With a net worth of over 500 million, he has robbed hundreds of ancient tombs. After being arrested, he shouted: I can open the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. who is he?

“Beginning with lavish burials, using mirage charcoal, using chariots and horses, beginning to use favoritism, and heavy equipment.” When Song Wengong died, people held a funeral for him with extremely high standards. In fact, everyone in China's feudal society believed in being buried in peace. In order to have a good life in the underworld after death, people often take out the most valuable things in their homes to bury the deceased with them.

Since some people go to great lengths to organize a dignified funeral, there will definitely be people who are interested in robbing the tomb. People often refer to this type of people as Mojin Colonels. In fact, since ancient times, there have been many people who are good at tomb robbing in every dynasty. Even Cao Cao once looked for people who were good at tomb robbing to raise military pay for his army. But when it comes to tomb robbing, there is another name that cannot be avoided and that is the contemporary Yao Yuzhong.

Yao Yuzhong was born in 1962. Although he only had a primary school education, he was the principal culprit in the largest tomb robbery case in modern times. He had robbed ancient cultural sites 11 times and robbed ancient tombs 16 times. Together with other large and small ancient tombs, there were more than 120 in one day, and 2,063 cultural relics were stolen and resold by him. What ability does he have to establish such a large tomb robbing organization? This "number one master outside the customs" usually doesn't like to talk much, but he likes to study ancient books very much.

He felt that these documents could provide him with some inspiration and guidance on tomb robbing. It is true that as long as it is the cemetery that Yao Yuzhong likes, he will definitely be able to dig out priceless treasures. Therefore, many people who want to make a fortune by robbing tombs are willing to follow him to learn the so-called tomb robbing skills and knowledge. It is against this background that Yao Yuzhong's fame grows.

At the same time, he also gained the respect of people in the industry and became an authority in the tomb robbing industry. But Yao Yuzhong's good luck does not seem to extend to the casino. It has almost become his habit to lose every bet. Although he loses millions every time, Yao Yuzhong never seems to worry about gambling debts. Sometimes when there was no money in his account or funds on hand, he would take out the cultural relics he had obtained from tomb robbing and make a mortgage on the spot.

In June 2012, he sold his jade bracelet to someone else for a mere 60,000 yuan. Not only that, he also mortgaged the jade to others to get a loan of 50,000 yuan. Both of these treasures were priceless objects in the Neolithic Age, but they could only face the fate of being resold at low prices due to Yao Yuzhong's gambling debts.

Yao Yuzhong’s high-profile reselling of cultural relics and high frequency of crimes have long attracted the attention of the police. In the second half of 2014, the police finally caught him. At that time, Yao Yuzhong often liked to hang out on a mountain, and he stayed there all day long.

Such abnormal behavior made the police feel strange. Later, after the police collected a large amount of evidence, they decided to arrest him. But in the face of these irrefutable evidence, Yao Yuzhong decided to deny it. It wasn't until the police found two cultural relics behind the mirror in his bathroom that he had to bow his head and plead guilty.

Despite this, Yao Yuzhong was still very arrogant when he was tried in court. He yelled at the scene, saying that he could open the tomb of Qin Shihuang, and also took the opportunity to show off his experience of destroying antiquities. These performances of his all reflect his attitude of not having the slightest intention to correct or admit his mistakes. On October 17, 2017, the Liaoning Provincial High Court made the final judgment against him.