Shadow of the Tomb Raider: A Complete Record of the History of Tomb Raiders in China

Chapter 51 Resurrection, reheating: major tomb robbery incidents since the new era (3)
That night, Li Yihai and Guo Xiaoping led nine villagers from the group including Li Lixin, Li Hua, He Zhongyuan, Chen Biqiang, Pang Qinglong, Guo Liangyin, and Yang Lianfa to the mausoleum again.Among these people, Guo Xiaoping, Li Lixin and others have come to rob the tomb for the third time.After they cleared the backfilled hole, they sent four men down.The four people opened the half-covered coffin, and they really saw the intact female corpse that Li Yihai said.They were eager to seek money and ignored many taboos. They fumbled around the female corpse's body, mouth, nose, ears and other organs, but found nothing of value.Seeing that they hadn't gained anything, they asked Guo Xiaoping at the top what to do.At this time, Guo Xiaoping spied the colorful silk on the corpse from the entrance of the cave, and shouted angrily: "There is no treasure, and the cover that this dead ghost wears is worth a lot of money!" Take off her clothes!" Li Yihai and others reconciled.Seeing that the original coffin hole was too small for the corpse to be dragged out, Guo Xiaoping immediately went out of the hole and went home, and used it as a carpenter's ax and chisel. "Three times, five times and two divisions" soon expanded the hole to the size of a rice sieve .Li Lixin locked the bed rope around the neck of the ancient corpse, echoing up and down, pulling and sending, and in a short while, this "ancestor" who had slept peacefully at a depth of more than 5 meters for more than 2000 years was random It was pulled to the ground and thrown into the muddy water.At this time, the female corpse appeared in front of them almost naked.The clothes on her body were very old and buried deep in the ground. When they suddenly came into contact with the air, they became very brittle in an instant. Coupled with the pulling during the transportation, the clothes fragments were dropped inside and outside the coffin.What shocked them was that this thousand-year-old corpse with a well-proportioned and slender figure and slender fingers did not rot at all. The joints of its limbs could be bent, and its muscles could spring up when pressed with fingers.Faced with this situation, the tomb robbers were stunned for a moment.

Faced with such a scene, people on the left and right seem to be aware of the seriousness of the problem.Such a well-preserved thousand-year-old female corpse was destroyed by them. If the matter was leaked, everyone would end badly.Even the most daring Li Yihai didn't dare to make a sound.Still Guo Xiaoping was calmer, he asked everyone to keep tight-lipped about this matter, and must not reveal the slightest bit of news.In order to cover up the evidence, he also suggested dragging the female body to another place for burial.Since there were holes left by other tombs nearby due to robbery, they decided to throw the female body in there.Many tomb robbers dragged the female corpse by the neck, across a wilderness, and threw her into a pit.In order to be safer, they also filled the pothole with thick soil.

However, the thieves did not stop crime.They filed into the "No. [-]" tomb, and tossed the precious cultural relics worn and covered by the "ancestors": silk quilts with cotton, silk clothes into palm-sized pieces, and filled a whole basket and a handful of colorful Kei.They also salvaged the head compartment and the side compartment, and found out the remnants of a typical Chu-style musical instrument "Tiger Bird Drum" (stolen before the leather drum): two lifelike lacquered wood phoenix birds, two tiger seat and two drumsticks.After that, the tomb robbers left the scene with satisfaction.

As the saying goes: "There is no impenetrable wall in the world." It is indeed true. Due to the large number of people participating in the tomb robbery, some people must not be able to keep this secret, and some rumors spread in the village.

Wang Hailin immediately led the police to investigate.Soon, some villagers told the police in a vague manner: a complete ancient corpse may have been dug out of the tomb.Hearing this news, Wang Hailin immediately reported the case to Shayang Public Security Bureau and Jingmen Public Security Bureau.

After receiving the report, the Jingmen Public Security Bureau attached great importance to the progress of the case, and specially invited four archaeological experts to investigate the scene.Archaeological experts came to the scene to conduct a detailed investigation of the tomb and determined that this tomb is an ancient tomb from the Warring States period. According to the scale of the tomb, it can be judged that there are many funerary objects inside, and these funerary objects were all stolen by tomb robbers. up.

