In 2015, in Binzhou, Shaanxi Province, a Shanxi man spent eight months secretly digging a 280-meter tunnel in the downtown area and stealing all 49 treasures in a thousand-year-old pagoda

In 2015, in Binzhou, Shaanxi Province, a Shanxi man spent eight months secretly digging a 280-meter tunnel in the downtown area, stole all 49 treasures in a thousand-year-old pagoda, and sold them to cultural relics dealers for 5.8 million yuan, and cultural relics dealers sold them to Zhejiang merchants for 23 million yuan.

Located in Kaiyuan Square in Binzhou, Shaanxi Province, this pagoda is about 50 meters high with seven floors, and was built in the fifth year of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was classified as a national key cultural relics protection unit 20 years ago. Known locally as the BinTa, this tower has remained unspoiled for thousands of years due to its proper protection. However, in the Spring Festival of 2015, Wei Yonggang, a native of Yuncheng, Shanxi, suddenly opened a restaurant two or three hundred meters away from Binta.

Although the chefs and waiters in this restaurant are complete, outsiders do not understand why Wei Yonggang wants to open a restaurant there, because people who know a little about business will think that it is not suitable for opening a restaurant at all. Even an old local policeman who lives nearby also feels a little confused, he will pass by Wei Yonggang's hotel every day after work, but he often finds that although the hotel is open, it seems to be operating, but there are few people who eat inside, and sometimes the guests are not more waiters, so it is strange to continue to operate, not to lose money.

But what everyone never expected was that Wei Yonggang opened a hotel, not to make money at all, whether there were guests during the day he didn't care at all, he cared about the night. Every day at dark, Wei Yonggang sent all the cooks and waiters away early, and then closed the door and left work. However, at more than ten o'clock in the evening, there will be a few black shadows sneaking through the small door of the hotel, it turns out that these people are actually the tomb robber gang that Wei Yong just found, they opened the floor tiles from a corner of the hotel, dug down vertically for a few meters, and began to dig horizontally in the direction of the Binta, with the purpose of digging into the underground palace at the bottom of the Binta and preparing to steal the treasures inside.

The gang dug until about four o'clock in the morning every day and began to evacuate, before leaving, all the excavated soil was bagged and taken away by car, the hole was blocked with tiles, and a table was put on it, and when the waiter went to work in the morning, everything in the store had already returned to normal, and no one found their work at night.

In this way, Wei Yonggang opened to sell rice during the day, and organized the digging of tunnels at night, from the hotel to the Binta 280 meters distance, they dug for more than 8 months, until one day in October, the tunnel was finally dug, seeing dozens of exquisite treasures in the underground palace, Wei Yonggang was stunned, not to mention how happy he was, and immediately organized people to carry them out.

Since the treasure had arrived, there was no need for the hotel to open again, so he immediately dismissed the people and quickly left Binzhou with the treasure himself. Not long after, he sold the 49 treasures in his hand to a cultural relics dealer for 5.8 million yuan, and the cultural relics dealer sold them to a Zhejiang merchant for 23 million yuan, who collected the treasures in his home.

Wei Yonggang, who thought that it was done seamlessly, did not expect that soon the case would occur, and the police searched out various tomb robbery tools in the basement of his home, including dividers, theodolites, ventilators, pumps, etc., as well as a production workshop for excavation tools, which can process the tomb robbery tools they want at any time.

In the bedroom, a large number of tomb robbery books were found, as well as more than thirty books on the structure, style characteristics and feng shui of various pagodas in the past dynasties, which made sufficient preparations for the excavation of ancient towers. He also found a notebook thicker than a dictionary from the safe, which densely recorded his own tomb robbery skills and experience, and the case-handling experts who watched it were amazed, if such a person were on the right road, how much achievement should he have!

And those 49 precious cultural relics bought by Zhejiang merchants, under the patient advice of the police, the merchants are finally willing to hand over all of them, these cultural relics are exquisite and abnormal, one of which is a golden coffin with unique shape and exquisite craftsmanship, which is a very rare treasure.