I believe that many people have heard of this place of Ningguta, and generally during the Qing Dynasty, many people who committed serious crimes would be exiled here.
Generally speaking, the places where prisoners were exiled in ancient times were deserted places, either borders or places of war. They were exiled here in order to develop it with their free labor, after all, normal people would not come to such a place where birds do not.
People who are often assigned here may die for various reasons before long. I don't blame them, but the conditions at that time were unimaginably difficult.
You must know that in the case of cold and desolate people, there is no place to see a disease, and small diseases are dragged into heavy soldiers, and heavy soldiers are dragged into incurable diseases. Even in the simplest aspects of food, clothing, shelter and transportation, it is entirely dependent on their own hands, and even cooking on the fire is likely to be a problem.
In short, when you come here, you are challenging the dangers of nature, and this is a place where wild beasts are infested all year round, can the prisoners not be afraid when they arrive here?
So, where is the Ninggu Pagoda of the Qing Dynasty now?
Ninggu Pagoda is located in the ancient city village of Changting Town, Linhai, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province today.
This place was a very important area in the Qing Dynasty, it was an important town in the northeast frontier region ruled by the Qing Dynasty, and the current Shenyang was also the area north of Shengjing at that time, and the economic, political and military center of today's Jilin and Heilongjiang regions was NingguTa. In other words, Heilongjiang and the vast area of Jilin are all under the jurisdiction of Ningguta.
In ancient times, the northeast was the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, and there were not many people here. Even if prisoners are exiled here, the number is still pitifully small.
So, how sinister is Ninguta?
Let's use the words of the Qing Dynasty scholar Wu Zhaoqian, after all, he is the person who has lived here, and he has the most right to speak.
In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi's science field case, Wu Zhaoqian was innocently tired and sent Ningguta for twenty-three years.
His description of Ninguta:
From the beginning of spring to the middle of April, the wind is like thunder and lightning, the rain from May to July is continuous, the snow is heavy in mid-August, and the river is frozen in early September. When the snow reaches the ground, it becomes solid ice, and there is snow for thousands of miles. ”
It must be clear that during the Qing Dynasty, the temperature of Ninggu pagoda at that time was even lower than the current temperature, and it was unimaginable to survive here without heating at that time and without many people. The conditions of the prisoners, everyone imagines it, there is no money on the body, there is money can not be spent, come here is really called every day is not smart, called the land does not win. There is no choice but to adapt to life here.
Even Fang Gonggan described Ninguta this way:
People say that Huangquan Road, if you go to Ningguta, there will be ten Yellow Springs and you will not be afraid
This description is easier to understand, to put it bluntly, ghosts do not come to this place.
Generally speaking, the prisoners who were assigned here basically did not return alive. It didn't take a few years to send my life here.
In fact, in this place of Ninguta, not only female prisoners are exiled, but also male prisoners. It has no requirements for gender, as long as you commit the most heinous crime, you will definitely be assigned here if you can't run.
A big man who thinks this place must be hell, let alone a weak little woman.
There are still many wild animals in the northeast, men may also be able to catch a wild boar, pheasants eat a meal of meat to improve their lives, women's words are basically unlikely, after all, their strength is limited. If you encounter another Siberian tiger, it is likely to become a delicacy in people's mouths.
So it's more terrifying than men to be sent here.
In fact, there are more people, they have not been assigned, they died on the road, you know that the prisoners at that time were walking to Ninguta, often a walk is three or five months to get here.
Those who lack food and drink on the road, if they can't survive, they will die on the road. At the time of Jing Kang's shame, Song Huizong's family was captured by the Jurchens and went to Heilongjiang, and one of his sons starved to death on the road.
So danger is everywhere, from distribution to arrival at the destination, there is no place that is not a challenge, in this case, who is not afraid of Ninguta?