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In the seventh year of Guangxu, the Empress Dowager Cixi's most feared woman, the Empress Dowager Ci'an, died at the age of 44, because the news came too suddenly, it shocked the world for a while, and many people thought that the Empress Dowager Cixi killed the Empress Dowager Ci'an, is this really the case?
In the Qing Dynasty historical documents, it is recorded that the day before the death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, on this day the Empress Dowager Ci'an felt unwell, so she summoned the imperial doctor to check her pulse. After checking the pulse, the imperial doctor thought that the Empress Dowager Ci'an did not need to take medicine for occasional cold, but the people in the palace kept asking the imperial doctor to prescribe a pair of medicines, so the imperial doctor could not prescribe a pair of heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines to the Empress Dowager Ci'an. Later, the imperial physician went to visit a friend, and it turned out that a friend in the court brought a small piece of news, telling him that the Empress Dowager Ci'an had died, and that the people in the palace had ordered someone to send the coffin in.
Empress Dowager Ci'an is one of the most important figures in modern Chinese history that is easily overlooked, she and the Empress Dowager Cixi are respected in the two palaces, and together they formed a curtain to listen to the government, controlling the politics of the Qing Dynasty for more than 20 years, her existence restrained the power of the Empress Dowager Cixi, so the biggest beneficiary of her death is also the Empress Dowager Cixi, so many people highly suspect that the Empress Dowager Ci'an was killed by the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Empress Dowager Cixi was originally a young lady of a medium-sized bureaucratic family, as a show girl was elected to the harem and was given the title of Lan Guiren, because of her competitive character, and very beautiful, so she was favored by Emperor Xianfeng, she was also very lucky to give birth to the only heir for Emperor Xianfeng, after the death of Emperor Xianfeng, she was honored as the Queen Mother, in the name of Empress Dowager Cixi, twice the curtain listened to the government, and controlled China's modern history for more than half a century.
The Empress Dowager Ci'an came from the Niu Hulu family, and her life was not too smooth compared to the Empress Dowager Cixi. The Empress Dowager Ci'an was a beautiful lady when she was young, her father was born in a big family, the Empress Dowager Ci'an was well-read since she was a child, and was canonized as the queen at the age of 15, but because she has no heirs, the status is more embarrassing, and when the Xianfeng Emperor died, the 24-year-old Niu Hulu was honored as the queen mother, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was respected together, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was respected together, and the status and name were higher than the Empress Dowager Cixi.
The Empress Dowager Cixi suppressed the eight ministers of Gu Ming, and finally realized the curtain to listen to the government, but if she wants to take power, she must be approved by the Empress Dowager Ci'an, and the Empress Dowager Ci'an also likes the Empress Dowager Cixi to raise the Tongzhi Emperor together. The Empress Dowager Ci'an once said to the Empress Dowager Cixi: We two widows raise a child together, if we are unfortunately calculated by the adulterer, it is very likely to disturb the affairs of the world, so we live together, and the sisters can feel more secure. The Empress Dowager Cixi and the Empress Dowager Ci'an have lived together for more than 20 years, and it is impossible to do without the true feelings of sisters.
Although the Tongzhi Emperor is the biological son of the Empress Dowager Cixi, he is very afraid of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and prefers the benevolent Empress Dowager Ci'an.
Empress Dowager Ci'an has lived with Emperor Tongzhi since she was a child, and she knows the preferences of the little emperor very well, she chose the Alut clan for the little emperor, the Alut clan is 19 years old, knowledgeable, and the Tongzhi Emperor also likes her very much, but the Empress Dowager Cixi does not like it. The Empress Dowager Cixi took a fancy to the 14-year-old Fucha clan, she was young and easier to control, but the Empress Dowager Cixi, who could not go against the emperor's wishes, could only agree to set up the Arut clan as the empress and the Fucha clan as the concubine.
Later, Emperor Puyi said: When Emperor Tongzhi was seriously ill, Empress Alut went to visit the Empress Dowager Cixi, beat and scolded Alut in front of the hospital bed, and the Empress Dowager Cixi's actions angered the Tongzhi Emperor, and the Tongzhi Emperor died not long after, and his empress also died of depression two months after his death.
With the death of Emperor Tongzhi, the fate of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, who had been suppressing the Empress Dowager Cixi, also came to an end. The Empress Dowager Ci'an, unlike the Empress Dowager Cixi, was not interested in politics at all. According to Qing history, in the seventh year of Guangxu, the Empress Dowager Ci'an felt cold and felt a little unwell, so she did not summon the Minister of Military Aircraft. And late that night, the Empress Dowager Cixi ate the milk biscuits paid tribute by foreign envoys, and she thought it was delicious, so she sent the little eunuch around her to give the milk biscuits to the Empress Dowager Ci'an to taste.
But if it was really the Empress Dowager Cixi who poisoned the Empress Dowager Ci'an, then the Empress Dowager Ci'an's appearance would definitely be different, but the Empress Dowager Cixi allowed the ministers to look at the remains, which is enough to prove that Cixi's psychology is not ghostly.
At the beginning, the Empress Dowager Cixi launched the Xinyou coup d'état to monopolize power, and all this without the support of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, she could not do it, and the two must have feelings for 30 years as sisters.
If the Empress Dowager Ci'an really died of illness, then what disease did she have?
According to previous cases, it is speculated that the Empress Dowager Ci'an is likely to suffer from very serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, in the second year of Tongzhi, the 26-year-old Empress Dowager Ci'an had an illness, had a history of syncope, and was seriously ill for 24 days, and the imperial doctor prescribed her a lot of drugs to calm her mind, so that her condition improved.
Only six years later, eight years after Tongzhi, the 32-year-old Empress Dowager Ci'an fell ill again, this time she was unconscious for more than half an hour, and these two illnesses are enough to show that the Empress Dowager Ci'an has a very serious relief, so she died suddenly at the age of 44, which may also be caused by the sudden onset of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
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The Empress Dowager Cixi also became the only veritable ruler of the Qing Dynasty, and as the Empress Dowager Cixi's power expanded, her choices affected the prospects of the empire, such as in the Wuxu Reform, she staged a coup d'état to suppress the reformers.
When the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, she was powerless to resist, and made mistakes again and again, until she signed the "Xinchou Treaty" that lost power and humiliated the country. During the Sino-Japanese naval battle in the First Sino-Japanese War, she made another mistake and signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", which humiliated the country, and she and Emperor Guangxu died one day after another, leaving another palace secret case.
If there had been no sudden and violent death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, and the power of the Empress Dowager Cixi had been checks and balances, then maybe history would have been a different situation, but it is a pity that history has no ifs.