in 1925, warlord feng yuxiang forced the emperor to leave the forbidden city. pu-yi then asked his tutor johnston to go to the british embassy and ask them to let the emperor to move to england. unfortunately, the embassy refused his request. he then called the japanese embassy and they agreed to escort him out of beijing and move him to tianjin. after the japanese took over manchuria in 1932, they made pu-yi the emperor of their new puppet state, manchukuo. despite being emperor, he practically had no power, but he was constantly manipulated, threatened, and blackmailed by the japanese government. once again, the emperor found himself to be a prisoner in his own palace. chinese media and writers accused the japanese and collaborators like puyi of being homosexuals as an insult.