The dead emperor was only 37 years old.
1908165438+10/4 In the evening, Emperor Guangxu died; The next afternoon, Empress Dowager Cixi also passed away. Guangxu, 37, died in front of Cixi, 74, only one day later, which caused many speculations. Some people think that Cixi did not want Guangxu to return to power after his death, and sent someone to poison Guangxu. Some people say that Yuan Shikai betrayed Guangxu during the Reform Movement of 1898 and was afraid of being retaliated by Guangxu after the death of Cixi, so he bribed eunuchs and poisoned them. It is said that eunuch Li also poisoned him, because he learned from Guangxu's diary that after Cixi's death, both Yuan Shikai and he would be punished. However, some people think that Guangxu died of physical weakness.
The cause of death has not been determined for a hundred years.
/kloc-since 0/00, there have been countless papers on the cause of death in Guangxu, but there has been no academic conclusion. In 2003, CCTV documentary director Zhong accidentally learned that in 1980, the Qing Xiling Cultural Relics Management Office cleaned and re-closed the coffins of Guangxu and Empress (stolen in the late 1930s), and their hair was removed from the coffins and kept in the warehouse of Qing Xiling. As a result, Zhong began the process of experimental research and shooting TV documentaries for five years.
Criminal investigation high-tech detection
Published on June 2, 2008 +065438+? Guangxu death newspaper? In fact, experts have successively extracted two strands of Guangxu's hair, which are 26 cm and 65 cm long, washed and dried, cut into 1 cm long slices, numbered, weighed and packaged one by one, and then detected the element content in Guangxu's hair by nuclear analysis.
The results show that Guangxu's hair contains high concentration of elemental arsenic, and the content varies greatly in different parts. The peak of arsenic in 1 hair appeared at 10 (2404 μ g/g), and the peak of arsenic in the second hair appeared at 26 (362. 7 μ g/g) and paragraph 45 (202. 1 μ g/g). At the same time, the arsenic content in hair was 0. 14 to 0. 59 μ g/g, and the jade dragon queen buried at the same time as Guangxu was 9. 20 μ g/g, the hair of a forage officer in the late Qing Dynasty was 18. 2 μ g/g.
The poisoning forensic doctor has a conclusion
Later, according to the standard requirements and methods of forensic examination, the researchers took samples of Guangxu's body and clothes for examination. As a result, the arsenic content in shoulder blades, spine and abdomen, laces, collars and shoulders of each garment is very high. The arsenic content of inner clothes is much higher than that of outer clothes. Then, the objects in Guangxu coffin and mausoleum and the soil and water in the mausoleum were compared. The results show that the high concentration of arsenic in Guangxu's hair is not from environmental pollution. Finally, they come to the conclusion that the high arsenic content in Guangxu's hair is not caused by the natural metabolism of chronic poisoning, but by external pollution; A large number of arsenic compounds once remained in the stomach and abdomen of Guangxu corpse, and the decomposition process of the corpse was redistributed, eroding the remains, hair and clothes. Arsenic compounds are also highly toxic arsenic.
After scientific calculation, the total amount of arsenic ingested by Guangxu was obviously greater than the lethal dose.
The killer has yet to be studied.
At the same time of testing, the researchers consulted the archives of the late Qing Dynasty, the medical records of Guangxu, the personal memoirs of the imperial doctors who participated in the diagnosis and treatment before Guangxu's death, the diaries of the ministers of the military department and the officials in the residence, sorted out the situation of 10 days before Guangxu's death, and discussed the types of arsenic poisoning in Guangxu, as well as the lower and upper limits of the poisoning time.
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But who poisoned Guangxu? This remains to be further studied or discovered by historians.