Chapter 170 The Past of Nu Qing’s Tomb Robbery in Western Hunan
After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor. This was passed down for several generations, and the world was still dominated by the Han family. It was called the "Western Han Dynasty" in history. It was not until Wang Mang usurped the throne that Guangwu Zhongxing was revived, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was destined. However, this was all There is no need to say anything later.
It can only be said that at the turn of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a severe drought and hunger everywhere. The people could not bear the suffering and rose up one after another. Among the various rebel armies, the Green Forest and Red Eyebrow armies were the most powerful. They shocked the government and the public, and heroes from all over the country came to join the army.
The Red Eyebrow Army was also composed of hungry people at first. At first, they only engaged in fighting and robbing houses in order to survive. Later, they were suppressed by the army and were forced to a tight end. They fought several tough battles in succession, and they all won great victories. From then on, they became famous. In order to stay ahead of the battle, everyone dyed their eyebrows red, like a snowball, and gradually grew into hundreds of thousands of people, marching all the way into Chang'an, taking all the money, silk and food in the city. However, just like most peasant uprisings in ancient times, the greater the number of people, the weaker the combat effectiveness. Subsequently, they suffered consecutive defeats and advanced and retreated several times in Guanzhong. When the fabric was desperate and had no other way out, the general The tombs of Emperor Han were dug from bottom to top.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, jade was highly valued, and the corpses of the imperial concubines in the mausoleums were all covered with dragon jade boxes and black phoenix jade boxes, which were also known as jade robes with golden threads in later generations. Rare objects were piled up like mountains, and all of these treasures were looted by the Red Eyebrow Army.
As the red eyebrow army that was rampant in the world collapsed, the remaining tribesmen became thieves who roared in the mountains and forests. They still retained the tradition of robbing ancient tombs and scraping the treasures from the tombs for money. Once traces of the ancient tombs of the royal ancestors were found , the leader leads the team to steal the tomb. The method of tomb robbing is to use long hoe and big shovel. At most, ten thousand people can be gathered together to dig hundreds of holes in the mountain. It has the power of "breaking down the mountains and uncovering the ground". In the system, their way of fighting backwards is called "unloading the mountain".
By the end of the Song Dynasty, everything north of the Yellow River was captured by the Jin soldiers. A military group composed of Taosha officials in Henan excavated the imperial tombs on a large scale. All the tombs of the Northern Song emperors were destroyed and stolen. No one was spared this disaster. Not many years later, the Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols. The remaining Taosha officials in Henan were merged into the Xiling group of bandits. Liu Zixian, the leader of the Xiling bandits at that time, was a strange man of his generation. He extensively absorbed the advanced methods of stealing and excavating Song tombs. Improved tomb robbing equipment, passed down the art of thousands of poles and the secret method of trapping.
Although the tools and methods used in tomb robbing have undergone earth-shaking changes after several generations of improvements, the strength of the Xiling group of thieves has gradually declined and they have hidden themselves in the green forest. They have not made much difference for hundreds of years, except occasionally. They worked together to steal several ancient tombs in order to obtain some gold, jade and silk. It was passed down until the Republic of China. The last generation of thieves, Chen Xiazi, whose real name was "Chen Yulou" and the nickname was "Jintang", but people on the green forest road used to use this name. Pseudonym, few people in the world know his real name.
Because he led his people to Yunnan to search for the tomb of King Xian, he unexpectedly encountered a poisonous trap in the insect valley before seeing the water dragon halo in the tomb of King Xian. He lost a pair of eyes and his whereabouts were unknown during those years. The Xiling group of bandits that had lasted for thousands of years disappeared from history.
Blind Chen's origins are quite legendary. The Chen family is a prominent family in Xiangyin, Hunan. They have a lot of wealth and fertile land. In fact, they made their fortune by robbing tombs. The Chen family has been the leader of thieves for three generations. When he was born At the time of the war, in order to avoid the scourge of the war, the clan members hid in an ancient cemetery that had been robbed. They hid in the dark for more than two months. Only after the war was over did they dare to return home. It was from the ancient tomb that he He was born in the underground palace. Since he was born in a dark and gloomy environment, his eyesight was different from ordinary people. He was born with a pair of "night eyes" that can see things in the dark. When he was ten years old, he was caught on the street. An old Taoist in ragged clothes took him there. It turned out that the old Taoist saw that he had rare night eyes and had strange bones. He was not like ordinary people. He knew that with a little teaching, he could identify the treasures in the world, so he took him to the mountains. Teach different skills.
Later, before he could learn the art, the old Taoist died at the end of his life. Chen Xiazi went down the mountain and returned home, inherited Nuo Da's family business, and became the leader of the Xiling group of thieves. Is there any art industry that comes second? Mainly because the Chen family has the widest connections and is able to eat both black and white. The cigarettes and arms trade between Hunan and Guizhou are all monopolized in his hands, so all the people in the three Hunan and four rivers The road warlords and bandits, no matter how powerful they are, must depend on him, just like a local emperor.
During the Republic of China, the imperial system of the Qing Dynasty was finally overthrown, which brought China at that time into an era where various cutting-edge ideological trends and old traditions and bad habits collided fiercely. The social situation was particularly chaotic. Not only were wars between various warlords frequent, but also there were The unprecedented "drought in the north and floods in the south" disaster caused many provinces to lose their harvests and thousands of people became victims of the disaster. In order to have food to eat, many people even took risks and became bandits or thieves. To engage in such unscrupulous activities as reselling people, smuggling cigarettes, and trafficking arms is exactly what "ten years of fighting will last forever, and the people all over the world will cry deeply."
