Sun Dianying stole so many Qing tombs, and Shenyang is so rich, why not steal his tomb?
Xiao Shenyang has been an official for decades. Under emperor Qianlong, he really can be regarded as one person under ten thousand people. From a janitor's bodyguard, he rose to the Minister of Military Affairs and then to the Minister of the Interior in just half a year. His road to promotion is really like riding a rocket.
Little Shenyang was clean for a while when he was an official. He was very capable. Later, through the trial of Li Shiyao's corruption case, Li Shiyao and his henchmen pocketed their own money, and Xiao Shenyang was not only fined, but also rewarded by Gan Long. This is like opening Pandora's box, and the greed of little Shenyang is completely aroused. He begins to corrupt and form a small group, forming a huge force.
Small Shenyang catered to the wishes of Emperor Qianlong by suppressing political enemies and cronyism. The bigger the official gets, the more money he earns. After Qianlong became the emperor's father, he was even called "the second emperor". He mastered the power of life and death of officials, and even Emperor Jiaqing had to be careful.
Small Shenyang is powerful, so naturally it has long chosen a land of geomantic omen for itself, that is, it has built a luxurious cemetery in Jizhou (now Jixian), Hebei Province. The terrain here is spacious, with Taohua Mountain as the barrier in the north and Nanshan as the screen in the south. Surrounded by Phoenix Mountain and Beibaozi Mountain, thistle canal flows through Lingnan, with excellent feng shui. Moreover, it's not far from Beijing, and the Heling Mausoleum built in Shenyang is very large, and it is also an imitation of the royal mausoleum. The whole mausoleum is also covered with five main halls and five auxiliary halls. The size of the underground palace also exceeded the prince's regulations. There is a stone gate building in front of the underground palace, and there is an underground tunnel leading to the underground palace in front of the stone gate.
It is said that in order to increase geomantic omen, Xiao Shenyang plans to dig a Huling River with a bend of 100 from Mashenqiao cemetery to Xia Niantou village, and employs a large number of workers to dig it. However, at the 99th bend, a lot of quicksand was found, and people began to spread the saying that "the Shahe River was deep and killed small Shenyang", so they stopped digging. Not long after, the news came that Xiao Shenyang was executed by Emperor Jiaqing.
Although Xiao Shenyang is extremely rich and has prepared a treasure trove of geomantic omen for himself a hundred years later, he is not blessed. In the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), Emperor Taizong died, and Emperor Jiaqing ordered the Prime Minister Xiao Shenyang to be buried. On the 13th day of the first month, Emperor Jiaqing attacked small Shenyang and announced 20 major crimes in small Shenyang, including one: "Tomb of Jizhou. It is equivalent to the income of the Qing government for fifteen years. On the 18th day of the first month, Emperor Jiaqing gave Xiao Shenyang a white silk to commit suicide. Fengšenyende, the eldest son of Little Shenyang, was saved from sitting together because he married the princess. After the death of Xiao Shenyang, it is naturally impossible to hold a grand funeral. However, his luxurious cemetery in Jizhou was destroyed by Emperor Jiaqing because of overstepping etiquette, and little Shenyang was just buried in a hurry.
1928, Sun Dianying, a thief from Dongling, stole two imperial tombs, Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi. Both of them touched the body, and all the treasures buried in the tomb were looted. After the incident, Sun Dianying argued that it was to avenge their ancestors. With few guns, he could only kill people, and he also had the ability to do the same to them.
Sun Dianying stole the tombs of Qianlong and Cixi. Why not steal the tomb of Xiao Shenyang? It's actually very simple:
First, although the tomb of Little Shenyang is not far from the Qing Dongling, it is an empty tomb. Small Shenyang is not buried in it, so naturally there is nothing to steal. Sun Dianying robbed the tomb for money, but this is not a real murder case.
Second, it is not clear where Xiao Shenyang is buried after his death. There are two most likely places in the tomb of Little Shenyang in Beijing. One is in Wan Wan Village, Qinglong Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, and the other is in Nanliu Village, Changping District, Beijing. In other words, after the death of Xiao Shenyang, where he was buried is still uncertain, and Sun Dianying can't steal it.
Third, even if we know where Xiao Shenyang is buried, Xiao Shenyang was sentenced to death and all his property was confiscated. Even if his eldest son, Fengšenyende, got some funerary objects when he was buried in Xiao Shenyang, there could not be many. Sun Dianying is naturally not interested in excavating the tomb of Xiao Shenyang.