In 1898, as China changed, Kang Youwei and the young Guangxu Emperor began a restoration, angering the old school forces. Empress Dowager Cixi, a woman under authoritarian rule, decided to intervene to stop the change. Together with the conservatives, she staged a coup d'état, suppressed the restorationists, and put Guangxu under house arrest. It was the beginning of a political storm and the birth of a new emperor.
However, Empress Dowager Cixi was not satisfied with the defeat of the Restorationists, and she began to search for a suitable successor, trying to find a replacement for Guangxu. So, her gaze gradually focused on the child of the county king Zaiyi, a young man named Pu Ru. Beginning in 1900, Cixi launched a series of actions aimed at promoting Pu Ru's ascension to the throne as emperor.
However, this decision was opposed by many forces. The reform of the Restoration and the rise of the Boxer Rebellion made the situation at home and abroad tense. The Boxers killed foreign envoys, triggering an invasion by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and Empress Dowager Cixi abandoned her plan to make Puru emperor on the grounds that Puru and his father were close to the Boxers. Although Pu was originally a nobleman and his father was still the king of the county, his dream of becoming an emperor was completely shattered.
In 1902, the imperial court ordered Zai Yi and Pu Zhu to be exiled to Xinjiang. However, the father and son fled to Mongolia on the way, and finally came to the Luo Wang Mansion in the Alxa Banner of Inner Mongolia. This mansion was the home of Zaiyi's brother-in-law, and it also became Pu Ruo's new home.
In Luo Wang Mansion, Pu Ru became ordinary and longed to be able to live a happy life. Although King Luo's wife and daughter did not look favorably on him, in the society of the time, the fate of daughters was often dominated by their fathers. As a result, King Luo's daughter had to obey her father's wishes and married her father's good friend, Zaiyi's son Puru.
However, after marriage, Pu Ru's aristocratic temperament was incompatible with the life of Luo Wang Mansion. His dislike of beef and mutton and his distaste for the savannah are clearly expressed. Soon after, he learned that his relative Prince Wei's mansion was going to divide the family property, so he returned to Prince Wei's mansion in the capital with his wife.
After returning to Prince Wei's mansion, Puru lived a comfortable life by virtue of his noble status and blood relations. However, after the Xinhai Revolution, the Qing Dynasty no longer had an emperor, but members of the imperial family still enjoyed some special treatment. As a former imperial heir, Pu Ru became a senator of the presidential palace and received a good salary.
However, full of lust and lust, and high salary, Pu Ru was caught in a series of disputes and disputes. He broke down his relationship with his nobleman and began to have affairs with other women. To make matters worse, he became addicted to drugs. After 1921, Puru was withdrawn from the presidential palace and began a period of gradual economic deterioration.
Life was pressing, and Pu Ru had to accept alms from relatives and friends. He and his wife lived in precarious conditions and hardship. A kind relative Yu Yun donated the property of Prince Wei's Mansion East Cross Courtyard to Zai Yi. However, due to his addiction and indulgence, Pu quickly sold out the property. Their economic situation deteriorated day by day and they eventually became beggars.
After living in the Tawangfu for a while, the Tawang died, and the side Fujin of the Tawangfu Mansion no longer tolerated the presence of Pu Ru, and drove him and his wife to live in a house near the horse shed. Pu Ru lived a difficult life and was weak because of long-term drug use, and the people of Tawangfu treated them coldly. Pu Ru and his wife could only struggle in this predicament.
In the end, after all kinds of ups and downs, Puru died in 1942 in the Tawang Mansion. Throughout his life, from the clan to the future successor of the emperor to the real poverty, life was full of ups and downs and uncertainties. His fate is impermanent, and this story also reflects the impermanence and vagaries of life.
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