Chapter 3 Tomb Robbery

Since the death of Qin, Han Gaozu Liu Bang called the emperor, passed on for several generations, has always been the Han family, known as the "Western Han Dynasty" in history, until Wang Mang usurped the throne, there was Guangwu Zhongxing, out of the Eastern Han Dynasty's destiny, but this is all a later story, needless to say. /。 qΒ⑸. CoM\\

It is only said that at the turn of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a great drought in the world, the hungry people were all over the wilderness, and the people could not bear their suffering, and they rose up one after another.

The Red Eyebrow Army began to be composed of hungry people, at first only did some fights and robberies in order to survive, and then was forced to be forced by the official army, fought several hard battles in succession, all won a complete victory, since then the prestige has been greatly inspired, in order to seek the battle to advance without retreating, everyone will dye their eyebrows red, like a snowball, and gradually develop into hundreds of thousands of people, all the way into the bamboo, into Chang'an, all over the Chang'an City wealth and grain, and a fire to the palace, but just like most of the ancient peasant uprisings, the more people, the weaker the combat effectiveness, Then he suffered defeats, advanced and retreated several times in Guanzhong, and when he was desperate and desperate, he dug up the tombs of the Han Emperor to the bottom.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, advocating jade, the corpses of the emperors and concubines in the mausoleum were covered with Jiaolong jade boxes and Xuanfeng jade boxes, which were called golden jade clothes in later generations, all of which were stripped of a clean light, and the treasures of the Han Dynasty mausoleum were piled up, and these treasures were all plundered by the Red Eyebrow Army.

With the collapse of the rampant Red Eyebrow Army, the remnants of the tribes, become the roaring horses of the mountains and forests, they still retain the tradition of stealing and digging ancient tombs, scraping the treasures in the tomb, once the traces of the ancient tombs of the royal family and noble ancestors are found, they will be led by the leader to steal the hair, the means of robbing the tomb use a long hoe and shovel, at most can gather 10,000 people, dig a thousand holes in the mountain, there is really the power of "demolishing the mountain and revealing the land", so in the various systems of the tomb robbers, they are called "unloading the mountain" in this way of inverting the bucket.

At the end of the Song Dynasty. To the north of the Yellow River, they were all trapped by the Jin soldiers, and the military group composed of Henan Taosha officials excavated the imperial tombs on a large scale, and the tombs of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty were destroyed and stolen, and no one was spared. Not too young, Jin was destroyed by Mongolia again, the remnants of Henan Taosha officials, since then merged into the unloading of the group of thieves, the then unloading of the Ling thief Liu Zixian is a generation of strange people, he widely absorbed the advanced means of stealing and digging the Song Tomb, improved the tomb robbery equipment, passed down the art of a thousand rods and the secret method of the circle.

Although the tools and methods used in tomb robbing have undergone earth-shaking changes after several generations of improvements, the strength of the Xieling group of thieves has gradually declined and is hidden in the green forest. For hundreds of years, he has not done much, but occasionally teamed up in the same place to steal a few ancient tombs to obtain some gold and jade wealth. It has been passed down to the Republic of China, the last generation of thieves Chen Blind, his real name is "Chen Yulou", the word is "Jintang", but people on the green forest road are used to using fake names, and few people in the world know his real name.

Because he led the crowd to Yunnan to look for the tomb of King Xian, he did not see the water dragon halo of King Xian's tomb, and he encountered a poisonous trap in the worm valley, damaged a pair of eyes, and his whereabouts were unknown in those years. The trees fell and scattered, and the group of thieves who had been handed down for thousands of years disappeared from history.

Chen's blind man's origin is quite legendary, the Chen family is a prominent family in Xiangyin, Hunan, the family wealth is thousands, the fertile land is thousands of pours, in fact, it is by robbing the tomb to make a fortune, the Chen family has been three generations of thieves, he was born when the war was in chaos. In order to avoid the scourge of war, the clansmen have taken refuge in an ancient cemetery palace that has long been stolen, and they have not seen the light of day for more than two months, and only after the chaos has passed, they dare to return to their homeland, he was born from the ancient cemetery palace, because he was born in the dark and gloomy environment, so that his eyesight is different from ordinary people, and he gave birth to a pair of "night eyes" that can see things in the dark, and when he was ten years old, he was photographed by a ragged old Taoist on the street, it turned out that this old Taoist saw that he was a rare night eye, and the bones were strange, unlike ordinary people, Knowing that a little teaching would allow him to identify the treasures of the world, he took him to the mountains to teach him magic skills.

Later, the art was not completed, the old way was dead, Chen blind man went down the mountain and returned home, inherited the family business of Nuoda, and sat at the head of the group of thieves in the mountains, the reason why he was able to do the top gold position, what art industry he had fell second, mainly because the Chen family had the most extensive connections, black and white can eat both ways, and the tobacco and arms transactions trafficked between Hunan and Guizhou were all monopolized in his hands, so the warlords and bandits of the three Hunan and four rivers were attached to him regardless of the size of the force, as if they were a local emperor.

