In the last year of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Qin II was at the mercy of the eunuch Zhao Gao, referring to the deer as horses and extravagant. The people undertook heavy labor, and finally Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up and started a vigorous anti-Qin peasant war. In the war, all the forces competed to appear, and in the end, the strongest forces were only Xiang Yu and Liu Bang.
Soon after the overthrow of the violent Qin, the two sides launched a fierce struggle for hegemony in the world, known in history as the "Chu-Han Struggle for Hegemony". In the process of the Chu-Han struggle, Liu Bang was initially at a disadvantage, although he had strategists such as Xiao He and Zhang Liang, and even more "soldier immortals" like Han Xin. However, in the early stage of the struggle, it was still difficult to defeat Xiang Yu. One of them, a strategist named Fan Zeng, played an important role.
Fan Zeng's hermitage
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We are all familiar with the story of the Hongmen Banquet, and during the banquet, Xiang Yu almost killed Liu Bang. If Liu Bang dies, then the history of our country will certainly be rewritten. The person who proposed this plan was None other than Fan Zeng. But as we know, Xiang Yu did not follow Fan Zeng's advice in the end and let Liu Bang go.
This matter was so angry that Fan Gao shouted: "The shaft is insufficient and conspiratorial." This remark actually angered Xiang Yu, and eventually the gap between the two of them deepened, causing Fan Zeng to finally leave Xiang Yu and never hear from him again. Xiang Yu, who lost Fan Zeng, was always at a disadvantage in the political struggle and was eventually defeated by Liu Bang. When summing up his experience after the war, Liu Bang said this sentence: "Xiang Yu has a fan increase and cannot be used, so he thinks that I have captured it." This shows the great role of Fan Zeng.
And what we are going to talk about today is related to Fan Zeng.
Entrance to the tomb
02 According to the "Tomb of the First Thief", during the Yuan Dynasty in China, there was a man named Jia Hu, who was idle and always hoped that this would make him rich overnight. So he set his sights on the profession of tomb robbery and became a tomb robber. After excavating several small tombs, Jahu felt that he had mastered the art of tomb robbery and began to look for larger tombs.
After a long search, Jia Hu finally found a "Tushan Han Tomb" in the northern foothills of Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou. According to locals, the tomb has been around for a long time, but people have never been able to know who the owner of the tomb is.
According to Li Daoyuan's Notes on the Water Classics, it is likely that this is Fan Zeng's mausoleum. "On the southwestern foothills of the present-day Pengcheng South Xiangyu Opera Horse Terrace, that is, Yafu Tsukasa."
Fan Zeng's hermitage
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At that time, Xiang Yu once honored Fan Zeng as his father, and if this was really Fan Zeng's tomb, then after his death, Xiang Yu would definitely give him a rich funeral. Thinking of this, Jia Hu couldn't wait to start the excavation at night, but after digging for a few days, he found that the tomb was extremely strong and could not be dug through in a short time. In order to be able to excavate the treasures in it, Jahu actually built a house on the ancient tomb, lived a normal life during the day, and secretly excavated at night.
Jahu built a house on the tomb in order to steal the treasure
But the tomb is too strong. Later, after research, this tomb has as many as 1,000 boulders weighing nearly a thousand kilograms, the role of these stones is to prevent tomb robbers, but even these huge stones have not been able to stop Jia Hu a heart that wants to get rich, in order to steal treasures, he excavated day and night, did not expect that this excavation was 20 years, and finally penetrated the tomb. Being able to dig through an ancient tomb with anti-theft Stonehenge by relying on primitive tools alone had to "admire" Jahu's perseverance. It is really the most "dedicated" tomb robber in ancient times.
Robbery hole
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After digging through the tomb, Jahu finally entered the tomb, where he found a large number of treasures, including rare treasures such as ancient swords. With this successful tomb robbery operation, Jia Hu suddenly became a well-known figure in the tomb robbery industry, and he also made a lot of money by relying on these cultural relics.
But Skynet was restored without leakage, and as Jiahu's reputation spread, the government also targeted him. You know, tomb robbery is a felony both in ancient times and in modern times. So the government organized manpower to carry out a large-scale search and arrest, and finally arrested Jia Hu.
Jahu worked hard for 20 years, and before he could spend the money, he was arrested and imprisoned, which is really ironic. So is this tomb that Jiahu spent 20 years on Fan Zeng? The answer is no.
Ancient tomb excavation site
epilogue
The age of Fan Zeng's death should be before the establishment of the Han Dynasty, and this tomb uses a brick and stone structure, which has obvious characteristics of eastern Han tombs, so the suspicion of Fan Zeng's tomb is ruled out. Later, after in-depth and meticulous excavation by archaeologists, experts found many cultural relics in the tomb, including silver jade clothes, according to which experts deduced that the owner of this tomb should be Liu Ying, the king of Chu in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
This story tells us that everyone has the heart to love money, but only through reasonable and legal means to obtain wealth, is really their own. Jiahu spent 20 years digging ancient tombs, and although he was the most "dedicated" tomb robber in history, he still could not escape the sanctions of the government.