Chapter 3 apartment life

After the interview, I sat on the express train back to Beijing from Tianjin and suddenly had a whim. If time could be turned back, how interesting it would be for me to see Pu Yi who was sitting on the train in the spring of 1925!Maybe he still wears a pair of big black-rimmed glasses, like the one I saw in Fushun three days ago?Of course, his body can't be as strong as it is now, and his mood won't be too good. If we can have a long talk in the instant we meet, will Puyi be willing to confide in me?Now that his faded golden imperial life has been covered with a layer of gloom, what kind of mood will it become after arriving in Tianjin?In a way, his soul and body are imprisoned, can he smile at me freely?

no no.None of this is possible, and the idea is redundant. I already know quite a bit.I think there is no way for Puyi not to admit that anyone who enters Beijing by plane, train or cart will be much happier than him, the emperor who escaped from Beijing. When Pu Yi arrived at Tianjin Railway Station, a large group of people had long been waiting for him to greet him.Among them are the Japanese Consul General in Tianjin Shigeru Yoshida, who was the Prime Minister of Japan before Hatoyama; there are also Japanese consulate personnel and Japanese military figures.According to Puyi, there are dozens of people in total.

After staying in the Tianjin Dahe Hotel for a few days, Puyi officially started his apartment life. He first lived in Zhangyuan in the former concession, and later moved to Jingyuan in the former concession. He did not leave until he went to the Northeast in November 1931. Pass Tianjin. Zhang Yuan is Zhang Biao's private residence.What kind of person is Zhang Biao?He was the commander of the Eighth Town who was frightened by the Wuchang Uprising.Mr. Sun Yat-sen fell ill in Zhangyuan’s residence before his death. I asked Puyi if he knew about it, and the answer was very good: I know that Mr. Sun Yat-sen lived in Zhangyuan the year before, but he asked me what the Three People’s Principles are. I do not know then.After a short pause, he said again: Zhang Yuan's house is not good.I remember that there was a heavy rain, and water accumulated in the house, and I tried to scoop it out.Later, I also bought ten houses. I can’t remember the exact number, but the monthly rental income was several hundred yuan anyway.

Speaking of the owner of Jingyuan, he is not an unknown person.He is Lu Zongyu, the president of the Currency Bureau who appeared as a traitor during the May 4th Patriotic Movement.This person, Cao Rulin, the chief of communications, and Zhang Zongxiang, the minister in Japan, all have the qualifications to leave a bad name forever. Didn't you say you bought a house on Gordon Road in the British Concession in Tianjin?Why not live there?The house is small?Still think it's bad?I asked. I have never been to live.Living in the Japanese Concession, it is convenient for people to protect them.He replied helplessly.

However, Puyi, who was protected by others, failed to protect Wenxiu by her side and be his concubine for a long time.For the first time, the former emperor tasted the bitterness of Qi people's worries. Wanrong is very powerful.She didn't let me get close to Wenxiu, also known as Concubine Shu.As time went by, Wenxiu's feelings for me were naturally very bad, and later she was forced to break up with me.When Puyi talked about this incident, he still seemed to have a knot in his heart.He didn't look very happy.Although when he was in Tianjin, he specially gave Wanrong a gold ring, and engraved in English the words Henry gave to Elizabeth.

Some people say that in the autumn of 1931, Wenxiu filed a divorce lawsuit in the Tianjin court, demanding Puyi to pay 50,000 yuan in alimony.Later, Puyi entrusted someone to settle the matter in private. Where is Wenxiu?I asked. I don't know either.he said sullenly. How many attendants did you bring to Tianjin?I changed the subject. Thirty or so.Cooks, drivers, servants, and guards who know martial arts. Do you go out often? I often go out by car, do some shopping, and eat at restaurants.I like to eat Shilin's western food.When I was in Beijing, I never visited the streets at all.

Do you know where Dong'an Market is?I couldn't help but ask a question. I don't even know that.He answered sheepishly. In Tianjin for seven years, what do you like to play? I like playing with stones, and raising tropical fish. Interest in Beijing opera is not bad, right?You grew up in Beijing! I have loved watching martial arts since I was a child.As soon as I met Wen Chang, I wanted to leave. Have you ever heard of Mei Lanfang's plays? Ah, Mr. Mei Lanfang!He said with great admiration that he went to Japan to act in a play a few days ago.Work for the country, great, great.I saw it in the newspaper, of course you already knew.The second time I listened to Mr. Mei's play was in Tianjin, and the first time was in Beijing.both times

