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In 1949, a Beijing timber merchant was suddenly pushed to the ground by several men in front of his home.
It turned out that he was Qi Jizhong, a former major general of the Japanese puppet army, and several of the men who arrested him were the police of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, who was arrested and shot after finding out because he did all the bad things during the Anti-Japanese War.
On the execution ground, this notorious traitor actually spoke wildly and shouted loudly:
"Lao Tzu's life is worth it!"
Without the slightest repentance.
When it comes to Qi Jizhong, everyone may be unfamiliar, but when it comes to his former master, everyone will definitely hear of it, that is, Puyi, the last emperor in Chinese history.
As his personal bodyguard, Qi Jizhong not only did not be loyal to Puyi, personally cuckolded Puyi, and also became a traitor that everyone shouted for for his own selfish interests.
The last emperor
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, crises and internal and external troubles were raging, and the imperialist powers opened the door of China with strong ships and cannons, and the rule of the Qing government was crumbling.
In 1908, after the death of the Guangxu Emperor, Puyi, who was only 3 years old, was made emperor by Empress Dowager Cixi, with the year name Xuantong. However, in the third year after Puyi ascended the throne, Dr. Sun Yat-sen launched the Xinhai Revolutionary Movement, which overthrew the rule of the Qing dynasty.
In fact, the Qing dynasty did not really die, and after Pu Yi's abdication, the national government also gave Pu Yi favorable treatment, allowing him to continue to have eunuchs, palace maids and even concubines, and maintain his "small court".
In 1923, Puyi suddenly ordered the dismissal of all palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, and selected some able-bodied men outside the palace to serve as bodyguards to replace the palace eunuchs to take care of their own food, clothing, and living. And Qi Jizhong is one of these guards.
At the beginning, he was indeed loyal to Pu Yi and served Pu Yi wholeheartedly, and sooner or later he would soar, and with his outstanding ability, he was soon appreciated and used by Pu Yi.
However, the good times did not last long, and in 1924, Feng Yuxiang staged a coup d'état in Beijing, driving Puyi and others out of the palace, and in 1925, Puyi moved to Tianjin with Empress Wanrong and personal guards.
After Puyi left the Forbidden City, he first lived in the Japanese embassy with the help of the Japanese, and then went to Tianjin Jingyuan after leaving the Japanese embassy. Pu Yi was grateful for the help of the Japanese, which provided a basis for Pu Yi's later choice to cooperate with the Japanese.
In the Jingyuan of Tianjin, Puyi was unwilling to give up the supreme imperial power and was full of desire to restore the Qing Dynasty. He actively sought the help of various forces, often wandering among the various upper classes, communicating with them and mediating with them.
Even so, Puyi didn't gain much, and no one was willing to really help him. But what he didn't expect was that the Japanese took the initiative to "lend a hand" to him, but how could an invader who did nothing evil help others for no reason? The Japanese simply needed a "puppet emperor" to help them consolidate their power in China.
But Puyi did not understand these and did not care about them, he only hoped that the Qing Dynasty would return and take the imperial power himself.
From 1925 to 1932, in the past 7 years, Qi Jizhong has been accompanying Pu Yi, following Pu Yi in and out of various high-level occasions, and watching Pu Yi be like an acrobatic clown in the eyes of foreign countries.
Although he enjoyed high-standard treatment, he did not get a little respect, and gradually, Qi Jizhong's due respect and prestige for Puyi disappeared, and the idea of betraying Puyi began in his heart.
The queen of fornication is graceful
Puyi's wife Guo Bulo Wanrong, born in 1906, has been a lady who grew up with a golden key since she was a child, and has received a good education since she was a child. If she hadn't been born in this turbulent era, if she hadn't married into the deep palace, her life might have been happy.
In 1922, 16-year-old Wanrong was married into the harem by Puyi as an empress in a big red wedding dress, but she did not know that this marriage would change her life.
As for why Puyi married Wanrong, he answered this question in his autobiography. In 1921, Pu Yi just turned 15 years old, the royal family began to plan his marriage, the position of the queen was disputed for a while, so he had to take the photo to let Pu Yi personally determine, he carelessly drew a circle, and the marriage was finalized.
