Ci'an's death is one of the suspicious cases in Qing history, and the so-called suspicious cases are things that have a reason for the incident, but there is no evidence. It must be admitted that the historiographers have so far not been able to come up with a direct and convincing evidence to prove that Cixi did indeed murder Ci'an, and it only stays at the level of inference.
According to Weng Tongxiao's diary, wasn't he summoned to the palace? When he arrived at the palace, many ministers came, and the first thing everyone did was to go to the recital office to see the prescription and the pulse case, and Ci'an was not dead? They went to see the prescription and the pulse case together, and there were five prescriptions and pulse cases, which were opened in the morning, noon, afternoon, and evening, and this was four copies, and one was actually a death certificate, and a total of three doctors participated in the diagnosis and treatment. This is a very favorable piece of evidence for Cixi. Because on the day of Ci'an's death, the doctors have been treating him. Why is it beneficial to Cixi? Do you think that if Cixi murdered Ci'an, he must have had two attitudes, one was that she hoped that Ci'an would die quickly, and the other was afraid that his crime had been exposed.
In this case, can Cixi let the doctor come for treatment, in addition, Cixi is still sick at this time, pessimistic that the future is uncertain, whether she can be cured is still unknown, she is too busy to take care of herself, but for the sake of long-term interests to murder Ci'an is reasonable? It must be admitted that at the level of technology at that time, it was not easy to poison a person, but now it may not be easy, take the common poison arsenic as an example, a person from poisoning to death, as short as a few hours, as long as a few days or even more than ten days, the key depends on the size of the dose, the dose is small and does not work, the effect of the small dose is not obvious. And there is only one way to die by short-term cannibalism in large doses, like Pan Jinlian poisoning Wu Dalang.
Ci'an only took one day from the onset of illness to death, and if it was poisoned, it could only be poisoned in large doses. As the empress dowager, Ci'an has dozens of eunuchs and palace daughters around her at any time, who can force her to drink a large dose of poison in one go?
Mr. Xu Ce studied Ci'an's death in his "Biography of Cixi", and based on various symptoms, he deduced that it was a worsening of cerebrovascular disease and death from cerebral hemorrhage. At that time, Chinese suffered from this disease relatively rarely, and Chinese medicine lacked full understanding and effective treatment methods. In fact, if this is the case, Western medicine does not have a very good response, in short, the conclusion is a normal death. Although there is no evidence that Cixi was the murderer, she was the biggest beneficiary of Ci'an's death, and there is no doubt that Ci'an's death made her feel relieved, and strangely enough, the menopausal syndrome that had plagued her for more than a year was getting better day by day, and three months later she was officially declared to the whole country.
Cixi was in high spirits with a new plan, brewing in her heart, a political storm was about to set off, what was going on? Yixin was Xianfeng's younger brother and the younger brother-in-law of the two empress dowagers. Originally, he didn't have a good relationship with his brother, so he basically stood aside in the Xianfeng Dynasty. In the eleventh year of Xianfeng, the emperor died young, and on his deathbed, he arranged eight ministers to assist his young son, but there was no Yixun among them. You see, none of the eight people lined him up. So Yixun was dissatisfied, but he didn't expect that the queen mother of the two palaces, who had just been widowed, was also dissatisfied with this system, so the uncle and sister-in-law joined forces to launch a coup d'état, and the minister was ordered to kill the head, and the exiled exile finally divided the power between the uncle and sister-in-law, and established a new system of the queen mother's auxiliary government.
The empress dowager of the two palaces acted as the imperial power in the form of listening to the government. His supreme ruler thinks of the source of drinking water, and naturally wants to repay Yixun's support. As soon as the coup d'état was successful, he was given the title of king of parliament and asked him to lead the military aircraft department to organize the government. No ruler wants to be shared. As time passed, the contradictions between Yixun and Cixi around the question of power became deeper and deeper. Cixi pondered how to sanction Yixun and take back power.
In the fourth year of Tongzhi, that is, in 1865, there was a confrontation between the two sides. Cixi felt that the time was ripe, and under the pretext that someone had impeached Yixun, she relied on a few charges to catch the wind and catch the shadows, and she threw Yixun to the end. Unexpectedly, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty wrote a petition, and even the feudal officials opened their mouths, speaking for Yixun, hoping that the empress dowager of the two palaces could give Yixun another chance to let him continue to govern. Therefore, seeing the wind, the rudder reinstated some of Yixun's duties, but cancelled his title of council king.
