Chaotianyi is located at the southwest foot of Guishan, Gutang County, Jiangning Prefecture. The North Post Road from Dongyang Prefecture, the Shiliang River Waterway, and the Tangtu Post Road from Gutang County to Tuzhong County are all gathered here. The southwest of the post station is Jiangning City.
Chaotiandang, also known as Chaotian Lake and Linfu, is a dangerous place. The ferry where Gu Wuchen stopped the boat when he arrived was the Guabu Ancient Ferry. The south bank is the Qixia Ancient Ferry, which is one of the most important river crossing waterways in Jiangning Prefecture. Chaotianyi is also the
It is called the first post in the South. At the head of Guishan after Chaotian Post, there was originally a private residence of Emperor Gaozu when he was the governor of Jiangning. After Emperor Gaozu founded the country in Jiangning, Guishan's private residence was expanded into a palace. After Emperor Taizong moved the capital to Yanjing, Guishan Palace was also built.
It was built as Jingjue Zen Temple.
Most of the civil servants and generals traveling from south to north, greeting people from east to west, and postmen who delivered goods to Tangbao Mansion had to change boats, horses, carriages, or rest in Chaotianyi. Compared with the harshness in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the officialdom at this time
The post was better at business management, so it allowed those business travelers who could not cross the river at night to stay overnight and collect money, and it became a government-run inn.
Listening to the faint ringing of bells at night from the Jingjue Zen Temple behind the mountain, Lin Fu stood in front of the steps with his hands folded.
Chen Enze just came back and said that Du Rong had just invited Gu Siyuan and Yuan Jinsheng, the young prince of Yongchang, to visit Jingjue Zen Temple at night. Yang Shi and Gu Wuchen's two nephews, Gu Siming and Gu Tianqiao, were also invited to accompany them.
Chen Enze found out what the relationship between Gu Siyuan and Yuan Jinsheng was from the maid.
When Gu Wuchen was convicted and the couple were exiled to northern Xinjiang, their son Gu Siyuan and daughter Gu Junxun were still young and were adopted by Gu Wuchen's father-in-law Tang Haoxin. Although Tang Haoxin was implicated by his son-in-law and was unable to be appointed Minister of the Ministry of Industry, as a third-rank official in the imperial court,
The minister of the Ministry of Industry, who had only one daughter to serve as his descendant, was still able to send his grandson Gu Siyuan to study under his family.
In this dynasty, there were Taixue and Guozixue under the Imperial College. Taixue selected scholars in prefectures and counties. Scholars from honorary clans and talented scholars could be recommended for admission by local governments. In fact, Taixue only admitted 500 students, so naturally all of them were given to local honorary clans.
Control; while Guozixue only recruits descendants of the third rank or above and those who are princes or above, and great-grandsons of the second rank or above as students.
There are Imperial Colleges in both the northern and southern capitals. The slight difference is that if the descendants of dukes or above want to study, they can only choose to go to the capital. It was at the Imperial College of Yanjing that Gu Siyuan and Yuan Jinsheng met.
Gu Wuchen got the deputy envoy of Jiangdong and wanted to take his son Gu Siyuan with him to strictly control him, so he brought him to Jiangning together. He could transfer to Jiangning Guozixue and his future would not be affected.
Yuan Jinsheng wanted to inherit the title of Marquis of Yongchang and was prohibited from becoming an official by law. He was also hanging around in Guozixue. He had other plans in mind and ended his studies early and returned to Jiangning.
From this point of view, Yuan Jinsheng is not that important a person.
In order to restrict the eldest son, princes and grandsons from causing harm to the local area and even threatening the imperial rule of the direct royal family, the eldest son was ennobled. Although he had a high status and could receive a generous supply of money from the fiefdom and enjoy honor, his actual power was very limited, and he was even more restricted from interacting with local powerful men.
Collusion.
Lin Fu thought that if Du Rong invited Gu Siyuan and others to visit Jingjue Temple at night, he would probably know something about his situation in Shanglin and his true relationship with the Gu family from Gu Siyuan and others. Lin Fu was not worried about this.
The main reason why he and Du Rong are at odds with each other in front of the museum is to attract the attention of Du Rong's opponents. It is impossible for Du Rong to explain this to his opponents.
A large yard to the east of the post house was opened for business travelers and tourists who went to the mountains to burn incense. At this time, there was the sound of silk and bamboo, and the soft voice of the singer. Su Mei was thinking that Lin Fu would come to Jiangning. Today, she met the sisters in Dustpan Alley
Crossing the river to burn incense at Jingjue Zen Temple, she met Zhou Pu and Chen Enze who came in the afternoon. However, she couldn't stay to meet Lin Fu to attract other people's attention, so she asked Xiaoman to dress up as a young man and follow Zhou Pu.
