Ning Gu Pagoda would rather die than go to Ninggu Pagoda, which really makes the people of the northeast feel bad - Ninggu Pagoda is now Mudanjiang City in Heilongjiang Province, which is a small city in the northeast.
The northeast region has a higher latitude and has been sparsely populated since ancient times. In addition to the cold climate, there is also a lack of population. Ninguta is a military city, stationed with troops and related personnel.
The so-called "exile of Ninguta" is generally a punishment for political prisoners. After being exiled to Ninguta, of course, he was engaged in the logistics service of the army, with the element of hard labor- if you did not have the same face as Lin Chong in "Water Margin", and had the face of Chai Jin, you paid enough bribes.
However, political prisoners generally do not look like Lin Chong, who is physically strong and has martial arts skills. Most of them are well-bred literati, what can they do? Normal physical labor, for them, is also unbearable suffering. Moreover, the intensity of labor of prisoners will certainly exceed normal standards. Not to mention how much mental humiliation to endure before bowing down to a man?
The female prisoners who exiled Ningguta because there was no precedent for women to become officials in the Qing Dynasty, only the families of political prisoners, that is, the dependents of officials. Let Mrs. Guan and Miss Guan go to hard labor, or is it a barren place that is cold and frozen, and you still have to endure mental insults, but is it not more terrible than death?