In 1928, Sun Dianying robbed the Tomb of Cixi and Qianlong in the Eastern Qing Tombs, and the whereabouts of countless valuable treasures are still unknown. According to folklore, he used part of the treasure as bribes to avoid guilt, and the one who took the most bribes was his boss Xu Yuanquan.
30 carts to transport treasures
Qing Dynasty Tombs is Qing Dynasty Royal Forbidden Land, where five emperors since Shunzhi Emperor are buried. The underground palace under the Fengtubaoding is the most important part of the Eastern Qing Tombs, and it is also the place where the coffins of the emperors and queens are placed. Therefore, although the Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in the 1920s were looted by bandits and warlords several times, the treasures displayed in the mausoleums on the ground were looted in large quantities, but the underground palaces buried deep underground were not looted.
Qingding Dongling Tomb, Ci'an Mausoleum on the left, Cixi Mausoleum on the right, only separated by a ditch.
However, this luck ends with a mysterious note. Relevant experts said that in the late Qing Dynasty, the great eunuch Li Lianying dictated, and his nephew Li Chengwu took a note and named it " Aiyuexuan Notes ". "Aiyuexuan Notes" records in detail the many priceless treasures buried in the Cixi underground palace : there is a gold silk brocade mattress with a price of 84,000 taels of silver; an embroidered Buddha and beaded thin mattress with a price of 22,000 taels; Emerald lotus leaf worth 850,000 taels; Dharaja quilt with an estimated value of 160,000 taels and 820 beads; Although these burials are valuable, they are not comparable to the beaded crown worn by Cixi . In addition, Cixi is also filled with about 500 large beads and about 6,000 small beads, which are also estimated at 228,000 taels.
The treasures of Cixi's mausoleum with a total value of 50 million taels of silver are not coveted by tomb robbers? It is said that Sun Dianying saw Li Lianying's notes and chose Qianlong's Yuling and Cixi's Dingdong Mausoleum and underground palace as the primary looting target.
Long before the robbery of the mausoleum, Sun Dianying thought about how to transport the treasure buried in the Tomb of the Qing Dynasty. After all, it was not his purpose to dig it out. What he really wanted was to take this treasure away. In order to transport this treasure smoothly, Sun Dianying ordered 30 carts from Zunhua County to transport the treasures he had stolen from the Dongling Tomb in the name of "considering the suffering of the locality, and could not bear to raise food on the spot".
When Sun Dianying's "military exercise" was completed, the locals saw his army pulling the 30 carts away from the Qing Dynasty Tomb. There is no accurate record of how many treasures are in these 30 carts. However, according to the archives of the Qing Internal Affairs Office and Li Lianying's "Notes on Aiyuexuan", it is completely conceivable that Cixi's tomb and Qianlong Yuling's burial objects are huge.
Fuchun Mountain Dwelling Map, a burial in the Yuling Mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong, this is an imitation. After the original work was stolen from the Tang Mausoleum by the warlord Sun Dianying, the first half of the "Remaining Mountain Map" was collected by Zhejiang Museum , the second half of which is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
However, in addition to the treasures with great collection value, other gold and silver treasures are far less practical for Sun Dianying than the ocean. Therefore, after robbing the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty and obtaining the buried treasures, Sun Dianying sent teachers Tan Wenjiang etc. People sneaked into Beiping and secretly commissioned the antique dealer Huang Baichuan to sell treasures. But unexpectedly, in the process of selling the stolen goods, the stolen goods brought by Tan Wenjiang were intercepted by the Beijing Garrison Command.
Not only that, but on August 4, the Qingdao Police Department's detective team arrested Zhang Qihou, a deserter from Sun Dianying's department, at the Dagang Wharf, and found 36 orbs from Zhang Qihou and others. During the interrogation, Zhang Qihou truthfully explained the information about these orbs. He said that they had a total of 46 orbs, and he sold the 10 orbs in Tianjin for 1,200 yuan. A member of the Qingdao Police Department's detective team asked him where the 46 orbs came from. He said that he found them in the Cixi Palace.
Think about it, an ordinary soldier can have 46 orbs,So how many treasures can the company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division, and army commander get?
Jade Watermelon Once Cixi's Pillow
Sun Dianying's evil deeds of digging up the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty were caught by the people of the whole country After learning about it, the whole country was in an uproar. On August 5, 1928, Reuters disclosed the scandal with a prominent headline. On August 6, it was reprinted by major newspapers across the country, and many people's groups across the country called the National Government to call for the investigation of the mastermind.
Emerald Cabbage in the coffin of Empress Dowager Cixi, now in National Palace Museum, Taipei .
However, when the government was compelled by the public opinion officials to investigate, Sun Dianying calmly submitted a submission to Xu Yuanquan, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army, as the commander of the Twelfth Army and a "third party" other than the case. He defended Tan Wenjiang, claiming that the cultural relics came from the seizure of the local bandit Ma Futian, and listed various reasons why Tan Wenjiang, the commander of the Eighth Division, who was the tomb robber, had absolutely nothing to do with the tomb robbery case.
