In our country, we pay attention to the dead, especially the tombs of our ancestors, which cannot be disturbed. But there is a person in history who created a precedent for tomb robbers, and also set up official positions for the first batch of tomb robbers, and "formalized" them, he is Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period.
At that time, he was the only one who robbed the tomb, and he picked the emperor's tomb, although the reputation was not good, but the gold and silver treasures were not less. It was precisely because he took this head that tomb robbers began to appear among the people. So in modern times, the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty are basically ten rooms and nine empty.
And why did Cao Cao think of robbing tombs in the first place, this has to start with the Tuntian system. In 196 A.D., Cao Cao began to implement the tuntian system, he recruited many peasants in Xuchang, and sent the people captured in the Yellow Turban Uprising to the field together, and began to produce grain in the tuntian.
Unexpectedly, in 199 AD, Yuan Shao suddenly sent troops, and the battle of Guandu was about to start, but the income of Tuntian was completely insufficient, and Cao Cao thought of a way to go off the rails in the crisis. He set up two teams that were specially dispatched at night, named "General Faqiu Zhonglang" and "Captain Touching Jin", which are recorded in historical records:
"Cao and specially set up General Lang in the hair hill, touched the golden captain, and the suddenness was not exposed. ”
It can be seen that at that time, these two teams could be said to have plucked their feathers from the tomb robbery, and they did not let go of any of them. The largest tomb he stole should be the tomb of King Liang Xiao, according to the record in "Art and Literature Gathering":
"Don't into the dang, send Liang Xiao Wang Mound. "Broken coffin, tens of thousands of catties of gold treasures, the Son of Heaven wept when he heard it. ”
It means that Cao Cao stole the tomb of King Xiao of Liang and obtained countless gold and silver treasures, and the reigning Han emperor was sad and wept when he heard this. Thanks to the "contribution" of this ancient tomb, Cao Cao's army has not worried about military salaries for three years, and who is the owner of this ancient tomb and why is he so rich.
In 168 AD, Liu Ji, the king of Liang Huai, died, but he had no children, so Emperor Wen of Han renamed Liu Wu as the king of Liang. Later, there was a rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, Liu Wu led his troops to defend the capital of Liang (today's Shangqiu, Henan) to defend the combined forces of Wu and Chu, and defended Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty, and made great contributions.
Liu Wu is the grandson of Liu Bang, the second son of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and the brother of Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty. Liu Wu was the youngest son of the Empress Dowager Dou before his death, he was very favored, and he received countless rewards from childhood to adulthood, and his fiefdom of Liang was fertile and rich in products. He also built a Dongwan with a radius of more than 300 miles for fun, and expanded Suiyang City to 70 miles.
At the same time, he also built a lot of construction in Dongwan, a radius of more than 300 miles, built overhead passages, and built a forest of palaces. There is a passage of more than 30 kilometers from the palace to the back. The Son of Heaven also rewarded him with a special banner, and the entourage had thousands of rides, the flag fluttered, galloping horses everywhere to hunt, and the pomp and circumstance of the Son of Heaven were not far behind.
He was so rich during his lifetime, and there were countless funeral goods after his death, no wonder Cao Cao robbed his tomb and the army could eat it for three years, and the gold and silver treasures were all weighed by the catty, how rich it must be. Therefore, Cao Cao can rely on them to feed his army for three years.