And these buried treasures naturally became ownerless things, and grave robbers were born. Moreover, because robbing the dead is for money, compared with other robberies and murders or robbing houses, the risk factor is lower and the income is higher. Once the treasure is dug up, you don't have to worry about it for a lifetime, so grave robbers inherit it wave after wave. However, there is a strange phenomenon. In ancient times, most of those arrested were uncles and nephews, and few brothers or father and son soldiers. Why on earth is this?
In ancient China, there was a saying, "Fight tiger brothers, fight father and son". The most reassuring thing is your brother, and the strongest relationship is father and son. For grave robbery, a high-risk and high-yield industry with strong professional skills, it should be a combination of father and son. Why should the uncle take care of the nephew? In fact, there are two main reasons.
First, superstition.
Grave robbers are exposed to dead people and dark things. In that environment, many incomprehensible supernatural phenomena may occur. For grave robbers, it is more superstition and fear of offending the gods. For example, some established rules, such as touching captain Jin and lighting candles, indicate that you can't rob a tomb, which is actually a truth. In ancient times, it was lucky and tacit to have an uncle (saved) to have a nephew (returned).
Second, inheritance.
Because grave robbery is a technical activity, it must be accepted by the professors of the previous generation and passed down from family to family. So the family must continue, and China's ancient ideas, nothing is great, no matter how to leave it to the next generation to inherit their own incense. But the ancient government cracked down on grave robbery very severely. After all, it is unlucky to dig the grave of a rich family, and it may also destroy the emperor's qi and feng shui.
So whoever catches the grave robbers will be executed directly and killed as much as possible. At this time, if it is a brother or a father and son soldier, it is likely that the family will become extinct and all of them will die at once. And my uncle took his nephew to rob the tomb, holding that both families have descendants, which can be continued and is also a realistic consideration.
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