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.

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 everywhere, and the people were unbearable, and they rose up one after another. Among the righteous armies of Zhulu, the two armies of Green Forest and Red Eyebrows were the most powerful, which shook the government and the opposition, and heroes from all over the country joined in one after another.

The Red Eyebrow Army began to be composed of hungry people, at first only did some robbery in order to survive, and then was forced to be forced by the official army, fought several hard battles in succession, all of them 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 of wealth and grain, and a fire burned the palace. But just like most peasant uprisings in ancient times, the more people, the weaker the combat effectiveness, and then suffered defeats, several times in Guanzhong to advance and retreat, when faced with a desperate situation, the tombs of the Han Emperor were dug upside down.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, advocating jade, the corpse of the emperor in the tomb was covered with a dragon jade box and a phoenix jade box, which was called the golden jade clothes in later generations, all of which were picked up and cleaned, 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 Mei Army, the remnants of the tribes have become ringing horses gathering in the mountains and forests, and they still retain the tradition of stealing and digging ancient tombs and scraping treasures in the tombs for capital. The means of robbing the tomb use a long hoe and a big shovel, at most it can gather 10,000 people, dig a thousand holes in the mountain, and really have the power of "demolishing the ridge and revealing the land", so in the various systems of the tomb robbers, they call the way of their inverted bucket "unloading the ridge".

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the north of the Yellow River was captured 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 they were not spared. Not too young, Jin was destroyed by Mongolia again, the remnants of Henan Taosha officials, since then merged into the Jieling group of thieves, at that time the Diunling 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 technique of a thousand rods and the secret method of the circle.

Although the tools and methods used in tomb robbery have undergone earth-shaking changes after several generations of improvements, the strength of the group of thieves in Jieling has gradually declined, hidden in the green forest, and has not done much for hundreds of years. 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 find the tomb of the king of Xian, he did not see the water dragon halo of the tomb of the king of Xian, 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 background is legendary. The Chen family is a prominent family in Xiangyin, Hunan, with thousands of family wealth and thousands of acres of fertile land, which is actually made by robbing tombs. The Chen family has been a thief for three generations, he was born when the war was in chaos, in order to avoid the disaster of war, the clansmen have taken refuge in an ancient cemetery palace that has long been stolen, and they have been hiding 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, and because he was born in a dark and gloomy environment, his eyesight was different from ordinary people, and he gave birth to a pair of "night eyes" who could see things in the dark. When he was ten years old, he was photographed on the street by an old Taoist in rags, who saw that he had a rare night eye, and his bones were strange, which was different from ordinary people, and he knew that a little teaching would allow him to identify the treasures of the world, so he took him to the mountains to teach him magic skills.

Later, before the art was completed, the old Taoist died. Chen Blind went down the mountain and returned home, inherited the family business of Nuoda, and sat at the head of the group of thieves in Jieling. The reason why he can be the top spot, what kind of art industry he has is secondary, is mainly because the Chen family has the most extensive connections, can eat both black and white, and the tobacco, soil, and arms transactions trafficked between Hunan and Guizhou are all monopolized in his hands, so the warlords and bandits of all walks of life in Hunan and Four Rivers, regardless of their power, are dependent on him, as if they are 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 new 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 "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 heaven and earth, and the people of the four seas cry deeply".

As the saying goes: "Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times." "In the years of war and chaos, only the yellow and clear big yellow croaker (gold bar) is hard currency, but in the eyes of tomb robbers, under such a situation, the country's laws have become useless, and it is a good time to steal ancient mounds and steal secret weapons. Experienced tomb robbers will certainly not let go of this opportunity, and when the political situation stabilizes one day, the price of antiques will surely rise, and then sell the stolen goods in time, you can easily make a windfall.

Chen Blind became the leader of the group of thieves in Jieling, and naturally did a lot of things to make a fortune. At that time, his eyes were not bad, his eyesight was very good, he could "look at mud marks, recognize the color of grass, find treasures", and lead his subordinates to various provinces and places, the more chaotic the world, the more prosperous his business became, and he liked to dress lightly, pretending to be a gentleman who looked at feng shui, and went to remote mountain villages to pick up tongue leaks and inquire about the news of ancient tombs and old mounds.

The art of tomb robbery is nothing more than "looking, smelling, asking, cutting", sometimes you can know through the name of the place, what "mausoleum village, cemetery, Shuangqiu town, mound ditch, deserted burial ridge...... all this kind of place name, which has mysteries, often large tomb groups. There are a lot of villages, are formed by the royal nobles and nobles who received the tomb in the year, or named after the ancients buried in the local area, although the vicissitudes of life, the hills and ridges of those ancient tombs and huge mounds have been flattened, and there is no trace left on the ground, from the mouths of the local elders, they can still "ask" some clues, and they need to have very clever skills and experience to get out of the "tongue leakage", which is not something that ordinary people can do.

Chen is blind and has the ability to distinguish between the two and the ability to speak like a river, and the words come out of his mouth, like spitting out ninety-nine eighty-one lotus flowers, not only wonderful, but also petals are not the same, so this "ask" word trick has always been played by him to the fullest. However, in the four ways of "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting", the clichés from the local people still belong to the method of "asking".

"Ask" the word formula, then it is not to ask people, but to "ask the sky to play hexagrams", through guò divination to calculate the direction of the ancient tomb, to dig the robbery hole, 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 golden captain knows the "look, ask" two tricks of the method.

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.

There is a warlord leader Luo Lao Crooked in Xiangxi, who is a blind man Chen who knocks his head on the ground. With the assistance of Chen Blind, Luo Laowei set up a sapper digging battalion specializing in tomb robbery, dug all the ancient tombs that could be dug on his own territory, exchanged the treasures in the tomb for money, and bought a large number of guns and ammunition.

On this day, Luo Lao Crooked deliberately rushed to Chenjiazhuang in Xiangyin to find Chen Blind, and said that he had been facing a lot of pressure in the military recently, and wanted to buy a batch of advanced rifles made in the United Kingdom. If this well-armed division can be quickly formed, the waist pole will be even harder, so I want to ask Chen Blind to go out of the mountain, take the No. 100 unloading master, lead the engineer battalion, carry explosives into the mountain, and the officials and bandits cooperate to find a big tomb to dig up.

Chen Blind said with a smile: "Luo Shuai's division needs to be equipped, to say the least, it will require thousands of fast guns, plus millions of bullets and more than a dozen cannons." You must know that British goods are not as good as those made in Hanyang, but they are really not cheap, you take an abacus and pull and calculate, how many bright weapons you have to dig out, enough for you to buy these arms and equipment? If you want to follow your appetite, you have to find at least a big tomb of the princes and kings, and 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 begged him with a dead face: "Shopkeeper Chen, my brother, if you still need to work hard for ordinary small actions?" At this time, the army is expanding too fast, and the military budget is tight, and if I don't give some tobacco and silver dollars to the brothers, I cāo his grandmother's, then there will really be a mutiny in the army. 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. ”