Life after marriage is beautiful for Wanrong, although Puyi is physically disabled and cannot do personnel, but Puyi gave Wanrong supreme favor, allowing Wanrong to experience the beauty of marriage.
In 1924, Wanrong was expelled from the Forbidden City along with Puyi, and although the name of empress was not there, it did not seem too bad for Wanrong. Under the protection of the Japanese, the two still live a glamorous life.
In fact, before Pu Yi was ready to join the Japanese, his concubine Wen Xiu repeatedly advised Pu Yi not to join the Japanese, but Pu Yi, who was bent on restoration, could not hear her persuasion.
Seeing that persuasion was fruitless, Wen Xiu took Puyi to court and asked for a divorce from him. Under heavy pressure, Puyi had to agree to divorce Wen Xiu, and Wen Xiu's departure caused him to vent his resentment on Empress Wanrong.
In the days in Tianjin, Puyi was running away every day and lacked concern for Wanrong. Coupled with the fact that there is no normal husband and wife life for many years, the relationship between Wan Rong and Puyi is becoming weaker and weaker.
The husband's inexplicable anger, long prison sentences, an emotionless marriage...
These made Wanrong's psychological and physical needs unsatisfied, so that Wanrong used opium to numb her nerves to obtain temporary comfort.
And Qi Jizhong has always served by Puyi's side, and naturally has a certain contact with Empress Wanrong, and as a man with square flesh, he will naturally be attracted by his gentle and generous, beautiful and noble grace.
Seeing such a powerful and dignified man suddenly aroused the desire in her heart and gave rise to thoughts that she shouldn't have.
As Pu Yi's personal bodyguard, Qi Jizhong also knew something about Pu Yi's secret of not being able to do things, and he often saw Wanrong alone in the room sighing, and his heart was full of evil thoughts.
He bought the gentle personal maid, often entrusted the queen with local snacks and entertainment gadgets, and even sneaked into the queen's room to tell her anecdotes to make her happy.
Wanrong, who was already in her prime of life, soon fell under Qi Jizhong's offensive and fornicated with him. In this way, the heavens and the earth were thunderous, and the guards and the queen, regardless of worldly ethics, began to cheat, under the cover of the maids.
Because Pu Yi was running away every day, he did not notice the slightest change in his wife, coupled with the cover of Wanrong's personal maid, Pu Yi not only did not discover the adultery between the two of them, but also kept using Qi Jizhong.
The time with Qi Jizhong should be the best moment in Wanrong's life.
The secret is revealed
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and in order to cultivate his own power, Puyi specially sent Qi Jizhong to the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School for further study.
The departure of her lover made Wanrong depressed for a long time, but soon she was not willing to be lonely, and she fornicated with Li Tiyu, another personal guard of Puyi, and this time she was not so lucky.
The private relationship between her and Li Sports was exposed, how was that discovered? It turned out that Wanrong was pregnant, and Puyi knew that she was infertile, and the child in Wanrong's belly certainly could not be his.
Looking at the wan rong who was about to give birth, he was furious. Under some interrogation, the extremely frightened Wanrong not only confessed Li Sports, but also Qi Jizhong, who was far away in Japan.
Knowing that he was cuckolded by the most trusted and used person around him, Puyi couldn't wait to put the two of them to death together with Wanrong.
Puyi recalled Qi Jizhong overnight and called the Japanese to ask them to expel Qi Jizhong from school and prepare to divorce Wanrong. However, the Japanese did not agree, where the emperor and the empress divorced, Wanrong could not afford to be the empress of the puppet Manchukuo.
And Qi Jizhong is also a talent cultivated by the Empire of Japan, and I hope that he can focus on the overall situation and not destroy the image of the Manchurian government among the masses because of this incident.
Pu Yi was worried about the scandal, and eventually gave each person a hush money of 400 oceans and drove him out of the puppet Manchukuo. Since then, Puyi's relationship with Wanrong has completely broken down.
