Ma Wei Station, Shangyuan Station, White Horse Station, Chen Qiao Station, why did there be so many

Because the post station was an important place to transmit information and exchange information in ancient timesThe reason why the rebellion occurred at the post station was largely because the emperor's troops were relatively weak at the post station, and at the same time, the post station was crowded with people and easy to ambush. These reasons provided many favorable opportunities for the mutiny.

In order to transmit information, the Tang and Song dynasties set up a lot of post stations, which greatly improved the mutual transmission of information at that time, and also promoted the development of centralization at that time. However, the caravanserais as a place of information transmission can also be fraught. Just like Ma Weiyi, when Tang Xuanzong arrived at Ma Weiyi, the troops were not very sufficient, which also played a certain role in the mutiny at that time, so Yang Yuhuan could not be regarded as the only factor in the mutiny.

At the same time, the ancient imperial palace can be regarded as a symbol of imperial power, which has a relatively high status in the minds of the people with strict hierarchies in ancient times. This will also affect the trajectory of the rebels to a certain extent.

At the same time, as a transportation hub at that time, the post station naturally had people from all walks of life passing through these places, and once there were many people, it was difficult to avoid dangerous people lurking in it, and in the process of mutiny or riots, there would be various characters hidden in the crowd, and this external factor also led to the post station becoming an eventful place.

However, turmoil occurred from time to time between the Tang and Song dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and these important mutinies cannot be said to have occurred entirely at the post station, which may have been just an accident and coincidence in history. In ancient times, the caravanserai was more like an ordinary place and was not given too much political overtone.

Because the masters around the emperor are usually heavily guarded, they will only relax their vigilance when the post station is resting, so there will be chaos.

Because it is not easy for the ruler to let him kill when he is in the palace. When you come out, you will have a chance.

The biggest feature of the Tang Dynasty post station is that it is large-scale, and the post station is equipped with post buildings, post stables, post halls and post warehouses. The post station is set up in the vicinity of the capital, and a post station is set up in ten to twenty miles, and the remote area is like a relatively far away, and some even two stations can be separated by a hundred miles. According to historical records, there were 1,639 post stations in the prosperous period of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, of which there were 1,297 land posts and 260 water posts, and the rest were post stations for both land and water.

The postmaster of the post station in the Tang Dynasty was chosen by a wealthy family to serve as the postmaster, because the horse or donkey in the post station died, the postmaster had to be responsible for compensation, and the family had no money and could not afford it at all, so it was necessary to let the wealthy family be the postmaster. But the postman basically came from a poor family, and sometimes it was a rotation system, and the civilians took turns to serve it, and the work was very hard.

The court bears a part of the expenses of the post station, and a part is borne by the land of the post station, and the crops produced by this field are specially used to feed horses or donkeys, and people are not qualified to use them, and if the horses or donkeys in the post station are borrowed and used privately, the post chief will be punished with a hundred rods.

The role of the post station is to be responsible for transmitting intelligence documents and the like, and then to provide temporary residence for the **, but in the Tang Dynasty, the authority to manage the post station was the Ministry of War, that is, the establishment and operation of the post station, and the management of the chariots and horses in the post station belonged to the Ministry of War. In addition, the Tang Dynasty also had legal assistance in the military traffic management of the post station to ensure the effective use of the post station.

The core task of the Tang Dynasty post station is to ensure the timely and smooth flow of military traffic, so the post station system is also relatively strict, if there is any error, especially if there is a mistake in military intelligence, it may be punished by death, and because of the importance of intelligence, so it is generally not only one person to carry out the task, will send a few more to complete together, the number of post stations in the Tang Dynasty is large, and the staff of the post station is also many, and the number of people in the heyday is more than 20,000 people.