In many costume film and television dramas, we can often see the figure of bandits. They looted houses, burned and looted, and did nothing wrong. They are in our minds a ragtag bunch of people who make a living from robbery and extortion, who are bohemian and uninhibited. So in ancient times, why didn't bandits rob baili to hurry?
Nowadays, we often see in some film and television dramas that some emperors will write hundreds of miles of urgent words when they transmit letters. So what exactly does eight hundred miles of urgency mean? In ancient times, transferring files required a caravanserai. If it is an emergency fold. The words marked on the letter for immediate delivery must be transmitted at a rate of 300 miles per day according to the regulations. In the event of a more urgent situation, the speed of transmission can reach eight hundred miles at the earliest.
So what if you perform such an important task as the Eight Hundred Mile Rush and are robbed by the enemy or robbers? Tang Dynasty law stipulates that if the delay is an urgent military document, the crime will be increased by three. Failure to fight due to delay in correspondence is punishable by hanging. Therefore, the person who transmits the letter is usually very cautious, and not only that, when the letter is delivered, the messenger will tie a yellow flag around his waist. This is so that people can see the messenger from a long distance, and open the level for him in advance.
The second is to remind the bandits. And bandits generally see people with yellow flags on their waists and dare not rob them. Because all the dynasties and dynasties have a law that a person with a yellow flag on his body is holding the gold medal given by the emperor, and those who stop him will undoubtedly die, so the bandits dare not go to rob him. Secondly, bandits often raid houses, and baili urgent generally transmits mostly letters, and there is no oil and water. Therefore, these bandits did not have to go to the robbery of Baili to rush.