Sun Dianying idled around in his early years, starting from gambling and drug trafficking and working as a bandit. Later, he formed a miscellaneous army and took refuge in Xu Hou, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. He completed a gorgeous turn and became the commander of the Twelfth Army.
In order to solve the problem of pay, the garrison in Sun Dianying near Dongling started the idea of stealing the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi. In fact, the process of robbing a tomb is not as simple as we thought, but full of twists and turns and the risk of falling.
1on the morning of July 2, 928, Sun Dianying ordered the engineer battalion commander to command the engineer to excavate the tomb of Cixi first. In order to find the entrance to the underground palace, Sun Dianying troops dug around two days ago, but without a clue.
Sun Dianying used his quick wits and sent for the local governor. When Di Bao heard that he was going to be a "staff officer" for the Empress Dowager Cixi mausoleum, he turned pale with fear, but he was not to be taunted as a commander, so he had to say that he never knew the entrance to the underground palace, and the old flag bearer might know about it. Sun Dianying felt right and immediately sent someone to invite five or six old banners. Who knows, these old people don't know the entrance either. Sun Dianying thought they wouldn't tell the secret. First it was coaxing, then it was flogging and branding with a soldering iron. How can the old man endure such torture? Two died in less than half a day. One of them can't stand it. He said that there was a stonemason who had participated in the construction of the mausoleum more than ten kilometers away. Maybe he could remember the location of the underground palace.
In order not to let outsiders know about the entrance to the underground palace, craftsmen who built the last project of the imperial tomb in ancient times often buried their secrets in the ground when they finished, which is also an extremely cruel manifestation of feudal imperial power. This stonemason is really lucky. When Cixi was buried, eighty craftsmen were chosen to make the final closed tomb, and the masons were told that they could dig another tunnel first and go out.
Craftsmen are not stupid, they immediately know that their death is coming. Since he was chosen to do the last procedure, he could not get out alive. A few days ago, people in Jiang Masons Village wrote to him, saying that his wife had given birth to a son, and now he is asked to die without looking at his son, no matter what. When he was moving a stone, he was distracted and slipped. A big stone hit him hard and he fainted on the spot. At that time, the busy supervisor thought he was dead, and was afraid of polluting the gold coupon (that is, the bedroom), so he quickly asked someone to drag it out and throw it on the bare hillside. When the masons woke up, they found that they were not in the mausoleum site. Surprised and happy, they rolled and crawled home, so they saved their lives and kept the secret of the entrance to the underground palace.
The soldiers set out soon and took the masons to the ruins of the mausoleum. Under the inducement of Sun Dianying, the masons had to compromise. Subsequently, the old craftsman who had participated in the construction of the underground palace was put on a military uniform and disguised as a soldier to help find the underground palace. "The Data of Dongling Case in the Republic of China" records: "The soldiers of this army are all white in hair and beard, and it is suspected that they were the work of repairing the mausoleum in previous years."
According to the records of engineering practice, the entrance to the underground palace of Cixi Mausoleum is at the northernmost part of the ancient cave gate, at the midpoint of the intersection of the King Kong wall and the ground. After many troubles, the engineers finally found the gate of Cixi's mausoleum.
However, the tall stone gate facing us stopped the grave robbers. Each stone door of the Qing Dongling underground palace weighs more than 3 tons, and there is a top stone behind the door. Cixi underground palace has five coupons and two doors, and Qianlong Yuling underground palace has nine coupons and four doors. According to common sense, with a turnkey, you can open the stone gate deftly. However, the bandit soldiers didn't know the mystery behind Shimen at first. A dozen people smashed the stone gate with thick bars and used explosives. Up to now, the two stone gates in front of Cixi Mausoleum still have traces of being blown up.
When the first door of Cixi Mausoleum was opened, a powerful air billow suddenly gushed out from the entrance of the underground palace, spraying out all the soldiers nearby, which frightened the soldiers who stole the treasure at that time and thought there was an organ inside, but in fact it was caused by the 20-year closure and the air pressure difference between inside and outside. The unimaginable darkness in the underground palace, mixed with feudal superstition and abnormal fear, made many bandits trample on it in panic.
Bandits dare not go in, dare not go in. It is said that a company commander made three visits to the underground palace to explain why he wanted to rob the tomb to raise money, and cried before entering the underground palace. After opening the second door, it is a spacious place, with eight coffins lined up, and there are many jewels inside, but none of them are rare treasures.
So the soldiers beat around in this place and knocked around in the west, and finally found that the voice of Yuping in the middle was a little different from other places. There is indeed a secret door behind the stone screen, and through it is a bedroom. The temple is very spacious and resplendent, with a huge gourd-headed scarlet painted gold coffin in the middle, which is more than twice as high as ordinary coffins. When you look at the magnificent school in this hall, you agree that this is the coffin of Cixi. I felt a strange smell when the cover of catalpa was lifted. Under the irradiation of torches and flashlights, the light in the coffin flashed. I saw an old woman lying on her back in the coffin, elegant, gentle and serene, as if she were sleeping soundly. The body is covered with stars and beads to gather the Eight Immortals to cross the sea. The whole body is buried in dazzling jade fruit, emitting cool light and cold flame. Cixi's mouth contains an oval luminous pearl the size of a pigeon egg, which is glittering and dazzling.
The bandit soldiers reached out and took it. However, although the cheeks look intact, the reality has long been decadent. With a little effort, they immediately slipped into their throats. Under the condition that you robbed me for a while, Cixi finally got a knife on her face, and the rare treasure, the night pearl, was taken out.
Apart from Ding Zhucui diamond, the luminous pearl and a nine-level exquisite pagoda carved with white jade balls, the sacrificial jewels obtained from this robbery also include a jade watermelon with black seeds, red meat and green skin, which is famous at home and abroad. It looks delicious and the color can be true.
It is unknown how much treasure Sun Dianying stole, which has become an unsolved mystery.