Zhao Bingzhong, the Shangshu of the Ming Dynasty, is not very famous in history, but he is quite famous in the field of cultural relics, because he left the only surviving scrolls in history. Zhao Bingzhong was born in 1573 in a family of official eunuchs, his father was the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Zhao Yuan, he was influenced by his father to study hard from childhood, in 1598, he wrote the title scrolls circulated to the hands of the 13th generation of Sun Zhao Huanbin, and Zhao Huanbin donated the scrolls to the state in 1983, which is now a national first-class cultural relic.
The "Zhao Bingzhong Zhuangyuan Volume" has a total of 19 folds, 269cm in length and 14.1cm in width, and the beginning of the volume also has the "First First Place" written by the Wanli Emperor himself. Zhao Bingzhong pointed out the social contradictions at that time with more than 2,000 words on the volume, and put forward what he believed was a strategy for governing the country and ensuring the country, which had high historical value.
Zhao Bingzhong's zhuangyuan scroll was almost burned by Zhao Huanbin's wife in 1967, Zhao Huanbin's wife was illiterate, and she did not know that the thing with the full characters was the Zhuangyuan scroll of 400 years ago, and wanted to take it to light a fire to cook, but fortunately Zhao Huanbin found it in time to stop it. Zhao Bingzhong's fate was uncertain, not only in 1967, but also in 1991.
Zhao Bingzhong's volume is hidden in the warehouse of the Museum of Qingzhou City, Shandong Province, the warehouse has several doors, and there is an alarm system to protect, outsiders casually approaching the alarm system will make a sound to attract the attention of security guards. Although the museum has done full protection, there is also a loophole, that is, the ceiling is not guarded, if someone enters from the ceiling, it is likely to lead to the theft of Zhao Bingzhong's volume, but this secret is only known to insiders, outsiders will not know.
There is a hole in the ceiling of the museum warehouse indicating that the thief came in from the ceiling, so the alarm system did not ring, so the thief who is familiar with the security situation of the museum must be an insider, and Lin Chuntao, the officer of the security section who disappeared the night before, is the most suspicious person.
Lin Chuntao was born in Liaoning Province, moved to Qingzhou City, Shandong Province with his parents in his childhood, had a strong interest in cultural relics, usually liked to read books on cultural relics, and in 1990 also participated in the excavation of the Warring States Tomb in Zhuwangkong Village, Shaozhuang Township, out of love for cultural relics to qingzhou museum as a security guard.
The cultural relics of the museum are of great value, and Lin Chuntao guards these cultural relics every day and moves other thoughts, so he joins forces with Sun, Jiang, Xu and others to sell cultural relics. Lin Chuntao took advantage of his position to turn off the siren with a tool on April 25, May 3, and August 3, 1991, and then went to the cultural relics warehouse through the ceiling to steal 2 first-class cultural relics, 6 third-class cultural relics, and 10 general cultural relics inside.
Lin Chuntao handed over the stolen cultural relics to three accomplices, who resold these cultural relics, and he made a profit of 46,900 yuan, Xu made a profit of more than 13,700 yuan, Jiang made a profit of 9,000 yuan, and Sun made a profit of 1,100 yuan. Lin Chuntao also dreamed of taking the money from the sale of cultural relics to eat spicy, and the police soon caught him and his accomplices, and Zhao Bingzhong, who they sold to the black market, was recovered because no one knew the goods.
Article 264 of the current Penal Code stipulates that the theft of public or private property is particularly large and punishable by imprisonment of not less than ten years. In the 1990s, first-class cultural relics belonged to a particularly large category, and according to the Criminal Law at that time, the death penalty was imposed, and Lin Chuntao was sentenced to death in December 1991 and executed in June of the following year.
In law, there are crimes of theft and theft of cultural relics, these two crimes look the same but can not be casually charged, if the thief is only stealing national cultural relics, should be convicted of theft, if the theft and then reselled, suspected of reselling cultural relics, and theft of several crimes together with the crime of theft. Some thieves use force to destroy cultural relics and places of interest in order to steal cultural relics, and may also be involved in the crime of destroying precious cultural relics and places of interest and monuments. Article 326 of the Criminal Law stipulates that the crime of reselling cultural relics, if the circumstances are particularly serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years.
China's history lasts for thousands of years, any hoe may dig up ancient cultural relics, in the past everyone is according to who first found who, the excavated cultural relics are hidden privately, but the "Cultural Relics Protection Law" promulgated in 1982 stipulates that all cultural relics left in the territory of the People's Republic of China belong to the state. Therefore, as long as we find cultural relics on Chinese soil, we must hand them over to the state, and the state will also give corresponding rewards. If it is found that the cultural relics are hidden or refuse to be handed over, and the circumstances are serious, a fine of between 5,000 and 50,000 yuan shall be imposed.
Cultural relics in the hands of ordinary people are just a decoration, placed in the hands of cultural relics experts will become talking history, can fill the gap in the history of the mainland, for the sake of the interests of the entire Chinese nation, no one should steal cultural relics and hidden cultural relics, so that cultural relics are best in the place where it should exist.