A little superstitious, but Cao Cao's early words made him rich enough to be a party. Really by doing this.
In 189, Cao Cao was not in power in the imperial court. Dong Zhuo, the powerful minister, led his troops to Luoyang, the capital of the capital, abolished the young emperor and made Liu Xie emperor, claiming to be a surname and in charge of state affairs. Seeing that everyone in the world was angry with Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao changed his name and surname, escaped from Luoyang, the capital, and returned to his hometown to join Chen. After the father agreed, he "dispersed his wealth into the righteous soldiers", and the heroes of the world crusaded against Dong Zhuo. At that time, the heroes responded in succession.
The anti-Dong Zhuo team soon got up. But Cao Cao's family is average, even if he sells his possessions, raising an army is just a drop in the bucket. What should I do? Borrowing money to support the army is a bottomless pit. Who dares to borrow it? Blackmailing the rich will lose people's hearts. In a word, I can't rely on others. Cao Cao is a very clever man. Since the living can't make money, he will find someone to do it. In this way, Cao Cao embarked on the road of grave robbery.
Generally, when you do such a thing, you care about your reputation, but you secretly instruct your confidant to operate it. However, Cao Cao is different. He publicly set up an organized and disciplined professional grave robbery team, and also set up official positions such as corps commander Faqiu and captain Mo Jin. The so-called "commander of the Maoshan Corps" is a person who digs graves and steals property to pay for the army, commonly known as: director of the National Tomb Raider Office; "Touching the Golden Captain" is proficient in the Book of Changes, understands Feng Shui and distinguishes the weather. He should be regarded as one of the senior technicians in grave robbery, and his rank is the same as that of corps commander Faqiu.
Organize a professional team to rob the tomb, and whoever steals the tomb naturally has to be carefully considered. Stealing the graves of ordinary people will definitely be scolded by ordinary people. Besides, there is nothing valuable in the graves of ordinary people. But if an emperor's tomb is stolen, the effect will be different. First of all, people hate the rich. Another emperor has been dead for many years and has no emotional foundation with the living, so the people will not have any opinions about stealing his tomb; Second, there are many valuable funerals for emperors. One can eat for years. After a meeting and discussion, Cao Cao finally set his goal in Liu Wuling, Liang Xiaowang, not far from his hometown.
Liang Xiaowang is the son of Wendi and the younger brother of Jingdi. Although he was only a king when he was alive, he was as rich as an enemy. So he devoted great enthusiasm to his mausoleum, which was extremely luxurious and comparable to the emperor. After his death, many gold and silver, jewels, jade articles and antiques were buried with him.
As the saying goes, "roll with the punches, roll with the punches", Cao Cao and his grave robbers immediately began to prepare the tomb of Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu, which is not the emperor's, but comparable to the emperor's.
The standards of cemeteries in Liang Xiaowang are very high, and many tombs are sealed with thousands of pounds of plugs. At that time, there was no mechanized equipment, so Cao Cao could only invest a lot of manpower to dig wells. It is said that when there are many people, the number reaches the size of a division.
The plot of Cao Cao commanding army soldiers to rob a tomb is recorded in the book Yuan Shaoba Yu Zhou written by Chen Lin, one of the seven sons of Jian 'an: "But Cao Cao led a school official to personally dig and broke the coffin and took a little treasure. Let the most sacred dynasty have a runny nose and make the people sad. I also sent the captain, touched the captain Jin, and experienced various changes. " As can be seen from this record, Cao Cao's army completely destroyed the mausoleum, just like today's grave robbers, robbing everything.
As for how much treasure Cao Cao stole, there is no record in history. However, according to historical records, the first bucket of gold dug by Cao Cao actually supported the army for three years. I know that the political situation is unstable, wars are frequent, and the army has suffered heavy losses and is difficult to support. Therefore, people speculate that there are so many treasures in Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu's tomb. Because of this, after Cao Cao robbed the tomb, many people followed the idea of robbing the tomb.
As an experienced tomb raider, Cao Cao knows that "a thick burial" is easy for thieves to remember. In 2 18 AD, the final decree of the code was promulgated, emphasizing the choice of barren land as the heritage after death and the original height of the ground as the heritage. Don't close the tomb, don't plant trees, don't bury gold and silver vessels, pearls and jade articles.
Apart from "thin burial", Cao Cao was uneasy about his own funeral and adopted the strategy of "suspicious burial". According to historical records, after the death of Cao Cao, the gates of Yecheng were fully opened, 72 coffins were carried out from Yecheng, and 72 tombs of Cao Cao were built in different places.
Cao Cao's true and false tomb dazzled grave robbers, and they didn't know whether it was true or not. Thousands of years have passed, but grave robbers still can't find the real tomb of Cao Cao. It can be seen how high Cao Cao's anti-tomb-robbing measures are.