Presumably, everyone has chased costume dramas, and have you ever wondered how those who encounter an emergency or information at the border of the army can quickly deliver the message? Do you know that when the emperor gives an order, the soldiers at the border pass can receive it in time? For this reason, there will be soldiers who are specially responsible for speeding up the "800 miles of expeditiousness" to report the news. In modern life, our express delivery industry has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the fastest logistics is SF Express.
Our modern SF Express is quite fast, and if you are in a different place, the express delivery can receive the goods in two to three days. However, according to the research and analysis of experts, if the 800-mile expedited is put into modern times, it is a small thing, and it is faster than express delivery. Eight hundred miles of expedited, in contrast, more hard work is the horse, in the long distance, the fast horse whip so that the horse can not stop for a moment, although in ancient times along the way, there are a large number of special post stations, nearly a thousand post stations in the country, tens of thousands of people only eight hundred miles of expedited service.
Generally, every 20 miles, a post station will be set up, if the document is marked with "immediate delivery", and it is to deliver urgent documents, the post station must be delivered by fast horse. These horses can also travel thousands of miles a day, of course, they have to change horses in the middle, otherwise the horses will be tired to death, and the people will have to die of exhaustion. If it is written "800 miles expedited", then the document must be delivered as quickly as possible, reaching 800 miles per day. This is usually only used in major military situations, such as an invasion or a rebellion. If it is a modern express delivery, 800 miles usually takes 2-4 days to be delivered.
Most of the horses, which could not be tolerated for a moment, became the victims of the eight-hundred-mile rush, and the horsepower consumed was even greater than when the battle was launched. Once encountering an urgent letter with the words "immediately fly", the horse can not rest, it must be a fast horse, the horsepower consumption is large, ten thousand people can not sleep, and they have to be ready to wait for the letter at all times, this is forgotten, the speed has to be increased to 400 to 600 miles or even 800 miles, every 100 kilometers, you have to change a horse, some horses can not stand it, and even fall on the road. This enormous consumption is unimaginable to our contemporaries.
Speaking of post stations, I think of the history of China Post has been as long as more than 3,000 years, back to the Tang Dynasty, and then to the Qing Dynasty, almost all parts of the country have set up a huge post station, in the scale of construction, it is not an exaggeration to say that the ancient post station can be compared with the rookie post station in the modern and contemporary express delivery industry. In terms of the scale of service, it is also quite good. Our modern and contemporary courier brother is equivalent to the ancient "Yili".
But in terms of status, the status of the ancient post is not so respected, there are few people, the amount of labor is large, the requirements are strict, and there is no reward if you are fast, and you can not get any reward if you send the piece slowly, and you will be beaten by the board at the lightest, and you will be in prison if it is because the documents are sent slowly, and the military situation is delayed, and even sentenced to hanging. It can be seen that the post pawn is a dangerous and low-pay industry.
In ancient times, post houses were equipped with post houses, post horses, post donkeys, post boats, etc. If you need to change horses or vehicles during the delivery process, you must take out the "postage" to the post station to verify your identity. It is estimated that once the emperor's decree was issued, it could be implemented throughout the country in two months, which shows the degree of development of the post station at that time and the speed of transmission.