Chapter 218: Treasure Suspicion
"It's you, Tanglin thief, Sun Dianying!"
Wen Yiming fed a few little guys, needless to say, Jinbao had at least three or four gold bars a day, and he was happy to eat. The golden horn has just been evolved, and the amount of food is larger, plus the two guys of Xiaojin and Xiaobai, they know that Hexiang is a baby, and they come to eat and drink every day.
Liu Datong arranged a few black tigers, and there was Xiaoxue at home, so he was a little more angry, and he played with the two little mastiffs all day long, which was very lively.
Wen Yiming picked up the record of troubled times, began to systematically sort out clues, and locked the first treasure hunt target, the most arrogant tomb robber in history, Sun Dianying.
In order to directly blow up the Qing Dongling Tomb for military expenses, and sweep away the funeral goods of Qianlong Cixi, the whole country was shocked, and it was really bold.
According to the record, he officially started on July 8 and lasted until the 10th, packing and sealing all the stolen treasures. Two cars were sent during the night, and all the treasures were transported to the temporary headquarters for tomb robbers at Mashenqiao.
In the early morning of July 11, his subordinate Tan Wenjiang was responsible for loading the treasures onto 20 large trucks transferred from the headquarters, all of which were requisitioned in advance in the name of military quartermasters, and the drivers did not know that they were transporting treasures.
At that time, Sun Dianying convened a meeting of the senior officers involved in the tomb robbery to discuss the distribution of the spoils. Naturally, he had a big head, and most of the treasures were kept for himself. According to the memories of those around him back then, the treasures obtained filled eleven large boxes.
After the incident, some media estimated that the treasures stolen by Sun Dianying from Dingdongling and Yuling were worth 250 million taels of silver. Now, scholars have found that the value is much more than that.
According to the information that historians can find, in addition to the distribution of the stolen goods, there are five main destinations for the stolen treasures: sale, handover, fines and confiscations, bribes, and secret collections.
Wen Yiming took out a pen and paper, began to draw clue maps, planned treasure hunting routes, and sold the largest flow, many treasures may still be in the people, but more are overseas.
At that time, Sun Dianying's transactions were mainly in Beiping and Shanghai, where there were many foreigners and could be sold for a price, and Tan Wenjiang transported some jewelry and jade to Beiping, worth about 100,000 yuan. Tan Wenjiang's younger brother Tan Rongjiu first sold pearls in Langfang Yiwenzhai, and was introduced by the broker Wang Zhenbo, who received about 6,000 yuan.
Li Delu, the quartermaster general, later confessed that Sun Dianying sent two adjutants with extraordinary martial arts marksmanship, Wang Dengying and Dai Shixi, to escort them and take away five large boxes of treasures. After arriving in Shanghai, he opened the Yushang Mansion in Lu Ganqing, whose ancestral home was Bianliang.
At that time, there were many cultural relics dealers in Shanghai, all of whom served foreigners. After Lu Ganqing's matchmaking, a broker named Wu Shi'an took a fancy to these rare treasures, introduced them to the foreign masters, and negotiated the price.
After the inspection, the foreigner handed over about 1/4 of the cash he had brought to Li Delu, and the balance was a check with a large amount of US dollars. Li Delu felt that the denomination was too much and asked to split it into five.
I never thought that this was the bureau set up by the leader of the Green Gang, Huang Jinrong, and when Li Delu went to the bank to withdraw money, he was told that the check was fake. Sun Dianying was once recommended by Niu Qiye to join the Green Gang, and he was the same generation as Huang Jinrong, but he had never been to Shanghai. After Sun Dianying learned that Huang Jinrong blackened his treasures, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but he didn't dare to provoke Huang, and then sent someone to hire an underworld killer to kill Wu Shi'an, who was in the game.
After suffering a gold loss in Shanghai, Sun Dianying shifted the focus of sales to Tianjin and Hong Kong, where he had his own mansion in the concession at that time. The targets of the sale of stolen goods are still foreigners, and most of the transaction locations are located in the British and French concessions, and it is impossible to count the specific number of sales. After the Tanglin robbery case was exposed, under the pressure of public opinion, Sun Dianying first adopted the method of blaming others and getting rid of the golden cicada, and then took the initiative to hand over a small amount of treasures to confuse the outside world.