Puyi did not beat Wan Rong's child away, but after she gave birth, despite her bitter pleas, she threw the child into the furnace and burned it alive, and the poor Wan Rong child only wailed a few times and left this world.
After such ugly things, Puyi was completely disgusted with Wanrong and beat her into the "cold palace."
The revelation of cheating, the death of a child, the abandonment of her husband...
This caused an indelible blow to Wanrong, her heart was like a dead ash, she had to rely on opium smoking to chat for the rest of her life, long-term opium smoking made Wanrong's face like a vegetarian, the shape of the bones, under the long-term mental depression she finally collapsed, the last empress turned out to be crazy, she ended on the stage of history in a miserable way.
I don't know whether to blame the injustice of the world or her own depravity, who is also Puyi's concubine, Wen Xiu is determined to divorce Puyi because she understands that the Qing Dynasty cannot be restored and cannot go against the trend of history. Moreover, because she had the great righteousness of her family in her heart, she did not want to be with the Japanese who invaded the country's territory and killed the people.
Become a lackey of the Japanese army
Li Sports, who had long been frightened, took the 400 yuan of ocean hush money given by Puyi and returned to his hometown as if he were running for his life, and later worked in a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in Beijing. In the hospital, Li Sports is responsible for raising small animals for experiments, and has always been conscientious.
And the ambitious Qi Jizhong still longed for power and wealth after leaving the puppet Manchukuo, so he took 400 pieces of ocean to North China to join the Japanese puppet army and work for the Japanese.
With the experience of training by Puyi's side in the past few years and later going to the Japanese Army School, Qi Jizhong was soon reused by the Japanese army and became the major general commander of the Japanese puppet army.
He became a lackey for the Japanese for this little profit, and became a traitor that everyone shouted at, which simply insulted the integrity of our Chinese nation of "not bending over for five buckets of rice."
During his service to the Japanese army, he did a lot of things that hurt nature and lost his conscience, which eventually caused monstrous public indignation.
reap what you sow
After Japan's defeat in 1945, Qi Jizhong saw that the general trend was gone, so he returned to his hometown with a lot of gold and silver treasures and started a timber business incognito.
After the founding of New China, a strict household registration system was implemented in North China, and Qi Jizhong's identity as a traitor was exposed.
It is impossible for people after the war not to hate those traitors who brutalize the people and do everything they can to harm the heavens.
So Qi Jizhong was captured by the People's Liberation Army in 1949 and sentenced to death, and when he died, he shouted arrogantly:
"Lao Tzu's generation is worth it!"
Looking at the ugly face of this traitor, everyone scoffed, but it was not unreasonable for him to say this, after all, people slept in the main palace.
In the five thousand years of China, Qi Jizhong is only one of the insignificant historical figures, he is a reflection of the background of a specific era, reflecting the darkness of that era.
Qi Jizhong was originally just a bodyguard who served the emperor loyally, wanting to be reused and promoted by the emperor, but that turbulent era allowed him to witness the demise of the Qing dynasty and the incompetence of the last emperor, Puyi.
Times determine destiny, and if he had been born in a peaceful and prosperous era, he might have been a loyal courtier. Some people say that Cao Cao is "a powerful minister who governs the world, a traitor in troubled times", although what era you are born in is not something you can decide, but what kind of person you become is something you can decide.
I like such a sentence, "My life depends on me", why is it also Zhao Shiyan, Chen Yannian, Chen Qiaonian who were born in troubled times... You can sacrifice everything in order to save the nation from perishing, and the choice of which one to choose is in your hands.
Although the times determine destiny, your life is your choice, one wrong step. From a small historical figure like Qi Jizhong, we can understand a lot of truth, we need to look at the essence through the phenomenon.
Nowadays, Guotai Min'an and Haiyan Heqing, but the crisis still exists, we still cannot take it lightly, we must always remind ourselves, especially the Chinese youth in the new era, not to become people like Qi Jizhong, this kind of people are the roadblock to the prosperity of the Chinese nation. I hope that everyone can take this as a warning and do not become a "traitor" and defect to the enemy and sell the country.