The story is over, but history has just begun.

Tell us about the fate of some of the characters and objects in the book after the story ends.

Yu Peng was deposed from the clan by Pu Yi due to the Tanglin theft and excavation case, and his name was also deleted from the genealogy of Aixin Jueluo. Even during the period of the puppet state of Manchukuo, he was excluded. He has always lived by selling his ancestral property and relying on his children and nephews to help him live. Shortly after liberation, he died of illness in the Tiejia Tomb on the outskirts of Beijing.

Wu Yuwen was successfully transferred from the Beijing Division Police Department and served as the deputy colonel of the Central Military Police Teaching Corps. After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, he defected to the enemy and served as the deputy of the Detective Corps of the Police Department of the Beijing Special Municipal Public Office, and the chief of the special high section of the Tianjin Police Bureau, serving the traitor and puppet regime. After the liberation, Wu Yuwen knew that he would not be tolerated by the government if he killed Li Dazhao, so he changed his name to Wu Bozhai, but he was still arrested in the end. However, by this time he was seriously ill, so he was sentenced to death but not carried out, and soon died of illness in prison.

Wang Shaoyi failed to steal and dig Dongling, but was ambushed by Sun Dianying, and led the remnants of the army to wander in the mountains and forests near Zunhua. At the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Tanglin was once again unmanaged, and Wang Shaoyi was greedy again, gathered a group of bandits, and then went to Tanglin. This time no one obstructed, he first stole the Dingling Tomb, and then stole Ci Anding Dongling, bribed the local dignitaries with the stolen treasures, mobilized hundreds of people to continue robbing the tomb, declared that this was a revolutionary action, and successively stole the Kangxi Jingling, Jingling Concubine Garden, Yuling Concubine Garden, Huiling, etc., and Dongling was empty.

The incident was discovered by Ma Hansan, the head of the military command in Beiping, and immediately reported it to Dai Li. Dai Li immediately gave instructions and launched a propaganda offensive, spreading rumors that the CCP had instructed the theft of the tomb, and public opinion was in an uproar. The CCP immediately set up a task force to arrest all the participants, and only Zhang Qianzhong and Wang Shaoyi escaped. Zhang Quanzhong was quickly captured by the military commanders in Tangshan, but Wang Shaoyi fled into the mountains, and has been at large with the cunning of evil Zhuge . It wasn't until five years later that the CCP task force caught Wang Shaoyi at his mistress's house near Zunhua. On March 21, 1951, a public trial meeting was held in Malanyu, Tanglin, and Wang Shaoyi was executed, ending his life of crime.

During this period, Tanglin was robbed several times, all of which were made by Wang Shaoyi's former subordinates and accomplices who wanted to pick up the leaks.

As of 1949, Tanglin was stolen except for the Shunzhi Filial Piety Tomb, and none of them were spared.

Sun Dianying was investigated for stealing and excavating Dongling, and when he was cornered, he asked Xu Yuanquan, the commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army, for help, and Xu Yuanquan taught him a strategy to spend money to eliminate disasters. Sun Dianying used the treasures obtained from the theft of the tomb to bribe government officials, dredge up and down, and He Yingqin, Song Meiling, Kong Xiangxi, Song Ailing and others all received bribes. Soon, the Tanglin case of the Beiping Military Court was officially opened, and Tan Wenjiang refused to admit the theft and excavation, claiming that the treasures were obtained by the extermination of Ma Futian and Wang Shaoyi's bandits. The KMT's top brass was ambiguous, and the case was unresolved for several months in the first instance. Soon after the Central Plains War, Sun Dianying led the army to the battlefield and became one of the bargaining chips for all parties. The Tanglin robbery case is not over.

However, the impact of this case was too great, and people of insight felt that tomb robbery was prevalent, especially the phenomenon of illegal excavation in foreign countries under the banner of archaeology was extremely serious, and called for legislation to prohibit it, which led to the Central Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities to preside over the formulation of a series of cultural relics protection laws, such as the Antiquities Preservation Law (1930), the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Antiquities Preservation Law (1931), the Outline of the Scope and Types of Provisional Antiquities (1935), the Rules for the Excavation of Antiquities, the Rules for the Participation of Foreign Academic Groups or Private Individuals in the Excavation of Antiquities (1935), the The Rules for Passports for Antiquities Abroad (1935) played a certain role in preventing the outflow of Chinese cultural relics.

Sun Dianying has since been at large and continues to travel between major warlords. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Chaji-Hebei guerrillas and fought against Japan. In 1943, he was captured by the Japanese army in Henan, and then took refuge with Wang Jingwei and served as the commander-in-chief of the communist army in northern Henan. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Sun Dianying took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek and actively **. In 1947, the People's Liberation Army captured him in the Battle of Tangyin and imprisoned him in a reform camp, where he suffered from post-tobacco dysentery due to years of opium smoking and soon died of illness.

