There is a place in Dengzhou, should be able to overlook the Penglai Immortal Mountain in the sea is famous all over the world, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty toured the east, looked at the Penglai Mountain in the sea here, because of the name of the city. So there is Penglai County, here you can jump into the sea and look, vaguely see that there is a fairy mountain in the fog in the water waves.

Here you can occasionally see a fairy mountain floating on the clouds, called the mirage, can be called the fairyland of the world, all those who have a fairy fate all come here to worship to show respect, for a long time, the so-called Penglai fairy mountain has become Penglai fairy island, and I don't know whether it is said that the island in the sea or the fairy mountain that suddenly flashed in the sky.

Despite this, in Dengzhou, Penglai, is not so friendly, and even does not want anyone to come here, not because of anything else, but because there is a big Song Dynasty forbidden place opposite Penglai County in Dengzhou - Shamen Island.

Ironically, this Shamen Island can be called a ghost gate, a hell on earth, and it is opposite Penglai County.

To say that his location, in fact, not far from Penglai County, only in the sixty miles of the sea, the sea boat walkers, must anchor here to avoid the wind, and because of the five dynasties of Shamen Village, so it was named, but it is this name that has nothing to be afraid of but makes the Great Song Dynasty from the people to the officials fearful like a tiger!

Since the third year of Song Taizu's Jianlong, he began to stab prisoners on Salmon Island. In addition, islands such as Tongzhou Island and Qiongzhou were also the main locations for the Great Song Dynasty to distribute prisoners, and Taizu's wisdom was naturally unique, which had three benefits.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, following the old system of five dynasties, the imperial court often sent prisoners to the northwest frontier, and as a result, these prisoners slipped away at the first opportunity, fled to the outside of the fortress and became rogues, and these rogues would be absorbed by the Uighurs and other ministries and become their minions, thus posing a threat to the border defense of the Great Song Dynasty.

Taizu was suddenly shocked to realize that this was not a problem for raising tigers? Therefore, it was ordered that the exiled prisoners should no longer be sent to Qinzhou, Lingwu, Tongjun and other northwestern frontier areas, but to the south, mainly to Tongzhou Island and Hainan Island.

Later, I don't know whether it was because of the long distance or because the two islands were crowded with prisoners, so Salmon Island was added.

The second, more direct, is to strengthen the control of prisoners who commit serious crimes.

These three islands are usually far from the mainland, and as long as the ships on the islands are killed, the islands cannot enter and exit freely, and they become isolated and forbidden areas, and the prisoners cannot fly with their wings.

The third is that it was implemented after Zhao Zhen became in power, and it can supplement the coastal defense soldiers. Today's Great Song Dynasty navigation technology has long been leading the world, Dengzhou Island is numerous, natural havens are naturally very much, the Great Song Dynasty has established a good combat power of the navy, the offenders are not guilty, and there are unjust cases, can become a supplement and logistics for coastal defense soldiers.

The governor of Salmon Island is a prisoner, although he is the highest steward on Salmon Island, but he not only has to be inspected by the envoys of the five islands, but also under the jurisdiction of the Jingdong Road Prison Envoy sent by the imperial court, and his rights are relatively small, but everything on Salmon Island has to listen to him.

Most of the prisoners here are also people who have committed capital crimes and have been forgiven, most of them are ordinary people such as farmers, workers, and merchants who have committed crimes, but there are also some officials who have been convicted, such as corrupt officials who are corrupt and bribery, ineffective field inspectors, imperial doctors who have no way to practice medicine, and astronomers who make mistakes in their work, so Shamen Island can be said to have three religions and nine streams.

What really made Zhao Zhen, the emperor, pay attention to Shamen Island was the transfer of Wang Juyuan on Jingdong Road, and there was a sentence in this "Shamen Disadvantages" that made Zhao Zhen quite shocked.

"There are 300 people every year, about 3,000 people in ten years, and there are 2,000 people in charge except for one death, and now it is only 180, which shows the disadvantages!"

That is to say, the original quota of 300 people in Shamon Island was allocated 3,000 people in ten years, excluding some of the people who allowed prisoners to die accidentally in the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, there should be 2,000 people still alive, but later there were only about 180 people, and the mortality rate was as high as 89 out of 10!

Later, Zhao Zhen ordered a thorough investigation, after all, since these officials are not capital crimes, they should not die, as long as the population is useful to the Great Song Dynasty no matter what, even if you do some coolies, you can create value!

Later, after Wang Juyuan's thorough investigation, he went up again, and Zhao Zhen, who read the content in the song, had no temper.

The main reason is the shortage of food for prisoners on Salmon Island...... Salmon Island is self-sufficient in food supply and is supplied by more than 80 island households.

In the beginning, the number of prisoners assigned to the island was small, and the supply of prisoner food could keep up, but later more and more prisoners were requested from various places, and the trial court increased the number of prisoners on the island from 200 to 300, but this increase in the number of prisoners was far from meeting the needs of various localities.

The number of prisoners sent over has increased dramatically, and the number of jailers must also match, so the island is overcrowded, and the limited food output of the island households cannot be insufficient at all, and of course it is the prisoners who suffer, so they starve to death in batches, many of them are mixed with some islanders who have offended the jailers!

In addition, no one on the island cares about the lives of prisoners at all, and naturally there is no doctor, so the imperial doctor who was originally assigned has become a sweetheart, but he can only serve the jailer or officials, because Salmon Island can only brutally interpret the law of the jungle to control the number of people, otherwise everyone will not survive.

In order to keep the number of prisoners on the island at least 200 at all times, no matter how many prisoners are allowed, they will be eliminated if they exceed the tolerance of the island.

This is what Zhao Zhen received many years ago, and because of this rare temper Zhao Zhen was furious, and personally smashed the blood coral sent by Shamen Island in the palace, which made Ling'er tremble, because he felt that this thing was disgusting, and it was made of the blood of the people who died in vain on Shamen Island.

After that, Zhao Zhen decreed that all the jailers of Salmon Island would be imprisoned! The garrison guards were not allowed to be released privately, and the same Zhao Zhen also added a navy on Shamen Island, named Polang, with Shamen Island as the main port, and used the prisoners to build naval warships under the leadership of craftsmen.

And the most important point is that the prisoner food on Salmon Island is responsible for the three divisions, based on the number of people, changing year by year, even if there are 3,000 islanders and prisoners on the road, no one will starve to death.

Within a few years, this Shamen Island became a labor farm on the sea, where craftsmen instructed prisoners to build warships, and reduced the distribution time with merit, so that the warships on Salmon Island became the fastest and best warships built by the Great Song Dynasty, and the number of prisoners returning to the Great Song Dynasty from Salmon Island gradually increased, which gave great encouragement to the prisoners on the island.

With the help of these exquisitely crafted and exquisite warships, the Wave Breaker Army became the most powerful force in the Great Song Navy, and they also had the opportunity to practice, often going in and out of the East China Sea to strangle the pirates, or serving as the important task of escorting the Great Song Dynasty to and from the fleet of the Japanese Kingdom.