The Temple Taoist Association is a Jianghu organization. Although it is cloaked in the guise of a Taoist sect, it is actually a low-level tomb robber. Of course, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a cult, and Sun Dianying is a leader of the Temple Taoist Association.
Sun Dianying was nicknamed "Sun Dazi" because he had smallpox as a child and had several pockmarks on his face.
He was born into a poor family. His father was killed by the Manchus in his early years, leaving his family impoverished. Therefore, he was forced to travel around the world from an early age, becoming acquainted with gangsters, military and police subordinates, and even joined a feudal Taoist organization and became the leader of evil forces.
The Taoist organization he joined is called the Temple Taoist Association. As a feudal cult, the Temple Taoist Association was originally established to make money. It can be said that they do all kinds of deception and abduction, and they are good at them all. They can do all the things that make money quickly.
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After doing it for a long time, I naturally accumulated some experience, and this temple mantra records many of the seniors of the temple association, digging graves, including the Feng Shui technique of looking for dragons and looking for energy, as well as
The mechanics of getting rid of traps can be said to be the experience and lessons gained with blood by the ancestors of the Temple Taoist Association in the past generations.
Sun Dianying relied on this temple mantra to find the tomb of Cixi and Qianlong.
Of course, there is also a lot of luck involved, and the temple mantra definitely plays an important role.
After flipping through the temple mantra, Han Kongque finally saw Sun Dianying's diary, which recorded in detail the entire process of his robbery of the Dongling Tomb.
He even recorded his mentality after getting a large number of treasures. Finally, behind the temple mantra, he also attached a list of treasures hidden here. Looking at the treasures on it, even Han Peacock wanted to hide them well, so he didn’t want to
Let’s talk about Sun Dianying.
The reason why Sun Dianying robbed the tomb is actually very simple. It was for money.
It is true that Sun Dianying once used political banners and so-called family feuds. He said that his father was killed by the Manchus, so he had deep hatred. This time it was revenge.
Sun Dianying also told the soldiers that digging up the tombs of Qing ancestors was also revolutionary!
In fact, this obviously makes no sense. If you want to avenge your father, you can assassinate Puyi. It is said that digging up the tombs of Qing ancestors is revolutionary, so why should all the treasures be stolen?
Even if treasures are really dug up, they should all be donated to the country.
In fact, Sun Dianying was interested in the treasures of the Qing Dynasty Tomb. At that time, there were only a few thousand troops left in his army, with no territory and no military pay. Although it was seemingly absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek, it was actually very dangerous.
Because Sun's troops were too weak, if Chiang turned his back and attacked, the thousands of remnant soldiers close to Sun would probably collapse at a touch.
The free-for-all war among civilians is basically about the law of the jungle. The big fish eats the small fish and the small fish eats the shrimp. If you don’t want to be eaten, you can’t be the shrimp and the small fish.
Obviously, at this time, Sun Dianying should continue to expand the strength of his troops to protect himself, otherwise he may be eaten at any time.
Unfortunately, expanding the army requires money. If you don't have money, how can you recruit troops and buy weapons?
At that time, Hebei Province was not wealthy. Zunhua was even more of a poor place in Hebei Province. Zunhua, which was dominated by Sun Dianying alone, was a poor county. Even if the whole county was torn into pieces, the retail sales would not be much.
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What's even worse is that Sun Dianying is so poor that he can't even pay his subordinates' military pay. Sun's officers and soldiers have been in arrears with their military pay for half a year!
At that time, serving as soldiers in the warlord army had no so-called doctrines or opinions. In short, it was basically for money. These poor soldiers worked hard on the battlefield and endured hardships in daily life, just to get some military pay to support their families.
If you don't have money, who will work for you? The troops will probably mutiny soon.
In the history of the Republic of China, many warlords died or were overthrown because of the mutiny of their subordinates, and Sun Dianying's semi-bandit troops were no exception.
When Sun Dianying was desperate, he had no money or food. He was surrounded by enemies on all sides. His subordinates complained constantly about the arrears of military pay and almost mutinied.
At this time, an unexpected incident changed everything.
One day, several of Sun Dianying's subordinates reported that they had caught several bandits on the run and also seized several antiques.
Sun Dianying ordered the antiques to be brought over for him to take a look at, but he was shocked when he saw them.
Sun Dianying was a bandit when he was young, and even robbed tombs with his predecessors from the Temple Taoist Association. Whether he was a bandit or a tomb robber, he had to recognize the property, otherwise wouldn't it be a big joke to risk his life to get a few fake jewelry?
Sun Dianying had been a bandit for decades and had a keen eye for treasures.
When he saw that these antiques were obviously valuable treasures of the Qing Dynasty, they were not low-end goods stolen from ordinary landlords or wealthy merchants.
Surprised, he brought several bandits over for questioning.
Several bandits started talking nonsense and refused to tell the truth.
Sun Dianying pointedly put a pistol to one of the people's heads and said: I will count to three now. If you don't tell me, your brain will explode. I will ask others again. If you tell lies, I will take you out immediately to light the sky lanterns (this method)
First invented by bandits in Sichuan and Hunan areas, they drill a small hole in the victim's head, pour lamp oil and light it, causing the victim to be burned to death in extreme pain.).
The bandit was so frightened that he peed his pants on the spot and quickly confessed the truth.
