Since Cao Cao established the Lieutenant of Touching Gold, the custom of digging graves and stealing treasures has become more and more prosperous, and Cao Cao's Lieutenant of Touching Gold is proficient in all kinds of dragon hunting and nesting, and for personal gain, Lieutenant Touching Gold has also begun to frantically excavate the tombs of princes and generals, of which Sun Dianying Qing Dongling treasure theft is the most rampant.
Sun Dianying, born in 1889 in Yongcheng, Henan, is a descendant of Sun Chengzong, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty's Military Department Shangshu and Dongge University, he has a bold personality since he was a child, very righteous, with his superior wit, he befriended various hooligan villains, and also became the leader of the "Temple Road Society" and became a bandit leader in the Yongcheng area.
But when the bandits were only outlaws after all, in 1922, he led a group of Daoist disciples to defect to Ding Xiangling, the commander of the first mixed regiment of the Henan Army, Yuxi Zhenshou, which greatly increased his power, and after becoming a nominal battalion commander, he was widely accepted as a disciple, and the second time he directly served the war, Sun Dianying became independent and recruited his own troops.
In 1925, the commander-in-chief of the bandits, Huan Yukun, recruited Sun Dianying, but When Yukun lost the battle with the Nationalist Army, Sun Dianying switched to the Nationalist Army, and he was promoted all the way to become the commander of the 35th Division of the Fengzhi Division, but the Fengzhi warlords were defeated in the battle with Feng Yuxiang.
At that time, there were many bandits scattered in the Malanyu area, Sun Dianying was stationed in the mountains around the Qing Dongling in the name of suppressing the bandits, and after driving away the bandits, he began to plan to steal treasures under the pretext of military exercises.
Among them, the Dingdong Tomb where Cixi was buried, was built in the late Qing Dynasty, took 14 years, consumed 2.27 million taels of silver, and the burial products were even more luxurious, according to the "Filial Piety after entering the funeral, sending clothes, appreciating the clothes" book recorded that Ji Cixi had more than 150 pieces of gold flower flat bracelets, red Baguio beans, gold inlaid pots, golden Buddhas, coral buddha head pagodas, etc. in the underground palace, and various jewelry was as many as thousands.
After death, the burial items are innumerable, the beaded crown worn on Cixi's head alone is worth 10 million taels of silver, and the jewelry inlaid with clothes has 6500 pieces, which are only mentioned in the "Notes of Ai Yuexuan", when Sun Dianying stole the treasure, he prepared 7 trucks, which shows the number of burial items.
In 1928, after Sun Dianying opened the underground palace, frantically excavating for 7 days and 7 nights, a witness Bao Xi wrote the "Diary of Yu Gong Dongling": entering the underground palace with a lamp, he saw several sections of white bones floating in the muddy water. The heavy collector found 4 heads, and could not distinguish whether they were male or female, and their situation was a hundred times more miserable than that of the Western Empress Mausoleum.
Empress Xiaoyi was found in the deep water in the northwest corner of the underground palace, Qianlong's skull was lost, probably the stolen treasure was taken out of the underground palace, the coffin was full of knife marks, committing such crimes, Sun Dianying declared to the outside world: Manchu Qing killed him for three generations, he was revenge, but in the end it was only for money.
Sun Dianying has a son named Sun Tianyi, who graduated from the Department of Western Languages and Literatures of Fu Jen University in Beijing in 1952 and is also the president of the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum Foundation, he actively repaired the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, became a "tomb keeper" and collected donations everywhere, everything he did was to protect cultural relics and atone for his father's sins.