Li Mao's father, Gaozong, got married at the age of 15, and his princess is Min Fei, who is one year older than him. However, Emperor Gaozong stayed away from Min Fei, but he fell in love with another woman, Li Shun 'e, who gave birth for the first time in the seventh year of Tongzhi (1868). The royal family is known as the tradition of mother and son, and Min Fei is deeply disturbed. Later, Emperor Gaozong favored Min Fei, who was pregnant three times, miscarried once and died twice. Therefore, the Regent's biological father Xing Xuan da Yuan Jun (Li Jue's grandfather) has doubts about Min Fei's fertility, while Li Yong's son is Wang Shizi. This gradually intensified the contradiction between Min Fei and Da Yuan Jun. When Li Mao was still in Min Fei's womb, Min Fei, together with the anti-imperial forces of Gao and Gao's own family, staged a palace coup in November of the 12th year of Tongzhi (1873) and deposed her father-in-law's court. Because of the cowardice of Emperor Gaozong, it was controlled by the Civil Aviation Group, so Emperor Gaozong was nominally in power, but in fact the era when the Civil Aviation Group held real power began.
Li Di was born shortly after the fall of Dayuanjun. In order to consolidate her position, Min Fei demanded that Li Di, a newborn, be made a prince at once. At this time, big princess Zhao, the king of the courtyard, was defeated with Min Fei, who was dissatisfied with Min Fei's dominance and stood up against it. Like the former King of Big Courtyard, he advocated that Li Xuan, the eldest son of Gao Zongshu, should be the prince. The consorts in North Korea are also constantly cultivating their own power. Emperor Gaozong has completely turned to their side, and the consorts abroad have tried their best. It turns out that Han Wang acceded to the throne, registered princesses, established princes and grandsons, and so on. All activities must be approved by the suzerain China. As an elder in the palace, the Queen of Shenzhen advocated the establishment of Shili as a prince, and her opinion was naturally approved by China. Therefore, when Min Fei proposed to the Qing government in China that Li Yong should be the heir, the Qing court was very reluctant and advocated the order of the young and the old. Min Fei gave Min Kuihao as a gift to Judge Cao, who was in charge of diplomacy with China. She also sent people to China to curry favor with Li Hongzhang and other important officials of the Qing court, and even contacted the Donglai Japan Pavilion to bribe the Japanese ambassador to China through the Japan Pavilion to mediate and make the Qing court change its mind. It took more than a year, wasted millions, and finally achieved its goal. On the first day of the first month of Guangxu (1875), Emperor Gaozong decided to canonize Li Di, who was under one year old, as Wang Shizi, and Li Di became the youngest son of the Korean dynasty in 500 years. On the seventh day of the first month, Li Yuyuan was sent to China to be crowned Prince. On February 19, the ceremony of conferring the crown prince was held in Ren Zheng Hall of Changde Palace. In August, Li Yuyuan set off for China. Now that we had said hello, the Qing court quickly agreed. In the first month of the second year of Guangxu (1876), the Qing government appointed former Shengjing assistant minister Jihe and cabinet bachelor Pu Xichong as deputy envoys in North Korea, and officially conferred Li Gou as Wang Shizi. As a baby, Li Di was established as the Crown Prince, and Min Fei's dominance in North Korea was completely consolidated.
Li Qiu, Li Ming's "competitor", moved out of the court after being made a prince. In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), thirteen-year-old Li Qian died. It is widely rumored that Min Fei was hurt. When Li Mao was born, North Korea had entered an eventful autumn. In August of the first year of Guangxu (1875), the "Yunyang incident" in which the Japanese warship "Yunyang" attacked Jianghua Island in North Korea occurred, which shocked the whole country. By the first month of the following year, when the Qing Dynasty made Li Gui a prince, the Japanese had sent seven warships from Kuroda Kiyotaka, Noue Kaoru and other places to Jianghua Island, forcing North Korea to sign a treaty on the grounds of investigating the responsibility of Yunyang incident. The imperial envoys of the Qing Dynasty warned Li Gou's father, Gaozong Li Xi: "How unpredictable the Japanese situation is, and the martial law of coastal defense cannot be ignored!" Subsequently, North Korea was forced to sign the Jianghua Treaty with Japan, which was the first unequal treaty in Korean history. Since then, the door of North Korea has been blasted by Japan, paving the way for later becoming a Japanese colony. This seems to be a bad omen for the newly born Li Di.