It turned out that they were the same gang that participated in the excavation of Concubine Hui's tomb, and these antiques were just a few small items in the tomb.
Because there were too many stolen treasures at that time, the bandit leader threw some relatively worthless things to them.
After listening to the reports of these bandits, Sun Dianying's eyes turned red with joy.
The so-called worthless treasures are already so precious, what about the valuable ones?
Concubine Hui was just an ordinary imperial concubine, and the burial objects were so valuable, so what about Empress Dowager Cixi?
Originally, Sun Dianying was desperate. Isn't this the wealth God gave him?
Sun Da was overjoyed and thought his chance had come.
He immediately sent Tan Wenjiang, commander of the Eighth Division, to quickly surround the Qing Dong Tomb and drive away the Manchu guards in the name of encircling and suppressing the local bandits Ma Futian.
In order to cover people's eyes and ears, Sun Dianying posted notices everywhere, claiming that the troops were going to conduct military exercises and that ordinary people were not allowed to enter and leave the Qing Dong Tomb at will, and any offenders would be shot.
At the same time, he also threatened the people, saying that landmines had been laid near Dongling, so the people would not dare to wander around.
After sealing off the surrounding area of Dongling Tomb, Sun Dianying began a planned tomb robbing operation.
On July 8, Sun Dianying held an emergency meeting at the military headquarters and declared that the excavation of the imperial tomb was also a revolution and a "just" act to inherit Mr. Sun's legacy and contribute to the revolution.
At this point, a rare treasure theft incident began.
Because Sun Dianying also knew that digging the imperial tomb was something that was criticized by thousands of people, and would be considered by various forces, it must be completed within 3 or 4 days.
He divided his troops into two groups. One troop rushed to Cixi's Ding Dong Tomb, while the other troop rushed to Qianlong's Yuling Tomb.
The main reason why other tombs were left untouched was that Sun Dianying believed that time was limited and he had to choose the two best targets to start with.
Based on the reports of the Manchu ministers guarding the tombs, he knew that the tombs of Qianlong, Cixi, and Shunzhi took the longest to build, and as a rule, they should have the most funerary objects, so he chose these two to start with.
Unfortunately, tomb robbing is a technical job that takes a long time to complete and cannot be accomplished overnight.
Although Sun Dianying had some experience, he had no experience in robbing imperial tombs. He only found the general location of the two tombs based on the vague records of some seniors, but could not find the entrance to the underground palace at all.
Sun Dianying sent a large number of soldiers with shovels and iron drills to dig around, digging almost all over the surface of the Qing Dong Tomb, but found nothing.
Later, government officials who cleaned up the mess discovered that the interior of the Qing Tombs was full of holes and holes, all the result of random digging.
After searching for two days in a row, Sun Dianying and the others could not find the entrance to the underground palace, which made Sun Mazi anxious.
He ordered the Manchu minister to be escorted over and threatened him with a pistol pointed at his head. At the same time, he also promised him a large sum of money to tell him the entrance to the underground palace.
This minister was not a good person to begin with. He had stolen and sold many treasures before, but now that he saw a gun pointed at his head, he naturally knew everything he could say.
Sun Dianying and others immediately started at the entrance to the underground palace mentioned by the minister. After several hours of hard digging, they finally discovered the diamond wall at the entrance.
The so-called King Kong Wall is a stone wall that prevents tomb robbers from entering. It is also the outermost defense line of the underground palace.
This diamond wall is composed of multiple layers of granite, and the stones are cemented with tung oil and glutinous rice lime mortar. The interior is also reinforced with steel. It is truly seamless.
Sun Dianying ordered to smash it with shovels, pour sulfuric acid, and even shoot and explode it with cluster grenades, but this extremely strong wall did not move at all.
Having no choice, Sun Dianying thought over and over again and ordered the blast to be carried out with explosives.
Fortunately, there were still a lot of explosives and explosives in Sun Dianying's troops at that time, which had been used to attack the city.
Sun Dianying's engineers used more than a dozen boxes of explosives and blasted several times in succession, finally blowing a small hole in the diamond wall.
At that time, many people near the Qing Dong Tomb heard these explosions, but they thought it was Sun Dianying's troops firing artillery exercises and did not pay attention.
After the hole was blasted, a strong smell that had lasted for many years immediately rushed out. The engineers at the front immediately became dizzy after smelling it, and some even bent over and vomited.
The soldiers in the rear group were basically farmers and were very superstitious by nature.
Someone said before that the underground palace is full of traps and you will die if you go down there.
Some people also say that when Emperor Qianlong died, he killed 3,000 guards and buried him, so that these ghost soldiers would watch over his soul and steal his soul once anyone entered the tomb.
Now seeing the engineers like this, the soldiers behind were so frightened that they rushed back and shouted: It's terrible, poison gas has been released! It's terrible, there is a mechanism!
At this time, Sun Dianying personally went down to the underground palace in order to fear that his subordinates would embezzle the treasures.
When he saw the officers and soldiers running out in a swarm, he quickly fired several shots to stop them, and at the same time cursed: Get rid of all the damn poisonous gas.
Sun Dianying had rich experience and naturally knew that this was actually not poisonous gas. It was just that the tomb was closed for too long and some of the gases produced by the slow decomposition of the burial objects would not cause death.
Those engineers vomited for a while and then they were fine! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!