Wen Tao, a notorious grave robber, stole 18 royal tombs in the Tang Dynasty. Why didn't he steal Wu Zetian's Gan Tang Mausoleum?

China has a civilization of thousands of years, and dynasties change frequently. When an old dynasty perished, even the imperial tombs were often stolen. For example, after the demise of the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial mausoleum was stolen by the Red Eyebrow Army. After the demise of the northern song dynasty, the imperial tomb was stolen by the pseudo-qi emperor Liu Yu; After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial tomb was stolen by Yang Lian Jia Zhen, a monk in the Yuan Dynasty. After the demise of the Qing Dynasty,

The tombs of Qianlong and Cixi were stolen by warlord Sun Dianying and others. Little known is that the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty were also stolen and dug. Grave robbers not only dug out 17 of the 8 tombs of Tang emperors in Guanzhong, but also registered the results of grave robbery and made them public. Who is this bold grave robber? Why did he rob the tomb of Tang Dynasty crazily?

Wen Tao, a native of Beijing, was born in the late Tang Dynasty. When he was young, he was a thief. After the chaos, he went to the warlord of the buffer region and Li, our envoy of Fengxiang Longyou, and was appointed as our envoy of Yaozhou. In order to win Li's favor, he changed his surname to Li's real name (for the convenience of narration, the following are all made).

Soon, Houliang's army attacked and immediately surrendered to the city, but soon he secretly ran back to take refuge in Li and was appointed as our ambassador for Yisheng Army. Emperor Houliang came, betrayed Li and took refuge in Houliang. Later, Liang renamed the Yisheng Army Jingsheng Army, appointed as our envoy, and renamed him Wen and Zhao Tu.

As we all know, there were 2 1 emperors (including Wu Zetian) and 20 imperial tombs (Wu Zetian and Tang Gaozong were buried together) in the Tang Dynasty. Except that Tang Zhaozong was buried in He Ling, Lizhu and Tang Aidi were buried in Wenling, Shandong, the rest of the imperial tombs were located in Guanzhong, and the jurisdiction of Jingsheng Army just included Guanzhong area!

Emperors in the history of China have a tradition of reburial, with countless treasures and huge wealth buried with them. Therefore, the eighteen Tang tombs in Guanzhong are equivalent to eighteen treasure houses for Wen Tao. Therefore, during the seven years when the Jingsheng Army served as our time, Tao Wenhui "discovered the Tang tombs in his territory and took their treasures (1)", in addition, Wen Tao even stole them.