In the early morning of March 3th, a report material appeared at the gate of the Sifang Police Station, which read: "There are at least a dozen people who dug the tomb, including Guo Xiaoping, Li Lixin, and Li Hua from the third group of Guodian. The tomb There are well-preserved ancient corpses (female corpses), bamboo books, silk, and countless other ancient relics, whose value cannot be estimated.” This report material was not signed, probably because the insider was afraid of being retaliated.After a day of investigation, the task force confirmed the reliability of the reported material.Immediately afterwards, several more reporting letters were secretly sent to the task force.One of the letters introduced in detail at least a dozen people who participated in the tomb robbery, and listed the names of Guo Xiaoping, Suo Zucai, Suo Zugui, Chen Chuandao, Li Lixin, Li Hua, Yi Shiwu, Yi Shixiong, etc. .The police officers of the task force confirmed that the report letter was basically true based on other materials and what they learned, and decided to arrest the relevant tomb robbers at night on March 9.

At 3 o'clock in the evening on March 10, the "zero point" arrest operation began.That night was misty and rainy, and the Criminal Police Division also sent three people to participate in the arrest operation. A total of ten policemen from the police station and investigators from the sub-bureau took the rain to attack the three groups of Guodian Village with lightning.When passing by Guo Xiaoping's brother-in-law's house, he suddenly found a person who ran away when he saw someone asking him.Policeman Dai Qingtang recognized that this person was Guo Xiaoping who was to be arrested, so he chased after him, and the rest of the police also surrounded him in time.Finally, at a distance of 12 meters, Guo was knocked down in the muddy water.

At this time, seven or eight people, including Guo's sister, brother-in-law, and lover, came to interfere with law enforcement with shovels and wooden sticks.Some of them hugged the policeman's waist, and some held the policeman's leg, trying to save Guo Xiaoping.The unreasonable troubles of these people were too rampant. In desperation, Director Wang Hailin had to fire a warning shot, but it did not scare off these crazy people.After more than ten minutes of fighting, the police officers rushed out of the crowd and took Guo Xiaoping away.

However, an unexpected conflict in the capture of Guo Xiaoping alarmed the other tomb robbers, who fled overnight like frightened birds.

At two o'clock in the morning, Guo Xiaoping, who looked like a mud monkey, was taken to the Sifang Police Station.As soon as the boy entered the police station, he lay on the concrete floor of the duty room and rolled over and over, crying and screaming, screaming "wronged" at the top of his voice.The family members of the policemen and the surrounding residents couldn't sleep because of the noise, and they couldn't stop it.

Facing such a rogue, a policeman was quick to wit, pulled out his pistol "shua", and shouted: "Just take him to the Jishan Cemetery and shoot him!" The other policemen understood and rushed forward, and Guo Xiaoping was about to attack him. Drag it out.Looking at the black muzzle of the gun and the majestic police officers, the menacing Guo Xiaoping was paralyzed with fright.He knelt down on his knees with a "thump", kowtowed, and tremblingly said to the policemen: "Don't shoot me, I'm guilty, I confess!" After Guo Zuo calmed down, the policemen brought hot water for him He scrubbed the muddy water all over his body, and found a cotton coat for him to put on.Then, the first round of interrogation began.

At this time, Guo Xiaoping put on a pitiful appearance, and quickly confessed the criminal facts that he, together with his younger brother and three criminals from neighboring Jiangling County, robbed an ancient tomb in July 1993.In fact, this case has already been closed. The three main culprits in Jiangling were sentenced in the winter of 7, and his younger brother Guo Xiaoyuan was also sent to a labor camp.At that time, Guo Xiaoping was exempted from criminal punishment because of the practical difficulties of Guo Xiaoping's family and the fact that he was a first-time offender.Later, after the interrogators worked in many ways, and the two sides wrestled until dawn, Guo Xiaoping hesitantly confessed that he had participated in the robbery of three other ancient tombs, participated in the sale of more than ten pieces of stolen cultural relics, and obtained 1993 yuan in stolen money.But what is annoying is that no matter how the police explain the policy and patiently inspire, Guo Xiaoping insists that he did not participate in the excavation of the "Guojiagang No. 2000" ancient tomb, and he does not know how the tomb was stolen.

The next day, the task force received surrenders from nine tomb robbers and captured three absconded tomb robbers.From the mouths of these people, the task force learned that all the cultural relics they stole had been sold, and that Guo Xiaoping had indeed participated in the tomb robbery.However, none of these people participated in stealing the female corpse, so they knew nothing about the whereabouts of the female corpse.Those who participated in the body-snatching knew that they had committed serious crimes and had never dared to show their faces.

