Chapter 70 Stealing the Qing Dongling
As the ruler of the late Qing Empire, Cixi, who had infinite scenery, probably never imagined that 20 years after her death, she would be whipped and ended up in a wilderness. And the rumors about the humiliation of Cixi's body are even more uproar, the 12th Army of the National Revolutionary Army was ordered by Xu Yuanquan to send troops to encircle and suppress a group of bandits of Ma Lanyu, after more than ten days the 12th Army did not find the entrance to the Qing Dongling, at first, the bandits did not know the entrance of the underground palace, but excavated everywhere, on the top of the treasure, outside the palace, and in the Ming Building have left traces of their excavation. These days, the bandit Ma Futian is also actively sending people to find the entrance to the mausoleum.
Su Bi Tuolin, he participated in the construction of the Empress Dowager Cixi's mausoleum throughout that year, so he knew the entrance to Cixi's mausoleum. Sun Dianying learned the name of Su Pitolin from the mouth of the tomb guards of the Qing **, and then he asked people to look for Su Bidolin, and at first Su Bidolin did not agree, but Sun Dianying threatened him with the lives of his family, and there was no way Su Bidolin could only tell Sun Dianying about the tomb crossing.
Tan Wenjiang of the 12th Army and the division headquarters, the regiment headquarters, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, drove away the residents here under the pretext of suppressing bandits, and began to block all intersections in three days to ensure safety first, and the secrecy of the incident could not be disclosed, and soon found the entrance to the Qingdongling Tomb under the leadership of Su Pitlin.
The grave robbers eventually found the entrance to the dungeon.
It turned out that behind the tall Ming Tower, there was a "dumb courtyard", and legend has it that the craftsmen recruited were all mutes to prevent the workers from divulging the secrets of the project. There is a glazed shadow wall in the north of the dumb courtyard, and under the shadow wall is the entrance to the mausoleum.
The structure of the mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty is much the same. The entrance to the dungeon is hidden under the glass shadow wall. If you dig horizontally from the front, you will encounter a tunnel made of dead bricks; If you dig vertically down from the top of the treasure, the distance will increase many times; And if you fall directly from under the glass shadow wall, you can open the King Kong wall nearby and enter the underground palace from the shortest way. Those who can find this shortcut are probably familiar with the inside story.
The Cixi Mausoleum is slightly different from the Qianlong Mausoleum, due to the restrictions of the feudal hierarchy, the Cixi Mausoleum does not have a dumb courtyard. Enter the ancient cave door at the bottom of the Ming Tower, and at the end of the passage is a wall with iron bars cast inside, and inside it is the "King Kong Wall". The entrance to the dungeon is under this Vajra wall.
Tanglin is built very strongly, and it is not easy to completely cut the floor tiles, and the bandits are eager to steal treasures, so they use **. In the remnants of the bricks and stones filled with gunsmoke, and then dig down a few zhang, and finally reveal a white marble wall, which is the King Kong wall. Remove a few stones from the middle of the wall, revealing a Hessian hole.
Experts said that after the theft of Tanglin, some local legends were left, including the death of the tomb robber soldiers in the underground palace. At that time, the Qianlong underground palace was full of stagnant water, due to the age, so that the stagnant water was four or five feet deep, and it took 5 days to drain it with a pumping machine when the room was cleared, and even now it has to be pumped regularly. With such a deep amount of stagnant water, and the passage is very steep and slippery, it is possible that the unknown tomb robbers slipped and fell into the poisonous stagnant water, and died of suffocation in shock.
After some frightening, the bandits driven by the desire to make a fortune continued to move forward, and finally, they saw a tall white marble gate. The stone doors in the underground palace weigh 3 tons each, and there are 10,000 catties of copper pipe fans on the door, and there is a top door stone behind the door. At that time, people used thin iron rings to cover the top door stone behind the door, and at the same time used wooden sticks to open the stone door. This does not require damage to the stone door, nor does it smash the top door stone. It can be inferred that the tomb robbers did not know the mystery behind the stone gate at first. On the first stone gate of the Cixi Mausoleum, there are still traces of destruction that year. Finally, the top door stone behind the stone gate broke in half. It wasn't until the first stone gate of Cixi's underground palace was opened that the bandits suddenly realized that they didn't use brute force to open the stone gate behind them. Therefore, the second stone gate of the Cixi underground palace and the first three stone gates of the Qianlong underground palace are still well preserved. Relative to the Cixi underground palace, the Qianlong underground palace is much more complicated, it has 4 stone gates, 9 coupon halls, the whole structure forms a "main" shape, 54 meters deep, the area of more than 300 square meters, equivalent to an underground palace.
It was at that moment that tragedy began
It's a strange world: the stone gate is carved with bodhisattvas who symbolize great compassion, universal sentient beings, and boundless Dharma. The hideous-looking Four Heavenly Kings guard the Quartet, drive away evil and avoid evil, and control the wind and rain. There are also five desires that represent the five desires of life: color, fragrance, taste, sound, and touch. The walls are also carved with countless sutra mantras of transcendent souls.
The entire Qianlong underground palace is like a solemn and beautiful underground Buddhist hall. The emperor, who enjoyed all the glory and wealth during his lifetime, also fantasized about ascending to the Western Heaven Elysium after his death. After experiencing the initial shock and horror, the grave robbers trembling and continued to touch the fourth stone gate.
When using the previous method to resist the last stone gate of Yuling, no matter how hard the bandits tried their best, they couldn't open it. Experts said that the bandits did not do anything, and simply used ** again, after the last stone gate in Yuling was bombed, one collapsed and broke, and the other was crooked, which was in danger. What is the reason why the fourth stone gate cannot be opened?
