"The emperor's burial objects are really extraordinary." Looking at the pearls, gems, jade, jade, ivory, coral, carvings, calligraphy and paintings, bookmarks, swords, etc. that appeared in different sarcophagi, Han Peacock could only smile bitterly.
By this time, he was completely sure that he had picked Sun Dianying's peach.
Although he didn't know why the treasures stolen by Sun Dianying were here, these treasures here were indeed Dongling relics.
Han Kongque knew that Sun Dianying was not a simple person. Of course, if he was a simple person, he would not have stolen the Dongling Tomb.
Let’s not talk about how brave it is to rob the aventurine. Just put a huge aventurine there. Is it possible that only Sun Dianying knows that there is a treasure inside?
And Sun Dianying was definitely not the only one who had the courage, and he was the only one who dug up the Dongling Tomb, which is enough to show that Sun Dianying had a lot of talent.
Thinking of this, Han Kongque had to thank Sun Dianying. If he hadn't been capable, how could these treasures fall into his hands?
Looking at a coffin in the stone coffin, Han Kongque smiled. This should be the golden nanmu coffin where Emperor Qianlong slept in the legend.
The golden nanmu has been immortal for thousands of years and will not rot for ten thousand years, so much so that the "Qianlong Stolen Wood" incident occurred. At that time, Qianlong valued the golden nanmu of the Ming Tomb, and used the excuse of repairing the mausoleum to demolish it and replace it with smaller ones, steal beams and replace columns, and remove the best materials.
Building the Shouling Mausoleum for himself is an ironclad fact, but what Qianlong did indirectly benefited Han Kongque.
The person who made this wedding dress was Sun Dianying. Looking at the wood piled next to the coffin, there were boards and columns inside. These should all come from the Yuling Mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong.
Just looking at the more than 60 thick pillars, Han Kongque had no doubt that they were the harvest of Qianlong's Yuling Mausoleum. Because it was impossible to get so many golden nanmu pillars elsewhere.
In history, there is a clear record that only the Changling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty can produce 60 giant golden nanmu pillars. They are all made of whole golden nanmu pillars. The diameter is so thick that it requires two people to hug each other.
In addition to these giant pillars, next to the golden nanmu coffin, there are also golden nanmu Arhat beds, Babu beds, carved flying covers, plaques, couplets, and couplets, etc.
So many golden nanmu products can only come from royal tombs. It is impossible for other people's tombs to have so many things. It can also be seen from here that perhaps Sun Dianying did not only dig up the tombs of Qianlong and Cixi.
Of course, it is also possible that Qianlong's tomb is more luxurious than Cixi's tomb, and this possibility is really not small.
This also proves Sun Dianying's lavishness from the side. If he didn't gain much, how could he use so many treasures to bribe and smoothen the relationship to eliminate the bad influence caused by his theft of the Manchu imperial tomb?
Therefore, it is definitely not easy for Sun Dianying to rob Qianlong's Yuling Mausoleum. You must know that the Qing Dynasty has been inherited for more than 300 years. The Dongling Tomb has been built since the founding of the People's Republic of China. There are many large and small tombs inside. Not everyone can find the tomb.
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The Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty are one of the five imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty. Among these five imperial tombs, three are in Liaoning and Ning provinces, and two are in Hebei Province.
Dongling is located in Malanyu, Zunhua County, Hebei Province. It is adjacent to Changrui Mountain to the north, Jinxing Mountain to the south, and Daoyang Mountain to the east. It is adjacent to Huanghua Mountain to the west and is the so-called dragon's cave in Feng Shui.
Dongling is very large, it is about 125 kilometers long from north to south and 20 kilometers wide from east to west, covering an area of about 2,500 square kilometers.
There are five imperial mausoleums: Xiaoling Mausoleum of Shunzhi, Jingling Mausoleum of Kangxi Emperor, Yuling Mausoleum of Qianlong Emperor, Dingling Mausoleum of Xianfeng Emperor, and Huiling Mausoleum of Tongzhi Emperor. Empress Xiaozhuangwen’s Zhaoxi Mausoleum, Empress Xiaozhongzhang’s Xiaodong Mausoleum, and Xiaozhen Mausoleum.
Empress Xian’s Puxiangyu Dingdong Tomb, Empress Xiaoqinxian’s (i.e. Empress Dowager Cixi) Dingdong Tomb in Putuoyu and other empresses’ tombs.
In addition to these, there are also 136 concubines, 3 elder brothers, and 2 princesses buried here. If all are counted, a total of 161 people are buried in Dongling.
In addition to the mausoleum, there are many large-scale buildings in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, including Shili Shinto, Stone Archway, Dahongmen, Gufu Hall, Divine Merit Stele, Dragon and Phoenix Gate, Wuyin Bridge, Xiaobei Pavilion, Longen Hall, Minglou,
Crescent City and Underground Palace and other buildings.
The rulers of the Qing Dynasty always built tombs like the Egyptian pharaohs, so the Dongling Tomb was extremely luxurious and cost a lot of manpower and material resources.
For example, the Dingdong Mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi was built in the late Qing Dynasty. The project cost a huge amount of 2.27 million taels (excluding buried treasures) and lasted for 14 years. It was not completed until four days before her death.
If Empress Dowager Cixi is already at the end of the Qing Dynasty, her national power is declining, and she may not be considered top-notch, then Emperor Qianlong's Yuling Mausoleum is even more luxurious.
It was built during the so-called prosperous period of Kangxi and Qianlong, which was the most powerful era of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, it is conceivable that more things were unearthed from the Yuling Mausoleum of Qianlong than from the Tomb of Cixi.
