In the early years of the Republic of China, Puyi and others still lived in the Forbidden City. According to the preferential conditions of rooms in Qing Dynasty agreed by Nanjing Provisional Government and representatives of Qing Government, Puyi and others also lived in the Forbidden City. The government of the Republic of China allocates 4 million taels of silver every year for the daily use of Puyi and others. In other words, the 4 million taels of silver is also a huge sum, enough for Puyi and others to consume. However, Pu Yi and others once lived a luxurious life. At that time, the national government was in a tight financial situation and could not pay on time? Room cleaning discount fee? , so often make ends meet.
What should I do? Puyi and others actually came up with a way to quietly take out the cultural relics of the Forbidden City as collateral and borrow money from merchants and banks. According to statistics, Puyi and others borrowed 1 10,000 yuan from major enterprises and banks. At first it was just a mortgage. Later, it simply auctioned the gold, silver, jewelry and antiques in the palace. When preparing for the wedding, Puyi wants to auction the national treasure? Siku Quanshu? . Only when public opinion is strongly opposed.
Puyi and others then stole the cultural relics and sold them. Not exactly. At that time, Pu Yi and others knew that they would be expelled from the Forbidden City sooner or later. So, starting with the large-scale transfer of cultural relics in the Forbidden City.
What shall we do? Puyi himself dared not take the cultural relics out of the Forbidden City, but let his younger brother Pu Jie enter the Forbidden City to study with him. When Pu Jie left, he secretly took the cultural relics away. Many years later, Pu Yi recalled in the book "The Rest of My Life" that this smuggling activity lasted for more than half a year almost every day, and the ancient books and paintings shipped out were all fine works.
1924 10 On October 23rd, Feng Yuxiang staged a coup in Beijing. Puyi and others were driven out of Beijing by Feng Yuxiang. Puyi lived in the Japanese embassy for three months, and then left Beijing for the Japanese concession in Tianjin? Bird? .
Puyi just moved in? Bird? Think about the cultural relics stolen from the Forbidden City. He wants to secretly transfer these cultural relics to Tianjin. Soon, under the protection of the Japanese, Puyi stole the cultural relics of the Forbidden City from Tianjin.
Pu Yi's cousin Pu Jia handled the matter. ? It takes a lot of time to transport these antiques to Tianjin. ? . These calligraphy and painting books, seventy or eighty big wooden cases, volume and quantity. Not only do you have to pay taxes when entering and leaving the railway station, but you also have to check. It happened that Sun Baoqi, the tax inspector at that time, was tie-dyed's father-in-law. I found Tie Ran and said that the things of Chunwang's family and ours would be shipped to Tianjin, and asked him to entrust Sun Baoqi with a duty-free passport. As expected, the passport went smoothly and I escorted the antiques to Tianjin. These antiques are stored in Gordon Road1Building 66. ?
Forget it, Puyi stole 76 boxes of cultural relics from the Forbidden City. These cultural relics are very valuable, such as the image of the emperor in Yuen Long, the touring car and the immortal. They are also national treasures. Puyi's life in Tianjin is still luxurious, and he has to reward followers who flatter the late Qing Dynasty. Where did the money come from? Puyi continued to sell these cultural relics, which led to the outflow of cultural relics.