Misfortune and blessing rely on, and blessing and misfortune lurk.

Sun Dianying dared to defy the condemnation of the world, used a knife and axe to split explosives, and unscrupulously excavated the Qing Donglin, and deserved to be punished, however, the final outcome of this big case was a big surprise.

At the time of the tomb robbery in Tangling, Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin and other important Kuomintang party, government, and military officials were in Beiping, which was only more than 100 kilometers away from Dongling, holding activities to pay tribute to Sun Yat-sen and celebrate the victory of the Northern Expedition. Because Sun Dianying's secrecy work was extremely well done, the key officials in Peking knew nothing.

On the third day of the tomb robbery, Sun Dianying also sent Tan Wenjiang to Beiping Jin to pay homage to Xu Yuanquan, in fact, to inquire about the rumors, seeing that the wind was calm, Tan returned to Tanglin the next day to report to Sun Dianying. Sun Dianying was overjoyed, and even more unscrupulously let go of digging the grave. Until the tomb robbers went west, Beiping was still unheard of. It was not until the beginning of August that Tan Wenjiang was in a hurry to go to Beiping to sell the stolen goods, and the antique dealer entrusted with the supply and sale of treasures was arrested at the same time, that the incident broke out and the whole country was in an uproar.

The scandal was first revealed by Reuters, which published it in a striking headline and was later reprinted by major newspapers across the country.

After the theft was revealed, many public groups sent telegrams to the national government calling for the mastermind to be investigated. The Cultural Maintenance Association sent a telegram requesting that the thieves of Tanglin be dealt with strictly, and that the funeral belongings should be confiscated as soon as possible and the mausoleum should be repaired. Application for the National Spirit Revitalization Society: The imperial tomb is also the symbol of our national spirit, and the tomb robber is the scum of the nation. The All-China Federation of Chambers of Commerce pointed out: The mausoleum project of the Qianlong and Cixi emperors is solid, and it is not possible for a few people to dig it in the shortest time! The National Treasures Sorting Committee called on the authorities to quickly seize the stolen national treasures and prevent them from leaving the country.

Amid the tremendous condemnation throughout the country, the Nationalist Government had no choice but to put on a posture of rectifying military discipline, upholding justice, and severely punishing the main culprits. Chiang Kai-shek declared: Submit the stationery, the general belonging, one and the same strict arrest, must be investigated, no leniency.

In accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's warrant, the Peiping District Court sent inspector Yu Yuan to Tanglin to inspect the coffins of Qianlong and Cixi. Yan Xishan sent troops to protect Dongling by Shang Zhen, chairman of Hebei Province, and Zhang Yinwu, commander of the garrison, sent troops to protect Xiling.

The Kuomintang dignitaries made such a "sensation", but they were vague about who was the main culprit in the tomb robbery, sometimes calling it "a certain unit of the Zhifeng Coalition Army", sometimes calling it "the remnants of the rebel army", or "the remnants of a certain party". Investigators led by Liu Renrui, a member of the Nationalist Government, went to Tanglin to begin the investigation.

After Liu Renrui and his entourage arrived at Tangling, they saw the traces of the theft of the mausoleum along the way, and they picked up an iron-tipped hoe on the road of the Yuling tomb, which was unique to the engineering army and was not a peasant thing. and found a notice of Sun Dianying and a notice of Brigade Commander Han Dabao on Ma Lanyu Street. Knowing the nearby residents' mausoleums, they all heard the sound of explosions coming from the direction of the two mausoleums. From time to time, soldiers went to the street to buy fuel, and everyone's legs and feet were stained with the plaster of the underground palace. Someone also reported that it was the time of tomb robbery, and saw Sun Junchang taking a car from Mashen Bridge to Malanyu at night.

However, when the government officials were investigating, Sun Dianying was calm and calm, and even submitted a submission to Xu Yuanquan, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army, as the commander of the 12th Army and a "third party" outside the case, defending Tan Wenjiang, the key criminal who robbed the tomb and the commander of the Eighth Division, and listing various reasons why Tan had nothing to do with the tomb robbery case.