During the period of the Republic of China, the imperial system of the Qing Dynasty was finally overthrown, so that China at that time entered a great era of fierce collision between various cutting-edge trends of thought and bad habits, and the social situation was particularly chaotic, not only the warlords of all walks of life were frequent, but also there was a once-in-a-century disaster of "drought in the north and flood in the south", which made many provinces have no harvest, and thousands of people became victims, this is exactly "ten years of fighting the world and the world, and the people of the four seas cry deeply".

As the saying goes: "Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times." "In the chaotic years, only the yellow croaker is the hard currency. But in the eyes of tomb robbers, in such a situation, the country's laws have become useless, and it is a good time to dig up ancient mounds and steal secret weapons. Experienced tomb robbers, of course, will not let go of such an opportunity. When the political situation stabilizes one day, the price of antiques will surely rise, and if you sell the stolen goods in time, you can easily make a windfall.

At that time, his eyes were not bad, his eyesight was very good, and he was able to "look at mud marks, recognize the color of grass, and find treasures", and led his subordinates to work in various provinces and places, the more chaotic the world, the more prosperous his business was, and he liked to dress lightly, pretending to be a gentleman who looked at feng shui, and went to the remote mountain villages to pick up the tongue leak and inquire about the news of the ancient tombs and old mounds.

The art of robbing tombs is nothing more than "looking, smelling, asking, cutting", sometimes you can know through the place name, like what "mausoleum village, cemetery, Shuangqiu town, mound ditch, deserted burial ridge...... all this kind of place name, which has mysteries, often there are large tomb groups, there are many villages, all of which are formed by the gathering of the royal nobles and nobles in the year, or named by the ancients buried in the locality, although the vicissitudes of life, the hills and ridges of those ancient tombs and mounds have been flattened, there is no trace left on the ground, you can still "ask" from the mouth of the local elders If you want to get a "tongue leak", you need very smart skills and experience, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

Chen Blind is unparalleled, and has the ability to speak like a river, a word from his mouth, like spitting out ninety-nine eighty-one petals of lotus, not only wonderful, but also petals are not the same, so this "ask" word, has always been played by him to the fullest, but in the four doors and eight ways of "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting", from the local people to the mouth, it is also a "ask" under the law.

"Ask" the word formula on the method, it is not to ask people, but to "ask the sky to play hexagrams", through divination to calculate the location of the ancient tomb, to dig the robbery hole, straight through the coffin, or to calculate the auspicious and vicious movement of the tomb robbery, these ancient art Chen blind people are not good at it, although they also understand the principle, but once it is displayed, often can not be fulfilled, it is said that only the touch of the gold captain can understand the "look, ask" two tricks of the law.

But Chen Blind also has some actual skills, the equipment and means handed down by the group of thieves in the past dynasties, he is all proficient, plus he knows the inferior technique of "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting", and has walked through thousands of mountains and rivers in the past few years, and has really stolen a lot of ancient mounds.

At that time, the situation was chaotic, who had more guns under his hands, whose power was greater, with the assistance of Chen Blind, Luo Lao Crooked set up a special sapper digging battalion for tomb robbery, dug up the ancient tombs that could be dug on his own territory, exchanged the treasures in the tomb for money, bought a large number of guns and ammunition, and greatly increased his strength for a while, so he further expanded the territory, annexed a small group of warlords, and then continued to look for ancient tombs to steal and excavate.

On this day, Luo Lao Crooked deliberately rushed to Xiangyin Chenjiazhuang to find Chen Blind, speaking of the recent military pressure is not small, want to buy a batch of British-made advance wheels, now the appetite is getting bigger and bigger, not to sound is enough, a blockbuster, planning to equip a division at a time, today's world is more people with more guns and more fists, speaking is enough, if this well-armed division can be quickly formed, the waist pole can be harder, so I want to ask Chen Blind to go out of the mountain, with the No. 10 unloading master, leading the engineer battalion, carrying explosives into the mountain, officials and bandits cooperate, Find a big tomb and dig it up, add two and five Ming weapons, and the family gets half.

Chen Blind said with a smile: "Luo Shuai's division must be equipped, not to mention thousands of fast guns, plus millions of bullets and more than a dozen cannons, you must know that the British goods are not as good as Hanyang, but it is really not cheap, you take the abacus and pull it, calculate how many Ming weapons you have to dig out, enough for you to buy these arms and equipment, according to your appetite, at least you have to find a tomb of the princes and kings, now the nearby tombs have long been dug up by us, but it is not easy to find such a big tomb." ”

Luo Lao saw that Chen was in trouble, so he didn't dare to mention the expansion of the new army, but pleaded with a dead face: "Shopkeeper Chen, my brother, if you still need to work hard for ordinary small actions?" At this time, the army has expanded too fast, the military budget is tight, and if he doesn't give some tobacco and silver dollars to the brothers, he*, then there will really be a mutiny in the troops, and if you don't save the shopkeeper Chen, you will have to throw away this mess and continue to go up the mountain and fall into the grass. ”

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