In this way, Guo Xiaoping became the only person who knew the whereabouts of the female corpse.If he wanted to find out the whereabouts of the virgin corpse, he had to find a breakthrough from him.Public security personnel interrogated Guo Xiaoping eight times, but none of them yielded any results.In desperation, the policemen had to look for other breakthroughs.They believed that Guo Xiaoping's wife might also be an insider, so they did patient and meticulous ideological work on her.After a long time of persuasion, Guo's wife finally admitted that her husband participated in the tomb robbery, but she didn't know the details.She wrote her husband a letter of persuasion, urging him to confess his crimes and seek leniency.

When Guo Xiaoping read his wife's letter, his eyes became moist.He may have been influenced by his wife and revealed the tomb robbery, but he still kept silent about the female corpse.He knew that that was the key to saving his life.

On April 4, Chen Bihua, who participated in the tomb robbery, surrendered under pressure and confessed his participation in the excavation of "Guojiagang Tomb No. 11", saying that the ancient corpse disappeared after being dragged out by Guo Xiaoping.Immediately afterwards, Guo Xiaoping was interrogated again.Seeing that his crimes had been exposed by his accomplices and there was nothing to cover up, Guo Xiaoping had no choice but to fully confess his crimes.After this interrogation, the police learned that Guo Shouping had sold the silk fabrics from the woman's body to a man from Changsha named Wen Changhai.Guo Shouping also confessed: Wen Changhai, with a full beard, was tall and strong, and acted secretly. He specialized in selling cultural relics.Wen Changhai drove a silver-gray jeep for the two pick-ups and pick-ups.

After many twists and turns, the police officers finally found out: Wen Changhai, 32 years old, was an employee of a textile company in Changsha City. He had been expelled for more than a year. He was interrogated by the Shashi West District Police Station.

On the morning of June 6, the hunting team finally found out that Wen Changhai was in his brother Wen Changhong's original residence.At 30:3 p.m. that day, two policemen disguised as banana vendors squatted beside a banana stand, watching the movement on the road.The other two investigators posed as passers-by and guarded the entrance and exit of the building.Another policeman was waiting in another hidden place at the stairway to respond.In the afternoon, a Santana car stopped at the stairs, and two people, one tall and one short, walked out of the car. Seeing this, 4 investigators followed the two upstairs.The police yelled in Jiangling dialect: "Wenchanghai!" Wenchanghai subconsciously responded.After confirming the identity of this person, the police rushed forward, grabbed Wen Changhai, and handcuffed him.

After interrogation, Wen Changhai confessed that the silk fabrics were packaged in a gray lockbox and hidden in the office of Wang Haiying, director of the Auto Repair Factory of Jingzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau.At about 9 o'clock that night, the detection team drove to Jingzhou again with all their might, captured the criminal Wang Haiying, and seized the silk fabrics from the female body.So far, after hard work by the public security officers, the "China's No. [-] Ancient Corpse Case" has finally been cracked.

On the morning of April 1994, 4, the archaeologists of the Jingmen Museum, with the assistance of the public security organs, unearthed the ancient corpse of the millennium from the mud pit.When the ancient corpse, which had been transferred and hidden for 14 days, was rediscovered, although it had not decomposed, it was already blackened and scarred.The skin on her buttocks, calf, right hand, and heel was damaged in large areas, and the hip joint and neck bones had been pulled off. The rope was still tied to her neck, and there was a deep strangle mark under the rope.However, just like that, the muscles of this female corpse are still elastic, and her limbs can still bend. It is conceivable how well she was preserved when she was underground.According to expert appraisal, this female corpse lived in the Warring States Period when she was alive, which has a history of 39 years.This female corpse is the oldest wet corpse with the best preserved shape, skin and bones found in my country, and it is a rare treasure.

On May 1995, 5, the tomb robbers in "Guojiagang Tomb No. 23" got what they deserved.Principal offenders Guo Xiaoping, Li Hua, and Li Lixin were sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life; the other dozen people involved in the case were also severely punished by law.

Sancai brings out the tomb robbery case

In the summer of 2004, the citizens of Washington, USA were in an uproar: from the White House to local governments, from congressional officials to elementary school children, from ancient cultural relics experts who admire and worship China's 5000-year civilization history to those who know a little about Han and Tang culture All the employees are very popular with the Chinese cultural relics exhibited for the first time in the Fries Exhibition Building in the United States not far from the White House.

Among the endless crowd, people stopped to watch a large three-color camel made in the Tang Dynasty.Even the officials of the European Community who came to the United States to participate in a joint meeting also visited the essence of Chinese cultural relics unearthed from Xia, Shang, Zhou to Ming and Qing Dynasties during the meeting.Visitors are even more envious in front of a newly unearthed three-color camel of the Tang Dynasty!Why did the three-color camel have such a sensational effect?It turns out that it is the "three-color" product with the largest volume, the best color, the most realistic image, the most beautiful posture, and the best production among the cultural relics unearthed in China so far.