How about both times?I found that there must be articles in it, so I hurriedly asked. He pondered for a while and said: On the day Concubine Duankang (Concubine Jin) lived her entire life, the palace invited Yang Xiaolou, Mei Lanfang, and Shang Xiaoyun to sing an opera.After singing, I gave each of them a snuff bottle.The left and right knew a lot of gossip, they thought that Youling was a lowly person and shouldn't be rewarded with such a generous gift.Those snuff bottles belonged to Qianlong. After listening to Mr. Mei’s plays in the Japanese Concession Theater in Tianjin for the second time, I never expected the widow Hu Siyuan to remonstrate with me.The general idea is that this is very disrespectful to the dignity of the emperor. If this is the case, it can be seen that the people who accompanied them really did not do their duty, so they had to plead guilty and ask for resignation. In 1974) August 20th, she was chosen as Concubine Jin at the age of 15. This probably refers to her fiftieth birthday on August 20th in the lunar calendar in 1923 (the 12th year of the Republic of China). At this time Pu Yi was seventeen years old.)

How do you express it? I made amends to him, saying that I would never go to the theater to listen to plays again.Hu Siyuan immediately complimented me, saying that a wise ruler accepts advice, which is admirable. Do you want to watch the movie? In the palace, I saw the films of Jia Bolin (the author's note for the translation of Chaplin's northern dialect) and Roque, and I was very interested.In short, I like to watch adventures, forests, beasts, monsters, and funny ones. Chaplin's big leather shoes may have given Pu Yi some inspiration.Puyi said that he made a huge hat in the palace, which was big enough for children to sleep in it.The pair of black-rimmed glasses of Roque with big glasses probably also admired by Puyi, right?

Do you like music? I like March①.This is the first time he used English in the conversation. (①March in English.) Why did the majestic march get his appreciation?I couldn't figure out this reason for a while, and I always felt that it didn't match his temperament. You play tennis very well, I hear. Gangqiu has been played since Beijing, and most of them are played in Tianjin. What's your best strike?His words aroused my interest as a tennis fan. If it wasn't too cold outside the prison, I would definitely ask him to compete immediately.There is equipment here. He sat there and quickly made a gesture with his right arm and said: Here, forehand ball!He replaced his uncertain arm strength with a strong tone.