After Li Di was born, he was deeply loved by Emperor Gaozong and Princess Min. Shortly after Li Jue was born, Emperor Gaozong specially ordered the imperial examination to be held in the name of "Enlarging the Celebration Section" to celebrate. But after Li Di was born, he was in poor health and often fell ill. Gao Zong and Min Fei are very worried about this. In addition to asking the imperial doctor for treatment, Min Fei also offered sacrifices to the 12,000 peaks of Mount Kumgang. Each peak was given a stone of rice, a horse of cloth and 1,200 yuan, hoping that the prince would be safe. The emperor and princess Min also recruited a large number of monks, Taoist priests and witches to pray for the prince, which made the court malodorous. Four years after Li Di was born, Min Fei gave birth to two sons, but both died. As the only son of Min Fei, Li Di regarded him as a treasure.
In the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), in the first month, Li Mao, Wang Shizi, entered the school and was given a crown gift. Min Fei ordered her relative Min Gaotai to be a doctor and served as the chief teacher of Wang Shizi. Then, Wang Shizi began to choose the type. Min Fei also identified Min Taihe's daughter as the wife of the Prince, and made a formal decision on 1 26. On February 2 1 day, nine-year-old Li Di and Min Jia made gifts at the new palace in Anguodung (Min Jia is the queen of pure filial piety). The reason why Princess Min arranged the Min family and the Prince into such a close relationship is precisely to consolidate and continue Min's power. In June of the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), a mutiny against Minfei Group broke out in North Korea. Min Fei hurriedly transferred her son Li Di to Jingyou Palace, disguised as a maid-in-waiting and fled. Xing Xuan, who took advantage of the mutiny to regain power, announced that Princess Min was dead, and the prince was "extremely worried" after hearing the bad news. Later, the mutiny was put down by the Qing army, Dayuanjun was arrested in China, and Min Fei, who was hiding in other places, returned to the court. When Princess Min returned to the palace, the Prince greeted her at the palace gate. After the accident, the relationship between Min Fei and the prince deepened.
In the 17th year of Guangxu (189 1), Yuan Shikai, the envoy of the Qing court to North Korea, thought that Gaozong was incompetent and hopeless, and advised Gaozong to abdicate to his son Li Mao, assisted by Dayuanjun, hoping to revitalize North Korea. Hearing this, the emperor was very scared. He quickly ordered the Prince to ascend to the throne in the south, accepted the greetings of officials, and told Chu Jun to act as the agent of the state affairs according to the stories of Su Zong, Ying Zu and Chun Zu. Later, I stopped after Li Rongyuan's urging, but Li Rongyuan was also assigned. There is also a saying that the agent made trouble because Yi, the ordinary brother of the prince, and Li Kun, the gentleman in the courtyard, were far superior to the prince, and the Min family felt threatened and tried to strengthen their power through the agent of the prince.
