On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the government corps escorted 500 gangsters to land in Niuzhuang. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Jia Qin, who had previously followed Wei Ruolan to the front station, was waiting here to answer.

Not far from the pier is the military platform.

The military station is actually a military station. There were many such military platforms throughout the country of the Dade Dynasty, and they extended to the frontiers of various places.

The military station has the function of military material reserve and transit, as well as the function of a military station. Most military documents have to be transmitted by the military station.

Many military stations are located in barren mountains and even deep deserts, and this military station is located on the seaside, which can be regarded as relatively good conditions.

However, the scale of the military station is not large, with only more than thirty houses. Except for the quarters and warehouses of the personnel stationed in the military station, there were not many vacant rooms.

Jia Min is the head of the Fu Corps, and he is the capital of the third grade, and his rank is higher than that of the general of the military platform, so he naturally prepared a house.

The remaining rooms were distributed to the families of the exiles. Two of them were for the female dependents and one for the elderly and children. The remaining one was left to Ping'er and Miaoyu and other female dependents.

The soldiers and prisoners of the prefectural corps lived in tents.

There were five types of punishment in the Daitoku Dynasty. From light to severe, they are: flogging, rod, disciple, stream, and death.

Exile is above the prison sentence and below the death penalty, and is the second most severe punishment.

There are two kinds of exile punishments, one is the military flow in the interior, and the other is the dispatch from the frontier.

The places where the military migrants serve their sentences -- the distribution centers -- are mainly in the interior. The distribution post sent from the frontier is in the frontier.

The group of exiles escorted by Jia Min were sent by the frontier.

Whoever breaks into the frontier and sends people to the ranks of criminals. Basically, they are prisoners who have committed the most heinous crimes, but are not enough for the death penalty or, for some reason, it is not convenient to execute them for the time being. Most of them are criminals involved in human life, robbery, theft and banditry.

This category of people can basically be counted as ordinary criminals, generally called regular offenders. The official title is repatriation.

The other type of prisoner is called a deporter or a decommissioner, who is an official who has committed a crime or a scholar of merit. It can be seen from the title that officials and scholars, even if they commit crimes, enjoy more privileges than ordinary people.

The old and weak women and children who came with them were their family members.

Some of these family members were implicated and sentenced to slavery together. Although some did not commit a crime, they voluntarily followed and accompanied the family members who committed the crime.

Of course, there are also family members who have been sentenced to exile together.

In history, exile is an ancient form of punishment, and almost every emperor of every dynasty and generation is willing to play this way.

Examples of literati being exiled are also not uncommon.

Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, Su Shi. Huang Tingjian and other celebrities have all had the experience of being exiled.

Although the death penalty is severe, it is a short-term pain for people to die.

Although the exile did not die, it was a long pain and a stronger deterrent. In many cases, it is worse than death.

This discomfort is manifested in many ways. The first is the harshness of the natural environment.

During the Tang Dynasty, they liked to place their penal colonies in the hot Lingnan. When it came to the Ming Dynasty and the Dade Dynasty, there was a reversal. The places of exile were chosen in the northeast and northwest, where the weather was freezing cold.

In Jia Min's previous life, although the Northeast is relatively cold, it is far from being as terrible as people say now.

However, after careful research, I found that what people say today is indeed not exaggerated.

The reason is that this period of the Dade Dynasty is in the Xiaoice period in the history of the earth, and the climate is indeed much colder than in his previous life. Only then did I believe in the authenticity of the legend about the bitter cold land in the extreme north of Ningguta.

Bu Kui is more than a thousand miles north of Ningguta, and the cold statement is even more true.

The exile level of the Dade Dynasty was divided into four levels, which were divided according to distance.

The first level is called Nearby. This vicinity is not close at all, it is 2,000 miles. That is, to be two thousand miles away from the place of origin.

The second level, called the near border, means the closer frontier. It's two thousand five hundred miles.

The third level, called remote, is three thousand miles, which is more worthy of the name.

The fourth level, called the extreme edge, is four thousand miles.

The Bukui that Jia Min is going to is the extreme edge four thousand miles away. I belonged to the highest level.

In order to determine the rank of exile, the imperial court specially produced the "Exile Principle Table" as a reference, and the rank was determined according to the distance between the prisoner's place of origin and the place of exile.

This spatial isolation away from one's place of origin is not only a physical punishment, but also a great mental torture.

The people of Middle-earth have a deep-rooted local concept, even if they go out, far away in the world, they must return to their roots.

Leaving the society of acquaintances, exiled people to a completely strange world, leaving you to spend all day in the torment of nostalgia and family affection, coupled with material deprivation, the destruction of heavy manual labor and the destruction of ideals, it is not an exaggeration to say that life is better than death.

Not to mention how it is to the match, even on the road, it is a hellish journey.

The time on the road is regulated by the imperial court. Fifty miles a day.

If the physical strength is good, the weather is normal, the road conditions are acceptable, and you can still walk 50 miles.

