All-World Vision

Chapter 204 The Power of Imperial Power

"My lord, probably not. Weizhong has a wife and a son. If we die, their family will not survive."

The man secretly glanced at the postmaster, lowered his eyebrows and said pleasingly.

"Then why hasn't he come yet? Don't you know it's urgent for eight hundred miles? It's urgent for eight hundred miles! Does he understand what this means? What will be the consequences!"

The postmaster's face was ferocious, and his already fat body was trembling with fat.

Of course I know.

The most important and urgent information and orders were delivered urgently within eight hundred miles.

According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, if the time is delayed, the light one will be punished with a stick, and the serious one will be sentenced. If the delay is an urgent military document, the crime will be added to the third class, and the failure of the war due to the delay of the letter will be sentenced to hanging.

Not only the parties involved are guilty, but their superiors are also guilty.

The citizens wiped their sweat wildly, their faces were pale, and their voices trembled:
"My lord, how about, why don't we send someone to take a look? If there is an accident and the time is delayed, it will be a big trouble..."

The postmaster grabbed Yi Gongren's skirt, lifted him up slightly, and said with spittle, "Do you think I don't know? But where are the extra horses now?"

Yeah, four batches a day.

Every time a fast horse runs desperately, it needs at least one day of training, and eight horses are needed in two days in turn.

Besides, horses are also needed to deliver other documents. Where can a small post station get extra horses?

The citizens had nothing to say.

The postmaster panted heavily, slowly let go of his hand, and said with pain: "You, ride my horse to have a look right away, you must go and come back quickly."

The gentleman had a look of disbelief on his face.

This is your private horse. Before, you fought hard for the government's horse to be injured and refused to let others ride it.

The postmaster yelled, "Grandma, hurry up!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" The gentleman replied repeatedly, and trotted to the stable.

It didn't take long.

The gentleman led the horse to the postmaster, worried that he would regret it, so he asked again: "My lord, did I really go?"

"Go! Why are you dawdling!"

The postmaster kicked the gentleman in the ass.

The gentleman immediately got on his horse and was about to slap his whip hard.

At this moment, the postmaster suddenly saw smoke rising from the other side of the road, and immediately shouted: "Stop, stop! Don't go, don't go!"

It's a pity that things backfired. Inertia caused the whip to fall on the horse, and the gentleman couldn't react in time.

Under the whip, the postmaster's horse galloped away in an instant, and when he returned to the postmaster, Li Bai had already dismounted.

Li Bai held up the package, and said under the extremely hopeful eyes of the postmaster: "Weizhong, you are not late."

"It's not up to him to decide whether he will be late or not!"

The postmaster snatched the package abruptly, unwrapped and looked at the three sealed bamboo tubes that were intact, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

"Hurry up!"

The postmaster fastened the package again, and then quickly tied it to the postman who had already prepared it, urging him.

The postman grabbed the reins tightly, got on his horse, and swung his whip vigorously.

With a neighing sound, the horse immediately galloped out like a madman, and disappeared in the dust in the blink of an eye.

The postmaster wiped his sweat and heaved a long sigh of relief.

"Wei Zhong died, the pension will be paid, right?" Li Bai said in a deep voice.

The postmaster looked at Li Bai contemptuously, and when he saw the sword on Li Bai's waist, his expression became slightly serious, and he said casually:

"What? Still want a pension? Do you think the court's money fell from the sky? He was delayed for half an hour this time, and I have to report to the higher authorities to hold him accountable!"

After speaking, the postmaster shook his sleeves and left.

"It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable!" Li Bai said with a livid face.

The other gentlemen shook their heads, showing no trace of sadness, as if they had already gotten used to it.

After the gentlemen left, Li Bai stood there for a long time.

In this way, until an honest gentleman came over to persuade Li Bai to leave.

Li Bai suddenly grabbed Mr. Honest's sleeve and said, "Where did this lychee come from? Why is it so urgent?"

The honest man looked around and motioned to go out.

Outside the station, under a certain tree.

The honest man said: "I think you have an extraordinary temperament, and you should have a certain status, but the villain still advises you, it's better not to worry about this matter."

Li Bai said expressionlessly: "I know, this is the lychee that Concubine Yang wanted."

The honest gentleman also said seriously: "It's fine if you know."

Li Bai said: "You haven't answered my question yet."

The honest gentleman shook his head and sighed, "It's already autumn, where else can we find fresh lychees besides places like Lingnan?"

"Haha, hahaha." Li Bai smiled inexplicably, but it was very serious.

"There are four thousand miles from Lingnan to Chang'an, and there is a station every [-] miles. Every horse needs to run desperately to run from one station to the next within a quarter of an hour.

At the same time, it is necessary to change people and horses at each station, so that the fastest speed of the fast horse can be exerted. In this way, the lychee can be delivered to the imperial concubine within three days after traveling eight hundred miles day and night, alas. "

Speaking of this, the honest gentleman also said sadly.

If a fast horse runs hard, it can indeed reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour in a short period of time.

After running a station in a quarter of an hour, you can run 160 miles in an hour, and you can run 960 miles in half a day.

Of course, you can run 960 miles during the day, but at night, it is estimated that you can only run 700 miles. Day and night, you can probably run 1660 miles a day and night.

That's right, that's the only way to achieve such a miracle by spending countless manpower and material resources.

This is the power of imperial power, beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

After a rough calculation, Li Bai realized that what the honest man said was true, he said hoarsely:

"This is a relay race where life is exchanged for time. The mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the roads are dangerous. People may die at any moment. Is Your Majesty really so cruel?"

The honest gentleman turned pale with shock, put his index finger to his mouth and said, "Shh, keep quiet."

After saying that, Mr. Honest looked around and relaxed a little when he saw that there was no one else around.

"Your Excellency, it seems that you are also a family member. You must not say these words, or you will hurt many people."

Li Bai looked at the gentleman with half-white sideburns, shook his head and said, "Then why aren't you afraid?"

The honest gentleman froze in place, tears slowly moistening his eyes.

He turned his head, wiped away his tears, staring at Li Bai desperately, and said slowly:

"My son died three years ago, my daughter-in-law remarried, and I have no grandchildren. What do I have to be afraid of? I just don't want to see innocent people suffer from innocent disasters again."

Li Bai was silent for a moment, then said: "Can you tell me where Wei Zhong's home is, I want to go and see."

The honest man then pointed in the direction and said that Wei Zhong's home was in Weiping.

Li Bai bowed his hands in thanks, then rode his horse back to the tree where Wei Zhong was placed, picked Wei Zhong up on his horse, and headed for Weiping.

(End of this chapter)