Where is Guning Pagoda now? Why were criminals exiled there?

There is a place in the frontier called Ningguta. The ancients often said that putting people in the frontier was actually banishing these prisoners to Ningguta, so the ancients were particularly scared when they mentioned this place! Ningguta is a very famous exile in ancient times. This place is very desolate. Once people are locked in this place, the court will no longer protect their safety, and it is very likely that they will never be able to enter the customs! The frontier has been a very chaotic place since ancient times, and few people in the ancient frontier appeared in this place. Although there are more and more people in the frontier now, many people still don't want to live in the frontier for a long time, and most of them travel to the frontier. And Ningguta has also become a frontier tourist attraction!

Don't think that Ningguta is a tower, just a place name! Once the criminals are exiled here, they are likely to die on the road before they reach Ningguta, because the traffic along the way is not developed. They all need to walk to Ningguta. In order to prevent them from escaping, they will be given heavy anklets and bracelets. The whole journey will take at least one or two years. They pass by all the year round, and these criminals have few daily necessities. Many people froze to death because they had no clothes to wear. Most importantly, if these criminals die halfway, they can only expose their bodies in the wilderness, and no one will take care of them at all, let alone collect them.

The reason why ancient people like to exile criminals here is because the environment in this place is particularly bad, which is a great punishment for these criminals. Many criminals choose to commit suicide after learning the news of exile, because they can't stand the next hard life, and they are not sure whether they can survive. I don't know if you have heard of the saying that if you are exiled to Ningguta, you are slaves of the armored people. I believe many people don't know what the real man here means. In fact, the so-called real people are actually a group of barbarians!

Most of these people are prisoners on the battlefield. They are not a race, and they are very unfriendly to Han people and people of other different races. When they see new criminals coming here, they will try their best to torture them. Young criminals may become their women, and some strong men may be killed by them or become their slaves. The ironclad people don't want to stay in the frontier. The imperial court euphemistically told them to station in the frontier. Actually, I'm afraid they'll make some big moves. The original intention was to trap them in Xinjiang. Therefore, although they are not criminals in name, they endure the harsh environment and physical and mental torture like criminals. So when they see criminals, they try their best to torture them in order to seek superiority.

The people who were exiled to the frontier by the court were either heinous criminals, some officials or some literati. Many of these people will die on the way to the frontier, and the rest may live well in the frontier, but most of these people have great talent or ability, or can drive the development of the frontier, so they will be treated well by the real people and will be respectful to them. The real people are a little unreasonable, but they also hope that the frontier can develop so that their lives can get better and better, so they will choose some talented people from the criminals and treat them well.

Facts have proved that sending some people who know how to do business or read poetry books to Ningguta has really promoted the development of this place! Today's Ningguta is what we call Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. The climate in this place is still relatively cold, but it is developing slowly. Ancient people like to exile criminals here, on the one hand, because their crimes didn't kill them, but they must be punished, so they were exiled to Ningguta to suffer, in order to make them remember it for a long time, on the other hand, because they felt that this place was sparsely populated, and they hoped that those who eventually survived would bring vitality to this place, so it was a kill two birds with one stone thing to do so.