It turned out that Yuling was full of water, and the huge coffin floated up, leaving the stone platform and holding up the stone gate, so the stone door could not be opened.
Just as the bandits who robbed and excavated Qianlong Yuling were struggling to open one stone gate after another, the bandits in Cixi's Dingdongling Tomb were excited to find that there were only two stone gates in Cixi's underground palace.
They first entered the final main burial chamber and saw the coffin and the treasure.
This is a stone chamber paved entirely with white marble and facing south, also known as the "Golden Coupon". In the center of the golden coupon is a one-foot-high white marble platform, that is, the "treasure bed", on which a huge coffin is parked, which is the Zigong of the Empress Dowager Cixi. On both sides of the golden coupon are two stone piers, called "Book Throne", on which the incense treasure incense book recorded the name of Cixi was originally placed.
The Qing Dynasty coffin has two layers, which are divided into an outer coffin and an inner coffin.
Back then, how did the bandits open Cixi's coffin? Damn**! If you can't open it, you will order the ** bag to be blasted, and there is no way to dig things up quickly.
According to the confession of the company commander of the bandit army, when the outer coffin and the inner coffin were pried open, the radiant gold-lacquered outer coffin was actually chopped to pieces by the bandits' knives and axes. After the bandits removed the broken coffin, an inner coffin with red lacquer and gold appeared. The bandit officer was afraid of using a knife and axe to chop and damage the treasures in the coffin, so he strictly ordered the bandits to carefully pry open the inner coffin with a knife.
At that time, the lid of the coffin was opened, and the coffin was full of light, and the soldiers each held a large flashlight, and the light was taken away, and everyone was shocked. Looking down at the coffin, the Queen Mother of the West looked like life, and her fingers were white hairy...... The jewels were piled up in the coffin, and the big ones were taken away by the officials, and the small ones were put in the pockets of the soldiers. So the chief ordered to remove the dragon robe and search the personal jewelry. “
Tan Wenjiang and Sun Dianying were all overjoyed, they got rich, they got rich, the greedy soldiers took some jewelry and hid them, and after discovering it, Master Tan asked them to hand it over, but later there were also greedy people who took it, and after Sun Dianying found it, he said that these things belonged to the state, and then killed some people who stole things, and together they had a deterrent effect.
Speaking of the warlord Sun Dianying of the Republic of China, what we think of is not his combat ability, but that he once robbed the tomb, and he also robbed the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi, which became a sensation all over the world at that time, so Sun Dianying was called the "big thief of the Republic of China". Sun Dianying dug up a large number of treasures from Cixi's tomb, but also let many cultural relics flow overseas, and their whereabouts are still unknown.
Cixi's cemetery was stolen, and in the end the paper could not contain the fire, but it was still known to the people of the whole country, Pu Yi was very angry and asked Chiang Kai-shek to severely punish Sun Dianying, in fact, Sun Dianying not only stole Cixi's tomb, but also stole Qianlong's tomb. At that time, Sun Dianying completely blocked the entire Qing Dongling Tomb, and then robbed the tomb, so it was relatively hidden.
The Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty is the main place where the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty is buried, including the filial piety tomb of Emperor Shunzhi, the Jingling Tomb of Emperor Kangxi, the Yuling Tomb of Emperor Qianlong, the Dingling Tomb of Emperor Xianfeng, the Huiling Tomb of Emperor Tongzhi, as well as the mausoleum of Cixi and Ci'an, as well as the mausoleum of some princesses, queens and concubines.
However, when Sun Dianying robbed Yuling, it was not as easy as robbing Cixi's mausoleum, and he also encountered a strange thing, which was the so-called "Ghost Top Gate" incident. At that time, Sun Dianying heard that Qianlong liked to talk about pomp, and he knew it by watching him go to Jiangnan six times, so he expected that there should be a lot of funeral goods after his death, so he used ** to open up the entrance of Yuling's tomb road.
At that time, Sun Dianying ordered the soldiers to use wooden stakes to knock open the stone door, because the stone door is very heavy, so it took a lot of effort, but the stone gate of the cemetery in Yuling is very different from other doors, when the soldiers hit the four stone doors one after another, they understood the principle of this stone gate, but when they wanted to open the fifth door, they could not open it anyway, and the previous method was not used.
So Sun Dianying ordered the soldiers to use **, the fifth door was also blown open, this is the last door, after the door opened, everyone entered the underground palace, only to find that the reason why the stone door could not be pushed open was that the coffin withstood them, and the treasure bed in the tomb was empty, in other words, Qianlong's coffin "walked" down from the treasure bed, and then held the stone door, so everyone could not open it.
No one can explain this phenomenon, a good coffin, originally placed on the treasure bed, why did it come down for no reason? And it automatically came to resist the stone gate, did Qianlong know that someone would come to rob the tomb, so he resisted it in advance? This mysterious thing has never been solved, and it is called the "Ghost Top Gate" incident.
Because this phenomenon is too weird, everyone who sees it feels incredible, so no one dared to mention it later, because no one can explain the reason for the matter, so it is better not to say it, but later it was spread, but because the treasures stolen by Sun Dianying at that time were basically in the tomb of Cixi, so Qianlong's Yuling was stolen, and it was gradually overshadowed by the influence of Cixi's side, and no one cared.
The baby was given to Sun Dianying for a week before it was transported, and then with the support of Tan Wenjiang and others, he stole other mausoleums, returned with a full load, and waited for a fortune, and the military vehicles were transported back to hide secretly.