Speaking of Sun Dianying stealing the imperial tomb, it's not far away. It happened during the turmoil of the Republic of China. At that time, Sun Dianying did many bad things. Become the chief officer of the 6th Army 12 Army. Born in poverty, he began to go out to make a living at an early age and made many rogue friends and officers.
A bad habit, so he didn't shy away from stealing the tomb. At that time, under the pretext of military exercises, he blocked the Qing Dongling Mausoleum and its vicinity, drove away the officials in charge of guarding the Mausoleum and local residents, and then exposed his nature of excavating the Mausoleum of Cixi and Qianlong, but soldiers without archaeological knowledge could not find the entrance to the underground palace.
It is said that one of his subordinates got a map of the mausoleum that was very popular at that time. In fact, this map is the design of the underground mausoleum drawn by the famous architect Lei in Qing Dynasty. Style Lei family was the president of the royal style mansion, and these royal buildings, such as the Qing Xiling Mausoleum, the Qing Dongling Mausoleum and the Summer Palace, all came from their hands. However, during the Republic of China, the Lei family was completely ruined, and later people sold a large number of garden drawings, imperial tomb architectural drawings and models, so the mausoleum.
Sun Dianying's men searched around for a long time and didn't find the map, so they thought of another way. They know that there are descendants of craftsmen who built the mausoleum near the mausoleum, and they should know the structure of the underground palace. Sun Dianying immediately sent down to look for these people. They asked the people guarding the tomb that there was a craftsman named Soapy Tolin, so they found the craftsman, tied him up and forced him to tell the entrance and internal structure of the underground palace. Finally, with the help of this craftsman, Sun Dianying succeeded.