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Lin Fu thought that his soul was in this world, and he was the closest to Su Mei and Xiao Man after experiencing all kinds of things on Changshan Island. He felt in his heart that only Su Mei and Xiao Man were his relatives in this world.
, thinking that Su Mei had stopped at this post house before noon, I felt a little nostalgic.
Hearing the soft cat-like footsteps, Lin Fu turned his head, and Xiao Man, wearing a cold coat, crept over to scare him.
"Your ears are so sharp..." Xiao Man shouted in surprise when he saw Lin Fu turning around, his expression was exaggerated and cute, and his voice was low.
"When we were at the ferry... I should apologize to you." Lin Fu said.
Before the ferry, Gu Wuchen said eagerly that he hoped Xiaoman could be a companion for his daughter Gu Junxun in Jiangning. Lin Fu had no choice but to hint Xiaoman's identity to Gu Wuchen in order to avoid causing jealousy to the Gu family in the future. Xiaoman felt very sensitively that Lin Fu had given him
Gu Wuchen's hint and her dejected look at that time were hard for Lin Fu to forget. It would be difficult for future generations to imagine that a fourteen-year-old innocent girl would bear such a heavy burden. He knew that Xiaoman was hurt, and even if he wanted to apologize at this time
She doesn't know where to start to comfort her.
"What's the matter? I forgot about it a long time ago. I forgot about it when I stepped on your knees and sat on the horse." Xiaoman said innocently, shaking her head, with a clear and pure smile. Her eyebrows were somewhat pretty even at the age of hairpins.
Lin Fu thought that when she grew up, she might become a beauty like Su Mei who would bring disaster to the country and the people.
"What are you looking at?" Xiao Man stood next to Lin Fu's shoulder, stood on tiptoe and looked out. She was a head shorter than Lin Fu, and her eyes were blocked by the courtyard wall in front of her, so she supported Lin Fu's shoulder and jumped.
I got up and looked outside, but still couldn't see it.
"I'll step on you one more time, and you can forget about the unpleasantness at the ferry; you just need to know that in my eyes, let alone those official ladies, you are more noble than those princesses and princesses." Lin Fu bowed his knees.
Half squatting, he asked Xiaoman to stand on his lap. Lin Fu couldn't take Xiaoman out of the yard casually for fear of being discovered by Du Rong or Du Rong.
Xiaoman happily held Lin Fu's shoulder with one hand and stood on his leg. He supported Lin Fu's palm with the other hand and asked, "Does it hurt? I'm not heavy."
Lin Fu then realized that the little girl's body was unusually light. She didn't look thin, and her hands were soft. He said, "It's okay, just don't look at her all night."
The post house was built on a slope. Lin Fu stood in front of the steps and looked at the sky in the southwest. The sparkling water spread out in his field of vision. There was only a faint shadow of the towering Jiangning City, and there was a faint trace of the ridge at the east end of the city.
, Lin Fu estimated the direction, thinking that it was Jinjin Mountain, the head of the mountains in Jiangning. To the east of Zijin Mountain was Sheshan Mountain in Moling County under Jiangning Prefecture. The famous Xixi Academy is located at the western foot of Sheshan Mountain.
The bank of the Xixi River is only thirty miles away from the Taiping Gate, the east gate of Jiangning City.
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The Gu family will stay in the post house for a few more days, waiting until the chosen auspicious day before entering Jiangning to take up their post.
Early the next morning, there were carriages available for rent in the post house, so Zhao Hu went to rent a carriage. There was no need to hire another driver. Lin Fu and the others just took the carriage away, and after entering the city, they sent the carriage to the designated Jiang Ji mule in the city.
You can just return it to the horse shop. This is very convenient and not very expensive. It costs two hundred copper coins to rent such a carriage for a day.
Lin Fu was afraid that Du Rong would bump into Xiao Man, so he asked Xiao Man to accompany Liu Yue'er in the yard and got into the carriage early to wait. He went to say goodbye to Gu Wuchen and made an appointment to meet again in Jiangning City, so he took the horse and drove the carriage straight.
We went to Guabu Ancient Ferry and hired a large boat to cross the river.
Chaotiandang is connected with the Yangtze River north of Jiangning City. In winter, the river is shallow and narrow. There is more than 20 miles of water from Guabu Ferry to Qixia Ferry at the northern foot of Sheshan Mountain on the other side. There are dots of sandbanks on the water. Considering that even from Guabu Ferry to Qixia Ferry at the northern foot of Sheshan Mountain,
After Qixia Ferry landed, it was only within Moling County. It had to go west for nearly thirty miles before entering Jiangning City. Lin Fu asked the boatman to directly control the boat and sail toward the mouth of Jinchuan River in the northeast outside Jiangning City.
