Is Nantong really a place where criminals were exiled in ancient times?

Judging from all kinds of information, Nantong was indeed a place where prisoners were exiled in ancient times.

Prisoners exiled to Nantong in ancient times can be roughly divided into three situations:

1. In the ancient war before the Southern Song Dynasty, the captured enemy prisoners were exiled to Nantong. (Note: Hudouzhou in ancient Nantong was surrounded by water, which was very beneficial to the management of exiled prisoners. Most of these prisoners are Xianbei people and westerners.

Second, ancient criminal officials and criminals were escorted to Nantong for exile.

It needs to be explained here: according to relevant literature records, there were also false and wrong cases in ancient times. Some so-called guilty officials are actually not corrupt officials or evil officials, but because of their different views, they lost in court battles and suffered persecution and injustice.

For example, Lin Zexu, a patriotic general of the Qing Dynasty, was exiled to Yili and Xinjiang by the corrupt and incompetent Qing government, but the glorious image of Lin Zexu, a national hero, will never be erased in China one hundred years later.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's army defeated tens of thousands of Mongolian troops stationed in Nantong. According to the data analysis, this Mongolian army should be a tribal army (Genghis Khan) under Kublai Khan's fourth son.

In order to save the lives of the defeated army and all their families, they accepted all the conditions put forward by the Ming army (local exile).

The Ming army also adopted relatively loose control measures: Mongolians were allowed to engage in agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts and commerce.

In order to prevent them from fleeing back to the Mongolian grassland, unmarried Mongolians are allowed to marry local young men and women to promote them to stay in Nantong; Take root.

Every autumn, Mongolians pay heavy taxes to the Ming government in proportion to their income.

However, these Mongols and their descendants are very clever and diligent. They not only get along well with Nantong aborigines, but also have outstanding talents in all walks of life in Nantong. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolians exiled to Nantong were no longer discriminated against.

Now, after hundreds of years of intermarriage and changes, the Mongols and their descendants from Nantong have completely assimilated with the Han nationality, regardless of each other.