History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
Exile represents being far away from the place where you have lived for a lifetime, and never seeing your loved ones again. Many people go out and drift, and finally choose to fall leaves and return to the roots, it is precisely because of this concept that once exiled, it will be considered a very cruel thing. Since ancient times, punishment has been the punishment of those who break the law, and the use of exile has been interspersed throughout the history of China.
We all know that exile in ancient times was a kind of criminal law similar to the death penalty. Because most of this kind of exile place is a desert, there are often fierce monsters, and exile in such a place is equivalent to waiting for death. The servants need to escort these exiled prisoners, and they need to walk thousands of miles back and forth, so why do the servants need to scramble to do such a hard job.
Punishment in ancient China
China's feudal system had a particularly large number of regulations on the punishment of prisoners, which were different from era to era. After the reign of Qin Shi Huang ended the situation of land division, in order to better implement the policy of control, it was necessary to unify these words and ideas. At this time, Lisi stepped forward, and as a jurist, he decided that he wanted to regulate the country with punishment. Later, the heavy punishment he advocated was also applied to himself, and in history, he died a particularly tragic death, and finally he was beheaded in the market.
With the change of history, the punishment for prisoners has been changing, and it has been different from era to era, but it is nothing more than killing and exile. Hitting is the lightest punishment, nothing more than these ordinary people being spanked, and the heaviest may be killing. There must be a particular variety of ways, some of which have been directly beheaded, and exile is much more lenient and benevolent than this cruel punishment, which is relative to the expulsion of prisoners between the two. But exile is a kind of long-term torture of prisoners and double torture of the body, as long as people are alive, these misfortunes need to be slowly digested with the mind, and the thought of being trapped in the collapse and despair is even more uncomfortable for death.
The sorrow of the exiles
According to other penal changes, exile varies from dynasty to dynasty, and during the Song Dynasty, these officials were exiled to the Hainan region, which was particularly poor and a land that had never been developed. At that time, Su Shi was directly exiled to Hainan, although he was repeatedly degraded, but he maintained a good attitude and left a large number of poems in the process. The exile of the Song Dynasty is different, to the Qing Dynasty often exiled to the north, the more serious the crime, the more north the exile, perhaps the northernmost is the Ninggu Pagoda, in that era Ningguta was simply not an area where people could stay, the most remote place at that time was that it was very deserted, and there was no one.
He was very active in his business trips
Supposedly, these prisoners were a particularly bitter task, but unlike what we thought, the servants not only did not avoid it, but they were also very excited about such an errand. Even in the face of some incidents of escorting female prisoners, although the places of exile are particularly remote, and they not only have to go but also come back, and waste so much time on them, they still scramble and behave particularly actively.
Let me unveil this mystery to you, first of all, when escorting prisoners, you can leave the gate, that is, no one is in charge. They were not included in the official system, in our words today, they were not organized, they did not have enough money, and they worked particularly hard, they got up earlier than chickens and slept later than dogs every day, and dangerous things had to rush to the first line.
When the government officials deal with prisoners, they must also be accompanied by them, and the servants did not have any time to rest at that time, so in contrast, the prisoners who escorted these exiles could be far away from the control of the government, and their time could be freely controlled, and when they were tired, they could rest for a while, all of which could be carried out by their own nature, very free. Secondly, on the way to exile prisoners can also get extra money, because these prisoners' families know that the road to exile is so far, very hard, may be a little careless will even lose their lives, in order to let the servants protect their families, may give some money to let them take care of, these servants do not have an official establishment, so the money sent by the prisoners can just give them a family allowance, and even meet some well-off families, more than a year's salary, so everyone is very enthusiastic about this errand.
Escorting prisoners is not as hard as imagined, this is a public business, and since it is a public affair, all the food and drink must be managed by the government. Most of these exiled prisoners were officials or had not suffered any crime since childhood, and their bodies were particularly delicate. As long as the family is a little richer, in order to alleviate the suffering of the prisoners, they will be equipped with some caring carriages and servants, and the servants will certainly be able to get the light.