The list of appendices in the report he handed over to his immediate boss Xu Yuanquan that year: a total of 5 snuff bottles, 1 pair of red gold full bead bracelets, 10 beads, 18 pearl blue rubies, 1 pair of red gold eight treasure bracelets, 15 large and small gems, 18 corals, 15 jade gemstones, and 3 jade bracelets.
Obviously, he wants to avoid the important and shirk the responsibility. Xu knew what Sun meant, and originally wanted to take it privately, but later saw that the military court was going to be serious, and he was worried about being implicated, so he took the initiative to ask for it to be handed over to the court. Funnily enough, after the incident subsided, Xu Yuanquan regretted his actions.
Wen Yiming sorted out and finally found several suspicious places, first confiscated by the Beiping police, Tan Wenjiang and Huang Baichuan, the shopkeeper of Zungu Zhai, traded treasures, the specific amount is unknown, and finally the whereabouts are unknown.
The second is that the treasures received by the shopkeeper of Yiwenzhai from Tan Wenjiang's younger brother Tan Rongjiu were handed over after being exposed, and Zhu Shouguang, the commander-in-chief of the Pingjin garrison, handed them over to the president of the Beiping General Chamber of Commerce for safekeeping, but their whereabouts are also unknown.
The third case was confiscated by the customs, on August 14, 1928, 35 boxes of treasures were seized to be shipped to France, which were declared by Zhang Yueyan, the manager of the Beiping Jizhen Eun antique store, and were ready to be shipped to France, with a price of 22,000 yuan.
Since the owner of the goods was not present, the Military Justice Department notified the customs to temporarily seal it, and questioned Zhang Yueyan through the Beiping Public Security Bureau to find out the source of the goods, and finally disappeared.
This is just a drop in the ocean, the number of Donglin treasures stolen by Sun Dianying, there should still be most of them that have not appeared, as if the world has evaporated. According to Jiao Laojiu's research, the biggest suspect is someone else.
At that time, Sun Dianying counted and classified the stolen treasures, and selected the treasures in the two boxes, which were not sold for the time being, and prepared for the secret collection.
remembered that he worshiped his brother Tian Haiquan and asked him to keep it on his behalf. Tian Haiquan was the brigade commander of the Jin Army at that time and was stationed in Baotou. Sun Dianying arranged for his close confidant and subordinate brigade commander Yang Mingqing to do this.
There are different theories about the time when the two boxes of treasures were sent to Tian Haiquan for safekeeping, but no matter when they were entrusted to Tian Haiquan, Sun Dianying should not fake the secret storage of these two boxes of treasures. However, the boutique of these two boxes of treasures was finally hacked in Tian Haiquan's hands!
After the treasure was lost, Tian Haiquan once knelt and cried to Sun Dianying, asking for forgiveness, saying that a box was stolen and a box was transferred, and handed over the box that was transferred, and the box was full of broken things.
Of course, Sun Dianying understood that Tian Haiquan had a treasure under the black, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and later Sun Dianying's army entered the area east of Baotou, so he secretly sent someone to assassinate the other party, and where the treasure flowed is still unknown.
According to Jiao Laojiu's pursuit over the years, it was found that some treasures should be hidden in the house of Sun Dianying's boss, Xu Yuanquan, the commander-in-chief of the Sixth Group Army that year.
Back then, Sun Dianying was able to be safe and sound so quickly, and he must have thanked his boss Xu Yuanquan for settling all aspects, if it wasn't for Xu or explicitly or secretly negotiating, his ass might not be wiped clean. Xu Yuanquan was able to speak for Sun Dianying because he secretly received a heavy bribe from Sun.
Xu Yuanquan's mansion in the Huangpi District of Hankou is rumored to have a secret room underneath, which is specially designed to hide treasures. In 1949, when Xu Yuanquan went to Treasure Island, he took some of the treasures with him, and all the treasures that he couldn't take away were hidden in the secret room.
Wen Yiming picked up the clue map, there are two near the capital, one in Baotou, and finally Hankou, the notes are all about the approximate range, and it was decided to set off tomorrow and start the treasure hunt according to the distance.