Sun Dianying's tentacles extended to senior officials and officials of the National Government.
He gave a string of beads from Qianlong's neck that he had stolen from Qianlong's tomb to Boss Dai;
The Nine Dragon Sword in Qianlong's tomb was given to Chang Shenkai;
Give the emerald watermelon from Cixi's tomb to Song Ziwen;
Give Kong Xiangxi two strings of gems from his court boots.
By paying bribes everywhere, Sun Dianying finally put an end to the tomb robbing incident.
After the incident subsided, he started his plan to sell the stolen goods again.
The remaining treasures were either sold, destroyed, or smuggled overseas, and many are still missing.
"How come you know everything? I feel like I went to a fake university!" Zheng Yu said with emotion.
"Haha, there is knowledge in paying attention to everything. You can't learn these in school textbooks." The officer said with a smile.
Chen Wenzhe explained: "Before carrying out this mission, I made some preparations. In fact, this information can be found online. In particular, there is a notebook of Aiyuexuan, which has detailed records of the treasures in Cixi's tomb."
"Ai Yuexuan's notes?" This time, the officer also showed curiosity.
"Li Lianying's nephew recorded some information based on Li Lianying's dictation."
Li Lianying was Cixi's most favored eunuch. When Cixi passed away, Li Lianying personally took care of the funeral arrangements and faithfully and responsibly took care of the funeral. In accordance with Cixi's instructions before her death, she carefully placed a large number of funeral objects prepared in advance into Cixi's coffin.
So why did Li Lianying write this note? Some experts believe that Li Lianying may have wanted to let future generations know that he once served Cixi and received Cixi's favor, so that he could leave his name after his death!
According to folk legend, before Li Lianying died, Li Lianying asked his nephew to write the book and dictated it himself, and wrote the "Notes of Aiyuexuan".
Many domestic historians and scholars are controversial about "Aiyuexuan Notes" because none of them have seen this notebook. Its only circulation is in an early "Buddhist Dictionary"
Excerpts from "Aiyuexuan Notes".
"Cixi's corpse has lotus leaves on its head and lotus flowers on its feet, which means 'lotus grows with each step'. The clothes are decorated with 420 large beads, 1,000 medium beads, 4,500 small beads, and 1,135 large and small gemstones."
Such precise numbers are worth pondering.
Therefore, whether it is an emerald watermelon or an emerald cabbage, it doesn't matter, let alone an emerald melon.
"By the way, the tomb should have been almost cleaned, right? I wonder what was found?"
"There are only a dozen calligraphy and paintings, and the rest are almost all gold. Instead, I found a lot of beads here, including pearls and jade beads. Of course, there are also some gems."
"It seems that the treasure ship that transported treasures had an accident here, so many treasures fell into the underwater whirlpool." Zheng Yu said.
Chen Wenzhe looked at the little fat man with a thoughtful look on his face and said: "Not only did it fall from here, the passage we came out of was also used by others, otherwise there wouldn't be so many beads left in the pool over there.
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"Someone wants these treasures, but they don't know where they are hidden." The officer said thoughtfully.
"Someone must want it, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence? Boxes containing various beads and other treasures were scattered into the bottom of the river?"
"There are gold bars underwater, too."
"That's an unexpected surprise!"
In fact, it was an unexpected surprise to find more than a dozen calligraphy and paintings.
Chen Wenzhe really didn't expect that under the environment here, he could still leave calligraphy and painting.
Thinking of the boxes in the tomb, I wonder what other treasures there are besides calligraphy and paintings?
He either doesn't want it, or simply wants to touch it.
Most of what he knew were Cixi's burial objects, but until now, ancient and modern experts have not figured out what exactly was buried in Qianlong's tomb.
Qianlong was the emperor during the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, while Empress Dowager Cixi was the most extravagant and lustful person in power in the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, among the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, the tombs of Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi are the most luxurious, and they also contain countless rare treasures.
How many treasures were buried in the luxurious tomb of Qianlong during his lifetime?
This issue still needs further research. Anyway, there should be a lot of calligraphy, painting, and porcelain. However, there have never been any treasures in this area among Sun Dianying's treasure collection.
Maybe it’s because it’s difficult to move and store, so it’s all been sold? Otherwise, where did all the gold in the tomb come from?
It had been a long time since they entered the water, and after accurately finding the whirlpool passage leading to the tomb, they had already discovered a lot.
Some pearls, gold bars, emerald beads, gemstones and tourmalines were discovered one after another.
It is now certain that the boxes containing these treasures must have fallen into the water.
Especially various beads, they have distributed more than a dozen.
"I wonder if I can find the lotus flowers and lotus leaves you mentioned."
After working for more than an hour, it was already difficult to find treasures. Zheng Yu felt a little bored.
"It's hard to say, but it's somewhat possible because someone is looking for something here specifically. So, what are they looking for?"
After speaking, Chen Wenzhe glanced at the officer.
The officer just smiled but said nothing.
Chen Wenzhe said with a smile: "The treasures that have been pursued for decades and have not given up must be very precious. Apart from those given away as gifts, there are not many treasures left, and among them is the tourmaline lotus."
From "Notes of Aiyuexuan", we can learn about some of the items buried with Cixi after her death, especially the astonishingly precious tourmaline.
"Notes of Aiyuexuan" says that the Empress Dowager Cixi "pedals a tourmaline lotus flower, which weighs thirty-six taels and is valued at seven hundred and fifty thousand taels. The price of tourmaline has been extremely low in recent years, but it is rare to find something big. If you can find something like this today,
, although it is not valuable, it will be equivalent to seven hundred yuan or one tael."
In addition, "Aiyuexuan Notes" has the following record: "The gold silk brocade quilt cost 84,000 taels, and was inlaid with 100 eight-point beads, 304 three-point beads, and 500 one-point beads.
, 1,200 six-centimeter beads, 10,500 rice beads, large pieces of ruby and sapphire weighing about four cents each, eighteen, small pieces weighing sixty-seven, purple emerald weighing five cents, weighing two pieces, tourmaline
, a total of 203 pieces of white jade. The pearls are estimated to be worth 854,200 taels, and the gems are worth about 42,000 taels."
In addition to the above burial objects, there were many other tourmaline jewelry in the coffin of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
According to the records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty, the tourmaline jewelry that was buried in the coffin included: ruby tourmaline beads, ruby tourmaline bracelets, purple tourmaline bracelets, ruby tourmaline rosary beads, gold inlaid ruby tourmaline beads, ruby tourmaline head lotus, green tourmaline