Who else but Cixi?
On November 14, 1908, the Guangxu Emperor was only 37 years old, even if he was weak since childhood, but as an emperor with the best medical conditions, how could he die so suddenly.
On November 15, 1908, Cixi was already 73 years old, why did she not die early, did she not die late, and suddenly swallowed her breath the day after Guangxu died?
This was not a coincidence, but a murder that Cixi had committed before her death.
As for the cause of death of the Guangxu Emperor, although the official information of the Qing Dynasty said that he died of illness, but after his death, there has been a saying that "Guangxu was poisoned", is this really just an empty rumor?
Apparently not.
In 2008, the Qing Xiling Cultural Relics Management Office, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Forensic Examination and Appraisal Center and other departments jointly formed a research group specializing in the study of the cause of death of the Guangxu Emperor, and 100 years after Guangxu's death, used science and technology to carry out examination, identification and research analysis of the cause of Guangxu's death.
In the end, the research team came to an unexpected research conclusion - the Guangxu Emperor died of arsenic poisoning.
Therefore, the Guangxu Emperor was obviously poisoned by someone.
Another Qing Dynasty rebbe at the time, Shangshu Puliang, recalled afterwards that on the evening of November 14, 1908, he was waiting outside Cixi's bedchamber to prevent Cixi from suddenly choking, but before he could wait for the news of Cixi's breathing, he saw a eunuch hurriedly walking out of Cixi's bedchamber holding a bowl.
Pu Liang stopped the eunuch and asked, "What is this end of yours?"
The eunuch naturally knew Pu Liang, so he obediently replied: This is the collapse of the lafayette that Lafayette gave to Grandpa Banzai.
The "collapsed la" in the mouth of this eunuch is the yogurt we are familiar with, but what makes people wonder is that there is no historical data that shows that the Guangxu Emperor likes to drink yogurt, why would Cixi suddenly let people send yogurt to the Guangxu Emperor?
What is even more strange is that after Cixi asked people to send yogurt to the Guangxu Emperor, it was not long before the news of Guangxu's death came, can this still be said to be a coincidence?
In addition, Qu Guiting once entered the palace to treat the Guangxu Emperor, and he also recalled various "abnormalities" he saw in the palace at that time:
On October 18, Yu Fu entered the Three Seas to see the Guangxu Emperor's illness in Yingtai. On that day, when the emperor suddenly suffered from pain, rolled around on the bed, and shouted to me, "Stomach pain is incredible", the Chinese medicine was gone, and there were only one or two internal attendants left and right, and Empress Gai was also seriously ill, the court was ownerless, chaotic, and the emperor's residence was even more lonely and unattended.
Guangxu suddenly fell ill and suddenly cried out in pain, but at this time, not only was there no imperial doctor on the side, but even the people who served Guangxu were left with only one or two people.
Even if Cixi was sick at this time, but the imperial doctor could not have only one or two people, was the Qing government already so poor that even the imperial doctor could not afford to support it? Obviously, it was impossible, not to mention that even if the imperial doctor went to rest at that time, but the Guangxu Emperor was ill, the people who stayed behind to serve him always had to call the imperial doctor to come to the rescue, right?
However, Qu Guiting used four words to describe the scene at that time - no one took care of things.
Who has such ability, or who has the courage to suppress everyone and prevent them from saving Guangxu? Obviously, only Cixi has such ability and courage.
At the same time, when Qu Guiting entered the palace to treat Guangxu, Yi Xi once said to him: "If there is any danger, you can tell me bluntly, Empress Dowager Mi." ”
Yi Li obeyed Cixi's orders, and Yi Li's meaning was naturally also the meaning of Cixi, so why did Cixi let Yi Li say such a thing to Qu Guiting? Yes, it is to monitor Guangxu's condition in real time, and if it is not cured, it will be fine, but if the condition improves, then Cixi will have to start.
Therefore, the Guangxu Emperor absolutely died at the hands of cixi, an old woman.
Then, for the Guangxu Emperor, who had called himself "his father" for decades, why did Cixi have to do this poison?
Cixi believed that her contradictions with Guangxu were irreconcilable, so in order to avoid being liquidated by the Guangxu Emperor after her death in the future, she could only let the Guangxu Emperor die first.
Cixi and Guangxu clashed twice, causing them to break up completely:
The first time was when Guangxu launched the Wushu Rebellion, trying to implement the plan of "killing the queen in the garden", but Cixi preemptively launched a coup d'état and then put him under house arrest. At that time, Cixi wanted to depose Guangxu, set up another small emperor, and continue to hold power in name only, but unfortunately was obstructed by the foreigners.
The second time, before the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the capital, Cixi executed his favorite Concubine Zhen without Guangxu and threw her into a well and drowned her alive.
Did the Guangxu Emperor hate Cixi? Of course, cixi hated him, and Cixi hated him for seizing power, imprisoning him, and killing his wife.
Therefore, whether Guangxu had thought of revenge on Cixi or not, Cixi could not risk keeping Guangxu, and if Guangxu liquidated her, I am afraid that the whipping corpse would not be exaggerated.
Therefore, Cixi could only let Guangxu take the first step.
But what Cixi did not expect was that although she got rid of Guangxu and exempted Guangxu from the trouble of settling accounts after the autumn, she could not calculate that she would end up in the hands of Sun Dianying.