Although Sun Dianying was once a general of the Kuomintang, he is more well known for his theft of the Tanglin Tombs. It is precisely because of this incident that when Sun Dianying first met Chiang Kai-shek, he was frightened by his words and fell to his knees. So what did Chiang Kai-shek say?
The tombs of Cixi and Qianlong were excavated
In the spring of 1928, the Nationalist government received information that Ma Futian, a bandit who had been recruited by the former Feng army, led his troops to defect to the area of Malanyu in Zunhua City, Hebei Province. Ma Lanyu is the place where the Qing Tombs are located, and Ma Futian is obviously going to rob the tomb. At that time, the large troops of the Northern Expedition of the Kuomintang army had already entered the Hebei region. If the Qing Tombs in Hebei were stolen at this time, wouldn't they be smearing the Kuomintang's face? So Sun Dianying, who was then the commander of the Twelfth Army of the Sixth Army, was ordered to stop it. But who knows, Sun Dianying not only failed to protect the Qing Tombs, but also saw the unrighteous guards who stole themselves. Sun Dianying first drove away Ma Futian, and then, in order to hide his eyes and ears, he put up notices everywhere, claiming that his troops were going to conduct military exercises. In this way, when robbing the tomb, even if there is a big movement, it will not make people feel strange and come to find out.
In fact, the Qing Tombs are not the mausoleums of any emperor of the Qing Dynasty, but the imperial mausoleum complex, which is buried inside
There are 5 emperors, 15 empresses, as well as concubines, brothers and princesses, a total of 161 people
。 After some investigation, Sun Dianying chose the Yuling Tomb of the Qianlong Emperor and the Dingling Tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi. Because Qianlong was the ruler of the Qing Dynasty's most prosperous period, and although Cixi was the empress, she was actually the last person in the qing Dynasty to actually hold power, and her life style was known for its luxury. Therefore, in the tombs of these two people, the number of precious funerary items must be very large.
When the tomb robbery officially began, Sun Dianying cleared all the tomb guards on the grounds that military exercises were to lay mines on the ground. Later, on the grounds that the local people were working hard to grow grain and had to go elsewhere to collect military food, the governor of Zunhua County helped hire more than 30 mules and carriages to facilitate the later transportation of pirated funerary goods. Unable to find the entrance to cixi's dingling underground palace, Sun Dianying directly blew the mausoleum open with explosives, and in the coffin of the underground palace, Sun Dianying found Cixi's body that had not been completely decomposed after decades, and ransacked precious funerary items such as pearls, agate, jade, jade and red coral dragon heads.
It is said that in the Qianlong Yu Mausoleum, the treasures stolen by Sun Dianying were filled with forty or fifty boxes.
Although Sun Dianying was there
The Qianlong Emperor
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Empress Dowager Cixi
The treasures excavated by Dingling are not recorded in detail, but they can be filled with more than 30 mule carriages, and the number can be imagined.
After Sun Dianying's deeds of digging up and excavating the Qing Tombs were revealed, it caused a sensation throughout the country, and the representatives of the Qing royal family living in the Japanese Concession of Tianjin at that time were living
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The others also went to Chiang Kai-shek to file a complaint and demanded that Sun Dianying be severely punished. That Sun Dianying, as the commander of the Twelfth Army of the Sixth Army of the Kuomintang Army, did not hold a low position, and the future of good development was immeasurable, so why did he take the risk and risk the world to excavate and bury the Tanglin Tombs?
The reasons for the grave excavation are scrutinized
This also starts from the birth of Sun Dianying, who was born in a rural area in Yongcheng, Henan Province, and his father was arrested and imprisoned when he was very young because he helped the villagers to get out of the way and beat a flag man. In the end, under severe torture, he died before he was released from prison. The top pillar of the family was gone, and Sun Dianying's mother had to go out to earn money to support the family. Sun Dianying, who was unsuspected, played with the on the street every day. Near the ink black, it did not take long for Sun Dianying to be completely reduced to one of them. When he grew up, Sun Dianying joined the temple taoist association, a non-governmental organization in western Henan. With the ability to dance with long sleeves, it only took two years for Sun Dianying to become the head of the temple Taoist society, and thus became acquainted with many military and police officials.
