After Sun Dianying opened Cixi's tomb, why did he rip off Cixi's pants at the first time? The truth is so
Sun Dianying is a very famous tomb robber, he has excavated a lot of ancient tombs, because he stole the Qing Tombs to become famous, one of the most widely circulated things about his tomb robbery is that when he stole the Qing Tombs, he not only snatched the clothes on Cixi's body, even the shoes and hats were taken off, and even the mouth was pried open. After he stole the tomb, Puyi sent someone to re-enter Cixi, only to find that Cixi had only one piece of clothing left on her body.
In fact, the reason why Sun Dianying took off the clothes on the corpse at the first time was not like the legend, the soldiers who entered the tomb together had evil thoughts about the corpse, but because after Cixi's death, the things on his body were very expensive, even the clothes were expensive, at that time, Sun Dianying, as a warlord, needed money no matter what he did, because he urgently needed money, so it was impossible to let go of anything valuable, even a pair of pants.
Many friends should know that Cixi was very extravagant before she died, and she wanted to live a glorious and rich life even after she died. Her mausoleum began to be built in 1873, and it took six years to build a magnificent tomb at a total cost of 2.27 million silver, but Cixi was still not satisfied, so in 1895, her mausoleum began to be rebuilt again, and it was not built until her death in 1908, when the amount of silver spent on the reconstruction was too large to estimate, it is said to exceed ten million silver.
Although it sounds like a lot to build a mausoleum with tens of millions of silver, it is not worth mentioning at all compared with the value of Cixi's funerary products. According to Li Lianying, the most favored eunuch of Cixi's lifetime, the number of Cixi funerary items cannot be counted at all, of which the value of a jade watermelon buried in the tomb is about six million taels, and the pearls on the phoenix crown she wears on her head are worth tens of millions of taels, and it can be said that each funeral product is worth a lot.
In addition to these, Cixi was buried wearing a gold silk dress, covered with an embroidered beaded gown, embroidered with many pearls, up to more than 6,000 pieces, and her feet were wearing lotus shoes made of tourmaline, worth 750,000 taels of silver. Therefore, it can be said that the clothes worn by Cixi are extremely valuable.
Therefore, after Sun Dianying entered the Qing Tombs in 1928, his first target was the mausoleum where Cixi was located, and when he blew open the underground palace of Cixi's mausoleum with explosives, he immediately carried the surrounding jewels and then forcibly split Cixi's coffin with an axe. After opening the coffin, he first had Cixi's clothes and pants removed, then removed his shoes and phoenix crown, then pried open his mouth with his sword, took out the night pearl, and then casually threw the body to the ground.