Puyi abolished the emperor and turned to Mao Zedong's secrets

Editor's Note: On December 4, 1959, the Fushun War Criminals Management Office held the first batch of amnesty conferences for war criminals, and Puyi became the first war criminal to receive the first batch of amnesty. The "Notice of Amnesty" commented that Puyi "has been reformed, he has indeed changed his wickedness and followed the good, in line with the provisions of Article 1 of the amnesty, and he will be released." treatment). In 1962, Mao Zedong ignored the famine in the whole country, and invited Pu Yi to go to Zhongnanhai for a banquet to protect him in every possible way.

Jia Yinghua (born in 1952), a researcher of late Qing Dynasty history, once wrote an epitaph for Puyi and an epitaph for the eunuch Sun Yaoting. He is the author of "Biography of the Last Emperor's Brother Pu Jie", "The Last Emperor's Uncle Zaitao" and "The Last Emperor's Sister Yun". Harmony", "Biography of the Last Eunuch Sun Yaoting" and other books. Among them, "The Second Half of the Last Emperor's Life" is called the continuation of Puyi's autobiography "My First Half of Life", and the title of the book was inscribed by Puyi's younger brother Pu Jie, which shows the authority of this book. The following text is taken from pages 207-213 of the book, and the title is self-designed.

It was a sunny morning on January 31, 1962. "Is Mr. Puyi here?" A CPPCC staff member hurriedly pushed open the door of the editorial room of the People's Publishing House, "Oh..." Puyi was discussing with Wenda about revising his autobiography when he raised his head in surprise: "What's the urgency?"

"Leader, please go back to the CPPCC immediately." The person's further reply surprised him. It turned out that Chairman Mao Zedong wanted to meet him! He looked a little panicked, pointed to the crumpled clothes, and murmured, "How can I get rid of this clothes?" Wenda smiled: "It's easy, I have clothes here." A dark blue tweed tunic suit. Pu Yi returned to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference by bus with his clothes on. He ran to the backyard, found Aunt Zhao and said excitedly and anxiously, "I have to go to Zhongnanhai to see Chairman Mao right away, but the clothes haven't been ironed yet." "What time do you drive?" "Ten o'clock." In a hurry: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Isn't this a sedan chair, and your ears and eyes are pierced?" She instructed him: "Go to the director of the company to get an iron." Flat clothes, take a sleeper car to Zhongnanhai.

As the wheels were spinning, a conversation he had had with Uncle Tao a few days ago couldn't help but come to his mind... That day, Zai Tao invited him home to taste the yellow mutton, and he asked Uncle Seven, "I heard you Have you seen Chairman Mao?" "Of course I have." Zai Tao took a sip of wine and said slowly to Pu Yi and Zongguang, the second son of the third sister who came with him: "Chairman Mao is very funny, when I met him that time, Premier Zhou was next to him. Chairman Mao pointed at the Premier with a smile, and said to me: I am the old lady wrapped in "A Dream of Red Mansions", and I don't care much, he is the head of the family..." Puyi's eyes widened, he could hear it. God, the right hand holding the chopsticks stopped in the air and forgot to put the yellow mutton in his mouth. With a mysterious look on his face, Zai Tao approached and said, "You know what? I even made an opinion in front of Chairman Mao! I said that the term "Manchu Qing" was inappropriate and should be changed. At that time, the Prime Minister agreed He said, "The Qing Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty, why not mention 'Yuanmeng' and the Qing Dynasty alone?" After hearing this, the chairman nodded, "That makes sense." Agreed with me." Zai Tao took off his glasses. , chewing the yellow mutton with big mouthfuls: "Hey, when I gave my opinion, my heart beat the drum." Puyi remembered it, and the last sentence he said to Zaitao was: "Dare to love Chairman Mao so democratic... "..." Thinking of this, the uneasy mood calmed down a lot.

