Wu Zetian is the only recognized female emperor in the history of our country, and she had two husbands in her life, one was Li Shimin and the other was Li Zhi. Wu Zetian and Li Shimin did not have children, because when they were with Li Shimin, Wu Zetian was not very favored, although she entered the palace at the age of 14 and became Li Shimin's talent, but she was only a talented person. But Li Zhi was different from Wu Zetian, Li Zhi liked Wu Zetian very much, and then he also made Wu Zetian empress and attached great importance to her. Li Zhi and Wu Zetian had 6 children, and their first child was Li Hong, the first prince in history to be posthumously crowned emperor. Although Li Hong was a very studious and diligent person, he was frail and sickly, and he died of illness at the age of 23.
Wu Zetian's eldest son, Li Hong, died of illness, and his tomb was targeted by tomb robbers
Li Hong's death has a lot to do with his illness, and modern scholars say that Li Hong is very likely to die of tuberculosis. Li Hong was buried at the top of Baiyun Peak in Yanshi, Henan, and his tomb was the famous Tang Gong Mausoleum. Henan is the hometown of cultural relics, where a lot of cultural relics are buried, which attracts a lot of tomb robbers. A group of tomb robbers targeted Tang Gongling in 1998. At the beginning of the last century, tomb robbers were rampant, and many ancient tombs were stolen, including many imperial tombs. It was during this period that the imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty were stolen, and the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong were also stolen at this time. At that time, the society was chaotic, many things were lacking management, and no one caught tomb robbers, but in 1998 it was different.
After this group of tomb robbers set their sights on Tang Gongling, they took advantage of the night to launch a tomb robbery operation. At first, they secretly used Tools such as Luoyang shovels to excavate the ancient tomb at night, but tang Gongling was built very firmly, and they were busy for several nights without opening the ancient tomb. Later, they decided to use explosives to blow up Tang Gongling, and one night, they came to Tang Gongling in the dark, and when they confirmed that Tang Gongling was empty, they placed explosives and blew Tang Gongling open. However, after Tang Gongling exploded, they were thieves and immediately withdrew. Two days later, they observed for a long time, and no one found out that they had blown up Tang Gongling, and only then did they continue to excavate Tang Gongling.
Tomb robbers "cautiously" robbed tombs, and eventually fell into the net
In this way, the cultural relics of Tang Gongling were dug up by Zhang Shaoxia and 11 other tomb robbers, who used the sacks they carried to continuously collect the cultural relics in Tang Gongling' tombs. This night they were very rewarding, and their gang was very cautious, but they still lacked some intelligence. After the cultural relics arrived, they quickly launched the action of selling cultural relics, they found the cultural relics dealers, sold all the cultural relics in their hands, and after collecting 3.66 million, they ran away. But to their surprise, it did not take long for the police to find them, it turned out that the cultural relics they auctioned were too precious, the news spread quickly, and the police also quickly learned of the news and launched an arrest operation.
Later, 64 national treasure-level cultural relics taken away by Zhang Shaoxia and others were recovered, 3 of which were missing, and experts estimated that these cultural relics had been lost overseas and were difficult to trace. After they were arrested, they also said wildly, why can experts dig graves? We can't? There are many tomb robbers like Zhang Shaoxia, archaeologists dig graves for archaeology, and since the fifties of the last century, after experiencing the Dingling Incident, archaeologists have no longer taken the initiative to dig ancient tombs, and since then, excavations have been carried out against the ancient tombs destroyed by stolen tomb thieves.
The Dingling incident is a tragedy in archaeological history, when under the leadership of the scholar Guo Moruo, a group of scholars with insufficient archaeological knowledge entered the Dingling Tomb and disposed of the cultural relics in the Dingling Tomb at will. In Dingling, only some of the metal and jade relics have been preserved, and other cultural relics have been damaged, and these damages are almost all man-made. After the excavation of Dingling's silk fabrics, some scholars "confidently" smeared anti-corrosion paint, resulting in rapid blackening and corruption of silk fabrics, and the excavation of Dingling has become a "lesson of blood".