Qufu City, Shandong Province is a famous historical and cultural city in China. As early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the civilization here had a certain development. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the system of enfeoffment was implemented, and Zhou Wuwang destroyed the business. After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, Bo Qin, the son of his brother Zhou Gongdan, was named Duke Lu. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, in 187 BC, Emperor Lu named Zhang Yan king of Lu and established Lu. Thus, "Lu" became the abbreviation of Shandong Province. As an important place in history, there are of course many royal tombs.
The ancients in the Qin and Han dynasties especially liked thick burials and valuable ancient tombs, which naturally produced a group of lawless elements who coveted the treasures in the tombs. Grave robbing is also a technical job. Without study and research, it is impossible to dig the mountain with a hoe and shovel. There is a local farmer Li Laoda in Qufu. He works hard.
This person should say that his education level is not high and he is famous in the local area. He has done a lot of illegal things, so he is also a frequent visitor to the prison. In 2007, Li Lao, who had just been released from prison, contacted several released prisoners. When several people get together, they start to do one thing together, and the money is the fastest. Finally, someone proposed to dig a grave. The reason is that there are many rich cultural relics collectors in the society at present, and the cultural relics market is hot, so they must make money from this.
That's it. Then Li Laoda and his gang began to buy shovels, crowbars and other grave-robbing tools, while looking for ancient tombs everywhere, but they found nothing for several months because there was no specific crime target. Then one day, Li found a friend Zhang who had a grave robbery experience. Zhang's suggestion made him suddenly enlightened, that is, to ask him to go back and consult the local county annals.
Then, Li Laoda really studied Qufu County Records. During the Qianlong period of "County Records", it was recorded: "There are more than 40 tombs of Hanlu, and only more than 10 were buried in the south of the county." This is a very crucial message. The county is located in Jiangcun, Xiqiao Township, Qufu. When Li Laoda and his seven brothers arrived, they found the so-called 14 tombs, of which 13 had been leveled, leaving only one tomb. The tomb is called "King Luzu's Tomb". The owner of the tomb has no relevant records in the history books, but according to the size of the tomb, it should belong to the rank of a prince. 1977, the tomb was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit. At that time, the county cultural relics department also arranged a villager named Kong for daily supervision.
Li Laoda quickly bought a hole with 50,000 yuan. For a whole year from the end of that year to the end of the second year, they repeatedly illegally excavated the ancient tomb. This ancient tomb, which has a history of more than 2,000 years and still has many unsolved mysteries, collapsed under the repeated destruction of explosives. Li and his party plundered a large number of precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, jade, gold and silver from the ancient tomb, and the market price of a jade man in Han Dynasty was about 1 10,000.
Li and his party are guilty and eager to get rid of these "dirty things". By selling these cultural relics, they made a profit of more than 4 million yuan! However, this is far from the real value of cultural relics. 20 10 a 33-member robbery gang headed by Li Laoda was arrested. When cultural relics experts learned about cultural relics from their mouths, they were saddened, saying that precious cultural relics that might be worth hundreds of millions were sold cabbage prices by a group of ignorant grave robbers.
What is even more deplorable is that these cultural relics are lost in the black market, in the hands of private collectors, or overseas, and it is extremely difficult to recover them. This is not only a huge loss of national cultural relics, but also a negative impact on related historical and cultural research. Through this incident, it also sounded the alarm for the relevant cultural relics departments. In the face of rampant grave robbing activities, it is better to do a good job of cultural relics protection in advance than to investigate the responsibility afterwards.