Hebei cotton farmer, lurking in the Qing Dongling for decades, what happened later?

In recent years, the books that China literature began to flourish have become tomb-robbing novels, and the ancestors of this aspect are two very classic novels, Ghost Blowing Lights and Tomb-robbing Notes. They have also been adapted into TV series and even movies, and moved to the big screen, so that the act of robbing tombs is known to more people. However, what they tell the world about grave robbery is actually a beautified version. After all, the film and television drama or the novel conceived by the author is based on imagination, so the author has never experienced it personally, so naturally it can only rely on imagination.

Therefore, the hero comes to all kinds of strange places and meets all kinds of strange things, which are actually almost absent in reality. At the same time, the country also hates grave robbers. Once they are caught, they have to be sentenced. This is not a good industry, and they are all criminals. What I want to talk about today is an extremely powerful grave robber, an old farmer who plays cotton in Hebei Province, who has been lurking in the Qing Dongling for decades, making his own steel plate keys and almost moving the imperial tomb empty. So who is he?

The most rampant grave robber in China's modern history is definitely Sun Dianying. Although he is a well-known person in politics, he is very interested in the tombs of the Qing royal family and has always wanted to get the treasures, but he has never found the opportunity. At that time, in China, bandits were rampant, and most of them were farmers who became bandits and had to do so in order to make a living. Sun Dianying, on the other hand, found an opportunity to drive away these bandits who hung around the Qing Tombs in Hebei with a grandiose excuse, in fact, to prevent these bandits from entering the Qing Tombs and taking away the treasures. After that, he went on to blast the Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty with artillery fire under the pretext of training, and stole the mausoleums of Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Cian.

Wang Shaoxing was a bandit who was driven away at the beginning. He took refuge in a bandit boss at that time because he couldn't survive. As a result, Sun Dianying sent troops and began to exterminate him soon. Wang Shaoxing, who narrowly escaped, fled home and started playing cotton in Hebei for a living. But he didn't give up on the treasures in the Qing tombs, so he lurked near the Qing tombs for decades, and he didn't take action until no one cared about the tombs.

Wang Shaoyi knows very well that it is not feasible to fight alone. Even if he enters the imperial tomb, he can't save himself when he is in danger. Moreover, at that time, the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty was inaccessible, and only the grave keeper still lived here. So Wang Shaoyi lured this group of grave keepers who had lost their old owners with money, promising that as long as they entered the imperial tomb with themselves and took away the treasures, they would certainly get a share. In the face of the grave keeper who lost the royal family, he thought it was very good and joined his grave robbery team. Since then, he started a rampant grave robbery, and he was bent on entering the Qing Dongling Mausoleum, because Sun Dianying never took away all the treasures, and there must be treasures in the tomb. As long as he sold a few pieces, he would have no worries about his future life.

So with the help of the grave keeper, they made their own keys to open the tomb door with steel plates, and really swaggered in. This time, the stolen cultural relics sold for a good price, which made him realize the happiness of money and strengthened his determination to rob the tomb. Even the local villagers were enlisted to rob the tomb together, and almost all the treasures were sold out, so that some people later exposed their behavior because of their poor psychological quality. The police can't do anything about these grave robbers at once, because the evidence is still missing the most crucial part.

Later, these people who participated in the tomb robbery were all arrested by the police when they entered the tomb again. Then the police began to ask about the whereabouts of the cultural relics, but all the cultural relics they stole were lost to some collectors. Wang Shaoyi earned a lot of money by selling antiquities. Obviously, with these cultural relics, he can have a good life, so Wang Shaoyi almost moved the imperial tomb and plucked the geese wherever he passed. In fact, grave robbery has always been an illegal and criminal act, especially these grave robbers, who have brought huge losses to the country in order to covet profits.