Especially its long-term secrecy—many cultural relics experts, professors and thousands of ancient cultural relics collectors in the world have long heard that the Chinese public security department cracked a huge case of the theft and excavation of the tomb of an emperor in the Tang Dynasty a few years ago. A three-color camel was seized, but the outside world has no trace of the detection process, relevant details, or even the unearthed photos of the "camel"! In 1997, when Hong Kong returned to the embrace of the motherland after a century of vicissitudes, it also coincided with the 48th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially when celebrating the victory of the 1000th National Congress of the Communist Party of China - the occasion of great auspiciousness and great joy, the relevant departments decided to make China One of the best national treasures, a three-color camel from the Tang Dynasty, was transported from the Forest of Steles Museum in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, where it was specially collected, and was secretly escorted to the Beijing History Museum by special personnel.According to incomplete statistics, on the first day of the exhibition, more than [-] visitors took a group photo in front of the three-color camel.The three-color camel caused a sensation in the world.

On June 1997, 6, when the three-color camel was sent to Beijing in secret, some professionals who were proficient in cultural relics had already noticed its extraordinary life experience.Yes, such a peerless treasure is definitely not the accessory of the princes and generals, let alone ordinary officials and wealthy families. Its grade can only be proved as a precious sacrificial object in the tomb of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.So, which emperor's tomb is the tricolor camel buried with?Is it Taizong Li Shimin?Gaozong Lizhi?Empress Wu Zetian?Or is it the beloved son of an emperor in the Tang Dynasty, or the daughter of the emperor Wuhou?How did it get out of the thousand-year-old tomb, through a historical tunnel of more than 27 years, and into the Beijing Museum of Chinese History in the late 1300s?In it, there is an unearthed mystery that is difficult for the world to understand.

In history, Tang Zhongzong Li Xian was actually a king standing behind a woman. His life was held hostage by two women, his mother Wu Zetian and his wife Webster.The weak emperor was buried in Dingling after his death.Dingling Mausoleum is located in Fenghuang Mountain, north of Sanfeng Village, Gongli Town, [-] kilometers north of Fuping County.Fenghuang Mountain is composed of three limestone peaks arranged from east to west, surrounded by a semicircular high mountain ridge to the north. The middle peak protrudes from the center of the ridge to the south, resembling a phoenix head, and the left and right peaks face each other, just like the spread wings of a phoenix. .Looking from the south, it looks like a beautiful phoenix soaring in the vast and endless space.Zhongzong Dingling Underground Palace is at the foot of Phoenix Mountain.

A stone cave was dug in the middle mountain ridge as a tomb, and various stone statues were carved in stone according to the system of Qianling Mausoleum.There were more than 50 original stone carvings, but the war and nearby residents stole stone chisels, and the cemetery and the four gate stone carvings were almost looted.At present, only a stone lion and a pair of stone men in the south are relatively intact. Although there are stone lions and stone horses in the east gate and north gate, they are all dilapidated.Moreover, there is no standing statue of Wang Bin, and there are no realistic furnishings in the Qianling Mausoleum, and only statues like molded stone figures and stone horses are left.

There is also a stele without characters in Dingling, which is as tall as Qianling, but it was destroyed and engraved (juān) as 72 ground rollers. Although there is no record of the size, the number from the re-engraving is enough to show that How tall it is.It has nothing to do with the politics at that time, and it can only be regarded as a decoration for the mausoleum, and since the mausoleums of later generations have not been used, it can only be regarded as a little difference in the mausoleum system.

There are also accompanying tombs in Dingling. The cemetery is 20 kilometers away. There are Prince Jiemin Chongjun and five princesses: Yicheng, Changning, Cheng'an, Dingding, Wang Tongjiao and Yongshou Weiluo.The eight accompanying tombs belong to the royal family, which reflects the decline of the Tang Dynasty, the internal instability of the ruling class and the royal family, and the anger and resentment aroused by the alienation between the monarch and his ministers.

Dingling Mausoleum is formed by connecting three dark bluestone peaks, like a flying phoenix, hence the name "Phoenix Mountain".The cemetery is rectangular, facing south from the north, and the topography is high in the north and low in the south. It is divided into multi-layer terraces from the south to the north, and the mausoleum is the highest point.About ten kilometers around, there are four gates of Suzaku, Xuanwu, Qinglong and Baihu.Among the stone carvings in front of the mausoleum, there are only a pair of stone lions and five stone figures left.

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