The next faction of tianmashan in Changsha is calm. This is an inconspicuous road connecting the teaching building and apartment of Hunan University. In addition to crowded snack bars, small supermarkets and small hotels, college students are the main people coming and going along the road. It is here, too, that over the past few years, teams of professional grave robbers have traveled south from Henan or west from Jiangxi, hiding in small hotels and enjoying tianmashan behind them. Most of these hotels were built by local farmers in Changsha, and some rooms were only separated by wooden boards. A single room with one bed and a standard room with two beds, the price is as low as 40 yuan every day, but not as high as 80 yuan.
Professional grave robbers are likely to live here for ten days and a half months. During the day, they stay in the hotel and watch a pitifully small TV set of 10 inches. At night, their ambition of "doing great things" can be enlarged to infinity.
"We keep finding people staring at this ancient tomb. At the end of 20 1 1, there was a five-person gang. 20 13, hit two gangs, and these two add up to 26 people. " On May 20th, 2065438+03, Cao Lin, director of Changsha Cultural Relics Bureau, said, "Last week, another gang was busted. They stole an ancient tomb of the Qing Dynasty. " Grave robbery is rampant in tianmashan, to the point of using detonators. This, I'm afraid, is unthinkable in tomb-robbing novels. In October, 2065438+2003 65438+22, tianmashan was sleeping in the cold night, and a black shadow was lurking on the hillside.
This is a group of grave robbers, carrying Luoyang shovel, miner's lamp, shovel and blower. They left one at the foot of the mountain, and the other didn't stop until halfway up the mountain. After a brief rest, they approached an ancient tomb on the mountain.
Before the excavation, an elderly "master" in the gang went up the mountain several times to check the geomantic omen. He concluded that there were one or two huge and unusual ancient tombs in the mountain.
In the grave robbery business, the "master" is a "respected" person in the grave robbery gang and has won the trust of all members. He is responsible for providing technical guidance in specific grave robbery operations. Everyone believes that only he can calculate the location, value and excavation site of the ancient tomb.
This time, the "master" chose the excavation point halfway up the mountain. So, some people dig holes, some people fill the earth, and some people put the excavated earth and stone into snakeskin bags, transport them to dozens of meters away, and pour them into the pit-just like the construction team.
That night, a group of people dug for a long time and picked up several piles of soil, only to find that the bottom was full of sand and gravel. If they dug deeper, they would still be stones. The "master" was in trouble, so he had to modify the plan and put forward to move to the top of the mountain and make a hole from the mountain to the top of the tomb. As it was getting late, a group of people had to backfill and cover the dug hole and hurried down the mountain. According to people who have a special relationship with robbery gangs, the role of "masters" in robbery cases is very critical. Whether an ancient tomb has excavation value, first of all, we should ask the "master" to look at the geomantic omen, survey the terrain and make a set of technical analysis. "But the invited' master' doesn't seem to be very good, and he didn't step on it on the spot. If he is a powerful' master', he will know what level the ancient tomb below is with a stick. "
201365438+1On the evening of October 26th, the gang went up the mountain again and began to implement the plan of digging holes from the top of the mountain. Because of the experience and lessons of previous construction, it was found that Luoyang shovel, which is commonly used in grave robbery, is easy to dig but can't deal with stones, so they developed a new type of drill bit during this period.
This kind of drill bit cooperates with steel pipe to make holes in the tomb, and Luoyang shovel goes deep and the effect is obvious. People familiar with the robbery gang said that the drill developed by the gang was an improvement on the traditional Luoyang shovel. This time, the "technical transformation" quickly spread in the industry and was considered as "a great progress in robbery technology". According to the police investigation, the members of the robbery gang were mainly from Henan, and they planned the robbery for the first time from 20 12 to 12.
First, Zhang Puyu, a native of Yuzhou, Henan Province, heard from her brother-in-law Li Erjian that there was an ancient tomb in Changsha, which was full of treasures. Zhang and Li Sui, who were short of money, discussed with fellow villager Li Dajian and decided to find a job in Changsha.
In 20 13, Zhang Puyu and Li Erjian became the first uninvited guests in the Han Tomb in tianmashan. At this time, in the tomb-robbing trip, a message has reached the immortal, "There is at least one ton of gold hidden in the Han tomb in tianmashan!"
As soon as Zhang Puyu arrived in Changsha, she hurried to tianmashan non-stop, only to find that someone seemed to have beat her to it.
According to the rules of the grave robbery industry, the stolen tomb will never be dug, but after checking the ancient tomb, it was found that the cemetery was not completely opened and its value still existed, so Zhang was unwilling to give up.
