However, this Gu Ning Baota is not a tower, but a place name. In Manchu,? Gu Ning? what's up Six? Meaning, what else? Tower? For what? Answer? The meaning of. It is said that the six sons born to Nurhachi's great-grandfather Fuman once lived here for the first time, so they were called Ningguta. Its specific location is in Changting Town, hailin city, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province.
To tell the truth, many people may not be familiar with this place, but I think people in China should have heard of it, that is, Xiang Xue, a deceptive place, where a bed costs thousands that night, is also here, so if you really don't know the specific location, simply understand Ningguta as Xiang Xue, China. Although they do not belong to the same village, they are not far apart.
In Qing Dynasty, Ningguta was an important town in the northeast frontier. When Nurhachi was founded, he was stationed here. Later, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the post of General Ningguta was set up, and he was the supreme commander of the Eight Banners garrison in Jilin, responsible for governing Heilongjiang and Jilin areas. At first, General Ningguta's ruling place and residence were in Ningguta, and later he moved to Wula, Jilin Province in the fifteenth year of Kangxi.
On the one hand, the Ningguta was sparsely populated, and on the other hand, it was an important strategic place for the Qing Dynasty to control the Heilongjiang River Basin. Therefore, a large number of troops were needed, and a large number of laborers were needed to reclaim and build this place to provide logistical support for the army. But under normal circumstances, ordinary people obviously don't take the initiative to come here, so it gradually became the most famous exile in the Qing Dynasty.
As for the so-called real people, they actually refer to local soldiers. Because the weather in Ningguta is too cold, the soldiers wear heavy armor all the year round, so they are called armored soldiers by the locals. At that time, there was a proverb describing the cruelty of being a slave in Ningguta. That's called: come to Ninggu Pagoda, not afraid of ten yellow roads.
It is said that many exiled officials often fainted on the spot after hearing the word Ningguta, and some even preferred suicide to go to Ningguta. Although this rumor is terrible, in fact, for the vast number of prisoners, if they are simply exiled to Ningguta, there is actually one main danger they will face: harsh environment.
How bad the environment of Ningguta was at that time. A prisoner named Wu Zhaoqian once described it this way: In Gu Ning, there is nothing cold and pain in the world. From early spring to mid-April, strong winds such as thunder and lightning excited everyone. From May to July, it rained successively, and it snowed heavily in mid-August. At the beginning of September, the river was completely frozen. Snow turns into solid ice when it reaches the ground, and it is covered with snow thousands of miles away. ?
Faced with such a difficult environment, even the poor who are used to living a hard life will probably feel uncomfortable, not to mention those dignitaries, scholars and even relatives, as well as those who live in the south all the year round. When they arrive at Ningguta, they will be seriously ill, and many people will not survive the winter at all.
However, once these people can adapt to the environment here, for these prisoners who are simply exiled to Ningguta, their next days are actually the same as ordinary people. Although life is difficult, they can get by, with food, clothing, housing and land. It is even said that some people with strong hands-on ability can make their lives colorful.
For example, Wu Zhaoqian mentioned earlier, after he was demoted to Ningguta, he used his strengths to open a library as an apprentice. Not only did he have a stable income, but he also drank wine and wrote poems with his disciples every day, so he was very happy.
In summer, they will go out to find spies together. On one occasion, Wu Zhaoqian found a famous spring at the foot of Jiling Mountain outside the west gate of the new city, so he named it Northern Famous Spring, also known as Snow Splashing Spring.
Later, Wu Zhaoqian became famous, and General Bahai of Ningguta hired him as a secretary and tutor to teach his two sons two tones and sounds.
Later, Wu Zhaoqian wrote his different thoughts on guarding the Great Wall into his famous poetry anthology Autumn Collection and Footprints of Returning to the Cottage, which were handed down to later generations. Of course, there are still many people who like Wu Zhaoqian, and their lives are quite good.
However, in Ningguta, there is a kind of people whose lives are very miserable. They were not simply exiled to Ningguta, but were exiled to Ningguta and enslaved by armor.
In this way, these people are no longer free citizens in the household registration, but humble slaves. Without any personal freedom, their bodies and lives no longer belong to themselves, but armored people.
As soon as these prisoners came to Ningguta, they were concentrated in prisons with poor conditions. They are not only short of clothes and food, but also forced to do high-intensity labor every day and can't rest all year round, so few people survive.
Wu Zhaoqian once described them like this: People are only skin and bones, and all year round, they are either farming or fencing, burning lime and charcoal, and they have no leisure for half an hour. ?
For women, in addition to their daily work, there are also the wanton insults of ironclad people. In other words, being driven to work like a man during the day and being destroyed by the upward movement of the armored people at night, so many women simply can't live for a month. Even if you survive by luck, you will linger and eventually die of fatigue.