Who do you usually fight with? younger siblings.Lin Baohua taught me tennis.He is an overseas Chinese and cannot speak Mandarin, so I barely speak English with him.There were also tennis players from the Tianjin Japanese Concession at that time, who often came to play.Japanese Hirose taught me how to play golf.Now I still like playing tennis the most.I am also interested in table tennis and volleyball.I've never danced, and I like to watch dances.I often see Zhang Xueliang dancing in Tianjin. How many other teachers are by your side?I puffed on a cigarette and asked him. Added Zheng Xiaoxu, who was introduced by Chen Baochen, and these two are by my side.They are all Fujianese.He replied puffing.Zheng Xiaoxu gave me lectures on Tongjian Jilan every day in Tianjin.Sometimes I also write some old poems for him to read, but he doesn't change them, maybe he doesn't dare to change them.In retrospect, the content of those thirty or forty poems can be divided into two parts: one part talks about love, and the other part vents anger, opposes the Republic of China, and hopes for restoration.It was originally copied in a notebook, but was lost later.I like five-character quatrains when making poems. As for verses, I find them troublesome and do very little. Whose poem do you admire most? Bai Juyi and Qianlong's.Bai Juyi's poems are easy to understand. Easy to understand, of course, less trouble.As for the unsophisticated poems about loving Qianlong, it is probably because of the honor of Fa Zu or Yi surname!I thought so at the time. Do you want to read translated novels? I've seen it, not many.Lin Qinnan's translation of the Shuobu Series has been read, and it is a commercial publication.I also read a class of notes copied by Qing Dynasty. How about the discernment of ancient cultural relics? Not to mention self-cultivation, but to see more good things.The same is true for calligraphy and painting.Taking Hanyu as an example, I have seen Qianlong's two big boxes of Hanyu.The quality of Hanyu depends on its immersion①. Later, in the era of the Puppet Manchukuo, one day I heard that Luo Zhenyu had a batch of Hanyu for sale, so I asked someone to take a look. Disappointed, it floated on it, like a layer of oil, not deep, not moist, not compelling luster, how should I say it?It's hard to explain, if you take out something and look at it in person, you'll understand.The best rebirth is by no means like that, it is clearly a forged inferior product. When I was in Tianjin, regardless of whether I was wearing a Chinese suit or a suit, I had to hang a few pieces of Chinese jade on the waistband of my trousers. (①Dipping is a term used to identify jade wares. It probably refers to the visible traces of jade and other substances undergoing chemical changes. If the buried Han jade is put together with mercury, the jade will reveal black dipping, and cinnabar. Placed together, the red ones can be seen again.) Is it for superstition?I suddenly remembered what my father said when I was a child, so I rushed to ask him. Yes.According to superstition, if you hang Hanyu on your body, if you fall down and the Hanyu breaks, you will not be hurt.At that time, I really believed in this set. Mr. Hu Ruoyu also told me two interesting things about Puyi in Tianjin. Puyi loves dogs.One day when I went to Zhangyuan, he said: I have a strange thing for you to see.When he said that, he led me to a cupboard door.As soon as the cabinet door was opened, a big dog rushed out of it, which startled me.The dog is said to be called a bulldog. Puyi is also particularly interested in black glasses.Taking pictures at his house, everyone was ready, Pu Yi went upstairs suddenly, and asked to wait, he went upstairs to get the pair of black glasses.It is also strange that he puts on glasses when other people take off their glasses for pictures.His father-in-law Rong Yuan was also photographed together that day. When it comes to keeping dogs, Xinxiu clearly said that Emperor Xuantong loved to raise a puppy, named Gonggou, and liked to watch dogs fight.Puyi himself said it to me.He said: There was a time when I liked keeping dogs, and I regarded it as a happy thing to see dogs biting people; the nose was bitten, and many people were bitten elsewhere. Queens, imperial concubines, tennis, golf, western food, dance parties, all the way to reciting poems and playing Chinese jade, all of this does not prove that Puyi lived a leisurely life in an apartment in Tianjin. Pu Yi occasionally basked in the sun on the balcony of Zhang Yuan's residence, and would encounter things that made him very angry.One day, when the neighbor's children saw him standing on the balcony again, they clapped their hands and shouted in unison: "Unlucky emperor!"The unlucky emperor (left and right)! To be fair and honest, those children's comments are indeed very clever. Puyi also set up a military aircraft office in the Zhang Garden of the garden house, which seems to maintain the palace system and manage the government affairs of the whole country! In Zhangyuan, there is also a chronological confession written on yellow paper for the 10th year of Xuantong! At that time, the young owner of Zhang Yuan, who was just over twenty years old, had extensive and profound knowledge of the Beiyang warlords; They can speak clearly and logically. When the host receives any guests, he always likes to arrange his seat in the middle of the central sofa.Obviously, he himself has not forgotten the emperor's supremacy.When he talked about anyone, he always called them by their first names, such as Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang, etc. This was at least against the custom at the time, if not extremely arrogant. In fact, the Japanese Consul General in Tianjin at that time sent Japanese police officers and Chinese police officers to live in Puyi's home. Puyi also admitted: Every time I go out, Japanese plainclothes police officers always follow me, never leaving.Who do I meet at home every day?Where am I going?Those police officers recorded everything in the diary, and the diary was hung up in a grandiose manner.The Japanese Consul General and the Commander in Tianjin often invite me to have dinner with the old people who are around me.Every New Year and my birthday, they all come to congratulate me, it's really endless! Among the characters Pu Yi made friends with, I hope readers will remember one person, Yoshioka Yasunao, who was the staff officer of the local Japanese garrison at that time.This mysterious figure will always appear with the later puppet Emperor of Manchukuo. Yoshioka is even