After returning from Choi Hae, Zhong Hao waited in peace at the Koryo Pavilion. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The seafood near Dengzhou is most famous for its sea cucumber and abalone, and most of the famous dishes in Jiaodong cuisine are mainly seafood dishes.

After coming to the Great Song Dynasty, Zhong Hao really hadn't eaten any seafood. There is no way, there are no such convenient transportation conditions in this era, and this seafood naturally cannot be transported to the mainland. Under the transportation conditions of this era, these fresh seafood were transported to the mainland, and they also became dead seafood or stinky seafood.

However, when you come to Dengzhou, this seafood is naturally indispensable to eat. These days, Zhong Hao is waiting for news in the Koryo Pavilion, but he really eats a lot of seafood by the way.

Money sea cucumber, chicken leg grilled sea cucumber, hoof tendon grilled sea cucumber, braised shark fin, hibiscus scallops, braised Jiaji fish, fish fillet, conch, golden fruit oysters, alfalfa razor clams, etc., these Jiaodong seafood dishes are really eaten a lot.

This Li Guangxu, Zhang Shisan and Liu Feng followed Zhong Hao, but they also ate a lot of seafood, and they enjoyed their errand very much. But enjoy it, it's been more than two months since I left Tokyo on this errand, and they haven't done anything. The Goryeo envoy didn't have any news yet, and they couldn't help but be a little anxious.

Of course, Li Guangxu and they can't help it if they are in a hurry, they also know that Zhong Hao, the person in charge of their errand, is more anxious than them, and there is still a beautiful lady who has just been married for a long time waiting in the family.

When the Cui family's merchant fleet to Goryeo returned to Dengju, it was already early August. The caravan brought back the news that the Goryeo Kingdom had indeed sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty, and the envoy sent was of a very high level, and the chief envoy was a squire of the Goryeo State Licao.

The Great Song Dynasty and the Khitan court both inherited the Tang Dynasty system, with six departments: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, while the Goryeo Kingdom belonged to the vassal state because it was either to the Great Song Dynasty or to the Khitan. Naturally, its monarch cannot be called an emperor, but only a king. The part of the imperial court naturally cannot be on an equal footing with the Khitan or the Great Song Dynasty, so Goryeo also inherited the Tang system of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers six parts, but it is not called six departments, but six Cao.

The mission of this Goryeo envoy was led by a chamberlain of the Ministry of Rites, and the level was naturally very high. According to Cui Rong, the steward of the Cui family's merchant fleet, the envoy sent by Goryeo to the Song Dynasty this time, not to make a small fuss as before, but to have a look at the Great Song Dynasty, in order to blackmail the Khitan not to bully people too much, and it is said that there is something important to discuss.

Of course, as for any important matter, not many people in the Goryeo court knew about it, and naturally it was not something that he could easily find out about as a merchant fleet manager.

According to Choi Young, the Goryeo court still did not know that the Goryeo envoys had not yet come to the Great Song Dynasty, and it was no wonder that the means of transportation and communication were limited in this era. After a trip from Goryeo to the Great Song Dynasty, the envoys did not return for two or three months, but it was a common thing.

Before Cui Rong went to sea, Zhong Hao had issued a document in his name and in the name of the Goryeo Pavilion, stating that the Goryeo envoy had not arrived in Dengju as scheduled, and instructed him to find out that Goryeo had indeed sent an envoy and did not come to the Great Song Dynasty, so that the Goryeo court could investigate and resolve the matter.

After Choi Rong heard that the Goryeo court had indeed sent an envoy to Dengju but did not arrive as scheduled, the Goryeo official who had befriended the Choi family handed over Zhong Hao's document to the Goryeo court.

There was no suzerain-vassal relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo, and it was common for some information from the two countries to be conveyed through some merchant ships.

After Choi Rong asked the Goryeo officials who were friends with the Choi family to submit the documents, he waited for a few days, and did not hear any actions from the Goryeo court, so he set off for Dengju. As for how the Goryeo court will react next, he is not clear.

