History is history, it is all things of the past, but some history makes people feel complicated, and some history is really not glorious. Before the Xuantong Emperor and after the Guangxu Emperor, there was actually another emperor, who lost his original identity after only 3 days on the throne, and he was the Baoqing Emperor's eldest brother Pu Juan.
In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), Empress Dowager Cixi issued an edict in the name of the Guangxu Emperor, and on the grounds that she had no heirs, Pu Juan, the son of King Zaiyi of Liduan, was made crown prince.
At that time, the Tongzhi Emperor collapsed without heirs, and the emperor with Guangxu as his heir originally intended to let the emperor pass on to the Tongzhi Emperor as his heir. However, the Guangxu Emperor had no heirs until the age of 29, so the new emperor had to choose from the "Pu" generation, and after excluding the adults and those who were not enough, Cixi chose the 15-year-old Pu Juan. In addition to having a minor age, Pu Yan also had an identity favored by Cixi, and his grandfather was the younger brother of Empress Dowager Cixi. In addition, Pu Juan's father, Duan Wang Zaiyi, is also actively running for his son, and all favorable conditions have pushed the 15-year-old teenager to the cusp of history.
Under Cixi's arrangement, Pu Juan was passed on to the Tongzhi Emperor and completed other preparations before taking the throne.
Later, Empress Dowager Cixi announced that the following year a Zen ceremony would be held for the Guangxu Emperor, with the "Great Brother" Pu Juan as the heir emperor, and the new era name was "Baoqing", which was the famous "Self-Hai Jianchu" incident at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
However, in the environment of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty could not even guarantee sovereignty, and internal affairs naturally attracted the intervention of the great powers. At that time, Britain and France and other Western European countries were competitors with Tsarist Russia, and the "post-party" tended to Tsarist Russia, while the "imperial party" preferred Britain and France.
Therefore, in order to prevent Cixi from fully grasping the power of the Qing court and turning to Tsarist Russia, Britain and France intervened in this lichu. They did not want to see the Guangxu Emperor deposed, as it might damage their interests in China.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Cixi began to look for the end of the steps, and asked her cronies to write to her to take back her life.
Pu Juan's biological father, King Duanjun, was not reconciled, and he himself wanted to be the regent, but at this time, he had a conflict with Empress Dowager Cixi. The Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, and Pu Juan and Duan Junwang ran to Shaanxi with Empress Dowager Cixi, but this eldest brother did not stop when he arrived in Shaanxi, and his performance was extremely poor.
On the westbound road, Pu Juan's faction of wandering Wang Sun did not have the political acumen that a royal family should have. Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor were terrified, but the sixteen-year-old brother had no sense of crisis, and along the way he still had leisure to sing Peking Opera and even whistle at the back of the line.
Pu Yan is a man who flaunts humanity and does not know how to restrain. After the successful negotiation of the "Xinugu Treaty" in 1901, Empress Dowager Cixi led hundreds of officials back to Luang with the Guangxu Emperor, and after arriving in Kaifeng in October, Empress Dowager Cixi issued a decree on October 20: Pu recklessly removed the name of the great brother and immediately left the palace, and Jia En rewarded him with eight public titles, no need to be a bad cloud. Pu Juan was officially expelled from the palace gate and given three thousand taels of silver for the settlement fee, which was served by The Inspector of Henan, Song Shou. Later, Pu Yan went to Mongolia again and married the daughter of the Mongolian prince. After that, he returned to Beijing and lived a life of sitting and eating mountains and skies, and it was worse than a day.
After the Xinhai Revolution, Puyi abdicated, and PuYi became a senator of the presidential palace as his former elder brother, although he was a pseudonym, he could receive a salary of 500 oceans per month.
Pu Juan and his wife did not have a good relationship after marriage, because of trivial matters often quarreled, Pu Juan often went to the theater near the Back Gate Bridge, the restaurant to fool around, and later held up a few female artists who sang big drums, often throwing thousands of dollars. He also ordered a rather beautiful chartered car, and every day after dinner, he sat in the car and went outside the front door to watch the play and listen to the drums. Later, he smoked opium and even hired a woman nicknamed "Little Daughter-in-law" to serve him smoke a cigarette.
Pu Juan had a second son, the eldest son Yu Lanfeng was born dull and mentally retarded, and although the second son was intelligent since childhood and loved by him, he died of a sudden violent illness at the age of five due to low immune function. This sudden blow gave him great stimulation, and he stayed by the side of his dead son, did not eat or drink, and cried for three or four days.
In 1921, the political situation was turbulent, and Pu Juan's Presidential Office Senator was abolished, and his monthly income plummeted. In 1924, Feng Yuxiang, who was secretly supported by the Soviet Union, expelled Puyi from the Forbidden City during the "Beijing Coup", and at the same time, he also changed the land of the Qing princes to "change the flag to civilian land" in the form of "paying the price and raising the class", that is, after the tenant farmers paid in installments according to the lower land price, the land belonged to the tenant farmers, and after a few years, the source of land rent in the royal palaces was cut off. This was the second financial dilemma that Pu Juan suffered, and from then on, he sat on the mountain and gradually reached bankruptcy.
In 1927, Zai Yi died in Ningxia, where he later settled, and soon after, Yu Yun handed over his post as director of the Jingtai Taxation Bureau in Gansu Province, returned to Beijing to visit his mother, and met Zai Ying and Pu Juan. Zaiying handed over to Yuyun the part of the property allocated to the Duanwang clan of the Prince of Duan's Mansion East Cross Courtyard, and formally went through the deed tax formalities. Yu Yun saw that Pu Yan was too poor to look like he was, and immediately handed him the deed to him. But Pu Yan still ate and drank opium, and soon squandered it again.
Pu Juan, who had lost his financial resources, was unable to make a living, and later had to ask his wife to ask King Luo's son, King Ta, for a loan. Tawang Brijara was serving as the president of the Mongolian and Tibetan Temple, and seeing that Pu Juan and his sister were living in poverty, he immediately sent someone to send money and help on a monthly basis, and later took the couple into the Tawang Mansion to live. Shortly thereafter, King Ta died of illness, and Mr. and Mrs. Pu Yan lost their last reliance.
King Ta's side Fujin did not look at Pu Juan in ordinary times, and secretly ordered his men not to treat Pu Juan and his wife as relatives, and also found an excuse to move them to several small houses near the horse number. Pu Yan was treated coldly by this, depressed and depressed, but he did not have the ability to move out of the house to make a living for himself, and could only reluctantly rely on the house and not leave.
In this state of mind, Pu Juan became ill with anxiety, and even became ill, and in 1942, Pu Juan died in the palace of the Pagoda King. After his death, he held a simple funeral ceremony at the Jiaxing Temple Funeral Home, and was buried in the open space in the backyard of the temple, where he was buried until after liberation.
Throughout Pu Juan's life, he did not learn any techniques, lacked a keen eye, never tried to survive, but like a hermit crab, he was turned upside down by the situation and power, attached to various forces, and the result was a complete defeat and eliminated by society.