The car drove into Zhongnanhai and stopped in front of the Yi Nian Tang. Guided by a staff member, he walked into the spacious living room. Wang Jifan, Zhang Shizhao, Cheng Qian, and Qiu Ao have arrived first. During the exchange of words, the door opened, and Mao Zedong walked in with a fresh face and shook hands warmly with Puyi, the five old people who were all over 500 years old and who had experienced very different experiences. Among these five people, except Puyi, they are all old acquaintances of Mao Zedong. Wang Jifan is an old classmate of the father of Mao Zedong's wife Yang Kaihui; Zhang Shizhao, the chief writer of the famous "Su Bao" in the late Qing Dynasty, was the head of education of the old government, and then the director of the Central Museum of Literature and History; Qiu Ao and Mao Zedong were fellow villagers in Hunan and also the Central Museum of Literature and History. Librarian; Cheng Qian is a former scholar who served as the army chief of the very large presidential palace and the chairman of the Kuomintang Hunan Province. After liberation, he served as the governor of Hunan Province, the hometown of Mao Zedong. In his youth, Mao Zedong also served as a soldier in his Sixth Army, and he was always the same as him. Only Puyi and Mao Zedong met for the first time.

When he shook hands with Mao Zedong, he said excitedly, "I never expected to see you!" "Please take a seat!" Mao Zedong smiled and asked Puyi's current situation with a strong Hunan accent, and then asked, "Is your house still wrapped up? What kind of people are there?" He respectfully answered one by one, and began to review his "old debts" in the past. "Some things, you have to be responsible, and some things you do not do alone." Mao Zedong cut off his topic. After a short pause, Mao Zedong asked him, "When you were the emperor, how did you treat the ministers below?" "When I first ascended the throne, I was still a child..." He thought and said, "I don't do anything. Most of it was done by my father Zaifeng and Seventh Uncle. When I was a little older, they would at most ask me and it would be over. However, when it comes to Manchukuo, it’s a different situation.” “When you arrive at the CPPCC, you should summarize it well. Let me tell you a lesson from history..." "Yes." Pu Yi whispered softly. "Decades ago, I was your subject too!" Mao Zedong said to Pu Yi humorously, seeing that he was a little nervous. "How dare you," he stood up with sincerity and fear, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner!..." Mao Zedong waved his hand, and after Puyi sat down, he said meaningfully, "Among the guests, Mr. Puyi is the youngest. Hey." Not long after, Mao Zedong invited everyone to lunch and walked ahead with a smile. Because the guests were all older than him, Pu Yi humbly followed at the end. Zhang Shizhao and others humbly let him go first. Mao Zedong looked back and saw the scene of giving in to each other, came over to hold Puyi's hand, and walked into the dining room hand in hand with him.

After all, apart from Pu Yi, the five guests present, together with Mao Zedong, are all from Hunan. Mao Zedong entertained guests, and always liked to invite the chefs of Quyuan Restaurant to cook hometown dishes. This time, Mao Zedong still served the "five old people" who had gone through the end of the Qing Dynasty with four dishes and one soup. During the banquet, Mao Zedong warmly served Puyi with vegetables, and even dragged him to sit beside him. Speaking of which, Mao Zedong's attention to Puyi was far from today. After Puyi became a citizen, Mao Zedong often talked about class transformation from Puyi's perspective when meeting foreign guests, and suggested that they go and see the former emperor's historic changes with their own eyes.

On May 9, 1960, that is, six months after Pu Yi was pardoned, Mao Zedong said when receiving foreign guests from Iraq , Iran and Cyprus : "We must reform the downed classes." Nine years of amnesty: "Among them, there is another emperor. He is in Beijing and his name is Puyi. He ruled the whole of China and ruled us from the age of three to six." After speaking, Mao Zedong made another gesture: "He later He was overthrown. Now there is progress, he has been pardoned, he is not a war criminal, and his freedom has been restored. He is only fifty-three years old this year. He said that he is now truly liberated and free. He is now working in the Beijing Botanical Garden. You have If you are interested, you can talk to him collectively. Even if he is such a person, we will not kill him. After remodeling, there is still work to do, but he can’t be a king.” Mao Zedong mentioned this history in a relaxed tone. The character aroused great interest from foreign friends, who then visited Puyi and told him that Mao Zedong introduced him. "You are all young people and probably won't know Puyi, the last emperor of China."

