In the unusually cold winter of 2014, inside the Tianyi Hotel in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, a well-dressed man with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses was silently smoking a cigarette, always silent, as if there was something going on in his heart. This man's work and rest is also different from ordinary people, he often stays in the room during the day and goes out at night, and other residents can only hear someone in the room, but they have never seen the true face of the man.
On November 26, the piercing alarm bell of the police car pierced the tranquility of the small city, the police rushed into the man's room, and the man behaved unusually calmly, today is his birthday, he looked down at the time on his watch, three o'clock in the morning, it was the time of his birth, he smiled lightly, reached out and put on the handcuffs, the man knew in his heart, after so many years of escape, this day still came.
Yao Yuzhong
This man's name is Yao Yuzhong, he is a tomb robber, but he is not an ordinary thief, his "magic calculation" and legendary experience in the tomb robbery world everyone knows, no one knows. He is known as the "first master of Guanwai" and the "grandfather" of the tomb robbery industry. Yao Yuzhong has been in the tomb robbery industry for thirty years, and the number of cultural relics he has stolen and the precious value of cultural relics have set a record!
According to police statistics, Yao Yuzhong and his accomplices stole 2,063 cultural relics alone, worth 500 million yuan, and 16 first-class cultural relics alone! Many of these cultural relics are cultural relics from the Hongshan culture period more than 5,000 years ago, mainly jade, which is of great significance for the study of the Hongshan civilization in the Neolithic era.
But what makes people feel strange is that this "grandfather" of the tomb robbery circle is supposed to be a "rich man" after stealing so many precious cultural relics, but the police accidentally found that Yao Yuzhong did not have a penny in his bank card in addition to hiding some cultural relics.
Born into poverty, he loves to read the I Ching
Yao Yuzhong was born in 1962 in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, to genuine farmers. There are seven sons and one daughter in the family, Yao Yuzhong is the third oldest, and everyone in the village calls him Yao Laosan.
Yao Yuzhong, who grew up in an adobe house, did not willingly be a farmer for a lifetime, he had a bright brain and liked to read. According to his fourth brother, Yao Yufei, who later robbed the tomb with him, Yao Yuzhong especially liked to read books like the I Ching. Although he only has a primary school education, he can speak the Tao, and often tells Yao Yufei where there will be tombs by looking at the sky and looking at the terrain.
Red Mountain
The cultivation of Yao Yuzhong's hobby is closely related to his hometown. Yao Yuzhong's hometown is one of the birthplaces of the Hongshan civilization, but the villagers do not know that the pottery pieces that are occasionally washed out by the rain on the mountain are cultural relics, and sometimes the pottery that touches a little better may be taken home, but the fragments of pottery pieces are often ignored.
The cultural relics that can be seen everywhere are not accidental, which is related to the characteristics of the Hongshan culture. The tomb form of the Hongshan culture is "stone mound", that is, many stones are used to form a sarcophagus tomb, and then buried on the top of the mountain. After thousands of years of wind and rain, the soil layer on the tomb has become thinner and thinner, and finally it is shallow enough to dig down from the ground for more than ten centimeters to dig the tomb. Because of this, the villagers were able to pick up scattered pieces of pottery on the mountain.
Yao Yuzhong, who is addicted to feng shui, also likes to visit various museums and antique markets, but he does not want to travel, but wants to analyze the source of museum exhibits and various antiques to determine where the tombs are worth stealing and which cultural relics are more valuable. Yao Yuzhong also developed the habit of going up the mountain, of course, this kind of "field investigation" is mainly to observe the terrain and determine the location of the tomb, in the tomb robbery circle, this is called "point cave".
Transform into a "grandmaster"
According to the villagers' description, I don't know when the peasant Yao Yuzhong changed, like an intellectual. Yao Yuzhong's ability to get rich stemmed from his impressive ability to rob tombs, there are many tomb robbers, but Yao Yuzhong has only one. The most powerful thing about Yao Yuzhong is that he can see the heavens, and combined with the legends in the world, to judge where there are tombs. Many other tomb robbers invited him to go to the "point cave", because Yao Yuzhong was always able to find the "living soil" (referring to the location of the ancient tomb).
Yao Yuzhong and his gang committed frequent crimes and stole a large number of cultural relics. Yao Yuzhong's superb "point hole" skill was spread by his younger brother Yao Yufei and other gang members more and more evil, Yao Yuzhong's fame also grew, more and more people began to know Yao Yuzhong's existence, and he was even called "Zushiye" by people in the stolen tomb circle.
The ability to rob tombs, out of the blue
Yao Yuzhong is a mysterious presence in the gang, he has to go up the mountain in advance when robbing the tomb, first look at the sky, and then explore the terrain, at this time in front of Yao Yuzhong's eyes, it is no longer the mountains, but one tomb after another, he silently wrote down the location of the tomb. After eleven o'clock in the evening was the time of Yao Yuzhong's action, he took a few accomplices to the point that had been stepped on in advance, and his tomb robbery tool was very simple, that is, a glare flashlight and a tool called "Zazi", which was different from the Luoyang shovel, it was much longer than the Luoyang shovel.
Yao Yuzhong took out the "zazi", let others look at the wind, and slowly inserted the "zazi" deeply into the soil, and then slowly pulled out, Yao Yuzhong would observe the color of the soil layer at this time, and then judge whether there was a tomb underground. Yao Yuzhong generally does not lose his hand, and he is very persistent. After determining the location of the tomb, Yao Yuzhong must dig something before he is willing to give up, if he can't dig it once, dig a second time, until he digs out something, amazingly, Yao Yuzhong can always dig the tomb, this ability conquered other accomplices.
