In 1928, residents living in Malanyu near the Qing Tombs suddenly received a very strange notice from their superiors, which claimed to be holding a military exercise, so they asked the relevant personnel to evacuate or not to go out, and the tomb keepers in the Qing Tombs were also involuntarily driven away by the soldiers.
Leading this force was the warlord Sun Dianying, and the next thing to happen was the Qing Dongling treasure theft case that caused a sensation in the 20s.
As early as 1927, the warlord Sun Dianying had already surrendered to Chiang Kai-shek, and on the way to Hebei the following year, Sun Dianying, who led the army, found that the wood and stone on the ground of the Qing Dongling Tomb had been demolished, so he also coveted the treasures buried in the ground.
In July of that year, after evacuating the surrounding unrelated crowds, Sun Dianying began his own tomb robbery plan, due to the tight time, Sun Dianying finally chose two places as the "main attack" direction, one is dingdongling, where the empress dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty is buried, spending 2.27 million taels of silver, a total of 14 years of construction.
The other team aimed at Yuling, where the most famous Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was buried, and Qianlong, at the peak of the Qing Dynasty's national strength, completed this huge project, spending millions of dollars and two huge funds. Qianlong's original plan was to have a luxurious residence after his death, but with the arrival of Sun Dianying, all this was broken, the soldiers could not find the entrance to the underground palace, and directly used brute force to blow up the tomb, it is not difficult to imagine the destruction of the entire burial chamber, even Qianlong was not spared, how tragic qianlong died?
The "Diary of Yu Gong Dongling" was written by the Qing Dynasty Patriarch Baoxi, and after they received the notice of the theft of the Tomb in August, they rushed to the scene, but it was already a mess.
In the underground palace of Qianlong, it was full of accumulated water, and it took the Qing Dynasty clan five days to pump the accumulated water to a height of no more than one foot deep with a water pump, and before that, the soldiers had already gone in to do a big flip.
According to historical records, in addition to Qianlong, there were also two empresses and three imperial concubines buried in Yuling, but everyone was completely unable to distinguish which skeletons belonged to whom.
In addition, four skulls were found in the tomb, and it was basically certain that the largest one should belong to Qianlong, because nearby was the coffin that belonged to him, but when it was found, the part of the skull had been crushed by the stone door above. Bao Xi was impressed by this: "The two eyes only have deep orbits, and the lamp looks closely, as if a white light is shooting out of the eye sockets." ”
When Puyi, who lived in the Japanese Concession of Tianjin, learned of this incident, he was also extremely angry and vowed to "avenge this", but the only thing he could do was to file a complaint with the people of the clan and file a complaint to Chiang Kai-shek.
Sun Dianying also knew that he had stabbed a big basket and bribed everywhere with jewelry, and this treasure theft case ended hastily with Nanjing arresting several of Sun Dianying's subordinates and putting them in prison.