Why was Salmon Island in Water Margin regarded as hell on earth in the Song Dynasty?

1.Felons were mostly exiled here.

This island is written in ** to banish some mortals who have committed felonies, you can imagine what the atmosphere on the island is like.

2.There are a lot of cool officials.

In these places, there are many cool officials, officers and soldiers are with some criminals who have no power and power, and the officers and soldiers may also be dissatisfied because they work on such an island all day long, so they will take all their anger out on criminals, and if they are not careful, they will beat people to death, and they can also execute arbitrary criminals with any excuse. Moreover, the number of officers and soldiers on this island is about twice as large as the number of criminals, so there is no problem of resistance.

3.Harsh environment <>

This place is on an island about 30 kilometers from the mainland, you can imagine that there is nothing on the island, and the prisoners' food is far from enough, so when they are exiled to this island, they will step into the ghost gate.

Isn't it hell if you don't give the prisoners enough food, have no human rights, face being beaten at any time, and have to work?!

Because in feudal society, leaving one's homeland is already a cruel punishment, and Salmon Island is still on an island, which is simply exiled for thousands of miles. In the past, the medical and health conditions were not good enough, and the mortality rate in this process was very high, and there were not many people who could reach Salmon Island, and there were also various difficulties such as heavy manual labor and food shortages on Salmon Island, and few of the people who were exiled there survived, so it was called purgatory on earth.

Normal, the previous manpower, science and technology, and the number of people determined, not to mention anything else, Shenzhen, Hainan was also a wild place before, inaccessible? I live in Tianjin, according to my father's generation, when they go to school, they still have wolves to accompany them all the way! (After liberation), when I was young, I was also everywhere in wasteland, small puddles, small rivers, everywhere, fish, shrimp and crabs, yellow rats, hedgehogs everywhere, deserted islands, hell on earth, what's so strange?!

The superior geographical location, according to the "Taiping Huanyu Ji": "Shamen Island, in the county (Penglai County) in the north sea fifty miles", Shamen Island is far away from the mainland, surrounded by the sea, the imperial court only needs to control the ship, can prevent the prisoners from escaping, after all, fifty miles away from the distance of the rock, unless it is the perseverance is amazing, it is impossible to swim back to the mainland. At the same time, fifty miles is not far for ships, so it is convenient for the supply and rotation of officers and soldiers on Salmon Island.

Extremely harsh living environment. The purpose of exile is to punish prisoners, so in order to achieve the goal of punishment, it is natural that they cannot be treated very well, especially for heinous felons, and it is impossible for the court to give them any good results. The rotten environment of Salmon Island is very bad, there is a shortage of water and food, and the supply ships from the mainland can only arrive in a few weeks at the earliest, so its living environment can be described as very bad, and there is often a phenomenon of "many deaths" among prisoners.