Xu Yuanquan read Sun's submission, and asked someone to send a letter to Sun and give Sun Dianying some guidance: You Sun Dianying is too reckless this time, and you have braved the disapproval of the world, and all parties have already made an uproar, and it is difficult for me to cover the sky with one hand and shelter from the shadow. But you have to try to dredge up the key people, whether you can do it or not, depends on your means. You have captured a lot this time, there are tens of thousands of outsiders, and you are reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, if you want to calm down the storm, you have to spend a lot of money. Even the commanders of the regiments and the commanders of the armies had to try to get in front of them, as long as they did not attack them in groups, the people could be subdued.

Sun Dianying comprehended and hurriedly selected a batch of precious ones from the Tanglin stolen goods, one of which was a Nine Dragons Sword, with nine golden dragons embedded on the sword surface, and gems embedded in the hilt, which Sun Tuo Dai Li gave to Chiang Kai-shek; Another sword was given to He Yingqin.

A string of pearls on Qianlong's neck, there are 108 pieces, which are said to represent the eighteen Arhats, which are priceless treasures, and the two largest vermilion ones were given to Dai Li when Sun was in Tianjin; Cixi's pillow was a jade watermelon, which Sun Tuo Dai Li gave to Song Ziwen; Cixi's mouth contains a night pearl is the most precious, open is two, closed is a round ball, separated transparent and lightless, closed to reveal a green cold light, at night within a hundred steps can be seen hair, Sun also entrusted this treasure to Song Meiling.

Kong Xiangxi and Song Ailing were very red when they saw it, so Sun selected two more strings of gems on the shoes and sent them to settle the matter. And gave 500,000 yuan worth of gold to Yan Xishan.

Tanglin was stolen for more than a month and has been left unmanaged. Although the Nationalist Government has sent large personnel to investigate, there is no way to deal with the aftermath. Pu Yi, the last emperor who lived in Zhangyuan, Tianjin, wept bitterly when he heard the news, and immediately set up a memorial service in Zhangyuan, and sent a telegram to summon the relatives of the Beijing royal family and the remnants of the Qing family to come to Tianjin to discuss the aftermath.

The "Imperial Meeting" held for two days and two nights decided to send Bao Ruichen, Qi Shoumin, Chen Yizhong and others to Tanglin to investigate and handle all the aftermath.

On August 18, more than 70 people including Bao Ruichen drove to Tanglin. After arriving in Tangling, they planned to survey the tombs of Qianlong, Cixi and other mausoleums, and then proceed with the reburial of the emperor and queen.

At this moment, an incredible scene appeared in the Qianlong underground palace.

When they were cleaning up the Yuling Underground Palace, they found a female corpse.

Complete female corpse.

According to the judgment of these clan relics, this female corpse is Empress Xiaoyi, the biological mother of Emperor Jiaqing, who died at the age of 49.

Of the 6 tomb owners in the Yuling underground palace, some died before her and were buried first, and some died later than her; There are those younger than her, and there are those who are older than her. Why did the other 5 people become a mess of bones, but she was the only one with a complete body, no decomposition, and a living face?

This is one of them.

Second, the mystery of the water.

Yuling was built in the seventeenth year of Qianlong (1752), and there was water seepage in the underground palace in the year of completion. Emperor Qianlong once ordered his ministers Sanhe and others to step up maintenance and rectification, and it took a lot of effort to solve the problem.

In that year, Empress Xiaoxian, Emperor Huixian, and Zhemin Soap Concubine were buried; In the twenty-second and fortieth years of Qianlong, he was buried in Shujia Huang Guifei and Lingyi Huang Guifei respectively (later posthumously presented as Empress Xiaoyi). In September of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), Emperor Qianlong was officially buried. In the 47 years before and after, there has been no water seepage in the underground palace. It shows that Qianlong's 17th year of rectification of local officials was very successful.

However, when Yuling's bones were reburied in 1928, there was more than two meters of water in the underground palace.

Since the opening of the Yuling Underground Palace in 1978, every rainy season in midsummer, it is necessary to pump water every day, otherwise the seepage water will rise. Why does there be water accumulation in Yuling Underground Palace, and when did the water seepage reappear?

None of this has been answered. (To be continued.) )