Chen Ziyang's eyes widened in surprise as he read the booklet. This booklet is written in traditional Chinese with a brush, but fortunately, Chen Ziyang knows a lot of traditional Chinese characters, and even guessed with a cloud, Chen Ziyang finally read a rough idea. Lines of neat traditional Chinese characters tell a thrilling story and the secrets of his ancestors in front of Chen Ziyang. Chen Ziyang was deeply attracted by this story. After reading it, Chen Ziyang sighed, I couldn't imagine it, I couldn't imagine that their old Chen family was so good three generations ago!

Chen Ziyang's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather is called Chen Shengting, whose ancestral home is Shandong, and he was originally a small official in the Qing Dynasty. Unlike other Shandong people who went to the northeast, Chen Shengting was appointed to the northeast by the Qing government. In 1860, the tenth year of Xianfeng, the Qing Dynasty officially banned the reclamation of land outside the Guan, and encouraged immigrants to Shibian to revitalize the economy outside the Guanwai. In addition, at that time, the lower reaches of the Yellow River were affected by disasters for many years, and a large number of people affected by the disaster in Shandong and Hebei migrated to the northeast.

In 1897, when the ban was lifted, the Qing government transferred a large number of local officials from Shandong and Hebei to arrange immigration matters along the way to the northeast. Chen Shengting was one of the selected members. On the way to the Northeast, Chen Shengting saved an old man who was about to starve to death with a pancake, and the old man saw that Chen Shengting was kind-hearted and a scholar, so he gave Chen Shengting a few thick books and wanted to exchange them for a few more pancakes. These books were found in the mezzanine of his house when the old man was packing up his things before he broke into Kanto. In the words of the old man, he was illiterate, and he thought that these books were so well hidden, they must be treasures, so he took them on the road, but he didn't know how to read, and he couldn't read even the best books, and he couldn't eat them, so it was better to change the pancakes.

Chen Shengting received these books, but was surprised to find that this was a set of books about tomb robbing, this set of books recorded in detail the experience of dozens of generations of tomb robbers from the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the stories of tomb robbing told the geographical environment of various tombs, the structure of tombs, the skills of tomb robbery and the method of cracking the mechanism in the tomb. It can be said that this set of books is a collection of tomb robbing experiences in the land of China for more than 1,500 years. Originally, Chen Shengting was a scholar, and he hated tomb robbery the most, and he wanted to burn the book, but was stopped by his only son Chen Zhongde.

Chen Shengting was assigned to Guanwai this time because his family migrated, and his son Chen Zhongde was in his twenties at the time and had just had a third son, and the whole family followed Chen Shengting to Guanwai. Chen Zhongde glanced at these books a few times, and was attracted by the stories in them, so he stopped his father and asked them for them, saying that they were lonely on the road and kept them to pass the time. Chen Shengting didn't know what to say, but just told him to take a look at it and destroy it after reading it, especially if he couldn't learn the tomb robbery skills inside.

Chen Shengting was weak, tired and sick on the road, and died of illness not long after arriving in Fengtian, and Chen Zhongde naturally became the head of the family. Chen Zhongde has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he doesn't like to read the most, and he was forced by his father to follow literature, but he only got the fame of a showman. At this time, as soon as Chen Shengting died, the whole family was helpless and sat empty. What's more, Chen Shengting is a petty official from the seventh grade, and he has few people, and he didn't leave anything, plus there are many people in the family, and it won't be long before the old Chen family can't open the pot.

The family has changed from the family of officials to refugees, and the whole family has gone out to work and farm to make ends meet, which is more than a year in a flash. Chen Zhongde has eaten this collection of tomb robberies thoroughly for more than a year, originally he just liked the stories in this book for no reason, and liked the excitement in the story, but he inadvertently learned the dragon point and the ability to crack the tomb mechanism accumulated in the book for more than a thousand years.

Maybe some people are destined to embark on the road of tomb robbery, Chen Zhongde once went up the mountain to look for ginseng, accidentally found a dragon's den, he according to the knowledge recorded in the book, judged that there must be a tomb here. Chen Zhongde, who was uneasy and poor, led two friends to steal the tomb. When the Qing Dynasty was just established, the Manchus did not expect to gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains, and the Manchu nobles in the early Qing Dynasty were all natives of Guanwai, plus at that time under the influence of Han Feng Shui, and there were many dragons and dragons outside the Guanwai mountains, so some of the Qing Dynasty's imperial relatives and ministers who died in the early years of the Qing Dynasty were buried in the caves outside the Guan.

The cave that Chen Zhongde found is like this, it should be a Manchu cave, but the identity of the owner of the tomb is not high, which can be seen from the size, structure and burial goods of the tomb. But even so, the burial goods in this tomb are enough for the three of them to have food and clothing for half their lives. Which Cheng wants to draw dragons and tigers, it is difficult to draw bones, knowing people and faces, but not hearts, Chen Zhongde's two best friends actually got interested in making money and almost killed him. Relying on Chen Zhongde's kung fu, under several fierce fights, Chen Zhongde killed the two people and saved his life, but a large bag of gold, silver and jewelry taken out of the tomb fell under the cliff during the fight. When Chen Zhongde was collecting the jewels scattered from the baggage during the fight on the ground, he decided that in the future, such things as tomb robbing could only be done by one family, and no longer could be involved with outsiders.

Chen Zhongde, who returned home, was afraid that the murder would be exposed, so his family fled from Mukden. Chen Zhongde settled his home in Heilongjiang Province, and for the next 20 years, Chen Zhongde continued to teach himself the art of books, and taught his son, and began the old Chen family's tomb robbery career. When Chen Zhongde's fifth son was six years old, Chen Zhongde was already a well-known king of tomb robbers, and he used the money in his hand to pull up a group of locks in Heilongjiang, that is, to form a bandit nest, occupying the mountain as the king, Chen Zhongde called himself "Qiankun Tian" and became the big treasurer of the bandits' den.

Chen Zhongde thought that with a gun in his hand, no one would dare to bully their old Chen family, but he didn't expect that there were many people with guns in their hands. Zhang Zuolin, the king of the Northeast at that time, knew about Chen Zhongde's number, and hoped to pull him under his hands and dig up money for the tomb robbery of the old Zhang family. At that time, the Qing Dynasty had just fallen, and the land of China was divided, and warlords were killing each other and grabbing territory. To put it bluntly, warlords between warlords are about who has more men and more equipment. And these things can be piled up with money.

At that time, Zhang Zuolin seemed to be sandwiched between the Japanese and the Russians, struggling to survive, but in fact he used the balance between the two to gain some equipment and financial support for himself. But these "aids" are far from enough to support his ambitions, Zhang Zuolin in the name of suppressing bandits, broke up the "Qiankun Tian" locks, captured Chen Zhongde and his wife and his five sons, under the coercion and temptation, Chen Zhongde in order to protect the life of the family, forced to agree to Zhang Zuolin's tomb robbery and digging.