After the Sino-Japanese War, Korea became independent from the Qing Dynasty. 1February 17 (1895,65438+1October, 10), Wang Shizi Li Mao was appointed as the crown prince, and the title of Emperor Gaozong was also promoted from king to grand monarch, and Minfei from princess to queen. At this time, Li Mao was 2 1 year old. Nine months after Li Mao was awarded the crown prince, Japanese ronin invaded Gyeongbokgung Palace, and the "B-Wei incident" occurred. Li Mao is in the Chang 'an Hall where his father Emperor Li Xi lived, while his mother Min Fei is cleaning the Kunning Pavilion in the Qing Palace. Min Fei is the target of Japanese assassination. Li Mao witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army. He was abused by the Japanese army in the rebellion, and what is even more terrible is that his mother was killed by the Japanese army in the harem. Later, Li Mao heard some facts that she witnessed with her own eyes from a maid-in-waiting, so she sent the materials revealing the truth to the American legation: "... the frightened princess said," I'm here to visit. " The ladies-in-waiting also said so in unison. But the murderers threw them into the yard, kicked the princess in the chest three times and cut them with a knife. At the same time, three maids were killed together. It is said that these three ladies-in-waiting look like princesses. The murderer killed them all so as not to miss the target. "In addition, Qin Li witnessed the participation of North Korean Yu Fanshan in the assassination of Min Fei. It is said that Gao Yonggen, who assassinated Yu Fanshan in Japan eight years later, was appointed by him.
Two days after the incident (August 22nd), Emperor Gaozong was forced by the Japanese to depose Princess Min as Shu Ren. When the prince heard about it, he was so indignant that he could ask to resign as a prince on the day after the abolition. The next day, Emperor Gaozong wrote a letter saying, "Considering our prince's filial piety and sense of responsibility, I abolished Shu Ren Min's family and gave him a special title." Also be for MinFei slightly saved some reputation. After several months in a row, it was difficult for Li Mao to wake up from this tragic change. His eyes always repeat the bloody picture, so that he often cries like a child for no reason and keeps calling his mother. At this time, all the maids around me were in tears. Since then, his temperament has changed greatly, from lively and cheerful to taciturn.
In the first year of Jianyang (1896), 1 1 February, Li Di escaped from the Japanese-controlled palace with his father Gaozong in a woman's sedan chair and took refuge in the Russian Embassy in North Korea, which is known as "the move of the Russian Embassy". Emperor Gaozong ordered the arrest of pro-Japanese minister Jin Hongji and others. At this time, the pro-Japanese cabinet collapsed, and the pro-Russian faction headed by Li and Li seized power. Under the pressure of Russians and pro-Russians, Emperor Gaozong and Prince Li Mao were forced to live in the Russian legation for one year, during which a large number of national sovereignty were sold by pro-Russians. In the second year of Jianyang (1897), on February 20th, Emperor Gaozong finally moved out of the Russian legation and took Prince Li Mao to Qingyun Palace (now Deshou Palace). In August, the year number was changed to Guangwu first year, Guangwu first year (1897), 10, 12. Li Xi claimed to be the emperor and changed his country to "Korean Empire". Li Mao was made Crown Prince.
In order to cultivate this weak son, Gao Zong opened the Grand Marshal's Mansion on June 29th, the second year of Guangwu (1898). The Emperor himself served as the Grand Marshal, governing Lu Haijun, and the Crown Prince Li Jue was the Marshal of Lu Haijun. At this time, although Li Mao was quiet and rarely involved in government affairs, his position and identity determined that he could not get rid of political intrigue and harm. In the second year of Guangwu (1898) and September of 13, the so-called "tea poisoning incident" occurred. Pro-Russian official Jin Luhong instructed the chefs Kong Hongzhi and Jin Zhonghao to poison the coffee for Emperor Gaozong and the prince. Emperor Gaozong thought coffee tasted strange and didn't drink it. The prince took the cup and drank a little, but he fainted to the ground. Emperor Gaozong was afraid and ordered the doctor to save him. Later, Jin and others were arrested and sentenced to death. However, Li Yong broke two front teeth when he fell to the ground, and the poison permanently damaged his brain, nerves and body, making his body even weaker.