Zhong Hao listened to Cui Rong's news and found that he had no other way but to continue waiting. He could only wait for Cui Rong to go to Goryeo next time and then inquire about Goryeo's movements. Let's see if the Goryeo court has found the whereabouts of the Goryeo envoy!

If you don't find the news of those Goryeo envoys, find out if the Goryeo court will send another batch to Dengju!

If the Goryeo Imperial Court doesn't plan to send it, Zhong Hao's errand will naturally be over, and there is no need to continue waiting here.

However, Zhong Hao heard Cui Rong say that this group of Goryeo envoys was led by a Licao Shilang, and he felt that he was afraid that Goryeo was here to talk about big things this time, and he was afraid that he would not be able to understand this errand for a while.

Zhong Hao couldn't help but feel a little depressed, he thought it was an easy, simple, and quick errand to be completed at first sight, but why was it so strenuous!

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According to Cui Hai, today is the day when the Song pirates, or more accurately called maritime merchants, came to Shamen Island to trade. It is said that there are pirates, maritime merchants and other fish and dragons who come to Salmon Island to trade, and there are various forces, and there is a lot of news about this mess.

Zhong Hao felt that it was not a good idea to wait, so it was better to go to Salmon Island to inquire and see if there was any news.

There are various forces that have come to Salmon Island today, and they may be able to get some news of the Goryeo envoys. Besides, staying in this Goryeo Pavilion all day long is also weird and panicked, and it is good to go to sea to see it, and he has not taken a sea boat when he comes to the Great Song Dynasty!

There is a garrison on Salmon Island, whether it is a pirate, a maritime merchant does not dare to mess around, between pirates, maritime merchants and officers and soldiers, these years have been a mutually beneficial relationship, but it has been peaceful, and there is no danger, it is Zhong Hao who decided to take the Cui family to Shamen Island to purchase furs, ginseng and other commodities from the pirates of Huangcheng Island, and go to Salmon Island to go around.

Salmon Island is not far from Dengzhou Port, only about 30 miles away.

Zhong Hao took Zhang Shisan and Liu Feng, led by Luo Jiu, a partner arranged by Cui Hai, to board a three-masted ship from a secret dock in the northeast of Dengzhou.

The three of them took about half an hour by boat to arrive at Salmon Island. Today, the waves are strong and the ship is a little bumpy, but now that Dengzhou Port is forbidden, it is not to go to the open sea, but it is difficult to come to Shamen Island to purchase some large sea ships to go to sea every day.

Salmon Island is divided into two islands, South Island and North Island, and when the pirates from Godtown Island came to Salmon Island to trade, well...... Perhaps it would be more accurate to call them smugglers or maritime merchants, mainly in the North Island. When trading in the North Island, it would be cheaper for them to withdraw north from the North Island in case there was any disturbance on the officers and soldiers of Salmon Island.

Of course, they wanted to trade on the South Island, and those Great Song garrisons wouldn't let them. In fact, not only will they not be allowed to trade in the South Island, but they will never be allowed to board or get close to the South Island. Not only were these pirates not allowed to land on the South Island, but even ordinary merchants and ordinary people were easily not allowed to go to the South Island of Salmon Island.

Because there is a very important place on the South Island - there is a terrible "heavy prison" on it that holds many important prisoners.

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For this "heavy prison" located on Salmon Island, Zhong Hao was familiar with it in later generations.

The first time he learned about it was when he watched "Water Margin", and "Water Margin" mentioned many places that the prisoner was stabbed to Salmon Island. After he entered the Institute of Archaeology and became the Commissioner of Song Culture, Zhong Hao still knew a lot about this Shamen Island prison thanks to the developed information media conditions in later generations and the sufficient information in the institute.

The iron-faced face Pei Xuanluo Caoyin Machuan Cottage was on the way to be stabbed with Shamen Island, and when he passed through Yinmachuan, he was killed by Yang Lin and Deng Fei to prevent the public from being sent to the village, and he was pushed to be the owner of the village.

