How terrible is "Exiled Ningguta"? The exiled female prisoner lived her life in humiliation!

Speaking of ancient punishments, we always prefer to believe in the curious "XX torture". In fact, the ancient punishments are still progressing along the wheels of history, from the cruelest car cracking, slowing and slashing to the end. Abolish them all, killing people but nodding their heads, is a one-shot thing.

But in the Qing Dynasty, there was a penalty that was more terrible than the death penalty, that was exile in Ninggu Tower. We watched the palace drama. Whenever we talk about "exile in Ninggu Tower", the prisoner will immediately piss off and lose his soul. You may want to I asked, there is at least one life left in exile, how can it be so terrible?

Hum, you don’t know, Ninggu Tower is the real place of death. Rather than going there to torment, it’s better to die!

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In ancient times, prisoners who committed serious crimes but did not die were generally exiled to barren land or degraded officials. They were often relegated to backward areas. Like Su Shi, he was relegated to Lingnan the furthest away. At that time, people's first impression of Lingnan was that they were miasma, and died nine deaths.

Basically, Lingnan in the Tang and Song dynasties can be used to mark the Ninggu Pagoda in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Ninggu Tower was an important border town in the Qing Dynasty. Note that although it is named Ninggu Tower, there is no tower here. Ninggu Tower is a full transliteration. There are different opinions on what it means, so I won’t explain it here.

To tell the truth about how terrible Ninggu Pagoda is, this place is mainly cold, the Ming Dynasty man Wang Jiazhen wrote in the book "Information on the Study Hall":

"Ning The ancient pagoda, in the extreme north of Liaodong, travels seven or eight thousand miles to Beijing. Its land is heavy with ice and snow, and it is not the world that can be restored by the Chinese."

In short, Ninggu Tower is simply not a place for people to stay.

The most exaggerated saying is that "sprinkling water into ice" here, compared to Ninggu Tower at that time, it is colder than today, because in the late Ming and early Qing, the earth was in the period of small ice and the temperature was sharp The decline caused many natural disasters, and Ninggu Tower was originally a place of extreme cold, and it was naturally even colder during this special period.

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Exile in Ninggu Tower is a torture of both physical and mental.

Ninggu Tower is outside the pass, the road is long and long, and the weather gets colder as it goes to the north. Many people actually can't get to Ninggu Tower at all, and they are tortured and killed by hunger and cold.

If you didn’t die halfway, it would be even worse. As a prisoner in exile, you will have to pay for your food and drink in such a cold place. But in a cold place, it’s not easy to grow food. .

You know, the exiled people are often former officials. They have been pampered for a lifetime, suddenly suffering from cold weather, lack of food and clothing, and poor housing. How can they bear it?

In short, all kinds of difficult environments are physical torture.

After making the sentence of "exile in Ningguta", the sentence "I will never enter the customs" is often added.

You know, the Manchu Dynasty successfully ruled China and gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains. It was counted from the entry of the Shunzhi Emperor. The Manchu Dynasty before and after entering the Pass were two completely different dynasties. Inside the pass, there are rich materials and a heavy culture, but outside the pass, there is only cold and lack of materials.

So you see, exile in Ninggu Tower, the real scary thing is not the place of exile, but the never entry. Eternity means you, your son, grandson, great-grandson... the entire family will always be deprived of the right to enter the barrier, and will always survive in the cold and hardship.

And it’s hard to say that such an environment can last for several generations, maybe it will be cut off someday.

Furthermore, the Chinese have always paid attention to the peace of the land, and they have the idea of ​​returning to the roots of fallen leaves, and there will be a deep homesickness when they are away for too long, but it is obvious that all this is a luxury for the prisoners in exile.

This is mental torture.

The most terrifying

For these exiled prisoners, the most terrifying thing is actually the family members who were convicted.

Ningguta is an extremely cold place, off the beaten track, but the soldiers guarding the border town are always human. They also have physical needs, and it is impossible to bring the daughter-in-law's family over, nor can they find a reasonable channel for venting. What to do?

The Qing Dynasty took into account the actual needs of border officers in a very humane manner, and set up official prostitutes for border officers to meet their needs. But in this place, even ji women are unwilling to go, what should I do?

The prisoner’s family members, wives and daughters will be paid into official prostitutes and distributed to Ninggu Tower together.

You know, in ancient times, especially in the Qing Dynasty, the chastity of women was more important than life. Those flowery and jade official ladies and young ladies, even if they were only maids and slaves, could not bear such humiliation.

For the original officials, their maids, slaves, wives, and daughters have suffered such humiliation because of their crimes. It is not torture for them.

Let’s summarize that there are about three terrible aspects of Ninggu Tower:

1, bad conditions;

2, mental torture;

3, at a glance The end of life.

For the vast majority of prisoners, when they come to a place of death like Ningguta, they are no longer human, because all the tortures they suffer are all inhuman torture. What is dignity and life?