Just when Zhang Puyu and Li Erjian set foot on the top of the mountain, they saw two mysterious people stop and go on the mountain. Zhang and Li Sui took the initiative to strike up a conversation. It turns out that they are locals. After in-depth conversation, they knew that they were like-minded. Zhang Puyu thought that if local people were allowed to go, everyone might have no choice but to cooperate.
It usually takes ten days and a half months for grave robbers to dig holes in tianmashan, so some local people will provide information to criminals or cooperate with them for profit after discovering the information of ancient tombs.
The grave robbery plan began immediately. Among the two gangs, Zhang Puyu is responsible for the overall deployment, arranging fund raising and manpower convening in the early stage; Two locals are in charge of sentry duty and notification.
The two sides agreed that after the work is completed, it will be divided into four or six parts, with Zhang Yifang getting six parts and local people getting four parts. After the plan was agreed, they waited for a big fight, only to catch up with the most taboo thing of grave robbers-Mao Mao rain. Rainy days are not suitable for construction, and it is easy to show traces. Zhang Puyu and his party had to temporarily return to Henan and wait for the opportunity.
It was not until 20 131October 26th that Zhang Puyu and Li Er Jian came to Changsha again. After consulting with the local people, they decided that the time was ripe and started the grave robbery plan again. This time, Zhang and Li each contributed 1 10,000 yuan, making it clear once again that Zhang and Li each contributed 15% of the profits, with local people accounting for 40% and other people sharing the other 30%.
After the plan was confirmed, Zhang and Li immediately issued instructions from Changsha. The people gathered in Henan immediately got on a van, while others drove the high-speed train to tianmashan.
At the same time, the troops stationed in Changsha to survey the terrain in the early stage were not idle. They carefully purchased ropes, shovels, belts, flashlights, telescopes, steel wires, detonators, explosives, blowers, batteries, cables, helmets, headlights, ventilation pipes and other tools and equipment in Changsha market.
Subsequently, all the staff gathered in Changsha and checked in separately. According to the case held by the police, the grave robbers who are mainly responsible for digging and carrying have been staying in a rented quadrangle, where foreigners live all the year round, with great mobility and many strangers. Other lookout and logistics support personnel live in two hotels respectively.
Everything is ready, and there is the scene of robbing the ancient tomb mentioned above. According to the investigation by the police, this time, except for a few people such as Li Erjian, who were responsible for water delivery, rice delivery, lookout and other logistics and equipment support, all the main forces went up the mountain and were deployed on grave-robbing lines such as digging, picking soil, transporting soil, loading soil, sawing wood and opening coffins.
In this way, a dozen people take turns to make holes in batches, and then cover the holes down the mountain at dawn. They usually go up and down the mountain in suits and ties. In this way, day after day, everything goes well.
In order to speed up the opening of the ancient tomb, one of Wang Xing members contacted a friend in Jiangxi and proposed to get a batch of explosives to blast the rocks.
201365438+1On October 27th, a Jiangxi man surnamed Wan transported 70kg of explosives and two detonators to Changsha. 65438+1At 8 o'clock on the evening of October 28, the gang filled the hole at the upper end of the ancient tomb with explosives. 10 or so, the explosive was detonated and the cave was blown out of a pit 8 meters deep.
As we approached the tomb step by step, the "master" saw that the tomb was actually a "yellow intestine" tomb structure.
"Huang Chang Ming" is a coffin made of particularly strong wood layer by layer. When the mausoleum of the Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty is used, princes, doctors and scholars below the emperor can also use it, but generally cypress trees cannot be used, but pine trees and miscellaneous trees can be used. However, with the permission of the emperor, the "Yellow Intestine Inscription" can also be used after the death of princes and ministers.
As a special tomb structure, "the mystery of yellow intestines" has always been the nemesis of the grave robbery industry. According to the insider, a man who robbed a tomb told him that when he continued to dig deep, he found that the layered wood had at least seven layers.
This is obviously a difficult problem that explosives cannot easily overcome, but a group of people are unwilling. They used to transport more explosives for blasting. But until 201365438+1at 3 o'clock in the morning on October 29th, the bones and muscles of the ancient tomb were still not injured.
The next day, when the gang carried out the blasting operation to blow the Han Tomb in tianmashan out of the stolen hole and prepare to continue digging, the four-way arrest team of the public security department who received the report appeared on the scene, and then all other grave robbers hiding in hotels and rental houses were arrested.