I believe that many people are very confused about the history of Cao Cao's family in the Three Kingdoms period, obviously just after a eunuch, although there is a little power, but compared with the two brothers of the Yuan family, it is simply not enough to see, especially the supply of grain and grass for the army is an astronomical number, in order to supplement their own financial deficiencies, so Cao Cao sent his men to start robbing tombs, so cao Cao dug up the tomb of whom, and actually let his army eat for three years without being eaten poorly?
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were fighting in the Central Plains, Yuan Shao's power at that time was strong, Cao Cao was far inferior to Yuan Shao at that time, and Cao Cao urgently needed to use money to recruit soldiers and buy horses, just at this time Cao Cao thought of robbing tombs and taking money from the dead. So the two tomb robber groups were established. According to records, Touching Gold and Fa Qiu were a team directly under the command of Cao Cao, following Cao Cao everywhere to dig people's graves. Chen Lin, the talented man at that time, also said: In order to raise an army, Cao Thief dug people's graves everywhere, and also specially set up two positions: Lieutenant Colonel Touching Gold and General Fa Qiu Zhonglang.
It is said that Cao Cao once led people to steal a tomb, raised a lot of money, and fed Cao Jun for 3 years. So, whose tomb did Cao Cao steal, in fact, the tomb that Cao Cao stole was the tomb of Liu Bang's grandson Liu Wu. This Liu Wu was a very powerful person with a "background", his grandfather was Liu Bang, his father was Liu Heng, the Emperor wen of Han, his brother was Liu Qi, the Emperor of Han Jing, and his mother was the famous Empress Dou in history. It can be said that as soon as Liu Wu was born, he was "a collection of thousands of pets in one". I have to say that Cao Cao really picked people and found a tomb with such a strong background.
According to records, the palace of Liu Wu, the king of Liang Xiao, covers an area of more than thirty miles, and there are thousands of servants who go out with him, and the wealth can be imagined, he has more jewelry, jade and other valuables than the Han Dynasty royal family, and the gold and treasures are not only ten thousand pounds. It can be seen from this that after the death of Liu Wu, the King of Liang, he must have been more perfect in terms of tombs than other princes, and even it may be richer than the imperial tombs. Therefore, in a way, Liu Wu's mausoleum is a treasure trove of rich and invincible countries.
It's just that Liu Wu, the King of Liang Xiao, did not expect that so many of his burials were all given to a pot by Cao Cao, instantly making Cao Cao rich overnight, so Cao Cao's early army had enough grain and grass to survive the most difficult moments during his own entrepreneurship.