In the film and television dramas of the Qing Dynasty, there are often emperors who deal with crimes, "sending Ningguta as slaves and never hiring", so where is Ningguta? What kind of place is it? Then the following Xiaobian will talk to you about this "Ninguta"!
In fact, Ninggu Pagoda is not a "tower", but a city name, a place of exile outside the Guanwai during the Qing Dynasty. The old city was in the town of Jiujie on the south bank of the Xihailin River in present-day Ning'an County, Heilongjiang Province. Ninguta belongs to the remote area, in the old days, the environment here is harsh, the climate is abnormal, there is no grass, the grain is not long, it is very suitable for the reform of criminals. That is, it is not a tower, and why is it called a "tower"? According to legend, the six distant brothers of the Qing imperial family once lived here. The Manchu language means that six is "Ninggu", and the other is a tower, and the ancient name is "Ningguta".
The exile of criminals to Ninguta has two meanings: First, to punish evil and promote good, so that those who have committed crimes can leave their hometowns and suffer hardships, and go outside the customs to surrender themselves, think for themselves, repent of themselves, and accept the wind and sand. The second is to "add bricks and tiles" to the hometown of the Qing imperial family.
The exile of criminals originated in the Jin Tianfu years after five generations, and in the Qing Dynasty, there was a great development, and the criminal exile system was gradually improved, and a number of criminal penal release points were set up. In the early years of the Shunzhi Dynasty, the Great Qing Law was formulated, and detailed provisions were made on the exile of criminals, mainly the causes and types of exiles, the length of sentences of exiles, and the exiles.
The "Laws of the Great Qing Dynasty" promulgated in the early years of Qianlong stipulates: "Those who are robbers who avoid death and reduce their lives, those who rob several families and stop the first family, those who confess the first theft and take the first theft immediately, and those who steal the grave twice... Gufa Ninggu Pagoda and other places. "The criminal sent to Ninguta is generally sent for a period of 10 years, and then examines his actual performance, and if he can repent and rehabilitate, change from evil to good, and is willing to return to his hometown, he is willing to return to his hometown. But if sentenced to life imprisonment, he will never be allowed to enter the customs unless the emperor specifically approves it.
During the Qing Dynasty, there were also countless "famous and prestigious families" assigned to Ninggu Pagoda. During the Kangxi Dynasty, the case of Dai Mingshi's "Nanshan Collection" and Fang Xiaobiao's "Dianqian Jiwen" case, which caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, involved 300 or 400 people successively, including Kangxi's favorite Jiangsu Inspector Zhang Baixing, the celebrity Zhishi Fang Bao, and many other innocent people were affected. After Kangxi saw the recital, he thought that there were too many people involved in the case, and he was a little sympathetic. In just over a month, it will be his sixth birthday, and he also wants to ask for an auspicious one. According to this judgment, only one person was beheaded, and no one was guilty of family members. The other party's filial piety, because he had passed away, did not investigate deeply, but sent his son and family to Ninguta together.
It turned out that the emperor was to escort the prisoners to the hometown of his own imperial family to let them "serve" their families, so as to show off the merits of the Qing emperor and add glory to the ancestors, so the Qing emperors liked to send prisoners to Ningguta.