In 1922
At that time, Sun Dianying led his men to defect to the Ding Xiangling Department, the leader of the First Mixed Regiment of the Henan Army. Later, he took advantage of the chaotic period of the Second Zhifeng War to recruit his own troops. However, the strength of Sun Dianying's troops was too weak and could only go with the flow.
In 1925
At that time, Sun Dianying's troops were enshrined as warlords
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It was incorporated into the Thirty-fifth Division, with Sun Dianying as the division commander. After several turnovers, Sun Dianying participated in the Northern Expedition, was successfully countered by the Kuomintang, and became the commander of the Twelfth Army of the Sixth Army of the Kuomintang Army. At that time, the Kuomintang army was more regular than other warlords. However, Sun Dianying was born as a mixture and got used to it freely, and it was inevitable that he was a little dissatisfied. Coupled with the serious internal struggle for power in the Kuomintang army, Sun Dianying, who has no background and no backing, cannot compete with others at all, and the resources obtained are often the worst, which is simply not enough to support the operation of his own troops. For several reasons, Sun Dianying finally chose to rob the tomb.
Bribe the top brass and exonerate them
Although the matter of tomb robbery went to the Nationalist government, Sun Dianying did not want to sit still. Taking the treasures obtained from the tomb robbery, such as Chiang Kai-shek's confidants Dai Kasa and He Yingqin, Song Meiling and his brother Song Ziwen, etc. are all sun dianying's dotting objects. Of course, the most important Chiang Kai-shek must not have forgotten, Sun Dianying specially selected a sword engraved with nine golden dragons and precious stones to give to Chiang Kai-shek. I don't know whether the sword sent by Sun Dianying is in line with Chiang Kai-shek's desire to rule the world, or whether the intercession of several other people is enough. In short, in the final tomb robbery case in Tanglin that shocked the whole country, Sun Dianying successfully escaped, but was removed from his post.
Although Sun Dianying later defected to Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan during the Central Plains War, after the defeat, he was taken in by Zhang Xueliang and appointed as the commander of the 14th Division. However, in 1934, when Sun Dianying led his troops to attack the northwest, and was jointly confronted by the Qinghai warlords Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang and the Ningxia warlords Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui, Chiang Kai-shek once again took the opportunity to issue an order to remove Sun Dianying from all his posts. In Chiang Kai-shek's view, Sun Dianying's switch to Feng and Yan during the Great War in the Central Plains and to resist the attack of his own troops was a naked betrayal.
After the July 7 Incident, the country became more and more turbulent, and Sun Dianying wanted to take this opportunity to rejoin the Kuomintang army. But after the previous few events, it was enough for Sun Dianying to understand that the key to whether he could stand up was Chiang Kai-shek. So Sun Dianying and his only 2,000 men found Dai Kasa with a large cart of treasures and asked him to help introduce himself to Chiang Kai-shek. After Sun Dianying saw Chiang Kai-shek and explained his request. However, Chiang Kai-shek did not say whether he could or could not, but said lightly, "Your history is not very innocent, and you must take advantage of the time of saving the country to show yourself well." Sun Dianying thought that Chiang Kai-shek was going to turn over the old accounts again, and he was so frightened that he quickly knelt down to show his loyalty. Chiang Kai-shek also knew that Sun Dianying was really desperate, and most of the carts of treasures brought by Sun Dianying had entered his pocket. Therefore, seeing that Sun Dianying's attitude was good, he gave him a nickname for the provisional Fifth Army and made him the commander of the army. Although it was provisional, Sun Dianying still regarded Chiang Kai-shek as a "regenerative parent", and during the Liberation War, he turned his troops into the advance army of the Kuomintang, and actively helped Chiang Kai-shek to fight against our army.
It was not until 1947, in the battle of Tangyin, Henan, that Sun Dianying was captured by our army, and this tomb robber who had been at large for more than 20 years finally got the punishment he deserved. However, our army remembered Sun Dianying's meritorious anti-Japanese merits and did not condemn him to death. Later, Sun Dianying fell ill and died in a war criminals shelter.