HCB Chapter 337 Buried with a country, the best in the world, treasure hunting (page 1)
Chapter 337 Buried with a country, the best in the world, treasure hunting (page 1)
Wu Youde was familiar with what Niu Longtai was talking about, which was the bombing of the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi.
In May 1928, Sun Dianying's troops were severely defeated by Feng Yuxiang's troops.
He had to retreat to northern Hebei and stationed near Malanyu. Malanyu is the location of the Qing Tombs.
In order to make up for the losses of the war and to obtain "capital" for future expansion of the army, Sun Dianying turned his attention to the Qing Dong Tombs near his station!
This person was born in the green forest and was a "domestic slave with several surnames". He had no fixed "master" and basically just followed whoever had the upper hand to become the boss.
This shows that his character is low and his morality has no lower limit.
Be bold and do what you say!
In July of the same year,
Sun Dianying launched a tomb robbing operation in the name of "military exercise".
But since this was a spur-of-the-moment move rather than a long-planned move, he was not prepared at all. Moreover, he was not a professional at 'touching gold', and he didn't know how to touch spots first and then drill holes.
So, he adopted the most direct, simplest, and crudest method.
Using explosives, they blasted open the Yuling Tomb of Emperor Qianlong and the Putuoyu Dingdong Tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi, and robbed all the buried treasures inside...
If you use explosives to rob a tomb, you can imagine how much damage it will cause to the tomb!
In addition, the people responsible for the explosives and tomb robbery were a group of soldiers. Those who rushed into the tomb saw mountains of gold, silver and jewelry...
Not crazy yet?
Qianlong's tomb is not that important, the main one is Cixi's.
This woman who ruled the Qing Dynasty for more than half a century, the scale of the funeral after her death and the amount of wealth buried with her were beyond the reach of even the 12 emperors of the Qing Dynasty.
According to Li Chengwu (Li Lianying's nephew)'s "Notes on Aiyuexuan", the total value of Cixi's funeral objects was more than 2500 million taels of silver, which was more than the Qing court's annual income.
The total value of one person's burial objects is actually more than the total annual tax revenue of an empire with tens of millions of square kilometers and hundreds of millions of people! !
This is simply a miracle! !
Before the body of Empress Dowager Cixi was placed in the coffin, the coffin was covered with three layers of gold silk beaded and embroidered mattresses.
The bottom layer is a gold silk mattress inlaid with jewels, about 7 inches thick.
It is decorated with 10500 rice beads, 1200 six-centimeter beads, 500 one-cent beads, 304 three-cent beads, 100 eight-cent beads, 203 tourmalines and white jade, 85 rubies and sapphires, and 2 emeralds.
On top of the gold brocade mattress, there is a layer of embroidered silk mattress, and on the silk mattress there is a layer of five-fifth-weight ball beads, inlaid with 2400 pearls.
On top of the double-round pearls, a layer of mattress embroidered with Buddha beads is laid, and 1320 two-part beads are embellished on the mattress.
The two-layer mattress is inlaid with tens of thousands of pearls, and hundreds of pieces of white jade and precious stones!
In the coffin, an "Emerald Lotus Leaf" is placed on Cixi's head and a pink "Jasper Lotus" is placed at her feet.
Cixi in the coffin wears a phoenix crown with a large pearl as a tribute from foreign countries. There are 27 golden Buddhas, emerald Buddhas, ruby Buddhas and white jade Buddhas around her. Each Buddha weighs 175 to 400 grams.
Also placed at Cixi's feet were two "emerald watermelons", two "jasper melons", ten "emerald peaches", a hundred "yellow plums", 40 "ruby jujubes", and 60 "yellow jujubes". Gem Apricot”.
On her body, there were still two "Emerald White Tea" stones: green leaves with white hearts, a "Green Jade Grasshopper" lying on the cabbage heart, and two "Topaz Wasps" falling on the cabbage leaves.
