The Guangxu Emperor was the 11th emperor after the Qing Dynasty's unowned Central Plains, he ascended the throne at the age of four, but from this case, the empress dowager of the two palaces bowed to the government, the Guangxu Emperor did not have real power, and later seven years after Guangxu, Empress Dowager Ci'an died of illness, and it was always Cixi who grasped the government, that is to say, Guangxu did not hold real power in his life. After the death of the Guangxu Emperor, Cixi also died only one day later, so is the implementation time of these two people really coincidental or has another hidden affair?
At 17:00 on November 15, 1908, Empress Dowager Cixi, who had ruled the Qing Dynasty for 48 years, died of organ failure in the Yiluan Hall due to diarrhea and diarrhea, this year, Cixi was exactly 73 years old, the day before her death, the Guangxu Emperor had gone west early, and his body was temporarily stored in the cold room of Yingtai, the Guangxu Emperor, the 11th emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he had been raised in the palace since childhood, and was strictly disciplined by Cixi, which can be seen from his title for Cixi Guangxu should call Cixi the queen of the mother, but Guangxu called her "pro father", which Cixi also explained, he said that the emperor's biological father was the Prince of Alcohol, and his birth mother was my own sister, and my sister's child was the same as my own birth, so it was necessary to add "kiss" to the title to appear intimate and different from others.
Cixi knew that he was about to return to the Western Heavens, and did not want to return to power after his death, and sent someone to poison the Guangxu Emperor. Mainly based on the memoirs of Qu Guiting, a famous doctor who treated Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty, he said: "Three days before his death, Guangxu kept rolling over on the bed and kept shouting, 'My stomach hurts badly. His face was dark, his tongue was yellow and black, and he was obviously a symptom of poisoning. According to this theory, Guangxu was poisoned, and the biggest suspect was Empress Dowager Cixi, because she was the most powerful and tightly controlled Guangxu Emperor at that time, the best to be poisoned, the most likely to be poisoned.
So why did Empress Dowager Cixi kill the Guangxu Emperor?
This has to be based on the contradiction between Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, as we all know, after the failure of the Penghu Reform, the diehard faction, that is, the faction of Empress Dowager Cixi, seized the power of the government, and even imprisoned the Guangxu Emperor in the Southeast Sea, this imprisonment was 10 years, seizing the emperor's power, which for any emperor has accumulated countless anger in his heart.
Cixi considered that if after his death, Cixi was afraid that Guangxu would regain power and the interests of the diehards he had deliberately guarded would be damaged, and that after the Guangxu Emperor came to power, he would never let Empress Dowager Cixi have any good name, so based on the years of contradictions between the two people, Empress Dowager Cixi also had a reason to kill Emperor Guangxu.