After Yao Yuzhong determined the tomb, he began to wait for other accomplices to dig, he would not do it himself, this kind of hard work is generally handed over to other accomplices to do, but when the accomplices are about to dig up the tomb, Yao Yuzhong will drive away the others, personally dig up the tomb little by little, dig out the burial goods, and then carry the cultural relics into the pocket, neither to show other accomplices, nor to tell them how much it is worth, just say that the cultural relics are heavy, can not see the light, can not see people.
Yao Yuzhong was very happy, and he got the baby himself, but the other accomplices were busy working together, and they couldn't even see what the baby looked like. Once when his accomplices asked him in a hurry, Yao Yuzhong angrily smashed the jade he had dug up, and Yao Yuzhong's selfish and arbitrary style caused many of his accomplices to leave and begin to "stand on their own.".
Yao Yuzhong's "success" is also related to his cautious style. Yao Yuzhong is very particular about robbing tombs, and he usually chooses to commit crimes in summer and autumn for two reasons. First, there are many crops in the summer and autumn fields, and tomb robberies are not easy to find, and second, in the rainy season of summer and autumn, a rain can cover the traces of theft, so Yao Yuzhong often goes to the tomb before it rains. Yao Yuzhong will also bring a bag of grass seeds when robbing the tomb, and after the tomb robbery, he will seriously seal the soil and restore the tomb to its original state. Then Yao Yuzhong would sprinkle grass seeds on the soil, and it would not be long before grass and trees would grow.
The "stealing" is triumphant, and the casino is frustrated
Why did Yao Yuzhong steal so many cultural relics, but did not have a penny in his account when he was arrested? It turned out that Yao Yuzhong was still a thorough gambler. Yao Yuzhong loves to gamble as fate, whether it is a large or small casino, as long as you pass by, you must gamble twice, a bet is an all-nighter, but Yao Yuzhong always gambles nine times out of ten, once you start gambling, the probability is to lose a fine light. According to Yao Yuzhong's own statement, in an underground casino in Hebei, he once owed more than 70 million yuan in gambling debts.
If Yao Yuzhong loses his eyes, he will directly use the stolen jade as collateral, and Yao Yuzhong often exchanges this mortgage for fast money, because he will not redeem these mortgaged jades in most cases. Yao Yuzhong even kidnapped Feng Jie, a former gang member, in order to get money, and snatched several cultural relics from the antique shop opened by Feng Jie. Feng Jie did not dare to call the police because the roads of these cultural relics were not clean.
"Touch the gold lieutenant", and finally caught
It is not an easy task to arrest Yao Yuzhong, who is a fierce person. Once when the police were arresting a group of tomb robbers, there was a tomb robber who jumped off the cliff, and later learned that this person was Yao Yuzhong, Yao Yuzhong fell off the cliff and was injured in the back, he ran to the casino to fight with people, and then pretended to be like no one, and when he saw people, he said that he was injured in a fight, which shows that Yao Yuzhong is a very thoughtful person.
Yao Yuzhong often said that his tomb robbery was providential, because his generation was the "jade" generation, and most of the cultural relics he stole were jade, so he thought that he and jade were very close. In order to arrest Yao Yuzhong, the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department set up a "11.26" special case group, but this day happened to be Yao Yuzhong's birthday, and on the day of the arrest of Yao Yuzhong, it was exactly 3 a.m., which was the time of Yao Yuzhong's birth, and the place where Yao Yuzhong was arrested was in the Tianyi Hotel, so people jokingly called Yao Yuzhong's arrest the place of Providence. The "Lieutenant Who Touched gold" who had been rampant in the tomb robbery circle for 30 years was finally arrested.
Yao Yuzhong's gang was arrested
After being arrested, Yao Yuzhong was still so taciturn, he probably knew in his heart that he was doomed to this moment from the day he began to rob the tomb, and his mentality was almost about to collapse, because what he did was after all something that was detrimental to yin morality! Yao Yuzhong, who waits in prison every day for trial, is bitter and depressed. Once the police took Yao Yuzhong to identify the scene, he even wanted to commit suicide, which shows that a generation of "lieutenants who touched gold" were also afraid of legal sanctions!
What is even more ridiculous is that Yao Yuzhong, who is in prison, panicked, made up a lot of strange excuses, and even said that he was the reincarnation of a gravedigger thousands of years ago, and that heaven sent him to let the Hongshan culture see the light of day! These self-deifying reasons are ridiculous before the law, and they do not stand in his own experience. Yao Yuzhong's family has been farmers for generations, and his father made a living as a mat weaver, which has nothing to do with any "ancestral" tomb robbery skills, let alone reincarnation.
Yao Yuzhong and his gang have built a complete criminal network of tomb visits, tomb robberies, and cultural relics trafficking, which has seriously violated laws and regulations. On April 14, 2016, the Chaoyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Yao Yuzhong to death with a two-year suspension of execution in accordance with law. Yao Yuzhong, the "grandfather" of the tomb robbery world, was finally punished by the law.
Chinese culture, broad and profound, Chinese civilization, has a long history, China as an ancient civilization in the world, has many cultural relics, we believe that there are still many undiscovered treasures on the land of China. These precious artifacts belong to all of our Chinese and should never be stolen by these greedy grave robbers. These cultural relics are a symbol of Chinese civilization and a guarantee for the long history of Chinese culture.