After reading Sun Dianying's submission, Xu Yuanquan immediately wrote to Sun Dianying, telling him how to escape responsibility. The meaning of the letter is roughly as follows: You have acted too recklessly this time, and you have taken the risk of the world. If you want to get rid of the crime, the key people have to try to clear the way. As for whether you can do it or not, it depends on your means... If you want to be peaceful, you have to spend a lot of money, not only the key people have to manage, even the commanders of each army, each The commander must also try to make an appointment in front of the gate. As long as you manage them well and don't gang up on you, no matter how noisy the people are, it can be suppressed.
Although Sun Dianying was greedy, he was very obedient to Xu Yuanquan's words, so he took part of the treasures he stole from the Tombs of the Qing Dynasty and used it to bribe high-ranking Kuomintang officials. Among them, he gave Chiang Kai-shek a batch of precious cultural relics, which even included a Nine Dragons Sword , with nine golden dragons embedded on the sword surface and gemstones embedded on the hilt. The gift to He Yingqin is also a sword.As for the spy chief Dai Li , he paid a lot of money and gave him two of the largest vermilion in a string of chaozhu on Qianlong's neck. He gave Soong Meiling a night pearl in Cixi's mouth. This night pearl is the most precious. When opened, it is two pieces, and when closed, it is a ball. When separated, the night pearl is transparent without any light. However, when it is closed, this night pearl will emit a cold green light, allowing people to see the hair within a hundred paces at night.
In addition to these giants, Sun Dianying gave Song Ziwen an emerald watermelon, which is Cixi's pillow. To Kong Xiangxi and Song Ailing two pairs of diamonds on the shoes, to Yan Xishan is his favorite gold worth 500,000 yuan.
Empress Dowager Cixi The emerald watermelon in the coffin is not made of jade, but American tourmaline .
After Sun Dianying gave it generously, Yan Xishan, the commander of the Tianjin garrison, organized a military tribunal.
It is worth mentioning that Sun Dianying was born in a motley army, not a cronie in the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek. To this end, Sun Dianying wanted to bribe government officials, only through his boss Xu Yuanquan. Therefore, in a sense, his life was saved by Xu Yuanquan. Just to get through the joints, Sun Dianying sent so many treasures out. It is conceivable that in order to repay Xu Yuanquan's life-saving grace, Sun Dianying sent him many treasures from the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty.
A steamy tunnel was dug out near the Xu mansion
So, where did Xu Yuanquan hide the treasures of the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty? Many people focused their attention on Xu Yuanquan's magnificent Xu Mansion in Cangbu Town, Xinzhou District, Wuhan.
1931,Xu Yuanquan spent 100,000 oceans to build this 4,230-square-meter mansion, which integrates Chinese and Western architectural styles and is extremely luxurious to celebrate his mother's 70th birthday. At that time, Xu Yuanquan and Chiang Kai-shek disagreed, and the conflict was quite sharp, so he had the idea of resigning and going home, so he named the mansion "Retirement Garden", a metaphor for retirement.
However, later, Xu Yuanquan did not "disarm and return to the field", but still served as the commander-in-chief of the group army. This "retirement garden" has been inhabited by his family, and he lives in the Xiaohongshan General Building in Wuchang .
coral tree The whole body is covered with a string of small cherry trees, green stems, green leaves, red fruit , delicate and bright. There is also a pair of spotted kingfishers standing on the coral tree, which are very beautiful. Their whereabouts are unknown since they were stolen.
In the 1960s and 1970s, someone was digging a flower bed near Xu's residence, and as a result, a tunnel was dug out with steam coming out. Yuanquan buried the treasures received from the Tombs of the Qing Dynasty here. Everyone suspected that there might be organs and poisonous gas under the tunnel, so they did not dare to go down. Later, when the Red Guards excavated the tunnel of Xu Gongguan, they found a brick hole with a lot of white smoke. Suspecting that the white smoke was dangerous, they filled the tunnel with soil.
In 1994, in order to protect the historical site, Hu Jinhao, the then deputy director of the Xinzhou Cultural Relics Management Institute, led people to repair the exterior wall of Xu Mansion. During the maintenance process, the tunnel opening that was dug twenty or thirty years ago was dug up again. Because there was still a lot of white smoke coming out of the entrance of the cave, and there was still water in the tunnel, the maintenance worker asked for a life-and-death agreement to enter the cave, but this request was not approved. Therefore, it is still a mystery whether the treasures of the Tombs of Qing Dynasty are inside.
The white smoke from the cave is strange, but there are even more strange things in the Xu mansion. That is: as soon as the door of the main building of Xu Mansion is opened, people will immediately feel a chill. According to measurements, the indoor temperature of the mansion is about 5°C lower than the outdoor temperature, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. What is the reason for this strange phenomenon? Think of treasure, and people can't help but think of jade. It is said that jade is a "soil refrigerator".The room temperature can be lowered, but the number of jade that can achieve a cooling effect like Xu Mansion is not a small number.
There is also a strange place in the Xu mansion, that is, the secret room. The secret room under the east wing of the mansion is only a few square meters, and there is nothing in the secret room. In 1994, in order to unravel the mystery of the buried treasure of Xu Mansion, Hu Jinhao came to the secret room under the east wing of Xu Mansion, and knocked on every wall of the secret room carefully to see if there were organs hidden inside, but nothing was found. Later, due to various reasons, Hu Jinhao did not make further investigations, and the mystery of the treasures of Xu Gongguan continued to spread.
Source: New Weekly
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