs counter to history, and collapsed at the moment of the influx of invaders, making you feel the helplessness of falling from a height.
It's just that this seemingly helpless ending is the beginning of all farce.
The rot from the inside cannot be covered by gorgeous packaging. Before the people could break through the iron houses of feudalism and bureaucracy, they were again imprisoned in the imperialist cage.
And outside this cage is the last emperor who woke up from a beautiful dream, fell from a height but was carried back to the sky as a clay emperor, and all this is just a "farce" he made to return to his dream.
When Yuan Shikai and the imperialists praised him, he thought that he could still treat himself as a king as before, and that the puppet Manchukuo was "pseudo", so even if he was managed by the former real king who was pulled out of power, it was just a plus fake.
Fake unequal treaties with no real identity, Pu Yi put this farce on the cusp, tens of thousands of people fell into the depths, but he stepped on the corpses of the people and dreamed of not dying.
Kings across history, witnesses on the bench
A gentleman has always been perfect in his deeds. But if it is difficult to maintain even superficial skills, how can it be regarded as the way of a gentleman and the way of an emperor?
He could not hear the struggle and wailing of tens of thousands of people, he could not see the guns pointed at his people, the lights in the concession did not know whether he had lost the eyes of the former emperor, and he did not know how many people were being executed by the enemy's guns while he was in a hurry.
With a respectful title and a thoughtful hospitality, the lives of tens of thousands of people could not withstand the "sweet words" after all.
When Pu Yi's heart was tilted from the people to the imperial throne that had long been not part of this era, no matter how he later cooperated with Japan to establish a puppet Manchukuo as a puppet emperor, he could not change his hypocrisy of ignoring the people.
Fortunately, the pace of historical progress is ultimately towards the suffering people, and the October Revolution is like an unstoppable strong wind that crushes the wheel of imperialism together with the wheel of history.
The sleeping dragon finally awakened, and the last emperor who sheltered under imperialism once again wrote his edict and sat on the judgment seat as a living testimony.
August 10, 1946, was Chinese day that will never be forgotten.
On that day, the imperialists lowered their heads that were originally high-spirited, and they may have had illusions about Puyi, thinking that this puppet, who has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, will also speak out at this moment, but arrogant people will always think wrong.
Pu Yi on the trial bench no longer looks like a puppet, but clearly pushes the blame on Japan, he is like an innocent person who can no longer be innocent, everything is just the product of coercion.
But could it be that even the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo and the restoration of one's own status as emperor were forced by others?
Even if he was pushed off the Golden Luang Hall, he was also pampered and pampered for the first half of his life, could it be that everything was forced by others?
One vegetable and one meal, did he ever feel that it was hard to come by?
A final farewell, to the comrades of the republic
One vegetable and one meal are very common for Puyi, but how many ordinary people can sit back and relax for three meals a day and wait for others to feed them? When you stand tall, sometimes it is difficult to appreciate the ordinary difficulty.
He was kept in custody for years after the trial, still with three meals a day, and it seemed that his status as the last emperor would also bring preferential treatment to his days as a prisoner, and here he did not experience the life of the common people who had been impoverished by his actions.
Until the founding of New China, he was no longer the last emperor but was sent back as a citizen of New China.
Pu Yi originally thought that he would be scolded by thousands of people and sentenced to death, but he did not. Those in power do not blame him, the people do not open their mouths for what he has done, everything is unexpected to him.
Although he was still imprisoned, his life as a prisoner was different from that after he returned to China, and he underwent a long period of ideological transformation here, and it was at this time that he learned what true democracy and what true republic is.
It is clear that what should have been recognized long ago has been understood after so long, Puyi may also sigh that he woke up too late, right? It's just that he still has the rest of his life to atone for the sins of that time.
Reformed citizens, penniless away
The young son was separated from his true relatives by a divine decree, and he could only cover up the uneasiness in his heart by crying, but even crying could not change the established facts.
He came to the Forbidden City crying over it, and before he saw the appearance of the Forbidden City, he had been pressed to the throne for several years, and then the gunshots were panicked, and he did not have a chance to see what the Forbidden City, which gave him supreme power, should look like from the outside in.
He stood in front of the Forbidden City that carried the first half of his life, this was the first time he saw the whole of the Forbidden City, it turned out that there was not only the sky in all directions, it turned out that it was not the posture of bowing his head or the courtiers kneeling, everything changed.
Puyi ceased to be an emperor, and the Forbidden City became a museum. At the moment, he was just an ordinary citizen visiting the residence of the emperor among the crowd.
Every grass and tree here is still the same as it was back then, but the only difference is that these are no longer his private property.
Regrets? Perhaps only Pu Yi knew what was in his heart at that time. But I think he should be relieved, symbolizing that when the citizen's vote was held in his hand, he said that he was the richest man in the world, but at the same time he was the poorest person in the world.
Money, power, status, everything he had, he didn't feel comfortable with himself.
Finally he closed his eyes and ended his life of theater.
Epilogue:
What did the feudal dynasty, which was exhausted by yellowing and withering leaves, turn into spring mud to protect the flowers, and what did the feudal dynasty, which was exhausted, do in the end for the people who were suffering from the extravagance of the superiors?
Is it to protect the people from their peaceful residence, or to save them from the suffering of war? Those in power did nothing, but blindly immersed in the arrogant dream of the whole world.
Indeed, where in this world is not the territory of the emperor, but what emperor of any dynasty and generation does not guard the city gates, but opens the city gates and stabs the enemy's weapons at the people who are powerless to resist?
Dreams are common, but prosperity is hard to find, and living in a corner of peace has become a luxury in troubled times, but is the initiator of all this the last emperor alone?
Of course not, but can this cancel out all the karmic obstacles of the last emperor?
The decay of the Qing dynasty was from within, and even more so from several generations above the world, and these results can not be attributed to the last emperor alone.
But the establishment of the puppet Manchu government, the people are still suffering, but he can still become the enemy's guest of honor, and be worshipped as a little emperor, even if the emperor is a clay sculpture, knocked and broken, but it also makes him realize the imperial dream again, how is it not his irresponsible manifestation of disregarding the safety of the people?
Karma shrouded him for the rest of his life, and New China gave him the rights of citizenship, but he still had to bear the evil he had planted when he was emperor, so it was natural that he would not get the wealth under the shadow of his ancestors, which had long disappeared with the transformation of identity like citizen Puyi.