In the TV series "Toward the Republic", the Guangxu Emperor, imprisoned in Yingtai, Zhongnanhai, was bored and used to play with clocks to pass the time, when the Guangxu Emperor was in full bloom in the spring and autumn and was in his twenties, while Empress Dowager Cixi was in her sixties, which implied that the possibility of the young Guangxu Emperor restoring power after the death of Empress Dowager Cixi was extremely likely. One day in the winter of 1908, the Guangxu Emperor died in Yingtai with sorrow and indignation, and no one around him was present, and Cixi died the next day. The date of their deaths was so similar that historians of all generations speculated whether Cixi would solve her nephew a day in advance, so that the new party would never look up.
The Guangxu Emperor had poor health since childhood, just as Jia Baoyu and Qin Keqing went to Yunyu to drain sperm in their sleep, and the Guangxu Emperor discharged sperm in his long sleep. The Guangxu Emperor wrote in the "pathogen" of his own letter: Sperm has been left behind for nearly twenty years, more than a dozen times a month in previous years, two or three times a month in recent years, often without dreams and without mentioning self-leakage, winter is more serious. The waist, legs, shoulders and back often feel sore, and when the wind blows, I feel headaches and dizziness. It can be seen that the Guangxu Emperor was frail and sickly, but it could not explain the death of the Guangxu Emperor in his prime.
Qu Guiting, who was once a court physician, wrote in a magazine: Three days before the death of the Guangxu Emperor, he entered the palace to diagnose and treat the Guangxu Emperor, and found that the Guangxu Emperor, whose condition had improved, suddenly deteriorated, rolled on the bed, and cried out for stomach pain.
In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, that is, in 1908 AD, the last year of the Guangxu Emperor, in the "pulse case" of the guangxu emperor on the ninth day of march, the imperial doctor Cao Yuanheng wrote these words: The emperor "liver and kidney yin deficiency, spleen and yang deficiency, qi and blood loss", terminally ill, there is no medicine to save. Two months later, in the "pulse case" of the first ten days of May, the imperial doctor Chen Bingjun wrote down the words "conditioning for a long time, all without any effect". The "Pulse Case" in September of the same year pointed out that at this time, Guangxu's pathology was more complex and changeable, and the function of the internal organs had been completely out of balance. It shows that the Guangxu Emperor eventually died of aggravation of his illness, and his death was a natural process of change of the disease, and the improvement of his condition before his death was a return to the light.
However, the credibility of the above cases has been deeply doubted by historians, but in the 1980s, the excavation of Guangxu Underground Palace and the examination of Guangxu's body did not find evidence of Guangxu's murder.
In the 21st century, researchers have made full use of relevant modern professional and technical means such as "liquid chromatography/AAS" to detect and study the Guangxu hair, clothes and bones preserved in Xiling by carrying out comprehensive analysis, simulation experiments, two-way reasoning, multi-dimensional demonstration and other work. It was found that the Guangxu Emperor had more than 200 times more arsenic in his body than other people of the same generation. The most famous arsenic-rich compound in nature is Pan Jinlian poisoning Wu Dalang's arsenic cream (arsenic trioxide), and researchers further investigated and found that the arsenic-containing compound in the Body of the Guangxu Emperor was arsenic, and the cause of the Guangxu Emperor's death was finally revealed to the world.
However, the further question is whether empress dowager Cixi poisoned the Guangxu Emperor, or Yuan Shikai, who betrayed Guangxu, poisoned the Guangxu Emperor, or Li Lianying poisoned the Guangxu Emperor, which needs to be further studied by synthesizing relevant historical materials.
Author: Yun Shen