During the Xianfeng period, the appearance of Taiping Army caused a lot of troubles to the Qing government, among which Yang, one of the leaders of Taiping Army, was a thorn in the side of the Qing government, but the Qing government could not capture Yang alive all the time, which made Emperor Xianfeng extremely angry. One day, a A Qing official reported to Emperor Xianfeng the results of his interrogation of a small head of the Taiping Army. After reading it, Emperor Xianfeng thought he knew Yang's life story, but he didn't know that this information was actually inaccurate. That was made up by the little leader to protect himself.
Emperor Xianfeng, who had been struggling to catch the real person, wanted to kill Yang by destroying his ancestral grave in order to destroy Yang's family property, so Emperor Xianfeng ordered people to come to Yang's birthplace to find his ancestral grave. After many investigations, Emperor Xianfeng finally learned the location of Yang's ancestral grave, so he immediately ordered someone to dig Yang's ancestral grave, and this digging really made Yang die in a melee, which made Emperor Xianfeng particularly happy.
This rumor is very popular among people. People think that Yang's death was caused by the excavation of his ancestral grave, but this is not the case. The place where Emperor Xianfeng sent people was actually not Yang's birthplace. The information obtained by Emperor Xianfeng was inaccurate. As for why Yang died shortly after the so-called Yangzu grave was dug, it was purely a coincidence. There is no necessary connection between the two, but ancient people are superstitious about Feng Shui.