Since then, the Prince was responsible for receiving German The Prince Henry and organizing the 50th birthday of Emperor Gaozong, which was an activity that Emperor Gaozong had high hopes for him and ordered him to carry out to exercise the Prince. At that time, Yan Chunfei was an expert. In the fifth year of Guangwu (190 1 year), she instructed her ministers to retreat to the imperial palace and asked Princess Yan to be the queen, which set off a post-construction storm. Although Emperor Gaozong loved Yan Fei very much, considering that it would hurt the prince's heart to let Yan Fei be the queen, he finally didn't agree. In the eighth year of Guangwu (1904),165438+1October 5th, the crown princess Min passed away. Two years later, he married Yin Zerong's daughter, who was the only pure and filial queen in the history of the Korean Peninsula.
At this time, the Russo-Japanese War broke out and Japan once again controlled South Korea. After Japan defeated Russia for nine years (1905), 165438+ 10, 17, Japan forced the Korean imperial government to sign the Japan-South Korea Protection Agreement (Japan Treaty), deprived South Korea of its diplomatic rights, and made South Korea a de facto colony of Japan. Emperor Gaozong sent envoys Li Xiangchan, Li Wei and Li Weizhong to The Hague, the Netherlands, to attend the Second World Peace Conference. Unexpectedly, after his personal letter and power of attorney were discovered by Japan, Japanese supervisor in Korea Ito Bowen instructed traitors such as Li Wanyong (pro-Russia at this time, then pro-Japan) and Song Bingmo to forcibly enter the palace on the grounds that they violated the Ye Si Treaty. In the 11th year of Guangwu (1907), 19 July, Emperor Gaozong announced that "the crown prince would act as the agent of the military", but the Japanese army still refused to give up and brought six cannons to Qingyun Palace, forcing Emperor Gaozong to abdicate. On July 20th, under the control of Japanese and pro-Japanese, the proxy hearing ceremony was changed to abdication ceremony, and it was held in the form of "power stop", that is, the emperor and the prince did not attend, and the eunuch acted as body double, thus ending the ceremony in a hurry. On August 2nd, Li Wanyong was awarded the titles of "Dragon Jubilee" and "Taishi", and Li Di decided to use "Dragon Jubilee" as the number of the New Year. At such a critical moment of national subjugation, Li Yong, who had been Chu Jun for thirty years, inherited the throne of the Korean Empire. On the 4th day after Li Mao's meditation, Japan forced the South Korean government to sign a new Japan-South Korea agreement, known in history as the Ding Weiqi Clause Treaty (the third Japan-South Korea agreement). According to this agreement, South Korea's judicial power was deprived, and the army was dissolved in the form of a simple imperial decree on August 1. This treaty triggered the climax of the anti-Japanese volunteer movement, but the Korean empire was helpless and it was only a matter of time before it was annexed by Japan. Emperor Gaozong originally asked Chunzong to take over the government affairs in the name of "agent", but it was never transferred to Chunzong. It was only under the control of the Japanese and pro-Japanese factions that he "abdicated", so Chunzong's throne can be said to be illegal. On the other hand, the important imperial edicts and decrees issued during the Chunzong period were not his own signature, but forged by the General Supervision Office of Japan and North Korea. The person who forged Chunzong's signature is Kyoko Maehara, which is a fact that Professor Lee Tae Town of Seoul National University has studied in detail. Therefore, it is illegal for Chunzong to be emperor for three years. He is a puppet who is completely at the mercy of others and has no real power.
In the first year of Longxi (1907), 16 August, Chunzong wrote: "I will improve my administration and reform my life, starting with my bow. The Japanese army who acceded to the throne was ruined, and the subjects knew it and obeyed my wishes. " On August 27th, Junzong, dressed in Western-style uniforms, held an enthronement ceremony in Xide Hall, a Western-style palace in Qingyun Palace, and officially became the emperor. This western-style ceremony of entering the DPRK is also unprecedented in the history of the Korean Peninsula. The former Crown Princess Min (the daughter of Min Taihe) was honored as the queen of pure filial piety, and Crown Princess Yin was named the queen. At this time, Junzong was 34 years old, but he never had children. Judging from the ranking of young and old, Li Yong, the righteous prince, should inherit the throne, but Yan Guifei, the emperor of Gaozong, took the opportunity to marry the Japanese and asked her son, Prince Li Yin of England, to be the pure heir. So Li Yin was made the Crown Prince of Chunzong on September 7th in the first year of Longxi (1907). In the same year 165438+ 10/3, Junzong, Empress and Prince moved to Changde Palace under the pressure of Japan, while Qingyun Palace (Deshou Palace) was left to Gaozong to live alone. The reason why Japan is like this is to split the relationship between the Korean royal family. This is not the only measure to disintegrate the North Korean royal family.
