Only when the mausoleum is found, can it be excavated.

Since there was a burial custom and valuable items were attached to the mausoleum, the matter of digging up graves and robbing tombs began, and it has never been broken. Especially since the Spring and Autumn Period, after the prevalence of thick burials, tomb robbing began as a way to make a fortune, and became one of the oldest occupations, although there is a risk of cutting off the head.

To this day, this ancient profession shows no signs of decay, but is thriving. Moreover, with the help of science, the means are becoming more and more modern, and even remote sensing and magnetic sensing technologies are used, and it is no longer just the Luoyang shovel.

Throughout ancient and modern times, there are many tomb robbers with names and surnames, but Wu Zixu, Xiang Yu, Liu Qu, Cao Cao, Dong Zhuo, Huang Chao, Wen Tao, Liu Yu, Yang Zhen Jia, Chen Feng, Qianlong, Sun Dianying and other twelve figures are the most influential, and their behavior cannot be erased in the history of tomb robbery in China.

To borrow the popular "celebrity concept" today, these people are all tomb robbers, and of course, crazy people!

At the earliest, the mausoleums before the late Spring and Autumn period were "no trees and no seals". That is, no trees are planted above the mausoleum, and no soil is sealed.

At that time, the ancients liked group burial, a family was generally buried together, tomb robbers wanted to find the cemetery as long as they inquired and could do it, in the late Spring and Autumn Period, it became popular to pile graves and plant trees on the cemetery, this method was vigorously advocated by Confucius and popularized.

This will point the way for tomb robbers, dig down on the high artificial mound! And the bigger and higher the sealed soil, the higher the level of the tomb, the richer the treasure, as for the tomb in front of Weng Zhong, stone beasts, etc., it is the tomb of officials and princes and above.

It was even more for the tomb robbers to point out: "There is silver ahead!" ”

Those children and grandchildren who rob the tombs of their elders to find treasures, they don't need to look for them, he still doesn't know where the tombs of his parents are? As for the villagers robbing the surrounding graves, they also know the roots. Some poor deceased, who had just been widely informed of the funeral, were killed by their neighbors.

Of course, not all graves can be found in the field of view of tomb robbers, and some graves are located in remote areas, in the middle of the wilderness, and thieves have to find them when they are rarely visited. The way to find out is nothing more than to look through the information, explore the field, and visit the villagers to understand the situation.

Some high-level tomb robbers with a bit of culture will look through some local chronicles to verify the burial places of ancient celebrities and wealthy, and there is also a very important role in reading information, that is, to know whether a tomb has been stolen and whether there is a treasure.

"Are you saying that the Shi family has been doing this for generations?"

Liu Yuhao's eyes widened, he wanted to laugh but was embarrassed, and his face turned red, but subconsciously, he still made a downward digging movement with his hands.

"That, that was before, but since my grandfather's generation, no one in our Shi family has done this business."

Shi Bao's old face turned red and hurriedly defended. No one wants to be misunderstood for their ancestors robbing tombs, but since it is a fact, Shi Bao did not want to hide it blindly in front of Liu Yuhao.

Liu Yuhao smiled, he also knew that what he asked just now was too direct, which hurt Shi Bao's self-esteem, besides, if the Shi family had been engaged in tomb robbery, there would not have been a story where his wife thought he was too poor and stole people.

But because he was really curious in his heart, after a while, Liu Yuhao couldn't help but say again: "Brother Shi, can Mr. Feng Shui really see the structure of the tomb and whether there are treasures in the tomb?" ”

The word "Feng Shui" comes from the cloud in Guo Pu's "Funeral Sutra" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: "Qi is dispersed when it rides the wind, and the boundary water stops".

That is, the "vitality" related to the leylines and topography, and the relationship between wind and water is the greatest taboo wind and water, so the wind must be hidden, the water must be gathered, and only "the wind and water are hidden", and the vitality can be vigorous.

Feng Shui practitioners call land for a good built environment "Feng Shui treasure land", believing that such a place must be vibrant. This feng shui treasure land, since it is suitable for building tombs, it is naturally "suitable for tomb robbery".

Everyone has curiosity, and Liu Yuhao is not exempt from vulgarity.

In Liu Yuhao's view, he can find the jade hidden inside the wool through perspective because of his eight-brocade ability, but the tomb robber can achieve the same magic with the naked eye.

Shi Bao smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Those rumors are all nonsense, Mr. Liu, I'm afraid you have been misled." ”

"Why?" Liu Yuhao was surprised.

Shi Bao said with a smile: "Relying on feng shui to find a tomb also has limitations, and usually the location of the tomb is not accurate. You should know that the acupuncture points in the cemetery are determined according to the deceased's physiognomy and the preferences of Mr. Feng Shui, and there is a great sense of personal consciousness in them, so Feng Shui is not reliable at all. ”

Liu Yuhao suddenly said with a smile: "I thought that the rumored Mr. Feng Shui was really those gods." ”

Shi Bao explained: "Those who are good at this way often disguise themselves as feng shui masters or xiangshi and travel all over the world, paying special attention to beautiful places and places where high-ranking officials have been produced. These people are generally able to speak well, and are good at observing words and feelings, talking with the elderly and talking about the ancients, and obtaining information and directions about the ancient tombs from the conversations. ”

"Oh!" Liu Yuhao nodded thoughtfully.

