When we talk about the Qing Dynasty, we always think that he has 12 emperors, in fact, because the Qing Dynasty is actually according to customs, there are those who have been posthumously crowned emperors, such as Dolgun was posthumously named Emperor Chengzongyi, but later deprived, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was another person who almost became the emperor, he almost became the nominal crown prince, just like the last hunk, he can become the emperor, but unfortunately he lost the throne.
This person is Ai Xin Jue Luo Pu Juan, Pu Juan was born in 1885 (Guangxu 9), the father is the king of the county Ai Xin Jue Luo Zaiyi, it should be said that this branch is also among the close relatives of the royal family, his grandfather is the Daoguang Emperor Mianning, and the father is the son of the Xianfeng Emperor's younger brother Prince Yi of Duan, but he did not inherit the title of Prince of Duan, but later inherited the title of Duan Junwang.
Of course, from cixi's side to discuss the relationship, Pu Juan's birth mother is the niece of Empress Dowager Cixi, then Pu Juan should be called Cixi's lifelong aunt, of course, all these relationships are not important, the important thing is that he was born in the royal family, then it is equivalent to being born with a golden spoon, so Pu Juan basically does not worry about eating and drinking, and has developed a personality of delicious and lazy, sound and color dogs and horses since childhood. But fortunately, a huge pie suddenly fell down, just above his head.
After the failure of the Wushu reform, Cixi planned to depose the Guangxu Emperor, and after consulting with Ronglu, he selected Pu Juan as the heir to the throne, who would inherit the throne as the heir of the Tongzhi Emperor, and after Pu Juan entered the palace, he was first awarded the title of Great Brother, and waited for Guangxu to be able to ascend the throne smoothly after the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900 AD), but what he did not expect was that due to the opposition of the great powers, his eldest brother did not work for long to be abolished, and even later sent to the frontier with his father.
Soon after returning to Beijing, the Qing Dynasty had already perished, but even so, as a descendant of the Manchu Qing royal family, he could still enjoy many privileges, including when he was a senator in the presidential palace, his monthly salary was 500 oceans, we all know how much this number was, at that time many people could not earn a piece of two oceans all year round, but Pu Yan was eventually poor, and when he died of illness in 1942, he was only buried hastily, how did he spend this huge amount of money in these decades?
To say that in the Qing Dynasty there is a special evaluation of this big brother, in fact, Pu Juan is not unintelligent, on the contrary, he is very smart, learning everything quickly, but may have cultivated a pampered personality from childhood, so that people do not understand it at all, and sometimes they love to throw and roll. After the death of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the salary he received every month, Pu Juan also had a lot of field property in his own family, and he also had a lot of money every month by collecting rent, but he was still that habit, and he did his best to squander, in the theater, restaurant, everywhere you can see the voice of this big brother, often throwing thousands of dollars.
No amount of money can afford to spend, in 1924 Feng Yuxiang expelled the Qing Dynasty royal family, Pu Juan's position as a senator in the presidential palace was removed, not to mention, even the family's land was later deprived, Pu Juan sat and ate the mountain air, so that in his later years he was poor and destitute, and the Luo Wang family that had once begged them later looked down on them, and finally Pu Juan could only live in the stable, and his mood became more and more uncomfortable, so that depression became a disease and died.