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Speaking of Cixi, as one of the two most powerful women in the history of China. She succeeded in accelerating the demise of the Qing Dynasty. Every time the shadow writes about Cixi, she is very angry. If Cixi didn't blindly compromise with the powers, if she could spend her extravagant living expenses on the military and those reparations on development, perhaps Chinese children would not be bullied by the powers many times in the future. If she hadn't stopped Emperor Guangxu from reforming, China wouldn't have fallen so far behind the great powers. After the death of Cixi, the Dongling, where Cixi was buried, was ransacked by Sun Dianying, and even the body of Cixi survived the grave robbery in Sun Dianying. Why does Sun Dianying hate Cixi so much?
Speaking of this question, first of all, why did Sun Dianying rob the tomb? Why did so many ancient tombs in China only steal the tomb of Cixi? This problem can actually be understood as Sun Dianying's attempt to supplement its own strength. In order to expand his power and supplement his strength, what Sun Dianying lacks is money. Without money, he can't buy weapons, pay or recruit new soldiers. In the era of warlord melee, the people have no money and the government has no money. So Sun Dianying thought of tomb raiding, just near Dongling. In addition, Dongling is under his own control, and no one can compete with himself, so he took Dongling as the first excavation target.
After a regiment opened Dongling, Sun Dianying soldiers directly opened the coffin of Cixi. Under the command of Sun Dianying, the soldiers not only pried open the mouth of Cixi's body with bayonets, but also pried it open because there was a pearl in Cixi's mouth. He also took off the shroud of Cixi, because even the shroud of the former imperial ruler after his death was made of gold thread. After the soldiers robbed Cixi of her treasure, Cixi's body was torn apart by the soldiers.
In doing so, in addition to Sun Dianying's or soldiers' greed for treasure, it also contains hatred for Cixi. Sun Dianying's grandfather and father died at the hands of the late Qing Dynasty, and Sun Dianying's soldiers were persecuted in the late Qing Dynasty, and the chief culprit of all this was Cixi. Therefore, it is not incomprehensible that they "frustrated the bones and raised the ashes" Cixi.
After searching all the treasures, Sun Dianying left Dongling with his soldiers. And this Cixi, who was personally wiped out, has no one to take care of her body. However, after the incident was exposed, all the adherents of the Qing Dynasty ran out and wrote to Sun Dianying. The reason why these old people do this is not their loyalty to Cixi, but their loyalty to the treasure of Dongling.
Sun Dianying is not a hero, because grave robbery is very inhuman, and it is precisely because of his grave robbery that many cultural relics were destroyed. But from another point of view, he is revenge, and robbing the tomb is also to strengthen his own strength, and to strengthen his own strength is also to survive. There is nothing wrong with people's survival. Sun Dianying's "Down the Empress Dowager Cixi" really made many people breathe a sigh of relief. So the shadow even likes this warlord who started by robbing tombs.