There are many unsolved mysteries in history, and if you rely solely on literal historical materials to guess, there is no completely certain answer, but with the development of archaeology and modern technology, some mysteries have finally been answered.
The sudden and violent death of the Guangxu Emperor has been very controversial for a long time, some people think that they are dead, and some say that they were poisoned by Cixi.
This kind of controversy, without solid evidence, under the premise of a preset position, is basically impossible to draw conclusions through the analysis of historical materials, fortunately with modern technology, through the analysis of the hair of the Guangxu Emperor, the conclusive evidence is that Guangxu was poisoned by Cixi.
Then, why did Cixi, who was about to close his eyes, poison the Guangxu Emperor?
Cixi is not a devil, once she was also a sincere hope, the Guangxu Emperor can become a talent, the Qing Dynasty royal family originally had a tradition of strict education of the prince, and Guangxu, who was strictly educated by Cixi since childhood, carried too many expectations of Cixi for her.
Or just in response to that sentence, how deep the love is, how deep the hatred is, Cixi's love can not be rewarded by Guangxu, Cixi once thought of giving up power, but the temptation of power is really difficult to refuse, and then remember that Guangxu did something very bad, especially his performance in the Sino-Japanese War, and during the Hundred Days Restoration, these things show that Guangxu is not a son of the holy tomorrow.
The Guangxu Emperor, bad luck, he is not facing the Taiping prosperous world, but an extraordinary period, perhaps his ability is similar to the Jiaqing Emperor, but the situation he faces is different, so it seems that Guangxu is particularly beautiful.
What is more serious is that Cixi used this as an excuse to deprive Guangxu of his real power and imprisoned him, and The Kang Youwei Liang Qichao who Guangxu reused were all too radical, had no experience in governing the country, and failure was also a high probability event.
Guangxu was unlucky, not only did things not work out, there was also a Cixi above her head, no matter how much we hated Cixi, we could not deny that she was a mature and stable political master, controlling the Qing Dynasty for decades, and no one could shake her power.
As a political master, Cixi's killing of the Guangxu Emperor should have been deliberate, and Cixi's greatest consideration was that Cixi must ensure that he would not be liquidated after his death.
Since Lü Hou, many women in power have been liquidated after their deaths or after they lost power, or their reputations are very bad, and the end is very miserable.
Among them, Wu Zetian is an exception, and Cixi has also fully absorbed the successful experience of Wu Zetian, since the relationship with Guangxu has been involved in this, the Guangxu Emperor will inevitably carry out a comprehensive liquidation of Cixi in the future, and Guangxu is not her own son, and it is possible to pull Cixi out and whip the corpse.
Therefore, after Cixi's death, there must be a new emperor, and the Guangxu Emperor was at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the only way was to poison Guangxu and re-establish an emperor who was beneficial to him, so as to ensure that Cixi would be stable after his death and not liquidated.
Cixi poisoned Guangxu, everything was as she expected, but people were not as good as heavenly calculations, and cixi's chosen heir family was too bad, and directly destroyed the country.
And Cixi's own mausoleum was not peaceful, Cixi's tomb was blown up, the warlord Sun Dianying grabbed a large amount of gold and silver jewelry from the tomb, including the night pearl in Cixi's mouth, and Cixi's body was mercilessly discarded aside, no one cared, no different from ordinary people in the mass burial post.