During the kaiyuan year, Li Chun, the king of Qing, was sleeping, when he suddenly dreamed of his dead mother, Concubine Hua, wearing loose hair, crying and begging for help: "The hateful tomb robbers dig my grave and insult my body, the child, you must avenge your mother, I want to see this group of thieves exposed outside the Chunming Gate!" ”
Subsequently, Concubine Hua described in detail the appearance of the tomb robber to her son Li Chun, who woke up crying in a dream and broke out in a cold sweat, and early the next morning, he cried and played the events of the dream to his father, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji.
Emperor Xuanzong was horrified to hear this, and at this time, the Tang Dynasty was rising to peace in all parts of the world under his rule, and the security environment was so good that it did not close its house at night and did not carry a blade. Prices are even lower, and in the markets of Chang'an and Luoyang, the price of each rice is only more than a hundred dollars... How could such an insulting thing happen when the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the country was clean and the sea was clear.
Princess Hua was originally Xuanzong's favorite concubine, Xuanzong married her when he was the king of Linzi, she gave birth to three sons for Xuanzong, but Concubine Hua's life was thin, and within a few years of Xuanzong's reign, she died of illness. After Princess Hua's death, in order to show the royal majesty, Emperor Xuanzong ordered her to be buried in the countryside of Chang'an, with countless treasures...
Could it be that this burial treasure caused the thieves to worry? Emperor Xuanzong hurriedly sent someone to inspect the tomb of Concubine Hua, and the officials sent to the scene could not help but be surprised, the tomb was indeed stolen, and the body of Concubine Hua was even more humiliating.
Emperor Xuanzong was furious and immediately summoned Jing Zhaoyin and Wannian County Ling, ordering him to arrest the tomb robber within a time limit. Moreover, after the group of tomb robbers succeeded, they packed the treasures and prepared them for transport to Chang'an City, and when they carried the treasures to the lively Chunming Gate, the vigilant officials stopped them and quickly searched for the treasures.
Some people will ask you as a royal concubine, is there no one guarding the tomb of Concubine Hua? How did the tomb robbers unconsciously dig graves and loot the treasures!
Those grave robbers who went to the big prison looked fierce and evil, but they were a group of "paper tigers", and before they could be tortured, they prostrated their heads like garlic and confessed truthfully.
It turned out that this group of thieves had long been eyeing the tomb of Huafei, but they had not dared to do it, first, this Tomb of Huafei was a royal cemetery with too big a target, and second, the cemetery was guarded day and night by more than a dozen people every day, and it was not easy to excavate.
After some deliberation and deliberation, I don't know who came up with a brilliant trick: pretending that someone in the family died, staged a funeral tragedy scene, carried an empty coffin a hundred steps away from the tomb of Concubine Hua to build a new grave, and then dug a tunnel into the Palace of the Imperial Concubine Cemetery...
In the dead of night, the tomb keepers were on duty normally as usual, and they would have thought that a group of thieves underground had become "Tuxing suns" in the wilderness, directly pounding the Palace of Huafei's cemetery, and when they opened Huafei's coffin, they were immediately blinded by the gold, silver and jade objects inside. One by one, they stared at the blood-red eyes and frantically carried the treasures in the coffin into their own pockets.
In the Tang Dynasty, all noble women were buried, and they would wear a pair of gold judder (chuan) on their hands, and the one worn by Concubine Hua in her hand was the best of the gold judder, and a group of thieves saw that the gold judder on their wrists could not be removed, so they simply raised their knives and fell, cutting off their hands to take away the golden judder. This group of thieves snatched a basin full of bowls, and before they could think it was enough, they stood Liu Huafei's body on their sides and hollowed out all the treasures hidden in their bodies.
What was even more heinous was that when they saw that Concubine Hua was as beautiful as life, her limbs were flexed and stretched softly like ordinary people, they did not feel that they had evil thoughts in their hearts, and they actually insulted the corpse of the imperial concubine. Although this group of thieves was bold, they were extremely superstitious, and they were afraid that the Imperial Princess Tomon would tell her son about her humiliation, and cruelly cut off her tongue.
In this way, with the guards guarding it above, this group of thieves did not feel that the tomb of Concubine Huafei had been looted, and when the treasures were in hand, they withdrew from the tunnel and stuffed all the treasures into the car containing the empty coffin. What these thieves did not expect was that just after they had committed evil, Concubine Hua entrusted a dream to Li Chun, the king of Qing, and when they drove a carriage full of treasures to chunming's gate, they were just caught by the bad guys and officials.
After the tomb robbers were caught, a check of their identities actually made Tang Xuanzong and Li Chun, the King of Qing, furious, it turned out that these tomb robbers were some "rich second generation" in Chang'an City who did not learn any skills, and they did not rob tombs because of lack of money, but purely to stimulate fun.
At this time, Li Chun, the King of Qing, was already sad and indignant, and he asked Xuanzong to let him dispose of the 5 thieves. Therefore, on the outskirts of Chang'an, a raging fire was set up, and a large cauldron was set up on the fire, and with the order of Li Chun, the king of Qing, the hearts of several thieves who were tied into rice dumplings blossomed, and the hearts of the five thieves who were led by the five thieves were dug up and thrown into a cauldron to cook, and Li Chun, the king of Qing, sacrificed his mother with a cooked heart and liver.
The remaining dozens of thieves were all pulled to the Jingzhao Gate and beheaded for public display. Emperor Xuanzong ordered that Concubine Hua be reburied in a chosen place, and Li Chun thanked her mother for her kindness and kept filial piety for her for three years after being buried.
This rather peculiar historical story is recorded in detail in the "Guangyi Ji" written by Dai Fu in the Tang Dynasty, Dai Fu was a person during the Tang Suzong and Tang Dynasty, and the "Guangyi Ji" written by him was considered by many people to be fictional because most of the stories were grotesque and bizarre. In fact, the notes of the ancients are still very different from modern novels, even if not entirely true, there are shadows and archetypes.
Huafei did have her own person in history, because her surname was Liu, so she was called Liu Huafei by later generations. In the early years, Liu Huafei did gain the favor of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and she also bore Xuanzong three sons, namely Li Chun the Prince of Qing, Li Pu the Prince of Zhen, and Li Pu the Prince of Yi.
After Xuanzong became emperor, because there were too many beautiful ladies in the palace, he could not "take care" of himself at all, and Liu Huafei gradually fell out of favor. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the harem system was adjusted and there were "three concubines": Huifei, Lifei, and Huafei. Although Liu Huafei fell out of favor during her lifetime, he was one of the "three concubines", so her status was still very high.
Although successive emperors know that money is something outside the body, the more abundant the funerary goods after death, the easier it is to provoke the disaster of "exposing the corpse in the wilderness". However, the ancients were superstitious about "death is like life", hoping that after death, they could still enjoy the power and wealth before death, so except for a few emperors who advocated thin burial, most emperors still believed in thick burial. And behind the thick burial history is a strange history of tomb robbery!