On April 1, 1961, when Mao Zedong and Hu Yaobang, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, met with the Cuban youth delegation, he mentioned Puyi and his past again . Speaking of which, Mao Zedong stood up, his voice imposing: "Classes can be reformed, and Puyi can be reformed too!" "I want to ask the chairman a question," said Millais, head of the Cuban youth delegation, "you are like Puyi. Do you have confidence in the transformation of the exploiting classes?" "I have confidence! Puyi is the one who has been transformed better." Mao Zedong said with a sigh, "I have never seen him." Then he turned and asked Hu Yaobang, "Have you seen him?" "I haven't seen it either." Hu Yaobang spread his hands regretfully. "Many foreign journalists have talked to him," Mao Zedong said to the attentive young people in the Cuban youth delegation. "You can talk to him if you are interested..." He not only introduced foreign guests from various countries to talk with Puyi, but also made up for it. own regrets.

This time, in the living room of the Yi Nian Tang, Mao Zedong took up his chopsticks while eating and persuaded Puyi, "Come and try our Hunan bitter gourd!" He took the chopsticks and picked up the Hunan-style spicy fried bitter gourd for Puyi. Put in a cloth dish. "How does it taste?" He wondered if Pu Yi was used to it. "It's delicious." Pu Yi was so hot that the tip of his nose sweated. After a while, he saw that Mao Zedong was smoking one cigarette after another, which was too strong, so he made some comments: "Chairman Mao, I think that you swallow your cigarettes whole mouthful, it is not good for your health... ..." Mao Zedong smiled and nodded, expressing acceptance.

After the meal, Mao Zedong proposed to take a photo with Puyi. He couldn't help standing beside Mao Zedong. "Shut up!" After pressing the shutter, Mao Zedong suddenly waved to photographer Lv Houmin and said, "The two of us are standing in the wrong place! The guest should stand first and take another picture." Before Puyi could react, Mao Zedong had already been with him Switched positions, making him stand on his right. Lv Houmin pressed the shutter again, and a historic photo was born. Before leaving, Puyi said to Mao Zedong, "Thank you very much for your hospitality." "We will have the opportunity to meet in the future." car door. Puyi was so excited in the car that he didn't know what to do, and kept bowing to Chairman Mao.

Soon, a photo of Puyi and Mao Zedong was sent. He carefully placed the photo under the glass plate of the table in the dormitory. The backing was a piece of white paper, on which a beautiful regular script was written with a brush: "Mao, the great leader of the Chinese people, Chairman". A day later, Lian Lao found that the group photo had been moved and hung on the wall in the center of the room. Puyi said with conviction: "This photo should be placed in a high place, so that people can see it as soon as they enter the door." Within two days, Lian Lao saw the photo and was moved to the bed. He said he wanted to see photos at first sight before going to bed and waking up.

The day after Mao Zedong met him, Pu Yi came to the Botanical Garden and said to Tian Lao and Zhuge Zhengyi with joy, "This meeting will be unforgettable in my life!" He said this more than once. There is a similar record in the diary of one of his relatives: "February 3, 1962 (Saturday). After get off work at 3 pm, I went to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to find Puyi to congratulate him on meeting him on January 31. When I arrived at Chairman Mao, Puyi was very excited and burst into tears. He said that January 31, 1962 was a day I will never forget.”

Puyi was received by Mao Zedong only once, but Mao Zedong cared about him more than once. This must refer to a day two years later. February 13, 1964, was the first day of the first lunar month in the old calendar. Outside, the spring is cold, but the Beijing Hall of the Great Hall of the People is full of spring. At the same time, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Zhen, Lu Ding and other party and state leaders attended the famous "Spring Festival Symposium".

"Gao Shuxun has joined the party," Deng Xiaoping said. At this time, Mao Zedong, who was sitting between Zhang Shizhao and Huang Kecheng, took Deng Xiaoping's words and said, "Gao Shuxun is uprising, so it can be seen that people will change." "Puyi, the emperor of Xuantong, came to pay New Year's greetings today." Kang Sheng interjected. "A New Year's greeting for you?" Mao Zedong asked. "He went to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to pay New Year's greetings." "As for Xuantong, we must unite him well," Mao Zedong looked around and said jokingly: "He and Emperor Guangxu are both our 'supervisors', and I have been the common people under them. I heard that Puyi only has a monthly salary of more than 100 yuan. I'm afraid it is too little, right?" Talking about this package, he turned his head and said to Zhang Shizhao, "I want to take some manuscript fees and give him to improve his life through you. Don't make him 'return with long hair, no fish to eat'." Then, he added humorously: "After all, he is the 'Emperor'!"