The most awesome tomb in ancient times, more domineering than the imperial mausoleum, the emperor and the queen mother did not dare to touch it, and the road construction had to be diverted
In China's feudal society, the imperial power was supreme. If you offended the emperor, you would suffer disaster at least, or you would be punished by the nine clans at worst. After the emperor died, the place where he was buried was called the imperial mausoleum, while the princes and generals were called tombs, and ordinary people could only be called tombs. During the Qing Dynasty, there was a tomb. Although it was not an imperial mausoleum, it was more impressive than the imperial mausoleum. The emperor and the queen mother did not dare to touch it, and the railways had to be rerouted. Which tomb is so domineering?
Caofen is located in a small town in Wuqing District, Tianjin. It once had a battlefield area of more than 1,000 acres. But judging from its size, it is definitely not the tomb of an ordinary family, and the identity of the owner of the tomb is certainly extraordinary. People who are familiar with history should know that during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a very prominent family in Wuqing, the Cao family. Cao Xueqin, the author of "A Dream of Red Mansions", is a descendant of the Cao family.
As early as the Ming Dynasty, Cao Huayu of the Cao family had served as the director of Jinyiwei Nantang, the Ronglu doctor, and the left governor of the rear army governor's mansion. Many people may have never heard of Cao Huayu's name, but his younger brother Cao Huachun was the famous and powerful eunuch Si Li Bingbi and admiral of Dongchang at that time.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Cao family not only did not decline, but became more prominent. Cao Xueqin's grandmother was Kangxi's nanny. Her grandfather was Kangxi's schoolboy and imperial sword-carrying guard. Later, he took charge of the Jiangning weaving industry and concurrently served as the censor of the salt inspection in Huaihe and Huaihe Rivers. He was deeply favored by the emperor. During the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties, the Cao family took advantage of the opportunity to develop and became the most wealthy family in Nanjing at that time, and it was also one of the few prominent families in the country.
After that, the Cao family gradually declined, but compared with ordinary families, it was still quite prominent. Before the Qianlong reign, the Cao family was too big to be buried in the original cemetery. After a survey by a Feng Shui master, a land of more than a thousand acres was selected for the Cao family in Wuqing County, and the graves were moved here. In the fifth year of Guangxu's reign, the imperial court ordered the construction of the Jingshan Railway from Beijing to Shanhaiguan via Tianjin. According to the engineer's plan, the railway happened to pass through Cao's tomb. When the Cao family learned about this, they were very angry and made a decision to change the route of the railway. Since the decision to build the railway was made by the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, as the saying goes, "The emperor has nothing to say, but his words are true." Most people would definitely be seeking death if they asked the emperor to change his decision.
Although the Cao family has declined, it has a magic weapon, which is the plaque given by Emperor Kangxi, with the four characters "Xiangyan Puji" written on it. The Cao family found the official in charge of the matter and asked him to modify the route. When the official saw the plaque given by Emperor Kangxi, he immediately knelt down. But he said that the route was agreed upon by the Queen Mother and the Emperor, and he had no power to change it.
Therefore, the Cao family still refused to give up. They spent almost all the family's financial resources to buy a generous gift, and took these gifts and the plaque given by Emperor Kangxi to the Empress Dowager Cixi. In the end, the Empress Dowager Cixi half-heartedly accepted the generous gift from the Cao family, and for the sake of the imperial plaque, she asked Emperor Guangxu to issue an imperial edict and order engineers to reroute the railway.
Although the engineer was helpless, after all, it was very troublesome to change the railway route, but both the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu had spoken out. If he did not change the route, he would be resisting the decree, and he might be punished by the Nine Tribes. . In this way, with the intervention of Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, Cao Feng escaped disaster. Although he escaped the catastrophe, he couldn't escape the palm of Colonel Jin's hand. Not long after, Cao's tomb was stolen, and all the gold and silver treasures inside were looted. Because the tomb robbers were clever and the government had no evidence to investigate, it became an unsolved case.
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