There is also Lu Junyi who was framed by Li Gu and put on death row, Liangshan Hero went to Beijing Daimyo's Mansion to check up and down, Liang Zhongshu and others exempted Lu Junyi from the death penalty after accepting bribes, "Send Dong Chao and Xue Ba to be escorted to Shamen Island." It's just that on the way, the two of them wanted to kill Lu Junyi because they were bribed by Li Gu, but on the contrary, they were shot by Yan Qing with a cold arrow.

Zhong Hao, as the commissioner of Song culture of the Institute of Archaeology, naturally knows? The Shamen Island of Dengzhou in the Song Dynasty was the Long Island of Changdao County in the north of Penglai County in the later generations.

In the Great Song Dynasty, this Shamen Island was really a "concentration camp" for felons.

Salmon Island as a place to hold felons began before the Great Song Dynasty. Five generations later, in the third year of the Han Dynasty, a deputy envoy of Jiedu who had lost the city was exiled here, and Shamen Island has been used as a place of exile for repeat offenders since then. Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was in Jianlong for three years, and also ordered some military criminals to be sent to the island.

However, at the beginning of the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, only a small number of assassinated criminals were exiled to Salmon Island. Most of them still have the old system since five generations, and the felons are stabbed to the northwest frontier to go to the border.

?In fact? In the beginning, Salmon Island was mainly used as a place for horse breeding and shipbuilding in the Great Song Dynasty, and was not mainly used to hold criminals???????

At the beginning of the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, Taizu Jianlong had the northwest "Lingwu Festival Shi Feng Jiye offered five hundred horses" in the second year, Jianlong three years had the Guazhou Festival to make Cao Yuanzhong sacrifice horses, and in the first year of Qiande, the Jurchens in the north paid tribute to a number of fine and precious stallions, and Taizu Zhao Kuangyin transported these stallions to Shamen Island to cultivate and domesticate.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, the original intention of the imperial court to send prisoners to the northwest frontier was to consolidate the northwest frontier defense. However, after the party member Li Jiqian began to fight against the Great Song Dynasty, many assassins and prisoners defected to the outside of the Saiwai, which strengthened the strength of the enemy country and weakened the border defense of the Great Song Dynasty.

As a result, in the period of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, a large number of prisoners in the northwest began to be changed to Lingnan and some wild places.

With the further development of shipbuilding and navigation technology in the Great Song Dynasty, the influence of the Great Song Dynasty also began to radiate to the islands around the mainland. The Great Song Dynasty established a sizable naval army, and control of the island became possible. therefore

In addition to Lingnan and some wild places, these coastal islands have also become places for felons.

Because of the special geographical environment of these islands, they are isolated from the sea and surrounded by waters, as long as the ships on the islands are controlled, the islands become isolated and forbidden places, and it is difficult for prisoners to escape with their wings.

As a result, these islands gradually became the places where the Song Dynasty held the most serious criminals, and the most famous of these islands was Salmon Island.

Later, more and more prisoners were sent to Salmon Island because of the assassination, and these prisoners were instead responsible for the labor of domesticating the horses of the Western Regions and building horse carriers and warships.

The criminal law of the Great Song Dynasty was still very cautious about the death penalty, and it was rarely directly sentenced to death. And it is precisely because of this that the Great Song Dynasty has become the dynasty with the most criminals in all dynasties.

According to the provisions of the "Song Criminal System", the criminal law of the Great Song Dynasty is divided into several levels from heavy to light: "The heaviest person is assigned to Salmon Island; followed by Hainan and Tongzhou islands, followed by Lingnan; secondly, it is to flow 3,000 miles to the border states; The second is "relocation to the countryside", and the lightest one is "local custody".

This stabbing is the most severe punishment in Salmon Island, and it is the second most severe criminal law after the death penalty.