Shi Bao took a sip of tea and said, "Those people are easy to gain the trust of the other party because of their years of training and good eloquence. Once the exact location of the ancient tomb was discovered, a group of thieves were immediately summoned to dig at night, and over time, there was a false rumor that the tomb robbers knew Feng Shui. ”

Liu Yuhao said that he forgot his original intention for a while, and said with a smile: "Brother Shi, it is said that there are also hopes, smells, asks, and cuts in the tomb robbery business, but can you really judge the situation in the tomb just by smelling it with your nose?" ”

"Smell" means to smell the smell.

Tomb robbers with this thaumaturgy specialize in the olfactory function of the nose. When stepping on the spot, if the location of the tomb is found, the top soil layer of the tomb is turned over, a pinch of tomb soil is placed under the nose and sniffed violently, and the tomb has been stolen from the smell of the soil, and the general age is judged according to the color of the soil.

It is said that the best kung fu can use the nose to distinguish the subtle difference between the smell of the Han Dynasty tomb soil and the Tang Dynasty tomb soil, and the degree of accuracy is amazing.

"Half to half." Shi Bao thought about the answer.

Liu Yuhao was stunned and said: "Doesn't it mean that tomb robbers can use iron cones to enter the tomb and smell it, if there is a smell of gold, silver, copper, and iron in the tomb, tomb robbers can generally distinguish it?" ”

Shi Bao said: "The iron cone used by the tomb robbers can be several feet deep underground, and can bring out the smell of underground artifacts, but the obvious deficiency is that only when the iron cone touches the underground metal artifacts can it be produced and brought out by friction, this smell is quite weak, and it is difficult to find clues without a keen sense of smell and considerable experience." ”

"That's just as well." Liu Yuhao said with a smile.

Shi Bao continued: "If the iron cone encounters porcelain, lacquerware and other funerary objects, there is almost no smell to smell. And once the catacombs are soaked in muddy water, even the hounds with an unusually keen sense of smell can only stare dryly and sigh with admiration. ”

"No wonder Brother Shi will say half to half." Liu Yuhao laughed.

Suddenly, Shi Bao's head was full of black lines, after all, Liu Yuhao was talking about secrets that he didn't want to mention to others, and such an unbridled smile really made him a little difficult to accept.

Liu Yuhao also discovered this, scratched his head and said: "By the way, Brother Shi, Yao Si'er's character is very poor, how could you think of partnering with him." ”

In the tomb robbery business, there is a saying that there are officials and people who have to prevent accomplices from harming each other, which reminds Liu Yuhao of the popular sentence in college, "Fire prevention, theft prevention, and senior brother." Black humor.

Shi Bao's expression darkened, his expression suddenly became a little strange, and he sneered: "It's not about money, only Yao Si'er can get the money we need, hey, there was no way at that time." ”

It seems that Shi Bao actually knew that Yao Si'er was unreliable, and the reason why he chose to cooperate with him was just because he had to do it.

Think about it, when you are ascending the well, will there be an accomplice who suddenly cuts the rope and makes you fall back into the hole and fall half to death? Or a big rock down from above? Or suddenly find that the entrance of the cave is closed, and stay in the cave from now on, so that the sky should not be called the earth and the earth? Or was he drugged while drinking stolen wine and buried it back in the thief's cave?

Tomb robbers who specialize in tomb theft are often small groups. If there are many people, there will be the problem of uneven distribution of spoils, who doesn't want to swallow those treasures alone? For that Yao Si'er, Shi Bao is always on guard.

There have been many incidents of tomb robbers killing each other in history.

Liu Yuhao suddenly remembered that in the No. 1 Chu Tomb of Tianxingguan, about 14 meters deep from the robbery cave, a human skull and scattered limb bones were found. The archaeologists led by the old man Qi analyzed that the bones were left by the tomb robbers, and it was likely that this person was killed by his peers after taking out the treasures.

It is not known whether he blocked the entrance to the cave before leaving the dungeon, or was kicked back into the cave by an accomplice from above when he was about to climb out of the cave, or was knocked unconscious by a stick in the ground, or was thrown into the cave after being beaten to death outside the cave.

In fact, there are many such examples, there is such a record in the university textbooks, when the excavation of one of the tombs of Princess Yongtai, one of the tombs of the Qianling Tomb, the archaeologists approached the east side of the head door of the tomb on the seventh day of the tomb road, and found that there was a robbery hole, and there was a dead man's skeleton standing against the wall under the robbery hole, and the surrounding ground was scattered with fragments of gold, silver, jade, agate and other ornaments.

After investigation, it was found that there were traces of breaking the stone door, drilling into the stone tomb from the upper right corner, moving the coffin, and burglarizing the tomb, and a very conspicuous black handprint was left on the white wall of the rear tomb.

It is inferred that there were at least two or more tomb robbers, and it is likely that after entering the tomb together to steal property, the one who came out of the tomb first had the idea of swallowing it alone, and poisoned the unfinished, so that he stood in the dark underground palace for more than a thousand years and became a good specimen of the shameful end of the tomb robbers.

Liu Yuhao smiled, and suddenly said, "Brother Shi, if my guess is correct, in fact, you haven't really entered the tomb yet, right?" ”

"You, how do you know? Did Yao Si'er tell you? Shi Bao looked shocked and was stunned on the spot.