There was an old man in Hebei who played cotton, his name was Wang Shaoyi, and when he was young, he was a subordinate of the bandit Ma Futian. He had followed the bandits to Tanglin and stole some cultural relics. Soon after, Sun Dianying drove them out in the name of suppressing bandits. During this period, Wang Shaoyi luckily escaped the disaster, and after he left Ma Futian, he secretly returned to the vicinity of Tanglin and learned the craft of playing cotton with others.
Apart from the necessary communication, he had little contact with others and never showed any flaws. After the founding of New China, Wang Shaoyi, who had been lurking in Dongling for more than ten years, once again had the idea of robbing tombs. He knew that he was weak and weak, and there was no way to steal cultural relics from it unconsciously, so he secretly used bribes to win over some tomb keepers and negotiated with them about specific ways to divide the loot.
These tomb keepers have been guarding the imperial tomb since the Beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and they are very familiar with the structure inside, and they have long coveted the things inside. It has not been put into action before, mainly because the Qing Dynasty has not yet perished. Fearing that after the matter was revealed, they would be arrested by the imperial court and sentenced to death. Now that the Qing Dynasty has been extinct for many years, the Ai Xin Jue Luo family is also anonymous, and they do not dare to show their faces at all, they do not need to be jealous of the Qing Dynasty anymore. Therefore, as soon as Wang Shaoyi proposed to steal the imperial tomb, these people immediately agreed. They made keys out of steel plates, opened more than a dozen luxurious royal tombs, and stole tens of thousands of precious artifacts from them. Because these people's actions are relatively hidden, they have not been discovered by others.
Wang Shaoyi originally thought that they could rely on the cultural relics in the Tanglin Tomb and live a life in a dashing manner. As a result, because one of the people was not strict, the news was leaked. Based on these clues, the relevant departments immediately launched an investigation and found this group of tomb robbers who almost emptied the imperial tomb. Before the police took action to arrest them, Wang Shaoyi and others got the news in advance and fled in a hurry.
These people hid for a long time before they were caught by the case-handling personnel and received the punishment they deserved. During the interrogation, Wang Shaoyi confessed that the cultural relics they stole were basically sold overseas. Based on their confessions, the staff recovered some of them, while the rest were stranded overseas. Many things have not yet returned to the motherland. Every time cultural relics experts mention this case, they are heartbroken.