So where did Puyi get the money for the wedding? It turned out that Puyi's wedding money mainly came from the gifts given to him by the major warlords and the support given to him by the adherents of the Qing Dynasty.
According to records, Xu Shichang gave him 20,000 silver dollars, Zhang also gave him 10,000 silver dollars, followed by Zhang Xun, who also gave 65,438+10,000 silver dollars. Other warlords, such as Wu, also sent some silver dollars and many precious materials and treasures. Some scholars have found that Puyi's wedding expenses are as high as 5.502 million taels of silver.
Then many people will wonder where a king who lost his country got such a big face that he could get so many prominent warlords to give him gifts, and the amount was so huge.
Moreover, there were so many young people in the Qing Dynasty who were willing to donate their belongings to Puyi for the wedding. In fact, this is not difficult to explain. China's feudal dynasty thought, which lasted for thousands of years, has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. As the last feudal dynasty, the just-perished Qing Dynasty marked the complete demise of the ancient feudal system in China. But in China people, they are particularly self-righteous? Royal relatives? Some people think that Puyi, who has lost power and influence, is still their real dragon emperor, which is the only legal one? Ninth Five-Year Plan? .
But we must make it clear that this idea is absolutely wrong. For decades, the idea of democracy and equality has penetrated into the spiritual world of China people, and the former feudal ideas have almost been exhausted.
Although many people attended Puyi's wedding ceremony, the wedding ceremony was also very grand. But neither he nor Wanrong ended up, so to some extent, Puyi is also a poor man.