On July 2, 1928, the warlord Sun Dianying secretly excavated the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty under the pretext of military exercises, and stole a large number of gold and silver treasures from them, so that the whereabouts of these treasures are still unknown.
On August 5, 1928, Reuters published a surprising news, and the next day this news was reprinted by major Chinese newspapers, and for a time the whole country was in an uproar, the National Government was shocked, and the people were talking about it.
At that time in Zhang Yuan, who was in the Japanese Concession of Tianjin, Ai XinJue Luo Puyi heard this news, he lost his voice and cried bitterly, he could not stop swearing to heaven, if he did not take revenge, he would not be a descendant of Ai Xin Jue Luo.
Qianlong and Cixi were both prominent figures in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and the number of buried jewels in the two tombs was amazing. Since both tombs were stolen and excavated, Sun Dianying and his officers and soldiers naturally made a windfall fortune.
Since the theft of the Tanglin Tombs, the qing dynasty's widows have repeatedly gone to the garrison headquarters to demand severe punishment for the robbers, and people from all walks of life have sent telegrams to the government to demand that they be dealt with expeditiously and impartially.
Amid the nationwide outcry, the National Government also took the posture of investigating to the end and severely punishing the main culprit, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered the arrest of the culprit of the tomb robbery.
It is reasonable to say that Sun Dianying was doomed; but such a shocking case was finally not solved. The reason for this was not known to the outside world for a long time, until the end of the 1970s, when the truth was revealed to the world. It turned out to be a series of dirty behind-the-scenes transactions like tomb robbery, so that Sun Dianying finally turned the danger into a disaster.
Sun Dianying selected a batch of precious treasures from the stolen goods in the tombs of Tanglin to give to people, and Sun Dianying quickly selected a batch of more precious treasures from the tanglin stolen goods: one of the Nine Dragon Swords, the sword face was embedded with nine golden dragons, and the handle of the sword was embedded with precious stones, which he entrusted to Chiang Kai-shek; the other sword was given to He Yingqin;
It is said that the most precious treasure is a night pearl contained in Cixi's mouth, in fact, it is a kind of ore that will glow, but this ore is very magical, separated is two pieces, combined is a round ball, when separated, it does not send off, together it will emit a green cold light, at night within a hundred steps can see the hair, he also entrusted this treasure to Song Meiling;
After that, Sun Dianying was not only not disposed of, but also the official Yun Hengtong, in 1930 he participated in the Central Plains War, and then surrendered to Zhang Xueliang, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Sun Dianying was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Jicha guerrilla army, and also served as the commander of the Fifth Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he followed Chiang Kai-shek. In 1947, in the people's liberation army's campaign to liberate Tangyin in Henan, he was captured by the People's Liberation Army and later died in a war criminal shelter, so that the main criminal who had been at large for more than 20 years finally completed his life.
So, does the tomb robber Sun Dianying have descendants? Just three years after Sun Dianying robbed the tomb, Sun Dianying's son Sun Tianyi was born in Beijing in 1931, and although Sun Tianyi has been living in the shadow of the "great thief" father, he has never stopped improving himself.
In 1992, in response to the call of the central leaders to renovate the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, Shaanxi Province decided to set up the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum Foundation, which organizationally made Sun Tianyi the vice president, and he readily agreed; two years later, he took over the presidency.
Sun Tianyi said: "The stain of my father's destruction of cultural relics cannot be erased, and because of this, it has increased my sense of responsibility for protecting cultural relics." ”