Costume dramas often have such scenes, a group of performers around the notice pointing, and the head on the notice is a surrealist style, in addition to two eyes and a mouth, other details are not at all like, making people wonder if the props group is deliberately retaliating because they did not eat chicken legs. In fact, however, ancient painters usually drew pictures based on oral descriptions, and the actual portraits may be more abstract.
Then the question is, the ancient officials and messengers will not really rely on this distorted portrait to arrest people, right?
In fact, in ancient times, there were three major tricks for officials to catch fugitives, and the last trick was almost never lost, and the wanted order was only a fight aid.
The first trick is the household registration and road guidance system.
In order to ensure taxation and servitude, the state began to check the household registration in the Spring and Autumn Period, and after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, it was even more necessary to formulate a perfect household registration system. If you have just killed someone or done something bad, and it is useless to hide in the house, the official will chase you to the door of your house in minutes.
Since my home is not safe, I can always escape from the city, right? Let's not talk about whether you can deal with the blood on your body before the curfew and pack your luggage, just the city gate is not easy.
Ancient government strictly controlled the flow of population, each key road has a card, ordinary people want to pass the customs, must bring the government issued a certificate, the Tang Six Classics stipulates that the people traveling far away must first submit a written application to the local government, write down where to go and what to do, but also have someone to guarantee, if there is no customs clearance certificate, lightly call you to go home, the focus is on rewarding a year of prison meals.
Of course, if you have great supernatural powers and get the vouchers, you will be fortunate enough to feel the second trick of the officials, the local armor protection system.
Ancient times are not like now, the wilderness hides all kinds of dangers, it is impossible to always eat and sleep, you have hardly escaped the beasts and bandits, to a village want to rest, did not expect to just lie down in the inn, was tied up by a group of big men, look up to see an old man smiling and squinting at you, you vaguely heard the big men respectfully call him "Bao Chang".
During the Northern Song Dynasty, ten households were one guarantee, five guarantees were one big guarantee, and ten major guarantees were one capital guarantee, and in addition to dealing with neighborhood disputes, the most important task of the bao chang was to keep an eye on the flow of people. If a stranger runs in and is seen through at a glance, then hear that the government has issued a wanted warrant, even if you look completely different from the painting, the security chief will call the official messenger to greet you.
Qing Dynasty armor plate
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang was wanted by the Mongols, and there was a Xiucai named Lin Fuzu, who was arrested because he collided with Wen Tianxiang's portrait. Later, Wen Tianxiang saw him and intimately sent a poem, "Hu'er is like winter baking eyes, mistakenly recognizing Yan as Lu Gong", to the effect of "Are these Hu people blind, can you think of you as me".
So it's too risky to escape to a strange place, so I can always find an acquaintance, right?
So you ran to the second uncle's house, and although the chief bao saw the living person, he had some doubts, but he didn't say anything for the sake of your second uncle's honesty, but just took one of the second uncle's chickens. Looking at the second uncle's distressed look, you ate the meal made by the second aunt, thinking that you must repay them in the future, and then you passed out and woke up in prison. Only to see the second uncle carrying a bag of bounty and smiling and leaving.
Yes, this is the last trick of the officials, the large bounty and the system of consecutive seats.
In order to catch fugitives, the government often sets up bounties, which are recorded in the "General Guide to the Continuation of The Governance of Capital": "There are people in the world who can sue the murderers, and the reward is fifty thousand", this money is enough for the small people to eat for a long time, even if the family you defected to block the temptation, it is difficult to ensure that the neighbors do not move, not to mention the murderous joint sitting system, if it is found to be harboring prisoners, not only the family that is harboring will go to jail, but even the neighbors will be convicted. What we saw in the film and television drama is that Zhang San killed people and fled to Wang Zhuang to seek refuge, which is what the land snake dares to do.
So, don't think that if you cross, you can be a villain, even if you don't have the painting on the wall, you can still catch you.
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