After the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, the Qing Dynasty train also officially declared itself out of the control of Ai Xin Jueluo and fell into it
Empress
Hands. Cixi joined forces with Prince Yixuan and others to launch an attack
Xin You coup d'état
will
The eight ministers beheaded three people, and the other five were all dismissed
。 This move made her power in the dprk and China stable from then on, and the Great Qing dynasty became her hall of speech, and even Guangxu, who was the emperor, had to bow his head and try to compete with it, but he was powerless.
Guangxu's efforts
To this end, Guangxu actively sought the help of people of insight to try to regain power and change the fate of the country. After Cixi's control of the government, he had long been deeply resentful and indignant about what Cixi had done when he controlled the Qing Dynasty
。 Cixi lord and he fights. Cixi was conservative, but he was quite enlightened
。 He can accept the new ideas of the West, dare to introduce all kinds of strange new things and scientific and technological knowledge from the West, and also has great ideas in the DPRK and China to change the current situation and appoint people of insight. pity
Under Cixi's control, he had no chance at all
Not to mention how to change the Qing Dynasty.
In 1908, Guangxu finally waited for the opportunity! As Cixi grew older and her illness worsened, Guangxu also waited for the opportunity to reform his own pro-government. Curiously, however,
The night before Cixi's death, Guangxu died prematurely
。 Left a cloud of doubt that has not been solved for many years.
Cixi's means
As for the reason for Guangxu's death, there are many versions circulating in the anecdotes, and there are some sayings
Guangxu died of illness
, said
He was assassinated by Cixi
, there are also thoughts that he is
Died of mental depression
。 But with 2008,
Expert identification of a strand of Guangxu's hair
, but determined the cause of his death,
He did not die of natural causes, but of arsenic
。
Historical records
In fact, in many books, there are records of Guangxu's serious illness.
Guangxu was sick
Shi once wrote: "
I was very ill, but I felt in my heart that Lafayette would die before me. If so, I will order the beheading of Yuan Shikai and Li Lianying.
But unfortunately, this passage of Guangxu's text was replaced
Li Lianying
Know in advance. Therefore, he immediately reported to Cixi and said:
The emperor wants to die after Lafayette!
And
Wen Yan said even more hatefully:
I can't die before him!
”
What the hell is going on
at
In the famous doctor Qu Guiting's "Secret Record of the Guangxu Emperor"
It records guangxu's situation before his death. then
Guangxu had rolled around on the bed
, shouting"
My stomach hurt terribly
”。 According to the symptoms, the doctor had examined his mouthpiece and other places, but found out
The tongue is scorched yellow and there is a sickness in the throat
, plus its
The face is scorched black
, so it has long been asserted:
This is rarely related to the previous disease", but there is another hidden feeling
。 However, at this time, after all, it is still Cixi's world, who dares to speak up casually? If it weren't for the results of the investigation in 2008, we wouldn't have known that Cixi's methods were so vicious!