As we all know, the emperor's tomb will have a lot of funerary items, almost every one of which is a valuable treasure. Therefore, it has attracted the non-division of many thieves, and tomb robbery has also been many examples in history.
During the Republic of China period, the Qing Dongling Tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty was looted, and the number of treasures stolen and the high value of the treasures were all in a great uproar in the country.
In the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was also a tomb robbery incident, which also shocked the whole country, and was also known as the anecdote of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. What's going on here?
From Guangwu Zhongxing to the abolition of the Han XianDi, the Eastern Han Dynasty experienced a total of 14 emperors, and among these fourteen emperors, the existence of one emperor was very special.
He was assisted by eunuchs to ascend to the throne, and the monopoly of foreign relations during his reign can be said to be very serious. And less than a month after his death, the mausoleum was stolen, and it has not yet been found out who stole the tomb.
This person was Liu Bao, the Emperor of Han Shun, what kind of a person was he? Why was the tomb robbed less than a month after his death? You may not believe it when you say it.
Liu Bao was the Emperor Shun of Han, the seventh emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the son of Liu Hu, the Emperor of Han'an, and his mother Li Shi was a palace person.
He was the only son of Emperor An of Han and was the best candidate to inherit the throne. However, after the death of Emperor An of Han, Empress Yan, who had no heirs, deposed Liu Bao, the king of Jiyin, and installed liu Yi as emperor, hoping to control the government and seize power.
However, liu Yi did not want Liu Yi to die after seven months of being emperor, so the eunuchs Sun Cheng, Wang Kang, and others launched a palace coup, seizing the power of Empress Yan and establishing Liu Bao as emperor, changing the yuan to "Yongjian".
After that, he handed over the power to the eunuchs, who then colluded with their foreign relatives, the Liang clan, so the Eastern Han Dynasty was the exclusive power of the Liang clan for more than 20 years.
The puppet emperor died after more than a decade of reign, at the age of 29, with the title of Emperor Xiaoshun. After the death of Emperor Shun of Han, the mausoleum was chosen at the Xian Mausoleum in Luoyang, Henan.
In the Book of Continued Han and The Chronicle of Etiquette, it is recorded that "the Xian Mausoleum of Emperor Shun, three hundred steps on the mountain side, is eight feet high and four feet high." It can be seen that the mausoleum buried by the Han Shun Emperor is a very grand imperial mausoleum, known as the "Zhucang Dazuka".
However, what people did not expect was that on the day of the burial of Emperor Hanshun, a major earthquake occurred: "The earthquake in Jingshi and Taiyuan and Yanbei, the three counties were bursting and cracking."
The ground building of the XianLing Tomb was shattered and shattered, which was a bad omen, and the facts proved that there was indeed something bad to happen.
Less than a month after Emperor Hanshun was buried, his tomb was stolen.
The "Preparation for the Tombs of the Past Dynasties" records that "the Filial Piety Emperor secretly protected the ,...... Reigned for nineteen years,...... September C noon burial of the Xian Mausoleum,...... In the winter of the first year of Jiankang, in October, the group stole the Xian Mausoleum, and the gangmu calligraphy was buried for a long time. The Seven Of the Tombs did not end there."
So this time the tomb of the Han Shun Emperor was stolen, who was the thief, and why did he steal it?
In fact, all this is just the blame of the Han Shun Emperor.
According to the "Zizhi Tongjian", Emperor Cheng could not elect Xianjun and entrust the family of his uncle, which can be described as a secret; he knew that Wang Lizhi was not qualified, and abandoned it. Emperor Shun aided the Great Handle, granted the Hou clan, Liang Ji stubbornly and fiercely, and made him succeed to the father's throne, and finally rebelled and swept the Han Room; the school was in the Cheng Emperor, and the darkness was very bad!
Even Sima Guang said that Emperor Hancheng could not choose a virtuous person, and was willing to hand over power to his uncle's family, which was very faint, but he always knew that Wang Li had no talent and could not reuse him.
However, Emperor Shun of Han handed over the power of the imperial court to the empress family, and even though Liang Ji was stubborn and arrogant, fierce and tyrannical, he still handed over his father's official position to him, which finally led to the subversion of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Compared with the Hancheng Emperor, the Han Shun Emperor was even more faint.
This passage is enough to illustrate the extreme fainting of the Han Shun Emperor, and it was his actions that led to the theft of the mausoleum.
As mentioned earlier, at this time, the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty was controlled by eunuchs and foreign relatives, and how could they care about the people and the country and mountains of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were only planning for their own interests.
Therefore, they sell their officials in exchange for a large amount of money, and they are also corrupt and pervert the law, bullying the people, making the people miserable, and causing chaos in the world. So there was a succession of peasant uprisings, and the Han Shun Emperor did not think about how to solve it, but only used wine to dispel his sorrows, and he was confused and bored, and ignored the government.
He gave his power to the eunuchs and his cousin Liang, so that the common people had no way to live, so they had to settle this account on his head.
Therefore, this royal anecdote at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was only because of his fainting and lack of morality, and the people did not have a good life, and finally sprinkled this breath on his head to prevent him from dying in peace.
This was a great shame for the Eastern Han royal family. However, due to the weakness of the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is not even known whether it is a group of people who stole the tomb or a group of people who robbed the tomb.
Therefore, the last grave robbery case that shocked the government and the public passed like this, and I still don't know what the truth is.
References: Zizhi Tongjian, Book of Continuing Han and Etiquette