A blue and white porcelain vase was smashed to the ground and shattered into pieces.
Puyi completely lost his usual elegant demeanor. There were veins on his forehead, and his red neck looked slender and long. He pointed at the eunuchs in the house, and the guards and maids cursed: "They are just wine and rice bags. What do you do to feed you? Shu Shu."
The concubine has been missing for more than half a month, and she can't even be found! Get out of here, get out of here!"
"Your Majesty, calm down," Wanrong advised softly, "Why don't you contact the Erdet family and ask them to help look for it too."
"Shut up!" Puyi sternly scolded, "You must not let Wenxiu's mother-in-law know, this is a scandal! It will bring shame to all my ancestors of the Qing Dynasty! The culprit is you Wanrong, you don't bully Wenxiu normally.
Xiu, can she run away from home? Ah! Just tell me!"
Wanrong was scolded for no reason, and naturally she felt uncomfortable. However, she had a gentle temper and did not want to argue with Puyi in person, so she planned to quietly retreat with a dark face.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good!"
A eunuch ran in crawling on the ground, waving a newspaper in his hand, and said in horror: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, Concubine Shu has published a newspaper to... want..."
"What do you want, what happened to Concubine Shu?" Puyi grabbed the newspaper impatiently, and the big headline on the front page made his eyes go dark, and he suddenly fell back.
"emperor!"
The palace maids and eunuchs quickly stepped forward to support him.
"I'm so angry!" Pu Yi frantically tore the newspaper into pieces with a ferocious expression on his face like a wild beast.
Wanrong didn't know what happened, so she supported Puyi and asked worriedly: "What's wrong?"
"You're still asking me? Hahahahaha!"
Puyi smiled with tears in his eyes, and suddenly grabbed Wanrong's neck and shouted: "It's you! It's you who forced Wenxiu away! You all don't make it easy for me! Duan Hongye came to defraud me of my money, Kang Youwei came to beat my Qiufeng, Zhou Hexuan
You also look down on me, even you want to force me to death..."
Well, this emperor was a clear-minded person at heart and was not a fool. He had known that Duan Hongye and Kang Youwei were here for money and profit, but Zhou Hexuan looked down on him at all.
"Your Majesty, please let go! You will strangle people to death."
The eunuch and the maid were so frightened that they dragged the emperor away with all their strength.
"Cough...cough..." Wanrong covered her neck and kept coughing, feeling uncomfortable in her heart, "Crazy, everyone is crazy, everyone in this room is crazy!"
"Get out, get out of here!"
Puyi had lost his mind and smashed things in the room crazily. The eunuchs and maids were too frightened to say a word.
Sisters Cui Huifu and Cui Huimei, who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty, also heard the noise and ran downstairs. They were about to go over to comfort them, but Puyi smashed them back with a vase. Cui Huifu's shoulders were bruised.
After Puyi vented his anger for a while, he locked himself in the study and no one was allowed in.
Cui Huifu stood outside the door and tried to persuade her, but she got no response at all. She was so anxious that she wiped her tears.
Wanrong asked the eunuch who came back with the newspaper: "What happened?"
The eunuch said with a sad face: "Concubine Shu has published in the newspaper that she wants to sue for divorce!"
"What? You read that right!" Wanrong was shocked. Although she had been unhappy recently, she had never thought of divorce. This kind of thing would completely destroy her outlook on life.
The eunuch said: "How can you be wrong about this kind of thing? The front page news of "Ta Kung Pao" is probably known to the whole Tianjin by now!"
"Go and buy another newspaper...I'll go by myself!" Wanrong couldn't wait any longer and rushed outside.
Sisters Cui Huifu and Cui Huimei also heard the noise and hurriedly followed them out. The three women were all dizzy. They never dreamed that such a thing would happen.
I didn’t even have to run far out, and soon I saw a large number of people surrounding the newsboy. The newsboy was collecting money while shouting: "Read the newspaper, read the newspaper, exclusive news from "Ta Kung Pao". Concubine Shu Wenxiu filed for divorce in the newspaper, Concubine Dao
Revolution!”
"Give me one quickly!"
"Don't grab it, you're grabbing the newspaper!"
"Quickly read what's going on?"
"Do you really want a divorce? Can the emperor and his concubine divorce?"
"..."
Cui Huifu ran at the front, took out a silver dollar, grabbed passers-by and said, "Sell me your newspaper quickly."
"I bought it with great difficulty." A passerby guarded the newspaper and didn't let go.
"I'll give you all the money, a piece of ocean!" Cui Huifu said anxiously.
"Is it really a piece of ocean?" The passerby's eyes lit up, he grabbed the silver dollar and handed the newspaper to Cui Huifu and said, "You did it voluntarily, I didn't trick anyone."
Cui Huifu couldn't care less about this and quickly spread the newspaper. Wanrong and Cui Huimei also hurriedly gathered around to take a look.
I saw Wenxiu's divorce complaint published in full in the newspaper. The reasons were very good, such as being ignored for many years, being treated unfairly, having her personal freedom restricted by Puyi, etc. She still saved face for Puyi and did not say anything.
I didn’t say anything about being married for several years and still being a virgin.
In addition to the divorce complaint, there is also an editorial from Ta Kung Pao at the back.
The editorial was written by "Xinfeng" (another pen name of Zhou Hexuan). He called this incident the "Sword Concubine Revolution" and raised it to the level of pursuing equality between men and women, governing the country according to law, and freedom of marriage. He believed that Wenxiu's move was a sign of social change.
The performance of progress is a favorable attack on the feudal ethics system and a milestone in the construction of the country's legal system and the road to democracy and freedom. Wenxiu is truly a strange woman in the Republic of China!
How can I get a divorce?
How can I still divorce the emperor?
Cui Huifu's hands holding the newspaper were shaking, and she felt that the image of the Qing Dynasty in her heart collapsed.
Wanrong was not much better, her eyes were full of confusion, she didn't even know how she got back to Zhang Yuan.
All the old and young people in Tianjin went crazy and ran to Zhangyuan in panic to see the emperor. Unfortunately, Puyi was not in the mood to meet guests. They couldn't even get in, so they could only kneel outside the wall and cry.
After howling for a while, the old and young people ran to Wenxiu's mother's house again, cursing and smashing things, even tearing down the door and throwing it on the roadside.
Since Ta Kung Pao has just resumed publication, it is only distributed in Peking and Tianjin.
Hu Zhengzhi was quite conservative and only printed 6,000 copies, 3,000 copies each in Peiping and Tianjin. He still thought that the number of copies was too much, and he was afraid that the newspaper would not be sold out.
But the reality shocked Hu Zhengzhi. The divorce incident between the emperor and the imperial concubine was so shocking that even those who did not read newspapers had to buy one. The 6,000 copies of the newspaper were sold out in two hours, and the circulation department made frantic calls to request
Print.
In Pingjin and Tianjin alone, "Ta Kung Pao" sold more than 18,000 copies, almost catching up with the sales of "New Tianjin Evening News". Other newspapers also reprinted them one after another. Correspondents of those newspapers headquartered in the south all rushed to
Go to the telegraph office and wait in a long queue to send back news content.
For a time, public opinions abounded, and the whole country was shocked.
Even foreign reporters are sending transoceanic telegrams overseas. How can we miss this rare-in-a-millennium news?
"Ta Kung Pao" also became famous. The eight-character policy of "no party, no selfishness, no selling, and no blindness" has not received attention for the time being, because everyone is focusing on the Dao Fei Revolution.