After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi still lived in the Forbidden City and kept a large number of eunuchs and maids. Because the imperial power is gone, these eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting have the confidence to sell antique calligraphy and painting in the palace treasure house. If there are jewels in the well, will they not go fishing?
At that time, the Beiyang government promised the living expenses of 4 million silver dollars per year. Due to years of warlord melee, the state treasury was empty and often defaulted. Puyi sometimes leads a poor life. In order to save money, he finally dismissed most eunuchs and maids.
If there is real estate in the well, won't Puyi take it out to subsidize the family?
I know, I will definitely use people to say the Zhen Fei Jing. This means that there are bodies in the Forbidden City. Years later, there were bones and even ghosts. There are some unlucky things in these jewels, and no one dares to salvage them.
Indeed, the ancients were more taboo about such things. However, as the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. Faced with the temptation of real money, not everyone can stick to their true intentions, otherwise there will not be so many grave robbers.
And most crucially, the well in the Forbidden City is not a grave. Although people are dead, but the body will not be kept in it for a long time. After all, it is the place where the emperor lives. If the corpse is left untreated for a long time, it will stink and even cause a series of problems such as infectious diseases. Moreover, it doesn't make sense to open the palace ouchi. In fact, the place where the body is stored is nobody's business.
Even the most famous Zhenfei well is only the place where Zhenfei died, not the place where the body was buried. When Cixi killed her and threw herself into the well, she fled hastily because of the arrival of Eight-Nation Alliance, resulting in the body of Zhenfei staying in the well for a period of time.
After Cixi came back, she immediately sent someone to salvage the body of Princess Zhen and bury it in the cemetery of ladies-in-waiting in Jean Village outside Fuchengmen. At that time, Cixi also invited a monk to perform a grand ceremony, which was to turn over the tragic death of Zhen Fei and purify the resentment of Zhen Fei's death in the palace. It can be seen that Cixi is still very taboo about this kind of thing, and will not let the body exist in the well in the palace at will.
Therefore, it is sheer nonsense to dare not fish because there are bodies in the well.
Of course, some people have put forward a theory that the wellhead of the Forbidden City is narrow and its internal structure is complex, so it is not suitable for salvage according to the technical conditions at that time. This reason is obviously even more untenable. Zhen Fei's body can be salvaged, so why can't these jewels be salvaged? And with the development of time, it should be easy to salvage these things with our technical equipment today, but there is no relevant news.
In fact, this shows that there are no jewels in the wells of the Forbidden City. Of course, I don't deny that there are no jewels and possessions in the wells of the Forbidden City. The Ming Dynasty perished, and then the British and French allied forces and Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing. People in the Forbidden City fled in a hurry, and if they didn't have time to take them away, they might throw their belongings into the well. However, they must have been salvaged from behind, and no one would leave those real money behind.
So, again, it's not that no one has salvaged it, but that it has been salvaged.