In addition, in some slightly larger areas, there will even be some special passers-by and merchants’ rest inn restaurants near the post office.
These inn, restaurants and official post complement each other to form a small settlement independent of towns and villages.
However, Pei Wende’s impression is that the most famous official road in the Tang Dynasty is Du Mu’s sentence, "Riding a princess in the world of mortals makes people know that it is litchi."
It is said that before Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty allowed Yang Guifei to eat fresh litchi.
I specially ordered people to cover the litchi ice cubes picked in the afternoon and then send them to the palace quickly.
In this way, when lychees are delivered to Yang Guifei, fresh lychees will naturally win the beauty’s heart as if they had just been picked from trees.
Is Du Mu’s poem exaggerated, or how many people died and how many horses died when Tang Xuanzong made Bomei people laugh?
Pei Wende doesn’t know and also intends to comment.
The only thing he knows is that it is because of these official roads that Datang can be called a unified empire instead of some bulk countries.
Take the "Tianbao Rebellion (Anshi Rebellion)" a hundred years ago as an example. The news that An Lushan started his troops from Fanyang was three thousand miles apart, but he arrived in Beijing in just six days, showing that the efficiency was rapid.
It is no exaggeration to say that these have been unified since the Qin Dynasty, and the regulation of official roads is the cornerstone of the unification of the whole Chinese language.
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"’Anxiang Post’ is one of the’ Nine Townships and Ten Posts’ connecting nearby …"
According to the old monk, this post can be traced back to the Qin Dynasty and was specially built by the first emperor for Baiyue.
"It is said that in addition to this post along the road, the first emperor also ordered a large number of migrant workers to dig Lingqu to communicate with Xiangjiang River and Lijiang River to ensure the transportation of grain and grass in Qin Jun."
While introducing Qin Shihuang’s great achievements to the little green snake, he slowly approached this large post …
Pei Wende found in this process that this post is the same as Li Yanran said before, and most of the discrepancies are officials and students
Therefore, when they saw Pei Wende with a long bow and a short knife, they all took a surprised look.
Several officials in charge of protecting the post office drew their weapons one after another and looked at the young hunter with a wary face.
Since the Anshi Rebellion, the prestige of the central court has been greatly weakened, and bandits and disorderly parties have become one of the most troublesome disasters for local governments.
Especially in Tanzhou, which is far away from the central town, almost every post will have a special combat post officer to ensure the post safety.
Good Pei Wende is young enough and doesn’t look too threatening.
All those embattled officials did not directly start fighting, but surrounded Pei Wende completely.
"I’m looking for someone!"
Seeing this situation, Pei Wende decisively raised his hands, which is an international gesture through the ages to show his harm.
"What are you from? Where did you come from? What is close to here? "
Three questions were asked from the first post officer, and the post officer behind him took the opportunity to run to the post office and called out the official who was really in charge of the post office.
"My name is Pei Wende and I’m from Tongqing Temple in Weishan. I’m here to find someone!"
Answer that three questions of the post offic honestly, Pei Wende immediately turned his attention to the old man who was coming out slowly.
Pei Wende’s intuition told him that the old man should be the real manager of this post, and he was also looking for the "old man Cao"
"Weishan? Tongqing Temple? "
With a flash in his eyes, the old man came up slowly. First, he stretched out his hand to signal that the nearby post officials were not nervous, and then he turned to look at Pei Wende with a calm face.
"You said that you are from Weishan Tongqing Temple. Do you have a guide issued by the government? Or its certificate? "
I didn’t easily believe Pei Wende’s story. Although the old man was a little slow, he revealed that he was lean in his speech, but he was far from being comparable to those who were young.
"Voucher? Do you mean this? "
Pei Wende, who was ready, nodded and then took out a gold-encrusted Yu Pei from his arms.
This was specially given to Pei Wende by Li Yanran before he left.
He said he took out this Yu Pei when he found the old man Cao, and he naturally knew what to do.
"Well, this little husband is my relative. The younger generation is not nervous."
When I heard the old man Cao say this, the officials around the post office completely relaxed.
However, from the eyes of these post officials looking at Pei Wende from time to time, they can still see their curiosity.
In their impression, old Cao seems to have always been a loner except for a child he adopted?
Moreover, Pei Wende, although young, is not an ordinary junior from his performance of carrying a knife and a bow and walking like a fly.
I’m curious to know whether these post officials should be literate or not. They didn’t ask much, but returned to their posts.
"Come with me!"
Wave PeiWenDe with his old man cao turned and walked towards the post.
He didn’t communicate too much with Pei Wende during the whole process, and he didn’t ask the other party where he got the gold-inlaid Yu Pei.