Little known truth about old posters: It's hard for criminals to escape!

Even though the pictures on the posters are so badly drawn that even relatives of the criminals can hardly recognize them. But, criminals are still hard to escape! Why?

In Chinese historical dramas, you must have at least once seen the posters of the hiding criminals plastered all over the walls.

On the posters, often portraits are drawn and the names of criminals are recorded. But the drawings on the poster often have many differences from the real person's appearance. Therefore, many people think that those notices are useless, and it will be difficult for the old government to catch criminals.

However, in reality, feudal criminals in China could hardly escape the arrest of the government. Because at that time, the government's search for wanted criminals was not only based on the pictures of criminals on billboards, but mainly on the following 3 ways.

The image of government officials holding posters to find criminals hiding in historical films.

Method 1: System of identification documents

The identification system of the feudal period is quite similar to the personal papers of people today such as ID cards, citizen identification. Spanning many dynasties, this type of identity certificate in China Country has different names.

In feudal times, if a person did not have this identity certificate, it would be difficult to rent an inn to stay. It is even difficult for them to go to people's houses to ask for help. If a stranger comes to the house, people will ask for identification first. If there is no paper, it means that they have an unknown background. Therefore, it is very difficult for wanted criminals to hide in people's houses.

Việc tìm nơi lẩn trốn với những tên tội phạm trở nên khá "khó nhằn" vì cơ chế này. Bởi họ không thể trình giấy chứng minh thân phận ra vì đang lẩn trốn. Nhưng nếu không trình ra, sẽ không ai cho họ ở nhờ hoặc thuê trọ. Do đó, những tên tội phạm chỉ còn đường lang thang, ẩn dật tại nơi đầu đường xó chợ hoặc những ngôi miếu hoang.

Tại những nơi này, những tên tội phạm có thể thoát khỏi sự truy bắt nhưng lại không có chỗ ngủ nghỉ đàng hoàng, càng khó lòng tìm kiếm thức ăn. Nhưng nếu 1 khi ló mặt ra bên ngoài, họ lập tức sẽ bị những toán lính quan phủ 'tóm gọn'. Có thể thấy, cho dù chúng chọn con đường nào thì cũng sẽ khó mà thoát thân.

Cách 2: Quy chế tội liên đới

This regulation was implemented in the Qin Dynasty (China). Based on this regulation, every 10 households will be classified as 1 border (1 type of household payroll in the old days). If any of these 10 households have a criminal, the remaining 9 households are responsible for reporting. Failure to do so will result in a similar crime.

Not only that, in ancient times, the differences in intonation, pronunciation (or in other words, dialect) between regions were extremely profound. Once a stranger comes from another place, the locals will quickly recognize it. When asked about his identity, if he could not clarify, the people would report to the government.

Method 3: Bounty

On the notices, the government will clearly state the amount of reward for those who find the crime. If you personally bring criminals to the dentist, the reward will be even more.

Illustrate an old crime scavenger hunt.

The amount of the bounty is usually between 100 and 1,000 silver taels. If converted into modern money, right from the Tang Dynasty, an amount of silver was equal to 3,000 yuan (approximately 11 million VND). In the Song Dynasty, 1 amount was equivalent to 1,300 yuan (approximately 5 million VND). Thus, the number of 100 to 1,000 silver bounty was quite large in those eras.

However, to win this amount is also not easy. Because the subjects being wanted all committed serious crimes, very dangerous. However, in that era, there were still many people who rushed to 'hunt' the bounty money to catch criminals to step up to the clouds and become rich.