 Puyi, the head of the house of Aisin-Gioro who had abdicated from the throne of China by then, was set up as a puppet by the Japanese empire in Manchuria during the second world war.Puyi attempted contacting Yinian and invited him to succeed his uncle's peerage.Yinian was enraged by Puyi's offer since he deeply despised Puyi for the latter's cooperation with the Japanese.