Sun Dianying's self-produced Eagle brand tobacco has a great influence on China's tobacco soil. Until the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, the drugs produced in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia had cigarette labels on the packaging: "Flying Eagle Catches the Earth", which is the remnants of the Eagle brand.

As one of the treasures of Tanglin, the Qianlong Nine Dragons Sword was first obtained by Sun Dianying, and then presented to Dai Li, asking him to hand it over to Chiang Kai-shek. Dai Li was not in Beijing at that time, so the sword was temporarily kept in the head of the Beiping Intelligence Station, Ma Hansan. For some reason, Ma Hansan kept the Nine Dragons Sword at home and did not hand it over. In 1940, Ma Hansan was captured by the Japanese army in Beiping, and in order to survive, he took the initiative to sacrifice this sword to the famous Japanese female spy Yoshiko Kawashima. Kawashima Yoshiko, whose real name is Jin Bihui, is the daughter of Prince Su Aisin Jueluo Shanqi, the leader of the Sect and Socialist Party, and was later adopted by the Japanese and renamed Kawashima Yoshiko.

Yoshiko Kawashima loved this sword and treasured it at home. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, she was captured by the military commanders, and Ma Hansan took the opportunity to break into her home and take the Nine Dragons Sword. During the interrogation, Yoshiko Kawashima confessed the whereabouts of the sword, and Dai Lisa was furious and summoned Ma Hansan for questioning. Ma Hansan hurriedly handed over the sword and sent a large amount of bribes before the matter was revealed.

On March 17, 1946, Dai Li flew the sword from Qingdao to Nanjing, to hand it over to Chiang Kai-shek in person. Unexpectedly, the plane crashed into a mountain in Daishan, Jiangning, and Dai Li and other crew members all died. The military commander Shen Zui personally led the team to the scene and recovered the Nine Dragons Sword in the hands of local farmers. Unfortunately, the sword was burned beyond recognition in the plane crash, and the scabbard and hilt were completely burned, leaving only a jet-black blade. Chiang Kai-shek instructed Dai Li's remains to be buried by the pond on the west side of the beamless hall of Linggu Temple, and Shen Zui also put the remnants of the Nine Dragons Sword into the coffin for burial. In order to fear revenge, Dai Li's tomb is cast with cement, which is very strong.

In 1951, people from all walks of life in Nanjing strongly demanded that Dai Li's tomb be removed. So under the supervision of the Linggusi Police Station, several villagers in Dongshantou Village reopened Dai Li's tomb. According to eyewitnesses, in addition to Dai Li's remains, there was only a **** in the coffin, a leather shoe heel and a long and narrow piece of iron that was rusted and unshaped, and the shape of a sword was vaguely visible. These funerary items were dumped into the pond of the beamless hall on the spot, and there has been no trace of them since.

Shortly after the story of the Qianling Tomb in Shaanxi, it was also stolen and excavated. The Kuomintang army Sun Lianzhong followed Sun Dianying's example, declared that it was going to carry out a military performance, and sent a division of troops to try to steal and excavate the Qianling Tomb. But they used artillery, ** and manpower excavation, but they never found the door of the Qianling tomb. Later, it suddenly rained heavily, and it didn't stop for several days, and it was rumored in the army that Wu Zetian was angry, and the soldiers didn't dare to do it again. Sun Lianzhong was afraid of causing dissatisfaction from all walks of life, so he had to withdraw his troops.

In 1958, the state rebuilt the Xi'an-Lanzhou highway and repaired it to Qianxian. On November 27, local farmers went to Liangshan to collect stones, and blew up a large hole on the southeast slope of the north peak of Liangshan. The peasants immediately reported to the higher authorities, at all levels, all the way up to the central authorities. Experts believe that what the peasants inadvertently blew open was the Qianling Tomb Gate. In 1960, Shaanxi Province established the Qianling Excavation Committee to excavate and sort out the tomb of the Qianling underground palace, and reported to the central government to apply for the opening of the underground palace and continue the excavation.

However, Premier Zhou Enlai of the State Council quickly issued an instruction, "We can't finish the good deeds, this matter can be left for posterity to complete", and stopped the excavation of the Qianling Tomb. After that, the State Council issued a document to the national cultural management units, emphasizing that "the tombs of emperors in the country should not be dug up first". The large-scale excavation of the mausoleum since the end of the Qing Dynasty has come to an end.

To this day, the Qianling underground palace is still intact, becoming the only mausoleum in the 18 tombs of the Tang Dynasty that has not been confirmed to have traces of theft. However, in an archaeological report on the Qianling Tomb Road, it was mentioned that some archaeologists dug up a burial tomb 80 meters near the tomb road, and the tomb had collapsed, without any burial goods, only a robbery hole and ten male and female skeletons, all dressed in the Republic of China. The female corpse stole a hole in the wall and half-stretched out her arms, and there are different opinions about its intentions.