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Aixin Jueluo Pulun is the fifth grandson of Qianlong and the fourth son of Baylor Zaizhi. He succeeded to Emperor Daoguang's eldest son, Yinzhi County Wang Yiwei, as his heir, and took the title of "Beizi", so people called him "Lunbeizi".
In 1875, after the death of Emperor Tongzhi, since there was no direct heir, Empress Dowager Cixi and others began to look for a suitable heir to the throne. The Empress Dowager Cixi decided to choose the younger children of the clan, and put forward the proposal of establishing the children of the clan with the character "Pu" and the character "Zai".
The establishment of the next generation of "Pu" characters can elevate the Empress Dowager Cixi to the empress dowager, but it will lose the reason to continue to control the government. Therefore, the Empress Dowager Cixi insisted on appointing her nephew, the then four-year-old Zaiyan, as emperor, that is, the Guangxu Emperor, while Pu Lun lost the opportunity to inherit the throne.
As the eldest grandson, Pu Lun could have become the heir to the throne, but because of Cixi's decision, he missed the throne. At the age of eight, Pu Lun was awarded the title of "Beizi", which was one of the noble titles during the Qing Dynasty, and was a high-ranking nobleman in the Qing Dynasty, with high status and power. After Pu Lun received the title of Beizi, he was later given the title of "Baylor", a higher-level aristocratic title during the Qing Dynasty, usually granted directly by the emperor, with a very high status and power.
As a royal clan, Pu Lun was reused, and together with Sun Jianai, served as the president of the Imperial Yuan. In March 1904, Pu Lun led a delegation of the Qing Dynasty to attend the St. Louis World's Fair in the United States and was received by Theodore Roosevelt of the United States.
The trip broadened his horizons and led him to participate in various celebrations, bringing with him almost all the goods he brought with him, such as Chinese porcelain, tea, silk and carpets. Pu Lun expressed his determination to change the country's predicament and rejuvenate China to overseas Chinese and reporters, and said that he would work hard in education after returning to China. The New York Times described Pu Lun as the most democratic member of the Qing dynasty.
However, a clan like Pu Lun could not influence the situation. With the establishment of the "Imperial Cabinet" in the third year of Xuantong (1911), hopes for a constitutional monarchy were finally dashed.
This cabinet was actually formed to maintain **. In February 1912, Emperor Puyi of Xuantong issued an edict to abdicate, and the Qing Dynasty officially ended.
After the Xinhai Revolution, Yuan Shikai became the provisional great power of China, but he was not satisfied with the position of **, and hoped to rebuild the imperial system and become the emperor himself. Yuan Shikai planned to restore the Hongxian Empire and implement a feudal monarchy throughout the country.
During Yuan Shikai's brewing of the Hongxian Empire, Pu Lun provided support and persuasion to Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai was very happy and immediately named Pu Lun as the dean of the political council, and Prince Xu was a double servant to appreciate his merits. However, Yuan's plan did not last long before his death failed.
After that, Pu Lun changed his position and began to support Emperor Puyi, who was the honorific title that Puyi still retained after his abdication. Pu Yi's restoration plan was quickly resisted by the opposition.
Beiyang ** under the warlord politics did not support Pu Yi's restoration plan, and the labor movement and *** that broke out in various places also expressed strong opposition to this, without the support of the army, in the face of strong opposition, Pu Yi could only give up the restoration plan and become an ordinary civilian.
In January 1927, Pu Lun died in Beijing at the age of 53.