In 1912, the last emperor Puyi was forced to take the throne by Yuan Shikai, but there is one thing that makes people very confused, generally the emperor will have the protection of the Janissaries, so when Puyi abdicated, where did his Janissaries go, why can Yuan Shikai not bloodshed and let Puyi abdicate?
In fact, the emperors of successive dynasties, for their own safety, will form an army dedicated to protecting themselves. For example, Cao Cao's Tiger Ben Camp, Cao Cao's Tiger Ben Camp is a very famous security force, Cao Cao once let his powerful generals, Dianwei and Xu Chu serve as the commander of the Tiger Ben Camp. During Zhang Xiu's rebellion, this Dianwei died in order to protect Cao Cao, and Xu Chu was also loyal to Cao Cao throughout his life.
It can be seen that the captain of the security team is generally a person who is very trusted by the monarch, such as Zhao Yun, during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhao Yun was also the captain of Liu Bei's security team, and Zhao Yun's loyalty and courage are well known. Later, the rulers' Janissaries were no less numerous, mostly called the Royal Forest Army.
The Royal Forest Army did not participate in other wars, but was only responsible for protecting the emperor's safety closely, and the Royal Forest Army was directly under the command of the Royal Forest Army, so the leader of the Janissaries was a very important position. If we want to find out why His Janissaries failed to protect Puyi when he abdicated, we might as well first see who is the leader of Puyi's Janissaries.
Puyi was very young when he succeeded to the throne, so there was a regent, and the regent Zaifeng was also a very capable and seeing person. He watched the power of Yuan Shikai and others grow day by day, knowing that these forces would eventually become a threat to the imperial court, so he built a new army of 12,000 people to protect the palace and compete with the warlords.
In fact, this new army has the same mission as the emperor's imperial forest army in history, and the leader of this new army is no one else, it is Zaifeng's younger brother Zaitao.
It was also very normal for a member of the imperial family to serve as the commander of the Janissaries, at least he would not destroy the Qing Dynasty. However, Zaifeng misread Zaitao.
Zaitao was young and did not know how to train the army, so the combat effectiveness of the new army at that time was very low, they could be said to have not undergone any strict training, such an army, usually dressed up, the number is OK, but it is really unreliable to fight.
However, such an army with no combat effectiveness eventually fell into the hands of others. After Zaifeng seized power, he constantly weakened Yuan Shikai's power, and Yuan Shikai seemed to have no real power in his hands.
After the Wuchang Uprising broke out, the Qing government ordered the Beiyang army to suppress the rebel army, but these troops did not even listen to the Qing government, although Yuan Shikai had lost power at this time, but these Beiyang troops still only listened to Yuan Shikai.
In desperation, Zaifeng reused Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai took over not only the Beiyang army this time, but also The new army of Zaitao was also controlled by Yuan Shikai. It can be said that at this time, Yuan Shikai's influence is greater than before.
The new army was also forced to hand over to Yuan Shikai, then the Qing Dynasty really had no army that could go to the battlefield, so when Yuan Shikai forced Puyi to abdicate, there was no Janissary army to protect Puyi, and Puyi had to abdicate.
Yuan Shikai had the opportunity to overthrow the feudal dynasty without force and end the feudal imperial system for more than two thousand years. In fact, even if the new army was not in yuan shikai's hands, such an army could not successfully prevent Yuan Shikai from forcing Puyi to abdicate, but only to increase the lives of some soldiers.