According to the provisions of "Preferential Conditions for Clean Houses", Puyi can not only continue to live in the Palace of the Forbidden City, but also retain the title of emperor, and the government of the Republic of China will allocate 4 million yuan for his living expenses every year. In addition, the private property of the Qing emperor was specially protected by the government of the Republic of China. At that time, these private properties included all the items in the Forbidden City Palace, the items in Jehol Palace (now chengde mountain resort), the items in Shengjing Palace (now Shenyang Forbidden City), the items in the Summer Palace and a large number of royal farmland, woodland and mines in the three northeastern provinces. Therefore, after Puyi abdicated, personal wealth can still be said to be extremely rich.
After Puyi abdicated, he and his "small court" still maintained the royal life in the Forbidden City, with no worries about food and clothing and extreme luxury. In a sense, Puyi doesn't have to fulfill the obligations of the emperor, but he can still enjoy most of the powers of the emperor, and his life is more comfortable than before.
However, this good day did not last forever. In the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924) 1 1.3, a general of the national army led troops to occupy Jingshan in the north of the Forbidden City, disarming all the inner city guards in the Forbidden City and replacing all the sentries in the Forbidden City with soldiers of the national army. At this time, Puyi and the former governors were in fear. However, there are still some people who are lucky enough to think that this is only the "flag of the king" between warlords, and the preferential treatment for the Qing Dynasty will not change. However, this time is different.
According to the records in Pu Yi's autobiography My First Half Life. 165438+1At about 9 am on October 5, Puyi and Wanrong chatted while eating fruit in Palace of Gathered Elegance. Suddenly, the Minister of the Interior Office came in pale and handed a document to Puyi. The content of the official document is to "modify" the original "clean room preferential conditions", which means to cancel the "clean room preferential conditions" in plain English. In addition, Lu sent a message to Puyi asking the royal family to move out of the Forbidden City within three hours. Puyi's private property can be taken away, but it is limited to jewelry, silver, daily necessities and so on. All the cultural relics in the Forbidden City belong to public property and belong to the government of the Republic of China.
In the face of this sudden change, Puyi and the old people around him are in a state of confusion and don't know what to do. Finally, under the threat of the national army to shoot him if he didn't move away, Puyi left the Forbidden City where he had lived for 16 years with Wanrong and Wenxiu Guifei.
After Puyi was driven out of the palace, he personally "escorted" him to the Prince of Alcohol (the prince is Puyi's biological father). After Qin Chunwang Mi arrived, Lu Linzhong asked, "Mr. Puyi, will you be an emperor or a civilian in the future?" Puyi replied: "I am willing to be a civilian from today." Actually, the answer is obvious Accompanied by a group of national soldiers with guns, Puyi was just the last emperor of the previous dynasty. In this case, how can he shout that he still wants to be emperor?
Puyi's life in the Forbidden City ended like this. When he returned to the Forbidden City again (1925, 10, renamed the Palace Museum), it was several decades later. At that time, Puyi was no longer the owner of the Forbidden City, but just an ordinary tourist.