Do you think that when the Qing Dynasty fell, there was no money, yes, but it was just that the treasury was empty, and Aixin Jueluo's private property was still rich.
In the first year, the Nanjing Provisional Dynasty, Yuan Shikai and the Qing royal family negotiated and reached a "Qing World Preferential Treatment Regulations". There are two provisions that write that after the abdication of the Qing Emperor, 4 million taels will be allocated by Zhonghua**, and the other is that its original assets are specially protected by Zhonghua**. Although this article does not clearly stipulate the scope and content of this royal private property. But according to the understanding of the royal family at that time, it was all the items in the palace. This palace refers to the Imperial Palace, the Rehe Palace, the Shengjing Palace, and the Summer Palace. This item includes cultural relics, jewelry, silver, silk, furniture, and daily necessities. There is also the Imperial Grange, which even the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself does not know how many are left.
Of course, there is no objection to this. Therefore, at this time, although the Qing royal family has no country, it still has a rich life.
But after many changes, the assets of the Qing royal family were few. ** In six years, Zhang Xun was restored, and as a result, the "Preferential Conditions for the Qing Family" was questioned. Many people believe that they are involved in the restoration, and that they are in default first. Therefore, the preferential conditions signed before had to be annulled, and Feng Yuxiang advocated that Pu Yi be expelled from the palace.
*11 years, after the resignation of ** Xu Shichang, who still has sympathy for the Qing imperial family. Pu Yi began to plan to smuggle the items in the palace out of the palace in case of an emergency. So how did Pu Yi get out of the consignment? When they were checking the cultural relics, they marked each scroll or ancient book according to its value. For example, draw five circles with high value, draw one circle with low value, and then find a reason, saying that it is to be rewarded to Pu Jie, and let Pu Jie choose it himself. Pu Jie and Pu Jia went to the palace, first picked out according to the high value, and then took them out. Later, according to the statistics of the Qing Dynasty Aftermath Committee, Pu Yi smuggled out more than 1,000 handkerchiefs of calligraphy and painting in the past dynasties, more than 200 kinds of albums and hanging scrolls, and more than 200 precious books of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
*In 13, the "Qing House Preferential Treatment Regulations" was amended, and Pu Yi was forced to leave the Forbidden City. Although this time it is still stipulated that the private property of the Qing family belongs to the Qing family, there is a clear division between public property and private property. As a result, most of the remaining historical and cultural relics in the palace have been preserved. And Pu Yi can only take away jewelry, silver and daily necessities.
The next year, when Pu Yi fled to Tianjin, there were only those treasures that Pu Jie had been admired before. Pu Yi relied on the sale of these to maintain his daily expenses. In addition to being sold, there are also those that are lost and those that are forced to be abandoned.
It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that Pu Yi was extradited from the Soviet Union to China, handed over the last remaining 486 treasures, and his assets were reduced to zero.