Introduction: In China's modern and contemporary history, it was a dark era of more than 100 years, during which China was in an era of division and war, and the demise of the Qing Dynasty did not awaken China, did not save China, but pushed China into a more chaotic and dark era. At that time, China was full of warlords and armed forces that divided and divided one side, and everywhere were battles and wars for territory and interests.
In those chaotic times, the people's lives were miserable. But it was also the chaotic era of war that also made China appear a group of military tyrants who were in the limelight at that time and left their names in later generations. They may not represent justice or the future of China, but their stories, their development, and their brilliance are also some small anecdotes in that history of suffering.
After capturing Sun Dianying alive, the warriors came to see the thieves and asked: Did you open the tomb of Cixi?
In that dark Chinese era, it can really be said that the emperor took turns to do it and come to my house tomorrow. Warlords rise and fall one after another, and you fight for each other. It formed the characteristic story of China in that era. Among these so-called heroes, there are also some who, in the context of that era, with the help of opportunities and their own capabilities, have become a generation of tyrants on the land of China, and even their forces can influence the development of China, and can affect the life and death of thousands of ordinary Chinese people.
They occupy one side, with a million armor. They are famous warlords in modern and contemporary Chinese history. Today, we can learn many of their stories in the history books, such as the Beiyang warlords, the direct family, the Feng family, the Gui family, the Anhui family, and so on. These warlords were all military forces on Chinese soil at that time that could influence the development of history.
And their founder, or leader, is also the uncrowned king of the local area. These leaders have their own backgrounds, experiences, and developments. Some warlords can even be called legendary. Today we are going to introduce you to one of the legendary warlords.
He was born as a bandit, but through the chaotic world at that time, he was able to rely on his own little arm to be adopted by the local inspector of the Wanqing government for his own use, and later he took advantage of the general trend of the Xinhai Revolution to remove the inspector and sit on the throne of a province. Gradually developed and became a hegemon, he was known as three more, more money, more soldiers, more guns, he could not read a single character but did not delay himself to become the emperor of Shandong and Hebei in China.
He is a famous figure in our modern and contemporary Chinese history, he is Sun Dianying, the Chinese tomb robber king that Chinese have heard of. Sun Dianying is a very representative warlord in Modern and Contemporary Chinese History, and also a notorious warlord. It is said that after Sun Dianying became a success, he took advantage of the convenience of many foreign colonies in Shandong Province to have many contacts with Britain, France, Japan and other countries.
But Shandong and Hebei are China's confidants, and Sun Dianying can only continue to recruit troops in order to occupy for a long time. Although Sun Dianying temporarily defeated the armies of Zhang Zuolin and Chiang Kai-shek after the Central Plains War, his own losses were also very huge, and Britain, France, Japan and other countries were unwilling to support his corresponding military supplies free of charge.
In order to raise military salaries, Sun Dianying went so far as to dig up all the tombs of the 12 emperors in the Tanglin Cemetery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and rob them of the funerary cultural relics as his capital in exchange for military supplies from the great powers. With these, Sun Dianying quickly organized a new team, but because of the excavation of Qing Dynasty mausoleums, the name was too bad to be besieged by various warlords, and finally defeated by Chiang Kai-shek.
In order to survive and leave behind treasures, Sun Dianying paid bribes to people close to Chiang Kai-shek, including Soong Mei-ling, Soong Zi-wen, Kong Xiangxi, Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu and other high-level Kuomintang figures. The jade jade cabbage now on display at the Taiwan Museum is one of the treasures that Sun Dianying dedicated to Song Meiling. But most of the Manchu Qing treasures were still scattered overseas and disappeared.
Summary: During the Liberation War, the Chinese People's Liberation Army surrounded and suppressed and arrested Sun Dianying. He was given a fair trial, and it can be said that Sun Dianying was a sinner in the destruction of Chinese historical relics. According to his account and incomplete statistics, among the treasures stolen by Sun Dianying in the Thirteen Tombs, nearly 5,000 pieces of national first-class cultural relics alone were lost.
The remains of famous calligraphers and painters such as Gu Kaizhi and Wang Xizhi, who are hidden in the tombs of Qianlong and Cixi in the Great Qing Dynasty, have also been lost. This is a sinner of the nation, but it was also created by the strategic years. As we lament the catastrophe of national culture, we should protect this hard-won peaceful environment.