In the first year of Longxi (1907), 10 and 16, Japanese Crown Prince Jiaren (later Emperor Taishi) visited South Korea, and South Korean Crown Prince Li Yin personally greeted him at the Nixian Royal Brigade. Junzong gave a warm welcome. This is actually a harbinger that the Korean royal family was absorbed into the Japanese royal family. After Jiaren left, Hirofumi Ito, the governor of South Korea in Japan, has been treating Chunzong and Gaozong both hard and soft, forcing them to send their younger 10-year-old Crown Prince Li Yin to Japan to study, and said that since the Japanese prince has come, the Korean prince should also go to Japan. 1 19 10 19, Prince Li Yin of Junpai went to Japan to study, and Ito Bowen was named as the Prince's Taishi and Prime Minister Li Wanyong as Prince Shao Shi. Since then, Ito Bowen's name in South Korea has been changed to "Taishi Ito". When Li Yin was sent away, Emperor Gaozong could only say goodbye with tears, and Chunzong was naturally helpless. At this point, the Korean royal family was torn by Japan and had no resistance.
In the second year of Longxi (1908), the militia movement flourished. In February this year, militias from all over the country once surrounded Seoul, but were defeated by Japan. Since then, Japan has mobilized a large number of troops to suppress the militia movement. This year, the struggle of volunteers from all over the country was tied by the Japanese army, making it difficult to form a climate. Under this circumstance, Ito Bowen suggested that Emperor Junzong make a southern tour to appease the people's hearts, and Ito's real purpose was to "let the people of North and South Korea know that there is no other way but to trust me". In the third year of Longxi (1909) 65438+10.7, Junzong set off from the south gate of Seoul by car and traveled to Daegu, Busan and Mashanpu in the south accompanied by a large number of Korean ministers, Ito Bowen and other Japanese. When I arrived in Busan, it was once rumored that the Japanese wanted to kidnap Chunzong to Japan, so tens of thousands of Busan citizens gathered around the port to protect the car. The rumor was quickly dissolved after it was broken. When Chunzong arrived in Busan Port, fishermen drove five or six boats together to form a circle, shouting, "If your majesty crosses eastward, I will die in the water together. I can't bear to see my king captured!" The accompanying officials on the shore quickly dismissed rumors, making their lips dry and their tongues dry, and the fishermen left. It is said that Ito Bowen was on his high horse when he accompanied Junzong to visit Busan. He got off the bus and raised his sword and asked everyone, "I'm Ito Bowen, do you want to kill anyone?" The crowd didn't dare to answer, and one person replied loudly: "No!" " Ito is therefore even more proud. On the way, he also wrote a poem: "Rizhao Hsi Chin is full of new colors, and the vegetation in the south begins to spring. Mourn the national subjugation, corrupt the ethical code, and forbid to confuse people and despise the emperor. " The accompanying ministers are harmonious. Ito went to Mashanpu again and gave a speech on Japan-Korea friendship. The crowd was angry. Ito regretted it and left without saying that. Six days after the southern tour, Junzong and his party returned to Seoul by bus.
