Cultural relics carry the changes of a country, a civilization and a region, and they are the witness of history. Every cultural relic is silently telling its own story. Such precious cultural relics should be well preserved, but the cultural relics nemesis, "Captain Touching Gold", often makes people hate and itch their teeth.
Tomb robbers steal precious ancient tombs for their own benefit, and if they do not pay attention to them during the excavation process, it is likely to destroy the structure of the tomb and destroy the precious cultural relics inside. After the cultural relics are dug up, they may also be smuggled abroad, so that Chinese civilization will be exiled to other countries.
There was such a large-scale tomb robbery case in Qinghai, which aroused people's deep thoughts. Zhang Feng was born in rural Henan, when he was a child, he did not learn no techniques, when other children went to school, he was affected by tomb robbery books, and he walked into the road of illegal crimes early and began to follow the "master" on the road to dig graves. When he graduated from junior high school, he simply stopped going to school and concentrated on developing his "career".
At the beginning, Zhang Feng did not get much benefit from it, and could only get the hard money allocated by the leader of the team. As he became more experienced and more prominent in the gang, the more money he distributed. At the same time, his inner desires are rising, and he gradually becomes dissatisfied with the status quo, so he thinks of acting alone from the organization.
In a dispute over the division of stolen goods, Zhang Feng left the team and chose to go it alone. However, he did not profit from this, but because he offended the former "old owner", he was gradually isolated by the tomb robber gangs that wandered in Henan. Old acquaintances who used to sell information refused to trade with him, and the buyers who bought cultural relics no longer took the initiative to contact him, which gradually gave him the idea of going out of town.
Of course, he did not want to go to other places to do serious things, but wanted to expand the illegal business of tomb robbery to other places. To this end, he bought a lot of history and archaeology books in the bookstore, and after many days of research, he locked in a direction - Qinghai. From this, we can also see that in fact, he has a certain amount of knowledge and ability, but he uses this ability to break the law and commit crimes.
Zhang Feng packed his bags and quickly set off for a field trip to Dulan County, Qinghai Province. After walking through the barren mountains and mountains in Dulan County, he confirmed that there were indeed unexcavated tombs here. People familiar with history know that the Qinghai region was once the birthplace of the tuguhun kingdom civilization, and the Tuguhun kingdom was an independent regime in China's western Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, and its civilization had distinct characteristics of ethnic minorities. And the area where Tuguhun is located is the lifeblood of the ancient Silk Road, and the cultural exchanges come and go are extremely frequent, so it has a high archaeological research value and is also a place where tomb robbers flock to it.
During Zhang Feng's field trip, he met a stinking "robber friend" Wang Tao in the local area, and the two had common aspirations and soon formed a tomb robbery squad. After discussion, Zhang Feng decided to expand his team, so he called out to Niu Wei, who had cooperated many times in the tomb robbery in Henan. Niu Wei has a wide network of contacts, and he can be exported with his stolen goods.
With the labor force Wang Tao and the "diplomatic assistant" Niu Wei, Zhang Feng found that there was still a lack of a technical backbone in their team, so he quickly called his cousin Zhang Fu in Henan and called him to come and "get rich". Zhang Fu is good at using compasses, but also mastered the most difficult electronic compass technology in the industry, usually he relies on this technology to often pick up some "extra money" in Henan, and sometimes sells some archaeological information and tomb treasure maps. This is really "not a family, not a door", these two cousins are simply bad together.
After receiving the call, Zhang Fu rushed to Dulan County by train, and began to study several sites that might be set up as tomb sites, and finally locked a grassland. This grassland is now contracted by the local nomad Suo, and their family lives in the grassland. Zhang Feng used the 100,000 yuan saved when he robbed the tomb to buy the one-year use period of this grassland, and made a request to Suo, hoping that they could temporarily move. Since the price given by Zhang Feng was three times the price of the local contracted grassland, Suo quickly agreed.
Zhang Feng's gang soon began to move, often lying day and night. Their act of stealing holes attracted nearby herders, and the simple people did not know what they were going to do, and they were curious and suspicious at the same time, knowing that Zhang Feng bought the grassland at a high price, but did not keep cattle and sheep in captivity, and his words and deeds were very strange. Some herders couldn't help but ask, and Zhang Feng would say that they were collecting stones.
After seven nights of excavation, they eventually obtained a total of 62 pieces of gold. These gold artifacts are different from the existing cultural relics, because there are fewer Tuguhun gold artifacts excavated before, so this batch of gold artifacts can be said to be priceless. Under the contact of Niu Wei, they sold this batch of cultural relics for 18 million yuan.
After the money arrived, Zhang Feng was ecstatic and celebrated with several companions. While several people were triumphant, the police came to the door and arrested them all. It turned out that the strange behavior of Zhang Feng and his party was too eye-catching, which made the residents near the grassland suspicious, and someone went to report the case. In the process of arresting the qinghai police, the Henan police also received anonymous reports, and eventually several people were arrested in Henan.
According to Article 328 of the Criminal Law: [Crimes of Excavating Ancient Cultural Sites and Ancient Tombs] Whoever excavates ancient cultural sites or tombs of historical, artistic or scientific value shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; Excavating ancient cultural sites or tombs, and stealing precious cultural relics or causing serious damage to precious cultural relics. Zhang Feng and his party have been suspected of committing crimes, and Zhang Feng, as the leading member, should be severely punished. In the end, they were all severely punished by the law.
This case tells us a truth: If a person has real talent and practical learning, but does not use it on the right path, but instead engages in illegal activities, then he will cause more serious harm to the people, society, and the country, and the consequences will be more serious. Just imagine, if someone like Zhang Feng can seriously study archaeology and use his knowledge to serve the public and contribute to the development of archaeology in china, he will not only not end up in prison, but will have higher achievements. The most important thing to be a person is to stick to your heart, followed by the pursuit of learning.
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