He stole more than 200 ancient tombs, worth 500 million yuan. What secrets did he tell before he died?

Tomb raiding has a long history in China. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, after experiencing the social change of "the ceremony collapsed and the music was bad", the wind of reburial began to rise, so grave robbery became more prevalent. Some tombs are just for revenge. For example, in the second year of Tang Daizong Dali (767), Guo Ziyi wiped out Tubo in Lingzhou, and in December of the same year, Guo Ziyi's father's tomb was destroyed by grave robbers. There is a folklore that Yu Chaoen (a eunuch in the Tang Dynasty who was an enemy of Guo Ziyi) sent someone to do. And some people rob the tomb entirely for the rich funerary objects in the tomb.

In modern society, even though there are strict laws and regulations on grave robbery, some people still turn a deaf ear to it, and grave robbery incidents are repeatedly prohibited. For example, since the founding of New China, there has been a court ruling that Yao Yuzhong, the biggest criminal of grave robbery, can be directly called the ancestor of grave robbery. Yao Yuzhong has stolen 2,063 cultural relics worth 500 million yuan. But he was so capable that there was no money in his account after his arrest, mainly because he was addicted to gambling. He gambled away all the money from the grave robbery and lost everything.

Yao Yuzhong is from Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He was born in 1962. His family has been craftsmen for generations. Yao Jiayi has 8 children, including 7 boys, 1 girl. Yao Yuzhong is the third child, and a family of more than ten people can only live in a simple mud house. Therefore, Yao Yuzhong only went to primary school and did not continue his studies. He inherited from the family. Although Yao Yuzhong's education level is not high, he is very smart and has strong hands-on ability. His skill in knitting bamboo baskets is the best among the seven boys.

Yao Yuzhong's hometown is where Hongshan Culture is located. There are many tombs here, and most of them are buried very shallow, only one or two meters from the surface. Whenever it rains heavily, the soil on the surface of the grave will be washed away by the rain, exposing the buried objects inside. Therefore, people often come to the village to exchange money and change the utensils found by the villagers. At this time, Yao Yuzhong had the idea of grave robbery.

Although his educational level is not high, Yao Yuzhong still insists on reading the Book of Changes and other books. He also knew how to combine theory with practice, and went to the Forbidden City and the tombs of the Qing Dynasty to observe and analyze the structure of the tombs. Gradually, he mastered the method of looking for the ancient tomb and went to look for it. In order to facilitate grave robbing, he also made a grave robbing tool called "Zhazi", which is made of several sections of steel bars and can be folded and carried easily. Yao Yuzhong just needs to plunge the stick into the soil, then pull it out, and judge whether there is a grave below according to the color of the soil on the stick.

From June to June 10 every year, the crops are densest and the crimes are densest in Yao Yuzhong. From 20 13 to 20 14, Yao Yuzhong has robbed more than 200 tombs, and his 30-year experience of robbing tombs has enabled him to accumulate assets of nearly 600 million yuan. Moreover, his aftermath is particularly clever. Every time he robs a tomb, he will take a handful of grass seeds and scatter them on the dug soil after he leaves, so that the traces of his robbery will be covered by the grass that grows soon.

Because of the number of grave robberies and superb technology, he was regarded as the "grandfather" and "the first master outside the customs" by grave robbers. However, although he accumulated a lot of wealth because of robbing tombs, he didn't save much money at all because he was addicted to gambling. Sometimes the cultural relics that have just been stolen are mortgaged by him in casinos. Only one casino in Hebei owes more than 70 million yuan in gambling debts, and some high-priced cultural relics are offset by his low price.

Therefore, when Yao Yuzhong was arrested in 20 15, he had no money in his account. The police also found a number of cultural relics in his place of residence. 20 15 in may, the Ministry of public security announced that the biggest robbery case since the founding of new China was solved, and * * * arrested 225 suspects, destroyed 12 criminal gangs and recovered 2063 cultural relics involved. Yao Yuzhong is the "big brother" among the arrested suspects.

But in court, Yao Yuzhong still resisted, saying, "I can open the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, and I know his entrance." However, he was finally sentenced to death with a two-year suspension. No matter what Yao Yuzhong said is true or not, as far as the structure and layout of the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum are concerned, according to modern science and technology, no one can safely visit the depths of the Qin Mausoleum, and even if the cultural relics inside are taken out, it is not easy to preserve them. After all, we can't forget that the pigments on the Terracotta Warriors just disappeared at the sight of light.