Zhong Hao remembered that he was killed by Zheng County Lieutenant back then, and he was almost sentenced to be exiled 3,000 miles to the border state. But this stream is matched with border states, and compared to the moon thorn with Salmon Island, it is not the most ruthless. At least the assassination with the border state, there is a high chance of survival, but if it is assassinated with Salmon Island, it will undoubtedly be regarded as reaching the Ghost Gate Pass.

Of course, County Lieutenant Zheng convicted himself of "beating people into a coma", which was not enough to match the level of crime on Salmon Island. The prisoners on Salmon Island in the Great Song Dynasty were mainly those who had been sentenced to death but had their sentences commuted.

The criminals in Salmon Island are basically the ones who have stolen 50,000 yuan and raped and injured two criminals to death; theft and murder of the dead; those who have committed the ten heinous capital crimes; Murderers with witchcraft.

These felons could have been sentenced to death in accordance with the provisions of the Song Penal Code, but the death sentences were commuted for various reasons. But the death penalty was forgivable, but the living crime was inevitable, so most of them would be sent to the prison camp on Salmon Island after the 100 days of imprisonment were completed, and the cane was 80 rods.

In addition to these civilian felons, many important prisoners in the military will also be assigned to Salmon Island. Taizu Zhao Kuangyin personally ordered all military criminals to be sent to the island. Later, it became a common practice, and in the Great Song Army, "soldiers who fled to become robbers, murderers, and arsonists" would be sent to Shamen Island for care;

It can be said that this Salmon Island is basically locked up by outlaws who have killed people and set fires, of course, there are some people who are locked in for other reasons.

Most of the prisoners were outlaws who killed people and set fires, and according to the prison standards of later generations, they were naturally considered "heavy prisons".

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Prisoners on Salmon Island are divided into two types, "never released" and "pardoned and transferred" according to the severity of their crimes. However, in the actual execution process, very few prisoners made it out of Salmon Island alive.

Ancient prisons were hells on earth, and the Shamen Walled Prison City was no exception.

How low the probability of this Shamen Island prison city wanting to leave alive can be seen from a copy of Wang Wenyuan, the envoy of Jingdong Road in the Baoyuan period, to the imperial court to state the maladministration of Shamen Island. The commotion mentions that the number of prisoners assigned to Salmon Island is 300 per year, and about 3,000 in 10 years, and 2,000 are in charge except for one death and 700 who are pardoned and transferred. Today, it is only one hundred and eighty, which shows its disadvantages. ”

According to the opinion of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, the mortality rate of the prisoners was 10 percent, which was still a normal and acceptable range, but according to Wang Juyuan's concubine, the mortality rate of the prisoners on Salmon Island was as high as more than 90 percent, which shows how difficult it is to leave Salmon Island alive. Naturally, it can't help but be terrifying.

When the Great Song Dynasty describes the terrifying experience, he often uses a proverb that doing anything is like "going to Salmon Island". This Salmon Island, in the Great Song Dynasty, is the existence of people who talk about the color change and tremble when they smell. Because after entering the prison city of Salmon Island, there are really very few people who can come out alive.

Zhong Hao remembered that it was written in "Water Margin": After Wu Yong and others outwitted the Birthday Gang, Liang Zhongshu, who stayed behind in the Beijing Daimyo Mansion, sent a cadre to Jeju to supervise the arrest, and the cadre threatened the governor of Jeju and said: "If you don't get this official matter on the 10th, I'm afraid that you won't ask the minister to go to Salmon Island first." At that time, it scared the two forces of Jeju Zhiju. And Dong Chao, ? Xue Ba also made it clear when he did it to Lu Junyi: "If you go to Shamen Island, you will die, so it is better to send you away as soon as possible." "It can be seen that entering the prison of Salmon Island is really like entering the ghost gate with one foot.

In the Great Song Dynasty, this Shamen Island is simply a terrifying existence, because judging from the results of the criminals who have always come to Shamen Island, once the criminals are assigned here, it is almost equivalent to being sentenced to death, and it is rare to hear that anyone can leave this Shamen Island alive.

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