Chapter 4 Tomb Raiding
Since the death of Qin, Han Gaozu Liu Bang claimed the title of emperor, passed several generations, is always the Han family world, known as the “Western Han”, until Wang Mang usurped the throne, only to have the Guangwu Rising, out of the East Han’s destiny, but this is the aftermath of the words, needless to say.
Just say the turn of the Western Han East Han, the world’s great drought, starving people everywhere, the people are unbearable, have risen up, all the way to the Green Forest, Red Eyebrows two of the most powerful army, vibrating up and down the dynasty, all over the heroes have to throw themselves into the service.
Red Eyebrows army began to be composed of hungry people, initially only do some fighting and robbing hooks for self-survival, after being forced by the official army to fight a few hard battles, all won, and from then on the prestige, for the sake of pro-forma there is no retreat, everyone will be dyed red eyebrows, like snowballs, and gradually developed into hundreds of thousands of people, all the way into the bamboo, into the Chang’an, all take the Chang’an city of wealth and food, and a Burned the palace, but just like most of the ancient peasant revolts, the more the number of people, the weaker the fighting force, and then even ate a defeat, in Guanzhong several times in and out of the war, when the fabric desperate when desperate, will be the Han emperor mausoleums dug a bottom to the sky.
Qin and Han Dynasty, revered jade convergence, mausoleum in the emperor and consort body are set with auger dragon jade box and phoenix jade box, is also known as the later generations of the gold stranded jade coat, all were raked a net light, the Han Dynasty mausoleum burial treasures, but also a mountain of these treasures are red eyebrow army plundered.
As the world’s Red Eyebrows Army crumbled, the remnants of the ministry of the people, became a whistling gathering of the mountains and forests of the horse, they still retained the ancient tombs, scraping the treasures in the tomb for the capital of the tradition, once the traces of the royal ancestors of the ancient tombs, by the leader led the team of pirate hair, the means of grave robbing the use of long hoes and big shovels, up to 10,000 people can be gathered, digging a thousand holes in the mountain body, there is a “demolition of the ridge to uncover the ground! “Therefore, in the various systems of grave robbers, they called this way of dumping as “unloading the ridge”.
At the end of Song Dynasty, north of the Yellow River, were trapped by the Jin soldiers, the military group composed of Henan Amoy sand officials, a large number of excavation of the imperial tombs, the tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty emperors were destroyed, also stolen, and no one was lucky enough to be spared from this robbery, not many years later, Jin was destroyed by Mongolia, the remnants of Henan Amoy sand officials, from then on into the unloading of the Ling group of robbers, at that time, unloading of the Ling robber Liu Zixian is a generation of wonders, he widely absorbed the advanced means of digging up the tomb of the Song Dynasty and improved the tomb robber equipment. He widely absorbed the advanced means of grave-robbing, improved the grave-robbing equipment, and passed down the art of a thousand poles and the secret method of circling a hole.
Although the instruments and means used in grave robbing, after a few generations of improvement, there has been a sea change, but the strength of the Shiling group of thieves has gradually declined, hidden in the green forest, over the past few hundred years has not been too much to do, only occasionally teamed up in one place, robbing a few ancient tombs for some gold and jade wealth, has been passed on to the Republic of China, the last generation of the thieves Chen Blind Man, whose real name is called “Chen Yulou “, the word is “Jintang”, but in the Greenwood Road people used to use pseudonyms, few people in the world know his real name.
As he led the crowd to Yunnan to find the tomb of King Xian, unexpectedly not yet seen the tomb of King Xian water dragon halo, on the insect valley encountered the poisonous traps, bad pair of eyes, and the whereabouts of those years is unknown, the tree fell from a sinking ship, the succession of thousands of years of Shifting Ridge group of thieves, it disappeared from the history of smoke and mirrors.
Chen blind man’s origin is quite legendary, the Chen family is Hunan Xiangyin prominent side of the family, the family wealth of ten thousand kuans, good land thousands of dumping, in fact, it is by grave robbing wealth, the Chen family has been doing three generations of thieves, he was born at a time of war, in order to avoid the scourge of war, the clan have hidden into a long ago was stolen empty tomb palace, not see the light of day to hide more than two months, and so on the soldiers over the turmoil before they dared to return to their homes, he was born in the ancient tomb palace. He was born from the ancient tomb palace, due to a birth in the darkness of the gloomy environment, making his eyesight is different from ordinary people, born a pair of can see things in the dark “night eyes”, long to the age of ten years old, in the street by a ragged clothes of the old Taoist to take, it turned out that this Taoist see him as a rare night eyes, and bones, not like ordinary people, know a little impartation, it is not like ordinary people! It turned out that the old Taoist saw him as a rare night-eye, and his bones were clear and strange, unlike ordinary people, and knew that with a little teaching, he would be able to recognize the treasures of the world, so he took him to the mountains to teach him the art.
Later, the arts did not learn, that the old man will be dead life, Chen blind man down the mountain back home, inherited a large family business, and sat down the head of the Shui Ling group of thieves, the reason why he can do the head of the golden chair, what their own art in the second place, mainly by virtue of the Chen family connections are the most extensive, black and white are all eaten up, the Xiangqian Qian between the trafficking in tobacco and soil, the arms trade, all monopolized in his hands, so the three Xiangshang four waters of the various warlords Bandits, regardless of the size of the force are dependent on him, just like a local emperor.