The Jinchuan River is a waterway only three or four miles long, and it connects with Moling Lake at the northwest foot of Zijin Mountain and east of Jiangning City. Moling Lake will be Xuanwu Lake a thousand years later. Since the lake was not filled with land, Xuanwu Lake in this era was
It is much larger than what Lin Fu remembered in later generations. It is more than forty miles around the lake shore. It is located in the east of Jiangning City. It is larger than the entire Jiangning City and covers an area equivalent to the entire Purple Mountain.
Before entering the fork of the Jinchuan River, Lin Fu saw a fairly large island in the middle of the river standing nearly two miles away from the fork of the river. There was a green brick and gray tile building on the island.
Surrounded by high walls, there are many river islands in the Yangtze River in this section of Chaotian Lake. Although there are refugees who go to the island to cultivate remote wasteland, and there are also people who build thatched shacks on the island. He came to Jiangning before and did not pay attention to the Jinchuan River.
This Jiangxin Island outside the mouth of Changzi.
"What's there?" Lin Fu asked Xiaoman, who was born and raised in Jiangning.
"Oh, that's the Jinchuan Island Prison of the Jiangdong Procuratorate's Office!" Xiaoman said.
Lin Fu's mind was a little knotted. Whether it was Lin Fu's memory before or his impression of ancient prisons a thousand years later, it seemed rare for inland areas to build such a large-scale prison on a river island outside the city. Generally speaking, whether it was a county seat
Whether it is a prison, whether it is a prison of the Ministry of Justice, a prison of the Ministry of Punishment, or a prison in Dali Temple, they actually have the dual nature of a detention center and a prison, because suspects in custody have to be interrogated and brought to court at any time, and each department and the prison to which it belongs are generally not the same.
It would be too far away, let alone built on a river island far outside the city. It would look a bit like a professional prison a thousand years from now.
Although Jiangxin Island deviated from the main channel of the river, Lin Fu and his ship came diagonally from Guabu Ferry. Jiangxin Island happened to lie across the channel into the Jinchuan River mouth. When Lin Fu saw that the boatman intended to go further away, he shouted
Asked the boatman who was rowing at the stern: "Why don't you go close to the island?"
"That's the prison city over there. If you get close enough, you'll even be escorted off the boat and the people," the boatman said.
"Prison city!" Hearing the boatman say this word, Lin Fu remembered something and understood why the Inspector General wanted to build the prison into a river island. This fact was an unresolved public case between Jiangning and Yanjing in the southern capital.
According to the "Penal Regulations" of this dynasty, punishments are divided into five categories: whipping, cane, imprisonment, exile, and death. The prison sentence is hard labor in prison, which is similar to the so-called fixed-term imprisonment a thousand years later; exile means the prisoner is exiled to a remote and desolate place to perform hard labor.
; Generally speaking, exile is heavier than imprisonment and lighter than death penalty. In recent years, those border areas where heavy prisoners are exiled, such as outside the Great Wall, Jibei, Hexi and desert islands in the East China Sea, have either been frequently invaded by foreigners or occupied by pirates.
.In fact, if prisoners are sent to these border areas, the actual punishment brought to the prisoners will be more than what is stipulated in the "Penal Code". In addition, there is also a worry that these exiled prisoners will be used by foreigners or pirates to increase the strength of the other party. In view of this
In one situation, the Jiangning Criminal Department, Jiangning Dali Temple and Jiangning Prosecution Department were determined to reform the prison system, re-determine the penalties, and proposed to build a prison city to replace the punishment of exile, and transfer the prisoners who should be exiled to the prison city for hard labor.
These prisoners were then exiled to more dangerous remote penal colonies.
According to Lin Fu's understanding, this should be a pretty good reform, but the people in power in Yanjing and Jiangning's mausoleum guardians are two opposing bureaucratic groups that have always been at odds. The people in Yanjing are in the right position and have the right to do so, so they feel that Jiangning and these
The officials guarding the mausoleum should be more honest, not be a troublemaker, and resolutely resist the so-called prison sentence as an alternative to exile. The issue of prison was a lot of controversy four or five years ago, and there has been no sound in the past two years; especially
After this year, everyone said that the She family would surrender and use those overseas desert islands as exile places again. Naturally, no one would mention the prison city again.
Lin Fu thought that the prison debate had long since disappeared. Unexpectedly, the out-of-power officials guarding the mausoleum in Jiangning were unwilling to be left alone. Even though the powerful bureaucracy in Yanjing strongly opposed it, they first encouraged the Jiangdong Procuratorate to build a new prison.
Jianglao City was built outside Jiangning City on an island in the middle of the Yangtze River.