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In Chinese history, tomb robbery has always existed. From small tomb robbers to emperors and generals, they may have done such immoral things as tomb robbery. Although the government ordered a crackdown, or even a head kill, the temptation of gold and silver was always difficult to resist.
In fact, compared with the predecessors of the tomb robbery world, Sun Dianying was nothing at all. In history, there was a warlord who was more powerful than Sun Dianying, who stole a larger tomb. The predecessor of the tomb robbery industry is Cao Cao, who is known as the founder of tomb robbery.
So whose tomb did Cao Cao steal? It is said that before Cao Cao became the head of the people, it was difficult to develop and grow due to insufficient financial resources. He still has no money. He needs real money to control ordnance and buy munitions. Cao Cao had to have the financial resources to expand his army.
However, at that time, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was in the world, and the taxes that could be received were limited. At that time, commerce was also developed, and the source of finance and taxation was single. Cao Cao deserved to be a traitor. He came up with a way to make money. Since the living had no money, he went to the dead to borrow money.
So Cao Cao set up an army specifically for tomb robbery and grave digging. The commander sealed Lieutenant Touch Gold. To put it bluntly, he set up a tomb robbery team to dig up the tombs of ancient princes and nobles everywhere, and dig out the gold, silver and jade objects inside for military expenses.
Cao Caoqian's biggest deal was to dig up the tombs of Liang Xiaowang and Liu Wu. This Liu Wu is not an ordinary person. He was the son of Emperor Wen of Han and the younger brother of Emperor Jing of Han. The famous blind queen Dou of the Han Dynasty was his mother.
Liu Wu's fiefdom of Liangguo was located in Shangqiu, Henan. It was a rich area in the Han Dynasty at that time. Liu Wu not only has a special position, but also has a small skill. He helped his brother Emperor Jing of Han quell the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and made great achievements in the war. His position was once prominent.
At that time, Emperor Jing of Han really did not have any better rewards, so he tricked Liu Wu into saying that he would pass the throne to him. It can be said that Liu Wu's wealth was comparable to that of the emperor at that time, but he did not have the title of emperor. After Liu Wu's death, his mausoleum was naturally very luxurious.
Liu Wu was buried in Mount Mangzhong after his death. This was once the place where Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang beheaded the White Snake Rebellion. The Han Dynasty has always been regarded as a treasure of feng shui. Liu Wuling was built by digging mountains, with a total length of 96 meters, a maximum width of 32 meters, and an indoor area of more than 700 square meters.
It's all chiseled out of the mountains. The funerary items inside were almost all the things that Liu Wu had before his death. In order to prevent tomb robbery, the entrance was sealed with boulders and the outer cover was sealed with earth. At the time, it seemed solid. Unfortunately, it still couldn't resist touching Captain Kim.
Cao Cao personally dug out the funerary goods inside and transported them away in 72 ships, feeding hundreds of thousands of troops for 3 years. Chen Lin, one of Jian'an's seven sons, disclosed the incident in the course of her crusade against Cao Cao. Cao Cao, the founder of the tomb robbery, also lives up to his name.
What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo (French)
The road of history is not all smooth, and sometimes it comes to a difficult and dangerous realm. It is only by relying on the strong spirit to rush through. --Li Daozhao