Chapter 12 Henry.Pu Yi and Hong Kong Johnston

In the early colonial history of Hong Kong, there were two famous Johnstons: A. R． Johnston is the Deputy Commercial Director.He was busy with the activities of Li Hongzhang, Kang Youwei, and Sun Yat-sen for a while.What I want to talk about here is Sir Reginald Fleming Jonnston, who is not very famous. According to what Puyi said during his lifetime, this old Scottish man was the private secretary of the Governor of Hong Kong around 1900.The Governor of Hong Kong may be Henry.Sir Henry Blake or Lord Bu?Later, he was the chief executive of the British station in Weihaiwei, which was valued by the British colonial ministers at the time; and later, he was the English teacher who abolished Emperor Xuantong at the age of fourteen, perhaps the only English teacher officially hired by the Chinese emperor.He is known as China Hand.

Henry.The name Pu Yi was given by that Sir.The "Who's Who" published in the West is still in use.This Henry was a little more respectful to his English teacher than his Chinese teachers Lu Runxiang, Chen Baochen, and Liang Dingfen, but when he was unhappy, he still said the same thing: Today can be a day off.This is about half a century earlier than the anti-teaching dignity advocated by Jiang Qing. Puyi is also an interesting person. Later, he worked as an apartment in Zhangyuan, Tianjin, and successively named his queen, Wanrong, Elizabeth, the second sister was Mary, and the third sister was Lily.

However, Sir Johnston also did a terrible thing with Puyi. Under the instigation of Johnston, Puyi wanted to study in England, and sat back and watched.He wanted to take a bigger step than Guangxu Kua. However, the study abroad plan he put forward in one go was strongly opposed by the clan and the elders, fearing that the tree would fall and the monkeys would disperse. He was not reconciled, and discussed with his younger brother to escape from the Forbidden City secretly.At this time, some foreign ministers in Beijing stepped in to help and sent a special car to meet them, but they could only park outside the palace, and there were guards inside the palace.There were no helicopters at that time, so after a bang, it inevitably declined.

Still not reconciled.I wanted to elope through a small gate in the northwest corner of the palace (I later found out that it was on the west side of Yanhui Pavilion in the north of the Forbidden City), but it was aborted because the eunuch who had already accepted bribes leaked the secret.His father Zaifeng ordered that all the doors in the palace be strictly closed and no entry or exit be allowed.It is said that the three are exhausted.very good. These three attempts, of course, were all before the famous forced palace incident in 1924. What's the point of repeating these old sayings?But I want to explain: the abolished Emperor Xuantong and his uncle Guangxu, and of course many people who are truly aspiring to innovate, have all had the yearning for a Western constitutional monarchy. However, China is China after all, and it will not work if you want to copy it.Even if Puyi returned from studying abroad, he couldn't get through.

China wants to modernize, but it can only be a Chinese-style modernization. (1980)