related to the final fate of the cultural relics transported by Puyi. The calligraphy and painting cultural relics that were smuggled from the palace to Tianjin may have attracted everyone's attention, and some people cared about them.I asked Puyi, and he said that he only remembered selling 20 or 30 pieces in Tianjin, which is very vague. His pretext for smuggling this large number of national treasures back then, as well as the contents of various calligraphy and paintings, today only needs to check the four catalogs of the Forbidden City’s lost books, calligraphy and paintings (printed by the National Palace Museum in Beiping in 1934) to find reliable evidence. . This book, which only attracted the attention of a few people, was first published in 1926 by the Qing Dynasty Rehabilitation Committee.The full text of the preface is as follows: On March 19th, the 14th year of the Republic of China, I searched Yuqing Palace to Yuzi 964, No. 54, and found a rough ledger of books, calligraphy, paintings and playthings borrowed by you adults. It contains Xuantong Gengshen Year① March and other words.At that time, I was surprised that it could be borrowed at will, and then I checked the Hall of Yangxin to Luzi No. 524 on July 31 of the year, and found that there was a single bundle of rewarding Pujie and a single bundle, and the two were roughly in line with each other. .There are more than 200 kinds of books in the Song, Yuan and Ming editions, and more than 1,000 pieces of calligraphy and paintings in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Five Dynasties. Outside the palace.It is a pity that the national treasure is lost.The three catalogs are hereby printed and used to inform those who care about the quintessence of Chinese culture in China. ︱ ︱ ︱ ①Here refers to 1920, the ninth year of the Republic of China. ︱ ︱ ︱ Judging from the catalog of rewarding Pujie's calligraphy and painting, it took five months to appreciate Pujie's calligraphy and painting from the 13th day of July in the 14th year of Xuantong (1922, the 11th year of the Republic of China) to the 12th day of December of the same year. Long.This is consistent with what Puyi said for about half a year. On the first day, ten kinds of Song edition books were rewarded: Four Volumes of Song Edition Mao Poems A set of rhymes in the Song version of Yangqiu A set of Song version Yutai Xinyong A Set of Poetry Collection of Lu Hubu in Song Edition Song version of the Five Classics in a box of four sets A set of Nanhua scriptures compiled and illustrated in the Song edition A set of Anthology of Mr. He Jing in Song Edition A set of imperial inscriptions and detailed sections of the Song edition of Shangshu A set of emperor learning in song version A set of Song editions of Sun Kezhi's anthology ◇ On the last day, thirty scrolls of paintings were rewarded.There are: Tang Yin's wild sailing and rain scene, Zhou Zhimian's original flower painting, Zhao Mengfu's Lezhi theory on the combination of calligraphy and painting, Zhao Boju's Pengying fairy house, Wen Zhengming's painting of Chibi Fu, Song Dynasty's imitation of Gu Kaizhi's broken piano painting, Qiu Ying's painting of five hundred arhats, Huang Gongwang Endless Map of Streams and Mountains, etc. Zhang Zeduan won two volumes of Qingming Shanghe Tu: one on the 18th day of the 11th lunar month in 1922, and the other on the 8th day of the December month. It can also be seen from this catalog that most of the rewarding units use ten, and the most common one is thirty.Occasionally, five is used as a unit. For example, on the ninth day of November, I became a little hard-hearted and only asked Pu Jie to make a list of twenty-five items received.It is not uncommon to appreciate only one book, but there are not more than a dozen sets, or four or eight boxes, and they are extremely precious rare books.For example, on September 28, Pu Jie received the Song version of Zi Zhi Tong Jian, a total of eight sets. A small part of these treasures rewarded to Pu Jie changed in Tianjin and turned into colorful banknotes, which flowed into the bank passbook of the rewarder, increasing the reduced number. The Beijing Bureau of Private Property Clearance also handed over the proceeds of the liquidation to Pu Yi in batches.Hu Ruoyu, the supervisor of the Clearing Bureau, has personally been to Tianjin more than once for this matter. If Pu Yi heard that Sun Dianying had stolen and excavated the tomb of the Empress Dowager, he would bow down to the ancestral tablet in his apartment in Tianjin, gnashing his teeth. It would not be surprising if Puyi maintained the habit of beating people in Tianjin, and even developed it.It is astonishing that he should be a first-class puppeteer who is actually a low-class one. The September 18th Incident in 1931 prepared all the scenes and props for this puppet show.Director Doihara Osamu came to Tianjin more than a month later. Kenji Doihara had lived in China for 18 years before the September 18th Incident, and he was known as a Chinese hand in the Japanese Army Ministry.Colonel Seishiro Itagaki, who was in charge of conspiracy work in the Kwantung Army Staff Headquarters at the time, recognized the director as an ideal talent and really entrusted him with the mission. There is a popular saying that Puyi agreed to appear on time after a grenade was found in a gift basket received once.Of course, sweet words such as respect for territorial sovereignty and all autonomy will not be excluded from the list of gifts. Unfortunately, I have not asked Puyi about this matter. In any case, the last emperor mysteriously disappeared in Tianjin before long.He was no longer seen on the balcony of the apartment, he could not be found in the Qishilin Hotel, and such an enthusiastic dancer could no longer be found at the international ball with rich clothes and temples. At midnight in late autumn, he took Zheng Xiaoxu, his father and son and others, slipped into the old French Concession cruise ship pier amidst the sound of martial law in the old Japanese Concession, boarded a Japanese ship, and went down the Baihe River, passing the checkpoint Junliang City , suddenly the captain ordered to speed up and rush through the pass.At this time, the gunshots fired on the shore could no longer cause any harm to these fugitives. After arriving outside Tanggukou, he mysteriously became a passenger on a Japanese ship Awaji Maru, anxiously waiting for the end of the 250-mile voyage. Because, the director had instructed this poor puppet show actor to go ashore before Yingkou freezes.November 16, 1931 was the deadline.