Poisoning case: Talking hair.
The Guangxu Emperor, the most snug emperor in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and Cixi died on their feet around the same day.
Whether it is natural death or poisoning death, this overly coincidental death, we will start today to file a case investigation.
Through our efforts, we found the medical manuscript of the Qing Dynasty Tai Hospital, the last palm seal imperial doctor, Ren Xigeng,
It records that the Guangxu Emperor summoned more than 900 imperial doctors in just a few years since he was imprisoned.
It is not too much to describe it as weak, sickly, and plastic.
However, is it just a coincidence of history that the Guangxu Emperor, a chronically ill patient, suddenly died without warning a few hours before Empress Dowager Cixi's death without warning?
Until an evidence was discovered, Guangxu's death was officially filed, and poisoned and murdered.
File a case for investigation
Case code name: Guangxu Emperor poisoning case
Investigation and evidence collection: Guangxu hair braids, funeral clothes
Location of evidence collection: Guangxu Chongling Tomb in the Qing Dynasty
Evidence background: Guangxu Chongling was stolen in 1938, and Guangxu's bones and burial clothes were found during excavations in 1980.
Mr. Geng Zuoche was the director of the Qingxi Tombs Administration Office, and when the Guangxu Chongling Tombs were cleaned up, various unusual signs made him full of doubts about the cause of Guangxu's death.
The clothes worn by the Guangxu Emperor when he was buried
This is the clothes worn by the Guangxu Emperor when he was buried, and now it has rotted into a pile of fragments.
At that time, they found that with the stomach as the center, the more they went out, the less clothes rotted, why was this?
So they chose the only exhibit that still had Guangxu DNA, and the hair was tested.
The strongest evidence, arguably the first, is the amount of arsenic in his hair.
The hair of the deceased has always been the best evidence to identify whether there is chronic poisoning before death,
Because the hair is one centimeter long a month, the ancients did not cut the hair, if it is chronic poisoning, the toxin will definitely remain in the hair.
For example, the French general Napoleon, many years after his death, was based on the arsenic detected in his hair, to determine that the cause of death was chronic arsenic poisoning,
Arsenic was indeed detected in Guangxu's hair braids, could it be that the ancient emperors also suffered from food safety problems, resulting in chronic poisoning and death?
However, one detail in the test makes this matter less simple.
The Guangxu Emperor was one meter tall and sixy-four, and his braids were 74 centimeters long.
Then in the middle of the Guangxu Emperor's braid, it was found that its arsenic content was extremely high, reaching 2404 times the normal human arsenic content.
2404 times, do you know what this concept is?
At that time, the arsenic content in Napoleon's hair was only 50 times that of normal people, and he was directly poisoned and died.
And why is the arsenic content in Guangxu's hair braid as high as 2404 times? And why is it only in the middle of the braid?
In a scientific attitude, the experts also measured the environment around the Coffin of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, and the arsenic content was very low, indicating that it was not caused by external pollution.
So why?
Later, experts measured his funeral garment, which had a very high arsenic content.
Moreover, the residue of the abdominal area of the stomach and its braids were contaminated with a piece of residue, and the arsenic content reached 3060 times the normal value.
What does this mean?
It shows that the toxin in the middle of the Guangxu Emperor's hair is not contained in the hair, but is contaminated by the stomach and abdomen.
To know that the Guangxu Emperor is only 164 centimeters tall,
According to the normal body proportions, from the top of the head to the stomach is about 2/5 of the height, that is, about 65 cm,
The 74 cm braid hangs down from the back of the head, just in the middle of the braid coinciding with the stomach.
Therefore, the arsenic content of his stomach area is the highest, reaching more than 3,000 times, and the most direct evidence is obtained from his funeral clothes.
Then he is indeed acute gastrointestinal arsenic poisoning.
There is only one truth, the cause of death of the Guangxu Emperor is acute arsenic poisoning.
Before the toxin could spread throughout the body, the Guangxu Emperor died, and in the coffin arsenic made the stomach rot,
The toxin spreads downwards, so only the middle of the hair that coincides with the stomach is contaminated with a large amount of toxin.
The truth of the Guangxu Emperor's death came out,
Who had poisoned him, had Cixi done it, or was it someone else?
The murderer is still a mystery!
Based on your knowledge of history,
Who is the murderer?
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