"Skynet restored, neglected without leakage" - Lao Tzu
It can be seen from the famous sentences of the ancient times that the ability to arrest criminals in ancient times was very strong, and once someone committed a crime, the ancients would issue a "wanted order" in the list, and finally the prisoners could always be arrested. "Wanted notice" in ancient times was called "picture graphic", as the literal meaning is, that is, to post a post with a portrait of the criminal, through the bounty to arrest the criminal, through such a simple and vague portrait, this can really catch the criminal?
This is the question of many people, in film and television dramas, there are many such plots, the characters on the portrait are very sloppy, as long as the criminals dress up in disguise, almost no one can find. It can also be seen from the ancient paintings that the ancient painter's description of the character is relatively abstract, and it is difficult to imagine its true appearance, not to mention the portrait on the wanted order, like a stick figure. In fact, the painting above is secondary, and the words on the wanted warrant are the most important.
In ancient times, people had identity cards, and when Shang Martin changed the law in the Qin Kingdom, he invented the "Body Sticker", which is a polished and smooth bamboo board, with a portrait of himself and his household registration information, it can be said that the current ID card is completely imitated at that time. This is what everyone needs to have, and if not, then it is a black household, or it is considered to be the bottom and is arrested.
In the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were "fish symbols", and then there were "waist cards", "turtle symbols", "tooth cards" and other things that proved identity, different eras of identity cards are different, different class identity cards will also have differences, but there will be clear information, as well as portraits, and on the wanted order, generally according to the household registration information, write out the information of the wanted person, the portrait is only a general reference.
The Chronicle of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty records that "King Ping followed his plan, drew pictures and figures, and visited the soldiers, and the passes were very urgent. Secondly, in ancient times, if a criminal was wanted, the tracking personnel would also set up a "pass", and would hand over the information of the wanted criminal to them, and would carefully examine the "identity card" of these people, it was difficult for criminals to pass through from here, and the conditions in ancient times were limited, and there were not so many plots like in the TV series.
"Passes" are generally set up in places where prisoners are most likely to pass through, such as exiting the city gates, or in prisoners' hometowns. If it is committed in the city, it is generally difficult to escape from the city, the place where the prisoners rest their feet in the city will be sealed by the government, the criminals will have nowhere to go, and at night, there will be officers and soldiers patrolling, people and so on can be easily arrested, and more officials will go to some inns with wanted orders to search, and the object of the search is "suspicious person", that is to say, the main thing can be taken back for careful interrogation.
Secondly, in ancient times, there was also a "joint sitting" system, there was a person who committed a crime, his relatives, friends and friends, as long as there are people who are related, may be punished, so relatives and friends dare not shield the prisoners, and some people in the village, if there are criminals, may be implicated in the entire village, so in order to protect their own safety, the people will eventually take the initiative to report to the government.
Finally, at the end of the wanted order, how much the bounty is written, generally written: "Ten evils, the bounty is two hundred and two, arrested", these 13 words, the bounty will sometimes change, but generally hundreds of two, high time will reach thousands of two, . This is a rich bounty, so it also came into a profession, called "bounty hunters", they live on a rich bounty, and this bounty for some ordinary people, may not be able to earn money in a lifetime.
According to the Ming Dynasty according to one or two silver and 2 stone meters to calculate, the official residence Zheng Yipin Minister's January Feng Lu is 174 two, a Zheng Jiu Pin official's monthly Feng Lu is only 11 two, hundreds of silver people, if you have it, it is equivalent to getting rich overnight, so you can also see that when posting the wanted order, there are many onlookers, in addition to watching the hilarity, they actually want to earn a sum of money in this way.