Pu Yi was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the last emperor recognized in the official history of China. Pu Yi became emperor three times, twice as emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and last as emperor of Manchukuo. But there is a problem, Pu Yi, as emperor, has never had children. Many people always say that this is a problem with family genes, but this reason does not make sense. In fact, Pu Yi did not have a son, in fact, this was a Japanese conspiracy to try to gradually annex the Northeast.
1. Japan could not rashly annex the Northeast, so it came up with the puppet Puyi
Several emperors in the late Qing Dynasty had no descendants, and the explanation is now that it is a family genetic problem. Emperor Tongzhi died early, and it is normal to have no children. But Emperor Guangxu and Emperor Xuantong Puyi also had no children, which is too much to say. It doesn't make sense to say that it's a genetic problem, because Guangxu's younger brother Zaifeng has a son, and Pu Yi's younger brother Pu Jie also has a child. Since his younger brother has children, he won't be so unlucky to be an older brother. Therefore, it is very likely that Guangxu and Pu Yi have no children, which is very likely to be artificial. The question of Emperor Guangxu's no queen, we will talk about it later, and we will first talk about the problem of Pu Yi's queen. Japan was a country with extremely few resources, so after the Meiji Restoration, it was bent on expanding abroad. Japan wanted to establish a great Japanese empire that included Tohoku, the Korean Peninsula, the Russian Far East, and Southeast Asia. Through the Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated the Qing Dynasty and gained control of the Korean Peninsula.
Ten years later, Japan launched the Russo-Japanese War, and after repeated fierce battles, it gained a foothold in Tohoku. This is also the origin of the Kwantung Army, and in the following period, Japan gradually expanded its power in the northeast. On September 18, 1931, the Japanese army launched the 918 Incident. More than 10,000 Japanese Kwantung troops occupied the entire northeast, and the famous young marshal withdrew into the pass with 380,000 troops. But Japan did not dare to directly annex the Tohoku region, after all, the people of the Tohoku region had not yet yielded, and the Tohoku Volunteer Army had been resisting the Japanese army. Under such circumstances, Japan can only install a puppet regime as a transition. In this way, Pu Yi, who has been living in Tianjin, once again stepped onto the stage of history. Under the deception of Japan, Pu Yi decided to go to the northeast to serve as the puppet ruler of Manchukuo. Pu Yi's demand was that after one year in power, the imperial system must be restored. In 1932, the puppet state of Manchukuo was established. Only two years later, Pu Yi became the puppet emperor of Manchukuo.
2. Pu Yi has no son, so he can only sign the "Imperial Succession Law"
After Pu Yi became the puppet emperor of Manchukuo, he always hoped that he could have children. But the matter is willing, Pu Yi has never had a son. The relatives who came to the Northeast with Pu Yi are also Pu Yi's younger brother Pu Jie. In the spring of 1937, Pu Jie married the Japanese aristocrat Sagahiro. Pu Yi didn't have a son for so many years, but just a few months later, Saga Hao became pregnant. Since Pu Yi never had a son, the Japanese forced Pu Yi to sign the "Imperial Succession Law" in 1938. According to the provisions of this law, if Pu Yi has no son, then after Pu Yi's death, the throne will pass to Pu Jie, and then Pu Jie will pass to his son. Seriously, Pu Yi has no son, which has a lot to do with the Japanese. At that time, Pu Yi was always worried that Saga Hao would give birth to a son, in that case, the Japanese were likely to get rid of Pu Yi directly. But it's really fate, Saga Hao's two children are daughters, and Pu Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Japan forced Pu Yi to sign the so-called Imperial Succession Law, in fact, in order to gradually annex Northeast China. Because at that time, in the eyes of the Japanese leadership, the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula would not be lost. Japan's top brass even said that it would rather give up its own territory than Manchuria, which shows the importance of Tohoku. Japan tried to emigrate to Tohoku on a large scale on the one hand, and on the other hand, to have children of Japanese blood succeed to the throne. In this way, Japan could gradually annex the Tohoku region. However, the Japanese did not expect that Sagahao would only give birth to two daughters, and the Japanese high-level would not have calculated that the Soviet Union would send troops to the Northeast. In August 1945, under the command of Marshal Vasilevsky of the Soviet Union, 1.57 million Soviet troops were sent to northeast China. In just a few days, more than 700,000 Japanese Kwantung troops were surrounded. Pu Yi and others were captured by the Soviet army, and then such a large group of people were escorted to the Soviet Union, and the dreams of the former emperor became the sunset.