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Look at this place, built by the mountains and the water, the ground is built with magnificent high-rise pavilions, and the underground is the mysterious imperial tomb underground palace. This is the Qing Dynasty Tombs, and since the Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, several emperors have been buried here. The ground building is still so magnificent, and there are countless rare treasures hidden under the underground palace.
These precious funerary items accompanied the former True Dragon Heavenly Son, the former concubine and concubine in the darkness, but finally waited for the visit of the tomb robbers. In 1928, Sun Dianying led his accomplices into the tomb, plundered for three days and three nights, and lost countless rare treasures, this tomb robbery case caused the whole country to shock, but who knows, the tomb robbery of the Qing Dongling, and more than one gang?
Tomb robber warlord Sun Dianying
Sun Dianying was the commander of the Kuomintang 12th Army. In 1928, he was sent to the eastern Hebei region to suppress bandits. Along the way, Sun Dianying saw countless high-grade timber being transported out, and couldn't help but be curious: "In this chaotic world, everyone is in danger, and they can't be satisfied with enough food and drink, where did these woods, which look like high-grade goods, come from?" After grabbing a few inquiries about transporting wood, he learned that this was the wood on the Hall of The Tanglin, and the care was loose in the chaotic world, which made everyone exploit the loophole.
"If that's the case, then I'm not welcome." Sun Dianying heard that the imperial tomb not only contained these high-quality woods, but also hid countless rare treasures, and he became unjust.
Although Sun Dianying was a villain who had made a fortune in the country, he also had a little cleverness; he drove away the people who had originally stolen from the imperial tomb, held an emergency meeting, posted a notice one moment to prepare for military exercises, and borrowed the name of Dr. Sun Yat-sen for a while and began a vigorous tomb robbery plan under the pretext of "revolution."
This group of bandits excavated from the hall on the ground, because of the large number of people, and soon opened the entrance. After entering, the miasma of dark arrows was innumerable, and this trip to rob the tomb killed many soldiers. But how can the weapons of no emotion be able to defeat the people with black hearts, Sun Dianying and his party finally saw the coffin.
The book "Miscellaneous Memories of Shi Zai Tang" once recalled the scene of their tomb robbery: "There is no calculation in the jewelry piled up in the coffin, the large one is taken by the chief, and the small one is taken by the soldiers in the pocket." So the commander-in-chief ordered that the dragon robe be removed and the personal jewels searched. "In the coffin lay dead Qing Dynasty nobles, and only countless treasures quietly accompanied these corpses. The blinded Sun Dianying commanded them to plunder, and a generation of imperial tombs were destroyed and became dilapidated.
The paper wrapped could not hold the fire, and finally Sun Dianying's tomb robbery case was exposed. Countless righteous people throughout the country wanted to fight him, but this man was too cunning, and he escaped the judgment of the people under the rogue excuse of "the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty killed my ancestors for three generations, and I just wanted to take revenge", and those rare treasures were scattered with him.
This is the famous "first Qing Dongling treasure theft case" in history.
Peasant bandit Wang Shaoyi
Say "the first Qing Dongling treasure theft case", then there must be a second time. Although Sun Dianying is very famous for stealing the Qing Dongling Tomb, after this case, the treasures left in the mausoleum are enough for ordinary people to live for many years.
In 1945, during the civil war, because of the turmoil in the world, the Qing Emperor's mausoleum did not have strict security, and a group of peasants saw this, knew that the opportunity had come, and took this opportunity to carry out action. At first, everyone was still a little worried about moving the soil on the tomb of Emperor Lao Tzu, and the knife fell to the ground, which was really dangerous. What's more, a group of ordinary people, and not as many people as Sun Thief, how can everyone open the gate of the underground palace?
At this time, Wang Shaoyi appeared, he was originally a cotton-playing craftsman, and it took more than ten years to survey the terrain in the village next to the Qing Dynasty. These years are not in vain, he took a thick iron plate to make a special tool, boasting: "This tool, open the underground palace, not too simple." "People live a life, rich and noble in danger, brothers, why not take this opportunity to catch a hand?" The worst is eighteen years later, and it is a good man. ”
This group of people is really clever, they are not called tomb robbery, called "digging gold", and they have united with the tomb keepers who have lived in the surrounding area for generations, promising to give them a share after the event is completed. In this way, there is no army to guard, there are crafts to rob tombs, even the tomb keepers are in the same stream, the heavens and places are favorable and all are occupied, and the tomb robbery begins vigorously.
The gang dug for three days and three nights, and with the support of special tools, they dug up the tomb of the Kangxi Emperor. Let's say that Sun Dianying excavated the tombs of Empress Dowager Cixi and Qianlong, the most luxurious Kangxi tomb, and has not yet moved.
Seeing some rare treasures, Wang Shaoyi's villain Dezhi said: "The tombs we dug are much more powerful than those dug by Sun Dianying." In a fit of rage, these civilian thieves dug up 11 tombs of the Qing Emperor in a row, plundering far more treasure than Sun Dianying, and they became well-known upstarts.
Everyone sees that these rogues who are usually poor enough to die have lived much better than themselves, and their psychology is unbalanced. People, there are always a lot of comparison hearts, and I can't do less than others. Suddenly, tomb robbery became a fashion, and the destruction of imperial tombs became more and more serious.
God pity, in the end these customs aroused the attention of society, although the Qing Dynasty died, but those mausoleum treasures, are historical symbols, how can they be erased? In the end, Wang Shaoyi, the initiator of the tomb robbery case, was caught and executed.
Grave robbery is intolerable
The warlord Sun Dianying escaped, and the rich and noble spent the rest of their lives, and Wang Shaoyi, who played cotton, died a tragic death. But whether it is to release the sinners or to severely punish them, the Qing Tombs are destroyed or destroyed, and the bones of the emperor, the craftsmanship of the Qing Dynasty, and the countless treasures cannot be returned.
We hate these grave robbers, not their conscience for money, but their ignorance. Because of ignorance, how much historical precipitation, how many memories imprinted in the craft, disappear forever.
Tomb robbery, not to mention disrespect for other people's ancestors, wanton destruction of the place behind them, who can bear it? With a normal heart, I still wanted to shout out angrily: "Sun Dianying and Wang Shaoyi, this Qing Dongling treasure theft case, such a tomb robbery evil, is really intolerable!" “
References: Encyclopedia entries "Qing Dongling Treasure Theft Case", "Sun Dianying"
In the history of the 6 major tomb robbers, Sun Dianying is the most rude, and Wang Shaoyi has the most perseverance - Small Art Stick Figure