Section 2  Post  system  in the  Yuan  Dynasty

Haiqing Tally "the pass of urgent delivery
in Yuan Dynasty

Post in the Yuan Dynasty was popular on each road, post was set up at intervals of 40-50 km, with splendid houses, accommodated with completed daily necessities for reception of Section 2 Post system in the Yuan Dynasty Post system was composed of post and delivery which were set up during the period that Genghis Khan united all Mongolian tribes by forces. On the expedition toward west, in imitation of the central China, he opened up delivery route along the road toward Xiyu, which extended post system of central China to Xiyu. His successor, continued to open delivery routes, set up post during the war with the Jin and the Song, and drew up brief post regulations to enforce the management of post. In his old ages, when he looked back on the past, he thought he had done 4 major things, one of which was having widely established post. After him, the Emperor Kublai Khan undertook large scale of post construction with the capital as the center, established horse delivery network mainly composed of post and walking, delivery network mainly composed of urgent delivery. It was recorded that there were 1519 posts in the whole nation. It was said in Yuan History that in the Yuan Dynasty, wherever human reached, native or abroad, there were posts and couriers come and go like in their native countries". The number of horses in each post could be as high as 400, as low as 200. Total number of horses in the whole nation was 300,000, houses over 10,000. Furthermore, there were large amounts. of urgent delivery network in parallel with posts, which were responsible for document delivery. Urgent delivery was created in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Yuan Dynasty. In comparison with the Song, Urgent Delivery in the Yuan was more perfect in system, stricter in organization, more advanced ill network. One delivery was set up with interval of 5 km, 7.5 km or 12.5 km, each had one supervisor and 5~16 post soldiers, who were called soldiers but were actually civilians to serve in the posts.