Just after the southern tour, Chunzong began to travel westward again. In the third year of Longxi (1909), 65438+1October 27th, Chunzong and his party visited Ping 'an Road by bus, accompanied by Ito Bowen. The scale of this westward tour is larger than that of the southward tour. Chunzong and his party passed through Kaesong and Pyongyang and went all the way to Yizhou on the border between China and South Korea. Return to Seoul on February 3rd. During this trip, there were rumors of the assassination of Ito Bowen from time to time, and even an explosion occurred in Kaesong. This month, the unified supervision office of South Korea forced Confucian scholars in Sungkyunkwan to shave their heads.
In the third year of Longxi (1909), 14 June, Ito Bowen returned to China and was re-elected as the Speaker of the Privy Council. You helped succeed the governor of South Korea, and you still kept a close eye on the royal family headed by Chunzong. At this time, the Korean government has been completely overhead by Japan, and there are 2480 Japanese who hold important positions in Korean governments at all levels. 10 year1October 26th, Ito Bowen was killed by South Korean youth An Zhonggen at Harbin Railway Station in China. Taking An Zhonggen's killing of Ito Bowen as an opportunity, Japan's ruling and opposition parties strongly advocated the immediate annexation of South Korea, and the pro-Japanese organization "One China Association" in South Korea also set off a "petition movement to unite with the United States", and the Korean dynasty that lasted for more than 500 years finally came to an end.
In the fourth year of Longxi (19 10), the Japanese government formally decided to annex South Korea and appointed Terauchi Masatake as the new inspector general to take charge of this matter. On July 23rd, Terauchi Masatake came to Seoul. On August 16, Terauchi Masatake asked South Korean Prime Minister Li Wanyong to merge Japan and South Korea. Li Wanyong didn't refuse, but only proposed that after the merger, he would not change the surname of Nan, and change Chunzong and Gaozong to aristocrats. On the evening of August, 2 1 year, Li Wanyong and Yin Derong, the uncle of Chunzong Yin, visited Chunzong and asked him to agree to merge. All this was expected by Chunzong, but Chunzong sighed and refused his request. The queen on the side also cried. Yin Derong begged the queen to stop crying and threatened: "If it is, there will be a disaster of red people!" Chunzong had to agree to Li Wanyong's request. After Li Wanyong left, Chunzong and his wife hid their faces and cried again.
In the 4th year of Longxi (19 10), on August 22nd 13, Emperor Chunzong held the last command meeting of the Korean Empire in Xingfuxuan, Changdeok Palace. At the meeting, ministers unanimously agreed to the merger of Japan and South Korea, but Junzong had to allow it, and granted Li Wanyong a power of attorney to sign the Japan-South Korea merger treaty on behalf of South Korea. On the same day, 16, Li Wanyong signed the Japan-South Korea merger treaty with Terauchi Masatake in the General Supervision Office. The Korean peninsula has since become a Japanese colony.
19 10 On August 29th, Emperor Chunzong abdicated. It is said that there was an episode when the abdication edict was issued. After hearing Li Wanyong and Yin Derong discussing the abdication with Chunzong behind the screen, Chunzong's queen Yin came out to stop and hide the decree. Later, the jade seal was forcibly taken away by her uncle Yin Derong. However, although the letter of appointment was stamped with the "treasure of life", it was not signed by Chunzong. On this day, Japan announced the Japan-South Korea merger treaty, and posted the imperial edict of Emperor Junzong, the imperial edict of Emperor Meiji and a series of decrees issued by Terauchi Masatake in the streets of Seoul. Chunzong wrote a letter saying: "I will inherit a difficult and