Yuling was built in the eighth year of Qianlong's reign and took 30 years to complete, costing 1.8 million taels of silver (which was the standard at the time).
It is said that the golden nanmu coffin in which Emperor Qianlong slept is an absolute national treasure and its value cannot be estimated. It cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to transport this huge piece of wood from Yunnan to Beijing.
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After the Qing Dynasty finally fell due to its rebellious behavior, according to the agreement between the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China and the Qing Dynasty, all the tombs of the Qing Dynasty were garrisoned by Manchus.
But as the world was in chaos and thieves were rampant, the status of the Manchus plummeted. Many Manchus who guarded the tombs began to collude with the bandits and sell off the treasures on the tombs on the ground.
All the copper decorations of each temple, such as copper nails and copper characters, were stolen, and then the partitions, sill frames, and window lattice of each temple were dismantled.
Even the aventurine trees were stolen and sold, and the century-old ritual trees and sea trees were stolen and cut down. The lush green mountains that used to be blocked by pines had turned into bare mountains by 1928.
I'm afraid not many people know what a ritual tree is and what a sea tree is, but even these ordinary trees in Dongling are valuable.
In the Qing Dynasty, every time a mausoleum was built, a large number of pine trees were planted around the mausoleum and on both sides of the shrine. These trees not only beautified the environment, adjusted the climate, and blocked the wind and sand.
It also has the function of highlighting the majesty of the imperial mausoleum and strengthening the mysterious atmosphere. Of course, the biggest function is to prevent theft. The environment is complicated, and the tombs built here are naturally less likely to be discovered and excavated.
Therefore, the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty formed a vast forest that covered the sky and the sun in the mausoleum area for more than 200 years from Xiaoling Mausoleum to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
According to local elders, the thickest tree cannot be hugged by two people. These trees are divided into ritual trees and sea trees.
The so-called "ceremony tree" means that all the trees planted in the mausoleum, Shashan Mountain, Houbaoshan Mountain and on both sides of the Shinto are called ritual trees.
These trees are arranged in rows, neat and orderly, and the height and size are basically the same, just like the honor guards lined up on both sides of the avenue, so they are called ceremonial trees, especially the ceremonial trees on both sides of the mausoleums and shrines are the most spectacular.
There are 10 rows of shrines on each side of the Xiaoling Mausoleum, and 9 rows on each side of the other tombs. The ritual trees of each tomb are accurately recorded in the Qing Dynasty. There were 169,500 ritual trees from the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty to the Guangxu Period.
Sea trees are trees other than ceremonial trees. They are neither branched nor arranged in rows. Just like the original forest, most of the trees in the mausoleum area are sea trees.
The sea trees were originally planted artificially, but later they grew on their own, becoming more and more numerous and denser. Looking at a sea of trees, the name sea trees came from this.
There is no accurate record of how many sea trees there are.
In the Qing Dynasty, the state strictly protected the ceremonial trees and sea trees in the imperial mausoleums. Every year, the mausoleum ministers reported to the emperor how many trees had grown back, replanted, and survived.
If some ceremonial trees or sea trees need to be cut down for the mausoleum project, a request must be made to the emperor in advance, and the cutting date will be chosen by the Qintian Supervisor.
Those who enter the mausoleum area privately and cut down or burn trees will be severely punished. Officials who protect the mausoleum who neglect their duties will be demoted, dismissed, or even decapitated.
For more than two hundred years, the Qing Dynasty carefully cultivated millions of Yishu and Haishu. Around 1925, they were cut down by the Zhili and Fengjun armies. The vast sea of trees became empty.
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After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Tangling Forest Farm and Cultural Preservation Office were established, and vigorous tree planting was carried out to make Tangling green again.
Puyi also understood this quite well, but a past emperor could not control these so-called people of the Qing Dynasty, so he had to give up.
Therefore, with the protection of these ritual trees and sea trees, even the Manchu officials stationed at Dongling were unable to dig up any tombs.
In that era, bandits repeatedly colluded with Manchu leaders and secretly invaded the Qing Dynasty Tomb.
Before Sun Dianying robbed the tomb in 1927, all the treasures on the ground of Dongling had been stolen.
The underground palace of the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty was designed with the problem of tomb robbing in mind. It has complete defense capabilities. Ordinary Manchu guards and bandits would never have the ability to dig up the underground palace.
Only one group of robbers was very lucky. They accidentally found an entrance, and then sneaked into and robbed one of the underground palaces.
That is the Mausoleum of Concubine Hui, that is, this group of people stole Concubine Hui’s mausoleum, looted all the burial jewelry, and dumped Concubine Hui’s body outside the coffin.
Therefore, before Sun Dianying robbed the tomb, the underground palace of the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty was generally well preserved, and most of the treasures buried by the martyrs were buried underground.
At that time, many various forces focused their greedy eyes on the Qing Dynasty Tomb, including Beiyang warlords, local warlords, gringos, tomb-robber groups, bandits and robbers, and Manchu ministers guarding the grave.
Unfortunately, people with the ability to rob graves, such as warlords and so-called scientific expedition teams by foreigners, are afraid of international law and national public opinion and dare not openly do such things.
Although bandits, robbers, and ordinary tomb robbing groups want to do it, they don't have the ability.
Unexpectedly, the appearance of a person changed everything. This person was Sun Dianying, and the reason why Sun Dianying was able to successfully rob the two tombs in Dongling was not inevitable.
This can be seen from the Temple Tao Mantra in the hands of Han Kongque. This book appears here and should have been left by Sun Dianying. Judging from the two words Temple Tao, it should be from the Temple Taoist Association.
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