After the death of the emperor shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, he was buried in Dongling, Qing Dynasty. After that, several emperors were buried here one after another, which shows how much gold and silver treasures have accumulated here. The famous Empress Dowager Cixi is also buried here. You know, when she was alive, she controlled the financial power of the Qing Dynasty, and her imperial tomb was said to be more luxurious than the Forbidden City at that time. It is such a place full of all kinds of jewels that has been targeted by many grave robbers and stolen many times before and after.
The first time the Qing Dongling was stolen was organized by Sun Dianying, a soldier of the National Revolutionary Army. This time, the Qing Dongling was stolen, resulting in a large number of gold and silver treasures scattered around the world. This theft case is also called "the first case of theft in Dongling". However, since then, the grave robbery organized by Wang and others has been more serious than the "first robbery in Dongling".
At that time, the Japanese army was defeated and left the Qing Dongling. At this time, the Qing Dongling was neglected, and the king hiding in the Qing Dongling relied on cotton to support his family every day. However, Wang, who used to be a bandit leader, has the nature of mercenary, stealing and looting, and began to build the Qing imperial tomb full of treasures. So, he quickly went to Yang, the right-hand man who had been a bandit, to discuss the plan of robbing the tomb. Later, they also went to Mu Shuxuan, whose ancestors were grave guards, and Guan Huizeng, whose ancestors were grave robbers. Most of these people are descendants of those who repaired and guarded the tombs in those years, and they know more about the imperial tombs of the Eastern Qing Dynasty than ordinary people.
After Wang's organization, more and more people took part in the grave robbery. After careful consideration by all of them, they started this grave robbery. At the beginning of the robbery, Wang divided the robbery team into two parts One team used explosives to blow up the rocks on the west side of Qing Dongling to cover up the robbery of the other team. After entering the imperial tomb, they stole the tombs of three emperors and a queen mother, and looted all the gold and silver inside.
They successively carried out long-term grave-robbing activities in the tombs of Emperor Xianfeng, Emperor Tongzhi and Emperor Kangxi. Among them, they fought in the tomb of Kangxi for three days and nights, and claimed that there were more gold and silver treasures in this tomb than those of Qianlong and Cixi. After that, the Jixian Public Security Bureau entered the ancient tomb they robbed, and what they saw in front of them was terrible. Emperor Tongzhi of Hui Ling has only one bone left, and his fine clothes have long been stripped by this group of grave robbers. At the same time, after so many years, his queen's body is still intact, but she has been stripped of beautiful clothes and even put aside her belly, which shows her horror and the cruelty of this group of grave robbers.
After that, Wang Yi and a group of grave robbers lived a rich life with these ill-gotten gains. However, "the good times will not last long." After that, their grave-robbing behavior was quickly known to the people around them. Seeing that they lived an enviable life because of the gold and silver treasures gained from the tomb robbery, the surrounding neighbors began to follow their example and went to the tomb robbery in the Qing Dynasty. Gradually, the wind of grave robbery spread all over the 14 imperial tombs in the Qing tombs, and these grave robbers searched all the 157 people buried in them.
In the face of such a major grave robbery case, the government quickly attracted attention. At that time, after receiving Chiang Kai-shek's order, Ma Hansan, the general of the Kuomintang North, immediately led his men to investigate and began to arrest the criminals who stole the imperial tomb. Soon, the main culprits of grave robbers were arrested, and then these grave robbers were finally shot under the sanctions of the army. However, their leader, Wang, escaped, and after that, it took five years to catch him and was finally shot.
At that time, when Wang organized the grave robbery, he used words to confuse people and rationalized the grave robbery in the hearts of these participants. Tell them that these actions are all aimed at defeating feudal landlords, which makes grave robbery more and more, and more and more people participate in it, which eventually leads to the Qing Dongling being robbed by these mercenary thieves.
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Many treasures stolen from the tombs of the Eastern Qing Dynasty are lost in the world. This large-scale grave robbery has caused us to lose many cultural relics and damage many treasures. You know, everyone has a love for money, but how to get money correctly is the truth that one should learn and understand. May the world, grave robbers, also understand this truth.