After this turmoil, Yixi began to threaten Cixi. But he still leads the Military Aircraft Department, and the power in his hands is still not small. After this humiliation, Yixun inevitably felt unfair. In the blink of an eye, in the eighth year of Tongzhi, Yixun finally found an opportunity to vent the stuffiness in his chest. It turned out that at this time, the wedding of Emperor Tongzhi was put on the agenda, Cixi planned to be in Suzhou, and there was also a saying that a batch of clothes would be purchased in Guangzhou for a happy event, and the adults and children in the family would do a few clothes. This matter was originally undertaken by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but Cixi's confidant eunuch An Dehai told Cixi that if he didn't send a person who was familiar with the inside story to procure it, the color, style, and size might not be suitable. In fact, An Dehai is tired of living in the city of Beijing, and when he wants to go around the south, one is to open his eyes, the other is to show his majesty, and the third is to take the opportunity to loot. In short, I think it's a beauty difference.
The ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty had extremely strict restrictions on eunuchs, and it was a capital crime for eunuchs to go out of Beijing. No matter how much Cixi was treated, she didn't dare to give him a formal and legal procedure for leaving Beijing. Cixi's attitude towards this matter is to acquiesce, you go, you don't have to go through the formalities. An Dehai estimated that with the backstage of the Empress Dowager Cixi, no one dared to do anything, and took dozens of followers to divide into two big boats and hoisted flags, and set off from Tongzhou to the south with drums and music.
An Dehai is the chief eunuch reused by Cixi, he is a villain, in the Forbidden City, the fox is pretending to be a tiger, unscrupulous, in the contradiction between Cixi and Yixun, he repeatedly slandered, played a very bad role, this time hit the muzzle, how can Yixun be soft, Yixun secretly instructed Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong, to arrest An Dehai. Sure enough, An Dehai entered the territory of Shandong, and he was detained after entering the territory of Shandong of the Grand Canal by boat. Ding Baozhen played the court and asked for instructions on how to deal with it, this is equivalent to a big problem for the imperial court, and An Dehai was detained, what do you think, see how Cixi expresses her position?
As a result, when Ding Baozhen's recital was handed to the military aircraft, it was said that Cixi was watching a play, and another said that she was sick. Prince Gong Yixun took the fold and went to the Empress Dowager Ci'an and Emperor Tongzhi to see what to do. Xiao Anzi caused trouble, and the Tongzhi Emperor was laissez-faire and did not concentrate on Xi, and his birth mother Empress Dowager Cixi rebuked him in three days. In the eyes of Emperor Tongzhi, An Dehai did not report to his mother that he beat him, and naturally hated him. Now that I learned that An Dehai was burned and kept saying that she had slaughtered this old rabbit cub, the Empress Dowager Ci'an still had doubts, after all, it was Cixi's person, and it was up to the owner to beat the dog, and Yixin did Ci'an's work again, saying that this was the ancestral system, and if it was not done according to the ancestral system, wouldn't it be chaotic? Ci'an thought about it, so he approved it, and issued an edict ordering Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong, to take An Dehai: the evidence is true, there is no need for interrogation, and the law will be rectified on the spot.
The edict was transmitted to Jinan in one day and one night, and Ding Baozhen was executed overnight after receiving the edict, so why was he executed overnight? The edict ordered him to immediately carry out the Fa-rectification on the spot and implement the supreme directive without staying overnight, so he dragged An Dehai to the execution ground overnight, and An Dehai lost a small life in a daze.
An Dehai was killed in Beijing, although he was to blame, but everyone understands that if there is no acquiescence of the Empress Dowager Cixi, except for his doppelganger, he can only be honest in the palace on an errand, and he can't run. Then killing An Dehai is equivalent to giving Cixi a good look, Cixi was so angry later, first called his son Emperor Tongzhi to scold a dog blood spray, and then went to Ci'an, Ci'an put the blame on Prince Gong Yixun, but Cixi didn't dare to look for him, knowing this, he lost in Li'er, so he could only sulk alone. Judging from the above situation, everyone can understand that in the evidence of the Tongguang period, Cixi, Ci'an, and Yixun are composed of three people, and the situation of the three-legged position in the supreme power system of the Qing Dynasty.
Cixi wields the most power, sharp and aggressive, Ci'an is kind and average, but occupies a patriarchal orthodox position, and her status is the highest and most important. Although Yixin is a courtier, he is from a noble background, he is the son of Emperor Daoguang, the younger brother of Emperor Xianfeng, and the uncle of Emperor Tongzhi.
However, the death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an broke this balance of power, and the original three-legged stand became a one-on-one heads-up, and in the face of Cixi, who held the imperial power, Yixun's situation suddenly deteriorated. He knew that the day when he would be purged by Cixi was not far off.
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