During the Republic of China, the imperial system of the Qing Dynasty was finally overthrown, which made China at that time, entered into a variety of new ideas and the legacy of bad habits of the fierce clash of the era, the social situation is particularly chaotic, not only the warlords frequent wars, but also appeared in a hundred years of the “drought in the north and the south of the floods,” the disaster, which made many provinces have no harvest, thousands of people became victims of the disaster. Thousands of people have become victims, in order to have a mouth to feed, there are many people to take the risk of becoming a bandit, or to do human trafficking, smuggling of tobacco, trafficking in arms, a kind of lack of morality in the end of the collusion, which is exactly “ten years of dry goo heaven and earth is old, the people of the four oceans cry in pain deep”.
As the saying goes: “Antiques in times of prosperity, gold in times of chaos.” In the years of war and chaos, only the yellow fish (gold bars) is hard currency. But in the eyes of grave robbers, under such a situation, the national law has been in vain, it is a great opportunity to excavate the ancient mound to steal the secret weapon. Experienced grave robbers, of course, will not let go of this opportunity. Wait until one day after the political situation stabilized, the price of antiques will rise, and then the stolen things out, you can easily make a fortune.
Chen blind man did unloading Ling group of robbers of the leader, the fight to get rich things naturally do a lot of that time his eyes are not bad, eyesight is very overpowering, able to “see the mud marks, recognize the color of the grass, find the treasure”, leading his men to all provinces around the hook, the more chaotic the world, the more prosperous his business, and he likes to travel light, pretending to be a feng shui reader Moreover, he likes to disguise himself as a feng shui reader and go to remote villages and cottages to collect information about ancient tombs and old burial mounds.
The art of grave robbing is no more than “look, smell, ask, cut”, sometimes through the name of the place can be known, such as what “ling village, tomb Zhuang, double hill town, soil grave ditch, barren burial ridge ……” where this kind of Place names, which have the mystery, often with large burial groups, there are a lot of villages, are formed by the year to the royal family and nobles to collect mausoleums gathered, or by the ancient people buried in the local name, although the sea has changed, those ancient tombs and mounds of the mound has been leveled, the ground does not have a trace left, can be from the mouth of the local old-timers, can still be “asked”! Out of some end of the question, want to set out “tongue leakage” can need to be very smart skills and experience, not the average person can do it.
Chen blind wit discernment unparalleled, but also have the ability to speak like a river, a word from his mouth out, as if the mouth spit nine hundred and ninety-one petals of the lotus flower, not only colorful, and petals petals do not bring the same, so this “ask” the word skill, has always been his best, but in the “look, smell, ask, cut “in the four doors and eight ways, from the local native population, also belongs to the “ask” under the law.
“Ask” word trick on the law, that is not to ask people, but “ask the sky to play trigrams”, through divination to project the orientation of the tomb, to excavate the robber’s hole, straight through the medieval coffin, or divining the tomb robbing behavior of the fate of the movement, these ancient arts Chen Blind man is not good at it, although it also know the The principle of which, but once the show, often can not be fulfilled, it is said that only the gold lieutenants know “look, ask” two skills on the law.
But Chen blind man is also some real skills, unloading Ling group of robbers over the generations of instruments passed down means, he is not familiar with, plus the “look, smell, ask, cut” of the lower multiplication of the art of the chest, a number of years to set foot on thousands of mountains and rivers, really stole a lot of ancient mounds.
Xiangxi has a ringing horse origin of the warlord Luo Lao crooked, is Chen blind a head knocked on the ground of the worship of the son of a brother, the chaos of the situation at that time, who under the hands of the gun more people, who has the power of the big in Chen blind assistance, Luo Lao crooked set up a specialized grave robbing engineers digging son battalion, digging their own land on the ancient tombs can dig all over the tomb treasures for money, a large number of purchase of firearms and ammunition, the strength of the time greatly increased, and then Further expansion of the chassis, annexation of small groups of warlords, and then continue to look for ancient tombs to dig.
This day Luo old crooked deliberately rushed to Xiangyin Chen family home to find Chen blind, talking about the recent pressure faced in the military is not small, want to buy a number of advanced rifles produced by the United Kingdom, now more and more appetite, not a song, a song, intends to equip a division at a time, nowadays the way of the world is the people more guns and fists, talk is enough weight, this well-armed division, if you can quickly set up, the waist pole can be even harder, the So I want to ask Chen blind mountain, with one hundred and ten unloading Ling masters, leading the engineer battalion, carrying explosives into the mountains, the government and the bandits to cooperate, looking for a large tomb dug open, Mingqi two and one to five, a family got half.
Nearby tombs have long been dug out by us, want to find such a large tomb but how easy.”
Luo Lao crooked see Chen blind man in trouble, they do not dare to mention the expansion of the new army thing, but the dead face begged to beg: “Chen shopkeeper, my brother ah, if the ordinary small move still need to labor your great drive? This burst of troops expanding too fast, military expenses are tight, and then do not give the brothers to send some tobacco silver yuan, I fuck his grandmother, that can really be a mutiny of the troops, Chen shopkeeper you if you see the death of help, when the brother can only leave this mess, continue to go to the mountain grass to go.”