great career with virtue." As for today, I am anxious to prepare the reform decree, and it is not bad to make efforts. Born poor and exhausted. When there is no hope, the measures to save during the day, the worries in the middle of the night and the countermeasures to deal with the aftermath are all at a loss. If we let this go, it will be very beneficial. If we can't clean it up in the end, we won't be entrusted with a heavy responsibility. It is better to play a complete method and innovate the effect. That's why I'm so introspective and self-destructive. I hereby cede the sovereignty of South Korea to a neighboring country, His Majesty the Great Emperor of Japan, whom my former cronies trusted, in order to consolidate peace in the East and preserve people's livelihood in eight borders. Only subjects, large and small, deeply observe the national conditions and the current situation, leave them alone, go their separate ways, and obey the civilized government of the Japanese Empire. What I did today is not to forget that I have many people, but to save my life. My theme, etc. , has expressed this intention to me. August 29, the fourth year of Longxi. "
At this point, the Korean dynasty, which lasted for 5 19 years, and the Korean empire, which lasted for 14 years, were declared dead, and Li Mao, who lived purely in Korea, became the last monarch in the history of the Korean peninsula. After Li Mao abdicated, he was demoted as "King Li of Changdeok Palace" by Japanese, and was placed under house arrest in Changdeok Palace, a palace with a history of more than 400 years, and became a foreign prisoner in his own country. Li Mao's father, Emperor Gaozong Li Xi, was demoted to Li Wang of Deshou Palace, and both of them were included in the Japanese royal family. In the 43rd year of Meiji (/KOOC-0/9/KOOC-0/0)/KOOC-0/0 June/0/day, Japan formally established the Governor's Office of South Korea, and began 36 years of colonial rule. The name of South Korea was restored to "North Korea" and Seoul was renamed "Capital". After the national subjugation, Li Mao and his family, as well as Li Wanyong and other heroes who contributed to this unprecedented traitorous act, totaled 76 people, all of whom were awarded titles, bonuses and annual fees by the Japanese. Li Mao gets considerable living expenses from the Japanese every year, and continues to maintain his seemingly imperial life. However, he has no power, not even the furniture arrangement in his bedroom. According to Japanese regulations, that is the power of Li Wangzhi, the newly established Korean royal affairs management organization, and the head of Li Wangzhi was appointed by the Japanese.
At this time, although Li Jue still lived in Changde Palace, his activities were strictly restricted like a caged bird. Except for his bedroom, he built a temple, and everything else was forbidden. Japan banned him and his senior ministers from going to the outer hall where they used to go to the DPRK, because they were not needed to participate in the "discussion" about North Korea at this time.
Li Mao can rest completely. He has no country to govern, no politics to govern, hiding in the secret garden of the deep palace and silently chanting "The small building was easterly again last night." In the sixth year of Taisho (19 17), a fire in Changdeok Palace destroyed most of his "small buildings", while Japanese people with ulterior motives demolished Gyeongbokgung Palace on the grounds that it needed wood to repair Changdeok Palace, and as many as 4,000 rooms were demolished successively. It turned out that the Japanese listened to the idea of some Feng Shui masters, and in order to rule North Korea forever, they deliberately destroyed its palaces, broke its "Long Mai" and broke its "kingly way". In this regard, Li Jue is well aware of Japan's sinister intentions, but he is unable to protect the palace left by his ancestors and can only sigh.
