Mention of the name of Lieutenant Touching Gold can be said to be known to everyone, many film and television dramas on the theme of tomb robbery are based on this group of people as the prototype, historically Captain Touching Gold is a special unit under Cao Cao, their task is to steal the tombs of predecessors, and the funerary goods obtained from the tombs will be exchanged for money to supplement the expenses required for war.
However, this lieutenant who existed in ancient times actually appeared in modern times, and he relied on a steel bar and a flashlight to dig out a large number of funerary items from the ancient tomb, and according to incomplete statistics, these funerary items are worth 500 million yuan.
Next, we will talk about the legend of this gold-touching lieutenant and see how he stole the ancient tomb.
First, money is obsessed
With the fire of "Notes on Tomb Robbery", various film and television works with tomb robbery as the theme have sprung up like mushrooms, and people know that there is also the profession of tomb robbery among these three hundred and six lines. And those gold and silver treasures in the ancient tombs have made countless people crazy, who doesn't like money?
However, like to like, everyone knows that this kind of thing can not be sought, even if it really happens, the things in the ancient tomb are not what we should touch, and it is the best choice to give them to the state, of course, the country will certainly not be indebted to those who find it. But there are always exceptions to things, and some people don't take the right path and start the idea of ancient tombs.
This person is Yao Yuzhong, just look at the name and really think he is a good person, but the family is a full-fledged "gold lieutenant", that is, the real tomb robber. He was originally just an ordinary farmer, in order to make a living with the land all his life, but the weather is unpredictable, many natural blows have made his life into a desperate situation, in order to feed his stomach he embarked on the crooked road of tomb robbery.
In his opinion, nothing came faster than this money, and it was. You must know that the money exchanged for selling an antique from the late Qing Dynasty is equivalent to his agricultural work for more than half a year. Just as the so-called money can make the ghost grind, for money he resolutely and resolutely embarked on the road of breaking the law, just in response to the joke that "the way to make a lot of money is written in the criminal law."
Second, housekeeping skills
But the question also arises, this ancient tomb is buried under the ground, how did he find it as a farmer? This has to be said back to himself, this Yao Yuzhong in order to carry out his great cause of tomb robbery, deliberately collected a large number of information, of which even the I Ching gossip is within his scope. What is even more shocking is that he also understands feng shui, to know that feng shui is a rather profound science, who can think that this humble farmer still understands this?
After talking about his own advantages, let's talk about the geographical conditions, his location is the Hongshan Cultural Area, that is to say, this generation has unearthed a lot of ancient tombs, so far there are many people have not been found, so that Yao Yuzhong has the space to play.
As for how he judged the location of the tomb, people also had their own methods. As we all know, the archaeological team determines whether there is a tomb by relying on the Luoyang shovel, and if the soil brought up by a shovel is abnormal, then it means that there is a tomb underground. And this Yao Yuzhong obviously did not know what was called a Luoyang shovel, but he still understood this truth, so he found a steel bar to act as a Luoyang shovel.
With a hard squeeze, a small amount of dirt will be brought out of the thread of the steel bar, and as a farmer, he wants to distinguish the abnormality of the soil, is it not handy? In this way, Yao Yuzhong relied on continuous practice and exploration to summarize a set of experiences suitable for himself, which can also be regarded as self-taught. It's just a pity that he used this cleverness in the wrong place.
3. Tomb robbery
So how did he steal the tomb? First of all, he will find a high point to observe the surrounding terrain, and then stand on the perspective of feng shui to circle a piece of "feng shui treasure land", and then Yao Yuzhong will carry his heirloom during the day, that is, the steel bar to the place selected in advance, after many explorations, as long as he finds that there is "flower soil" or gravel powder on the steel bar, then it means that he has chosen the right place, and then he will leave a mark.
When the preparation work is done, Yao Yuzhong will go home to sleep and recuperate, and at night he will sneak out the door, then use a flashlight to find the mark of the day, and then he will start digging the robber hole, the usual method is to first dig the hole vertically outside the range, and then dig horizontally towards the target area.
The reason for this is also to leave a way back for yourself, but also to avoid your own hole being discovered. In this way, he dug up countless funerary items from the ancient tomb, and he lived a good life by relying on these cultural relics. After many people who were obsessed with money knew about this matter, they wanted to follow him to get rich, so Yao Yuzhong, who was originally a person, developed a tomb robbery gang of nearly a hundred people.
After that, they stole an unknown number of tombs, and the treasures dug out of them were innumerable, and these people also made a lot of money, and Yao Yuzhong was also called "the emperor of the tomb robbery" by these "insiders".
Fourth, arrested
With more and more stolen tombs, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, Yao Yuzhong's vision has also broadened a lot, nothing else, casually take out a cultural relics he can see what era it is, which even many experts are ashamed of.
However, as the old saying goes, there are often shoes that do not get wet when walking by the river. The result of a failed tomb robber is to fall into the point of no return, the state is quite disgusted with people like them, and China's laws also clearly stipulate that tomb robbery is illegal. The people who thought they were doing it perfectly finally showed their horses' feet.
A large amount of money flowed on a farmer, which was obviously unreasonable, so the relevant departments intervened in the investigation, and this investigation found that they had secretly done these things, and this group of tomb robbers under the vines and melons all fell into the legal net. Later, according to the incomplete statistics of experts, the value of the cultural relics stolen by this group of people was as high as more than 500 million yuan, which is only the value of cultural relics, if you count the damage of ancient tombs, this loss is even higher. In the end, Yao Yuzhong was sentenced to death by the court according to law, ending his career as a tomb robber.
5. General Connection
Looking back, this Yao Yuzhong is actually very talented, and he can completely participate in the archaeological team with these skills, so that he has a respected job and the problem of food and clothing will be solved. But he embarked on this road of no return because of greed, and the final fate can also be said to be self-inflicted.
Just as the so-called "gentleman loves money and has a way", we should not be blinded by greed like him, even if we are poor, we cannot lose a proud bone.