The "Eight Banners" gave people a very bad impression, because they had an innate aristocratic status in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and used it as a blessing in disguise, so they were deeply hated by the people of the times. After the fall of the Manchu Qing, these former aristocrats completely exposed the nature of the losers who sat on the mountain and ate the sky. None of the princes and heirs we are going to talk about today are "losers," and their deeds of the losers are more absurd than the other.
During the Qing Dynasty, the prince and the county king were only empty titles and did not receive fiefs. However, the nobles who received this title were able to pass on the title hereditary and let their descendants enjoy the treatment for generations to come.
The last King of Keqin County, Yan Sen, was accustomed to a profligate life, quoting a famous quote from a certain bandit on the news some time ago, that is, "it is uncomfortable not to spend five hundred a day." The Qing dynasty declined, and Yan Sen lost his livelihood, but he still lived a splurgeful life. Just like the rich children who have fallen on TV, Yan Sen took out a vase from the palace today and sold it to the pawnshop, and tomorrow he found a piece of precious jade to charge gambling debts.
It wasn't long before the palace was emptied by Yan Sen. When there is no way to do it, where should we get money to continue to lose? Yan Sen thought of the resting place of the old ancestor, so Yan Sen led people to the tomb of wang zu in Keqin County, sold all the trees and bricks on the ancestral grave, and exchanged it for a sum of money. In the end, Yan Sen became a camel-like foreign coachman, and the jianghu gave him a "good name": the king of the car. Later, the people of the capital called the tomb of the king of Keqin County, which had been shaved bare by Yansen, "the tomb of the king of Che".
Yu Qi, the last Prince of Yi, had been Puyi's companion reader in his early years, and liked Peking Opera but did not know how to manage money. Compared to Yan Sen, Yu Qi did not have any bad habits. However, even if Prince Yi's family was rich, he couldn't stand Yu Qi sitting and eating the mountain. Yu Qi is more luxurious, going out to dinner with friends, often he is a guest. The generous Yuqi is informal and never cares about expenses. The newly bought bicycle is lost, lost and lost, it doesn't matter, just buy another one.
After the Republic of China, Yuqi finally began to worry about his livelihood. On this occasion, Yu Qi's hobby finally changed his bowl of rice for him. Yu Qi came to the drama class and became a logistics staff in charge of costume props. Speaking of which, although Yan Sen and Yu Qi can lose, they can at least eat with a skill after they have exhausted their family foundation. Although foreign coachmen and pipe fittings are not a good livelihood, good villains are also self-improvement. Compared with them, the heirs of other princes did not even have the ability to survive except to be able to defeat the family.
Zhaoxu, the last Prince of Zheng, was profligate and sold the palace in order to make money. After he spent all the money from the sale of his ancestral property, he began to remember the ancestral grave like Yan Sen. So, Zhaoxu began to pour bricks and trees on the ancestral tomb and earned a sum of money.
In 1927, Zhaoxu contacted Zhang Xueliang and sold the dragon stele engraved with the name of the old ancestor to Young Master Zhang. In 1931, the police arrested a tomb robber at the grave of Prince Zheng, and after interrogation, it was learned that this boy was actually Zhaoxu's son. It seems that Zhaoxu's son is definitely his own child, and even the idea of planing the ancestral tomb is the same.
The last Prince Rui was relatively good at financial management, and retained the few remaining ancestral properties during his lifetime. However, after Kui Bin's death, his two sons, Zhongquan and Zhongming, began to lose wildly. In order to live in a European-style western-style building, the brothers spent a lot of money to build a villa, and installed telephones in each room of the villa.
In 1919, the brothers spent all their cash, sold the villa, took the 20,000 silver dollars from the sale of the house, ran to Tianjin to prostitute, and squandered 20,000 yuan in only two days. In 1924, the brothers took the title deed of the royal palace as collateral, pawned 100,000 silver dollars, and sold the trees on prince Rui's grave after squandering it.
The following year, because Zhongquan and Zhongming did not redeem it, Prince Rui's mansion was seized by the court. Originally, the royal palace could offset hundreds of thousands of yuan, but the ignorant Zhongquan heard that the court had posted a seal on the gate of the palace, thinking that the house no longer belonged to him. Zhongquan broke the jar and broke it, and simply sold all the more than a thousand acres of land in the ancestral tomb, and continued to dash with this money.
In 1931, Zhongquan finally ushered in a day of sitting on the mountain and eating the sky. Like the previous princes' heirs, Zhongquan also set his sights on his ancestral grave. Later, because of the tomb robbery incident in Zhongquan, he was caught by the police, thrown into prison and sentenced to seven years in prison, and finally died of illness in the prison.
PuXu, the son of Zaigong the last Prince of Zhuang, was relatively prominent, and he had quite a "literary and artistic model" and wrote many high-quality Peking opera scripts throughout his life. However, Pu Xu was also relatively generous in spending money, and in order to meet his daily expenses, he sold Prince Zhuang's palace to the warlord Li Chun.
In his later years, Pu Xu's life was relatively difficult, and in order to live, he also sold the trees on his ancestral grave like his brothers in other clans. Fortunately, Puxu's popularity is good, and he has many friends in the pear garden line. After hearing that Pu Xu fell, many artists generously donated money to solve his food and clothing problem.
Resources:
【"Eight Flags Disciple", "Flag Man"】