Chapter 83 Section IX

The Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty was stolen again, because it happened just after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and the social attention was still immersed in the excitement of victory, and its social impact was far less than that of Sun Dianying.However, after receiving the report, the Jixian Public Security Bureau immediately launched an investigation. The conditions at that time were extremely difficult, and all the means of transportation for the public security bureau in the entire Jixian County (the Tanglin area was assigned to Jixian County at that time) was a bicycle!Public security chief Yun Guang and security guard Zhao Wei rode this car in turn. You took me for a ride, and I took you for a ride to the scene.

The scene was bleak, and the tomb robbers who once gathered had already scattered and fled.Yun Guang, Zhao Wei, policemen Tang Jianzhong, Li Hemin and others first came to Kangxi's Jingling Mausoleum. Looking down from the stolen entrance of the underground palace, you can see all kinds of stone strips everywhere, and all the way down is water, making it impossible to enter. Check. Then I went down to Huiling Underground Palace in Tongzhi with a torch, and the tomb path was empty all the way.When I arrived at the mausoleum, I saw two split coffins, Tongzhi on the right and the queen on the left.Tongzhi, who died at the age of nineteen, contained nothing but a handful of bones; the empress, who died at the age of twenty-two, was completely intact, lying naked in the coffin with her long hair hanging loose.Later, when the body was turned over, it was found that her intestines had been ripped apart, and her intestines and viscera flowed out of the coffin. This was the result of those bandits who heard that the Queen died by swallowing gold, so they searched for gold in her stomach.

The public security department judged: This must have been done by a group of ignorant people gathered by local habitual bandits.Subsequent investigations showed that this was the case, and so many participants in the vicinity surfaced in further reconnaissance. At that time, the policy of arresting criminals was: "The culprit must be caught, and the culprits should not be blamed." The combination of suppression and leniency was implemented, and the accomplices would not be held accountable as long as they handed over all the treasures and stolen goods they had obtained. Under the powerful offensive, Zhang Jinzhong, Wang Shaoyi and some key tomb robbers escaped upon hearing the news, and some of the people who participated turned themselves in, and handed in some stolen goods one after another.

The tomb of Cixi, who was buried recently, left some information on the funeral objects, and Sun Dianying's bragging can also give people some general information.However, it is impossible to count how many treasures were lost in the four imperial mausoleums that were stolen this time.After the incident, the confiscation situation is only: gold ring, broken small golden pagoda, golden phoenix, tin emerald headdress, snuff bottle, jadeite, agate, jade, etc. half of the washbasin, and the old scale made of sixteen taels is called five catty ten Four taels; the most unique one is an emerald wrench, if you throw it into the water basin, it will be filled with green light immediately.

There were also some pearls turned in, as many as a tea tray. The most precious of all the confiscated loot is the Kowloon Cup in Kangxi's tomb.This Jiulong cup is made of white jade, rectangular, three centimeters high, four centimeters wide, and six centimeters long, with a cover; two pairs of dragons playing with beads are carved on each of the four corners, and another dragon is carved on the handle of the cup. Nine dragons are carved on the body of the cup. The craftsmanship is extremely exquisite. .Because everyone in the village knew about the Jiulong Cup, Tian Dahua handed it over to the public security officers in order to save his life. At the same time, he also handed over Kangxi's bloodstone paperweight.

It can be seen that the number of treasures confiscated is very small, and the overall value is not high. The thieves handed over a small amount of not too precious stolen goods in order to pass the customs and protect themselves.A large number of treasures are hidden among the people, or circulated at home and abroad. After the two catastrophes in 1928 and 1945, the treasure of Tanglin was devastated and caused irreparable losses. After rigorous investigation and arrest, except for the principal criminals Zhang Jinzhong, Wang Shaoyi and his son, Yang Zhicao, Guan Zenghui and others who were at large, all other major criminals were captured. On February 1, 1946, that is, the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, the six principal criminals who had been captured were taken to the execution ground for execution.

Among the six people, five were scoundrels in the revolutionary ranks. They were district public security assistant Guo Zheng, civil affairs assistant Ji Xin, district cadres Liu En and Li Shuqing, and deputy head of Yuda Village Jia Zhengguo.The other is the habitual bandit Mu Shuxuan. In order to expand the momentum and educate the public, at 9:00 am on the day of the execution, a battalion of the Eighth Route Army, fully armed, blew the bugle to escort the criminals to the execution ground.The execution ground is located in the south of the Dabei Building in Jingling Mausoleum of Kangxi.The district chief Jieru and the district team leader Zhang Sen, who participated in the robbery of the tomb, were accompanied by more than a dozen people.

After such a massive crackdown on the crime of tomb robbery, it caused a strong shock in the society and played a positive role in protecting the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty.Afterwards, in order to strengthen the management of the Dongling area of ​​the Qing Dynasty, the People's Government specially established the "Tomb-protecting Police Station of the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty"; later, the Dongling area was placed under the jurisdiction of Zunhua County, and the Dongling Police Station was also managed by the Zunhua County Public Security Bureau. . Because this vicious incident happened in the CCP area, the Kuomintang immediately made a big fuss after hearing the news, falsely claiming that "the CCP stole the tomb". For this reason, Chiang Kai-shek also accused the CCP representative Zhou Enlai at the old political association.The CCP's "Jidong Daily" immediately released the investigation and handling results, clarified the facts, and hit back at the KMT.

The Kuomintang also launched a crackdown on the perpetrators of the robbery.After receiving the report, Dai Li, the director of the military command, ordered Zheng Sipu, the station chief of the Beiping station of the military command bureau, and Zhang Shuting, the special agent, to "investigate the Dongling treasure robbery case with full authority."The principal culprit, Zhang Jinzhong, fled to Tangshan to escape for a while, but was captured by military special agents and taken to Peking for interrogation. He died of illness in prison soon after. Then the Beiping City Police Department launched a large-scale search and arrest throughout the city, arresting 44 suspects who had brought the stolen goods from the Malanyu area to Peiping, and confiscated more than 800 treasures.

Wang Shaoyi, one of the two major culprits, absconded with three pistols in fear of crime, and escaped arrest several times; five years later, in early 1951, he was finally arrested at his concubine's home in Huanghua Mountain at the junction of Zunhua and Jixian County, and then arrested in Malan He was executed by shooting at a meeting of ten thousand people held in Yuzhen.While fleeing, he took a snuff bottle from the Kangxi Mausoleum to the Malanyu Market and sold two buckets of corn, and a piece of jade Ruyi for five buckets of corn; another criminal, Liu Weilian, smashed a delicate golden phoenix crown and pressed it Gold sells...

The second Dongling treasure robbery case has come to an end.