In the sixth year of Dazheng (19 17), Li Di went to Xianxing, South Hamgyong Province, to pay tribute to the former residence of Li Chenggui, the great ancestor of North Korea, and to sweep the graves for Li Zichun and other ancestors. In June of the same year, under the planning of Yin Derong, Li Jue went to Japan to make a pilgrimage to Emperor Taishi. In October of the eighth year of Taisho (19 19), Gaozong died. Li Di remembered that his mother was murdered by the Japanese and his father was poisoned by the Japanese. He has an ulterior blood feud with the Japanese. But there is nothing he can do to avenge himself, and he can only keep it in his heart as a permanent pain. At this time, he became extremely superstitious. He began to believe that people have souls after death, and people can talk to their dead relatives. He often went to the residence of the emperor before his death and the red ridge where the emperor and princess Min were buried after their death, and recited it in the air. Later, when there was a telephone in the palace, he ordered people to set up a special telephone line to the former residence and mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong. Whenever he was unable to go because of his physical discomfort, he asked his entourage to put through the phone, pointed the receiver at the coffin of Emperor Gaozong, and then plainclothes sat quietly in the microphone. The waiters who saw this scene were all moved. He persisted in this habit for several years until he became seriously ill. Li Mao is a kind and cowardly person by nature. He suffered an incurable wound in body and mind. In March of the 15th year of Dazheng (1926), Li Di was seriously ill. At that time, his younger brother, Li Yin, had been named Chu Jun by the royal family. After hearing the news, he rushed back to Beijing from Tokyo. Seeing that Li Yong is so ill, his medical care is still poor. Li Yin once instructed the relevant departments to deploy full-time nurses to take care of him, invited good doctors widely, and used both Chinese and western medicine. However, after Li Yin left, none of these suggestions were implemented. In the fifteenth year of Dazheng (1926), at dawn on April 25th, Li Jue died at the Dazao Hall in Changde Palace at the age of 53. Li Wangzhi is the name of the temple "Chunzong", and posthumous title "Wenwen Wuning Dunren sincerely respects the emperor". After Chunzong's death, he secretly dictated the testamentary edict to his uncle Jiu (Xing Xuan's eldest son-in-law), and it was published in the Korean Xinmin Daily 1926 published in the United States on July 28th. Chunzong testamentary edict wrote:
The only thing left in a person's life is to give up and merge, and the combination of those who want to merge is something that strong neighbors and rebellious ministers do, and it is not what they do to announce themselves. Only claustrophobia and intimidation made me unable to understand that I didn't do what I said. Oh! Is it reasonable in ancient and modern times? Whether you live or die, you are the sinner of the Zongshe and the sinner of 20 million people in these seventeen years. I won't forget it for a while. I was trapped in an isolated prison and had no freedom to speak. As for today. Today, I was seriously ill. I died without being allowed to say a word, and I died unsatisfied. Therefore, I entrust Qing to use this letter to declare China and foreign countries, and let my favorite and most respected people know what they are not doing. Before the so-called search and let the country's edict be abandoned. There are many people in the world, trying to recover and giving their souls a blessing.
Chunzong's testamentary edict clearly denied his recognition of the Japan-Korea Merger Treaty, which can also confirm the fact that Chunzong's signature is not on the transfer document. This testamentary edict is not only an account of history by Chunzong, but also an expression of inner sadness under the shadow of national subjugation.
In order to buy people's hearts, the North Korean Governor's Office ordered a grand traditional state funeral for Chunzong. In the 15th year of Taisho (1926), the funeral of Chunzong Li Mao was held in June 10. The mausoleum is called "Yuling", which is located next to the Hongling Mausoleum in Jingudong, south of Yangzhou. His father Gaozong and his mother became queens here. At eight o'clock in the morning, Dayu drove out of Dunhuamen, a funeral procession composed of imperial clan, aristocratic courtiers and the people of the whole country, with hundreds of thousands of people and a journey of more than twenty miles. After the national war, Li Wang became a symbol of national independence, and citizens expressed their grief over the national war by mourning the late king. The excited crowd gradually lost control. They took out the hidden Taiji flag again and shouted the slogan "Long live independence". As early as April 28th, a young man named Song Xuexian saw the Japanese coming out of Changdeok Palace in a car. He decided that this man must be Japanese governor Saito, so he rushed up and stabbed the dagger into his chest, but a nearby person stopped him and was stabbed to death. Unfortunately, the victim was not the Japanese governor, but just a Japanese chamber of commerce leader, Torajiro Sato, a member of the agreement of the capital government, who was seriously injured; It was Takayama Takashi, a Japanese negotiator of Beijing government who stopped him from being stabbed to death. Song Xuexian was injured, arrested on the spot by the patrolman, then tortured and finally killed. But his feat inspired young people all over the country. On June 10, on the day of the general's funeral, they distributed anti-Japanese slogans and launched a strike struggle. Japanese military and police arrested people everywhere, which further aroused people's resistance and finally evolved into a nationwide "600,000-person movement".