The problem is, it often doesn't work.

In terms of physical strength, the government's daily food quota for each homeless person is only eight taels. If you are under the age of 15, it will be halved.

In fact, this quota can only ensure that the displaced people will not starve to death, and it must also be guaranteed that there is no deduction and the full amount is obtained. If you want to have enough physical strength to travel, you have to pay extra money from your family to buy some food for the escort officials.

At the same time, because they could not arrive at the distribution center on time, the escorted officials also had to be punished, so the officials had to desperately drive the prisoners away. The prisoner had to overdraw his physical strength.

Many people, for this reason, died of exhaustion on the road. As for those who freeze to death, starve to death, and are eaten by wild animals, they are all common phenomena.

There is also a kind of torture, that is, you have to wear a flail all the time on the road. The flail itself is inherently inaccessible, and if it catches up with a rainy day, the flail board is wet, and it will be even heavier.

Therefore, those who can arrive at the distribution center alive are considered fateful.

On the night of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, when escorting the prisoners on the road. There are still many people who are dissatisfied, complaining that they are about to go on the road for the New Year, and some of them are still scolding. Under the soldier's verbal reprimand, he didn't dare to squeak.

Later, they found out that when they met Jia Min escorting them this time, it was simply green smoke rising from the ancestral grave.

This batch of more than 500 people is really lucky.

The first is that they don't have to walk, they all get into the carriage.

The section from the prison to Tianjin Wei was sent to them by Jia Min using the bus and long-distance carriage of Jiafu, and then by boat, so so far, the mileage of the cloth walking road is actually very limited.

If you walk fifty miles a day, not only the ordinary prisoners can't stand it, but those women, especially the women with small feet and the weak ladies, can't stand it.

In terms of eating, the prisoners ate the same food as the government corps, although the food was not good, but it was enough to be full.

The lack of shackles on the road has made them suffer a lot less.

Another point is also very important. Due to the strict military orders, there were no beatings, insults, and insults to the prisoners.

If it had been escorted by someone else, the ladies of those prisoners' families would have been insulted by the soldiers and officials. Not to mention the prisoners.

Therefore, along the way, the prisoners are basically very cooperative, and the order is relatively good, except for some people who are seasick on the boat, there is no phenomenon of illness at present.

Today is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, because the current itinerary is relatively smooth, and Jia Qin has already prepared the newly bought carriages and horses, so Jia Min decided not to rush today, rest here for a day, and set off tomorrow.

This time, the sailors sent out a total of 12 large troop carriers, and all the members of the government corps and 500 prisoners, plus their more than 70 family members, as well as all the equipment, vehicles, and war horses, arrived at Niuzhuang at one time.

The sailors worked so hard, in addition to this being their own duty, Wei Ruolan privately gave the commander of the sailor a thousand taels of silver, which also played a decisive role.

Jia Min is so willing to spend money, and even pays for the prisoner's car and subsidizes food, just to buy time.

Compared to arriving in Bukui earlier, it is still worth spending some money.

Feng Ziying and Jiao Li directed the unloading of the ship on the dock, while Chen Yejun inspected the guards of the prisoners.

These prisoners, no matter how good you are to them, they are also prisoners. There is no guarantee that they will not have the heart to escape. Therefore, the preferential treatment of them is preferential, and the guards still have to be guarded, and at this point, they still dare not be sloppy.

After eating, Jia Min, accompanied by Jia Qin, went around the neighborhood. After walking for more than 20 minutes, I came to the foot of a small hill.

This is a hill by the sea, and there are quite a few trees on the mountain, because the weather is still cold, and the trees have not yet turned green, and they all look bare.

"There's something special about this mountain, it's a mountain, but it has two names."

A mountain with two names? As soon as Jia Qin said this, Jia Min became interested.

"One name is Joy Hill, and the other is Sorrow Hill."

"One is happy, the other is sad, just two extremes. Any allusions? ”

"The name of this mountain is still given by those wanderers. Those who came here from the outside and went to Ningguta called it the Sorrowful Ridge, which means that from now on, they will live that miserable and frightened life. ”

"Most of the people who go outside from Ningguta return to their hometowns from the matching house, and since then they have escaped, and they are naturally overjoyed when they see this mountain, and it is called Huanxi Ridge."

One mountain with two names, it still makes a lot of sense.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the fireheads began to bury the pot and make a fire to cook. Jia Qin is quite clever, a few days ago she ordered steamed buns and pork from a nearby town, this is the dock, there is no shortage of fish, and the price is very cheap. At night, it was a stew of meat and a stewed fish, not to mention the soldiers, even the prisoners and their families were full. I've been eating cold food on the ship for a few days, and today's meal is considered to be meat.

After a night of silence, he continued on the road the next morning and embarked on a long journey again.

In this season, the rivers in the north have not yet been civilized, and there is no way to go by water, and the rest of the journey will have to be taken by land to reach Bukui.