As the saying goes: "Antiques in prosperous times are gold in troubled times." In the years of war and chaos, only the yellow croaker (gold bars) was the hard currency. But in the eyes of tomb robbers, under such current circumstances, the country's laws have become ineffective, and it is a great opportunity to rob ancient tombs and steal secret weapons. An experienced tomb robber would certainly not miss this opportunity. When the political situation stabilizes one day, the price of antiques will definitely rise. If you sell the stolen items at that time, you can easily make a windfall.
Blind Chen became the leader of a group of bandits in Xiling, and he naturally did a lot of things to make a fortune by fighting against others. At that time, his eyes were not broken yet, and his eyesight was very good. He could "see mud marks, recognize the color of grass, and find treasures." He leads his men to various provinces and places to do business. The more chaotic the world is, the more prosperous his business is. Moreover, he likes to dress lightly and simply, pretending to be a Feng Shui practitioner, and goes to remote mountain villages to pick up leaks and explore ancient tombs. news.
The art of tomb robbing is nothing more than "looking, hearing, asking, and looking." Sometimes you can know it through place names, such as "Lingcun, Tomb Village, Shuangqiu Town, Tufenggou, Huangburial Ridge..." Any such place name , there are mysteries in them. There are often large groups of tombs, and there are many villages, which were formed by the people who collected tombs for the royal family and nobles, or were named after the ancients buried in the local area. Despite the changes in the sea, those ancient tombs and tombs The hills and ridges have been flattened, and there is not a trace left on the ground. However, some clues can still be "asked" from the mouths of the local elders. It takes a lot of skill and experience to catch "tongue leakage". Most people can do it.
Chen Xiazi is unparalleled in his intelligence and eloquence. When words come out of his mouth, it is like spitting out ninety-nine and eighty-one lotus petals. Not only are they colorful, but the petals are not the same, so This "asking" tactic has always been used to its full potential by him, but among the four ways of "looking, hearing, asking, and understanding", borrowing words from the local people is still a sub-method of "asking".
The method of "asking" is not to ask people, but to "ask the sky and make divination". Use divination to calculate the location of the ancient tomb, dig a robbery hole, penetrate into the tomb, or predict the good or bad luck of tomb robbing. Chen Xiazi is not good at these ancient arts of movement and stillness. Although he understands the principles, once he performs it, it often fails to come true. It is said that only Captain Mo Jin knows how to master the two techniques of "Looking and Asking".
But Chen Xiazi also has some real skills. He is proficient in all the instruments and methods passed down by the Xiling group of thieves from generation to generation. In addition, he is familiar with the advanced skills of "looking, hearing, asking, and cutting". He has traveled all over the world in several years. Across mountains and rivers, many ancient tombs have indeed been stolen.
There was a warlord leader in western Hunan, Luo Laowai, who was a thieves. He was the brother-in-law of Chen Xiazi who knocked his head on the ground. The situation was chaotic at that time. Whoever had more guns and more guns would be more powerful. With the help of Chen Xiazi, , Luo Laowai formed an engineering excavation camp specializing in tomb robbing. He dug all the ancient tombs he could on his own site, exchanged the treasures in the tombs for money, and purchased a large number of guns and ammunition. His strength greatly increased for a while, so he further expanded the chassis. , annexed a small group of warlords, and then continued to search for and rob ancient tombs.
On this day, Luo Laowai came to Chenjiazhuang, Xiangyin to find Chen Xiazi. He mentioned that he had been facing a lot of pressure in the military recently and wanted to buy a batch of advanced rifles made in the UK. Now his appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and he will not complain. A blockbuster, planning to equip one division at a time. In today's world, there are many people, guns, and fists, and words have weight. If this division with well-armed weapons can be formed quickly, it will be even harder, so I want to invite Chen Xiazi to come out. Lead the No. 100 unloading masters, lead the engineering battalion, carry explosives into the mountains, cooperate with the officials and bandits, find a big tomb and dig it up, add two to one to make five, and one family will get half.
Blind Chen smiled and said: "To equip Luo Shuai's division, it will take at least several thousand guns, millions of rounds of ammunition and more than a dozen cannons. You must know that the British products are no better than those made in Hanyang, but they are really not." It's cheap. Use your abacus to figure out how many artifacts you need to dig out before you can buy these weapons and equipment. If you want to satisfy your appetite, brother, you have to at least find a large tomb of a prince. There are already many ancient tombs nearby. We have dug it all out, but it is not easy to find such a big tomb."
When Luo Laowai saw that Blind Chen was in trouble, he did not dare to mention the expansion of the new army. Instead, he implored and begged: "Shopkeeper Chen, my brother, what if I need to trouble you for such an ordinary little move?" The army is expanding too fast these days, and military expenses are tight. If you don't give some tobacco, soil, and silver dollars to the brothers, I'll fuck my grandma, and there will really be a mutiny in the army. If you don't save me, Mr. Chen, you will have to leave the brothers. This mess continues to go up the mountain and let the grass fall." (To be continued, if you want to know what happened, please log in, there are more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!)