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Puyi discovered a secret imperial edict in hall of mental cultivation, which solved a 300-year-old mystery.
This historical anecdote comes from Puyi's younger brother Pu Jie, who has been dead for decades.

Pu Jie, the "brother" of Qin Shihuang, once said a word in an interview with historian and writer Jia.

This happened when he and Puyi were teenagers. They say the time and place are accurate, so this book records the emperor's later life.

The thing is, one day after the Revolution of 1911, Puyi abdicated, and the Qing royal family was protected in the preferential treatment agreement signed with the new government.

Therefore, Puyi and his family still live in the Forbidden City. On the day of the incident, Puyi and Pu Jie finished their homework early as usual and went to Yangxintang to play together.

By chance, I opened a niche in the East Hall, which was covered with dust. When they opened it, they found a yellow paper bag inside.

On this yellow paper bag, there is a personal letter from Emperor Qianlong, which says that the articles hidden in this paper bag cannot be opened by the descendants of Essien Zhuo Luo. At this time, the two brothers discussed with each other and felt that the Qing Dynasty no longer existed.

Whatever it says, it doesn't matter.

So, driven by curiosity, they opened the yellow paper bag.

There is a secret imperial edict in it, which records a decree of killing people with poison. The targets killed in the secret order are Yong Zhengdi's younger brothers Yun Si and Yun Zhi.

In historical records, the cause of death of these two people has always been a mystery. Both of them died of diarrhea and vomiting within a week, and the cause of death was strange.

In this secret imperial edict, the real causes of death of the two men were clearly solved, and the biggest unsolved case in history of qing dynasty was solved.

Because the younger brothers were still young at that time, they were at a loss after reading it, and at the same time they were afraid to tell others, so Puyi, who was a little older at that time, made the final decision and put the paper bag back to the shrine intact, pretending that nothing had happened.

Regarding this historical record, in the follow-up investigation, Jia inspected the words left by Puyi for the sake of rigor.

When Puyi later visited the Forbidden City, he repeatedly asked the old man about the whereabouts of the yellow paper bag, but he never found it. Because I was still young, I was afraid that my memory was wrong.

So in his autobiography "The First Half of Life", I deleted the relevant records after careful consideration.

In his later years, Pu Jie wrote a letter in response to this time, so the credibility of this matter is already very high.