On the left side of Cixi's body, there is a branch of "Jade Lotus". On the three segments of "White Jade Lotus Root", there is natural gray mud. Green lotus leaves grow at the nodes, and pink lotus blooms.
In addition,
On the right side of the Queen Mother's body, there is a branch of "jade-carved red coral tree", a branch of flat peach with green leaves and red fruits, and an emerald bird falling on the branch. They are all made of natural colors and exquisitely carved.
At last,
The officials who held Cixi's funeral brought out four liters of pearls and 2200 gems, all of which were filled into the coffin.
Later, eight "jade golden horses" and 18 "jade arhats" were added.
She also holds a huge luminous pearl in her mouth, which is a priceless treasure! !
According to Sun Dianying's later recollection:
"She (Cixi) holds a luminous pearl in her mouth. It is divided into two pieces when closed. When closed, it becomes a round ball. It is transparent and dull when separated. When closed, a green cold light shines through. At night, the hair can be seen within a hundred steps.
It is said that this treasure can prevent the body from changing. No wonder that after Cixi's coffin was opened, Lafayette looked like he was sleeping, but his face turned black after being exposed to the wind, and his clothes were a little unkempt.
I asked Yunong to give the luminous pearl to Mrs. Chiang (Meiling) on my behalf. "
Other than that,
Cixi's body was also covered with a woven gold "Dharani quilt".
The quilt is made of bright yellow satin and twisted gold, with 2.5 words of Dharani scriptures woven into it.
The quilt is also decorated with 820 pearls.
Unfortunately, Sun Dianying and his men Qiu Ba were ignorant of the goods. After removing the pearls, they abandoned this priceless piece of scripture on the ground. It was not discovered until 1979 when the underground palace was being cleaned.
On top of the sutra quilt, there is a quilt decorated with 6000 pearls, which is also a priceless treasure.
Dharani sutra quilt (not the real thing)
The value of Cixi alone, the treasure in the coffin, is immeasurable. She can be called "the best in the world" and "the best in the world"!
So, twenty years later.
On July 4, 1928, Sun Dianying sent people to blow up the Cixi Mausoleum.
Since he himself is the Green Forest Warlord, his subordinates are all a ragtag group of people, and what kind of general leads what kind of soldiers.
This group of soldiers rushed into the mausoleum and began to loot gold and silver treasures...
First, collect the large treasures surrounding Cixi’s body.
Such as emerald watermelon, grasshopper cabbage, jade lotus, coral tree, etc., and then remove all the jewels buried under Cixi's body.
Then they lifted Cixi's body onto the coffin lid, took off her dragon robe, tore off her underwear, took off her shoes and socks, and searched for all the jewelry on her body, inside and out.
The most explosive thing is,
In the end, only a pair of briefs and a sock were left, and they were buried in the tomb! !
This is true.
Cixi's mausoleum was stolen. When the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar!
More than forty days later, a member of the royal family named Aixinjueluo Baoxi came to Dongling to collect the body of Empress Dowager Cixi and rebury it.
Baoxi wrote in his diary: "The Queen Mother's jade body is still there, thrown in the corner of the tomb, face down, scattered, her face white, her eyes sunken like black holes.
All the clothes on his body were taken away, leaving only a pair of underwear and a sock on his lower body. "
There was also a soldier who found the luminous pearl in Cixi's mouth. Because he couldn't take it out for a while, he cut off Cixi's cheek and took away the luminous pearl...
In order to remove the gold, silver and jewelry from the tomb,
Sun Dianying used thirty trucks to pull these things away, not counting what the soldiers secretly hid in their pockets.
……
The treasure that Niu Longtai and the others saw,
It was a 'jade lotus root', only the size of a palm, carved from a whole piece of mutton-fat white jade.
They all thought it belonged to Cixi, or was stolen from Cixi's mausoleum.
Because they all heard the rumors about Lafayette from their elders in the family. They all knew that Lafayette had a beloved thing, which he played with all the time and put it next to his pillow when he slept.