In ancient times, although they did similar work to the police, their status was very different from that of the police.

If anyone sees a bit of similarity, it's also ancient

The legacy of the "police" is a little bit of a legacy. In ancient times, the fast catcher belonged to the government servants. The composition of the local government, in addition to the official seal, occasionally has miscellaneous assistants, and then there are six-room scribes and three-class officials.

There are three classes of servants, the first is the soap class, which stands for the county officials and serves as the guard of honor, and also serves as the executioner to help scare people when the case is heard.

The second is the fast class, which is to catch fast. It is used to take thieves, solve crimes and collect taxes. The third is the Zhuang class, which belongs to the temporary convocation of migrant workers, who do chores and assist in defending the city in times of crisis.

Obviously, for the governance of a county, the status of catching fast is very important. However, the important status of the fast catcher is the status of a pariah.

The three classes of officials, except for the strong class, are all untouchables. Someone from a family who did this, three generations could not participate in the imperial examination, at least in theory, lower than the status of ordinary peasants.

Why should such an important position be filled by untouchables? Because the work of catching quick work, in the eyes of the ancients, is a bad behavior, a work that offends people, and a kind of cheap karma.

Always have to arrest people and take people, always deal with bad people and bad things, serious people are destined to disdain this, so they can only let the untouchables do it.

Those who do bad things can only be bad people, so in ancient China, people also called catching fast

"Bad guys". In fact, not only China, but also the police of the ancient Greek city-states were also done by slaves, and if citizens committed crimes, they had to be arrested by low-status slaves.

Whenever a citizens' meeting is held, many citizens who are lazy and refuse to come out for a meeting belong to the government officials.

The composition of the local government, in addition to the official seal, occasionally has miscellaneous assistants, and then there are six-room scribes and three-class officials.

There are three classes of servants, the first is the soap class, which stands for the county officials and serves as the guard of honor, and also serves as the executioner to help scare people when the case is heard.

The second is the fast class, which is to catch fast. It is used to take thieves, solve crimes and collect taxes. The third is the Zhuang class, which belongs to the temporary convocation of migrant workers, who do chores and assist in defending the city in times of crisis.

Obviously, for the governance of a county, the status of catching fast is very important. However, the important status of the fast catcher is the status of a pariah.

The three classes of officials, except for the strong class, are all untouchables. Someone from a family who did this, three generations could not participate in the imperial examination, at least in theory, lower than the status of ordinary peasants.

It was also the slaves who drove them out with ropes. Cheap business is done by the untouchables, and doing this kind of thing must be done in the name of the government, which is tantamount to allowing the untouchables to exercise public power.

Therefore, in fact, the catcher is extremely majestic among the people, and there is no shadow of cheapness at all. Take people and lock people at every turn, and whoever sees him is afraid of him.

The common people respect him as the master of catching fast, catching the man, and those who do business on the street must be filial piety on a regular basis and pay protection fees.

The position of catching fast is generally to be bought, and if you can't buy it, you don't want a quota, and you are willing to give up your civilian status to be a helper, and if you can't ask for help, you can do white service, and there is no penny of subsidies.

In many large counties, there are hundreds of gang servants and white servants. However, if you see the local squire, you still don't dare to make a mistake, and you have to give way a long time ago and bow down to say goodbye.

Even if they are poor and talented, if there is no will from the county order, they will not dare to touch it casually. As for the county magistrate, he never treated them as people, and he didn't say anything about them at will, if he had a case, if he couldn't solve it, he would bring the arrest quickly, and he picked up his pants and hit the board in public, and strictly ordered him to chase them, chasing them every three days, and comparing them every five days, and the boards became heavier and heavier, which was both a punishment and a humiliation.

In short, at the government level, no one cares about the face of catching fast. If you catch fast and have no face in the official face, you will naturally be unscrupulous when you do evil things.

The common people were detained, and if they wanted to be less tortured, they had to be sent

"Foot Shoe Money",

"Wine and rice money". If the detainee does not want to go to the official for the time being, he has to give it

"Grace Money"

"Buy and lend money", and even if the plaintiff wants to withdraw the lawsuit, both sides have to be arrested quickly

"Say and money". Worse things are called

If there is a theft, the thief who catches it will often instruct the thief to climb his fingers more, and point out some peasant households who have no power but are wealthy as places to hide stolen goods and harbor stolen goods.

Of course, this kind of finger climbing will not let the county order know about it at first, but most of the farmers who are fingered will beg to find a way to catch it quickly, so that a large amount of money will come.

received money from others, and returned personal favors. The worst thing is to get a nameless corpse and put it at the door of some wealthy people in the middle of the night, who is blackened like this, even if the truth is later revealed, why should such an important position in the family be done by untouchables?

Because the work of catching quick work, in the eyes of the ancients, is a bad behavior, a work that offends people, and a kind of cheap karma.

Always have to arrest people and take people, always deal with bad people and bad things, serious people are destined to disdain this, so they can only let the untouchables do it.

Those who do bad things can only be bad people, so in ancient China, people also called catching fast

"Bad guys". In fact, not only China, but also the police of the ancient Greek city-states were also done by slaves, and if citizens committed crimes, they had to be arrested by low-status slaves.

Whenever there was a citizens' assembly, many citizens who were too lazy to come out to the meeting were also driven out by slaves with ropes.

Cheap business is done by the untouchables, and doing this kind of thing must be done in the name of the government, which is tantamount to allowing the untouchables to exercise public power.

Therefore, in fact, the catcher is extremely majestic among the people, and there is no shadow of cheapness at all. Take people and lock people at every turn, and whoever sees him is afraid of him.

The common people respect him as the master of catching fast, catching the man, and those who do business on the street must be filial piety on a regular basis and pay protection fees.

The position of catching fast is generally to be bought, and if you can't buy it, you don't want a quota, and you are willing to give up your civilian status to be a helper, and if you can't ask for help, you can do white service, and there is no penny of subsidies.

In many large counties, there are hundreds of gang servants and white servants. However, if you see the local squire, you still don't dare to make a mistake, and you have to give way a long time ago and bow down to say goodbye.

Even if they are poor and talented, if there is no will from the county order, they will not dare to touch it casually. As for the county magistrate, he never treated them as people, and he didn't say anything about them at will, if he had a case, if he couldn't solve it, he would bring the arrest quickly, and he picked up his pants and hit the board in public, and strictly ordered him to chase them, chasing them every three days, and comparing them every five days, and the boards became heavier and heavier, which was both a punishment and a humiliation.

In short, at the government level, no one cares about the face of catching fast. It's definitely broken. If you don't get it right, the head of the household may even go to jail and lose his life.

The second is to let prostitutes pretend to be women from good families to seduce passing merchants, and blackmail them in the name of abducting women. Both of these ways belong to the ancient ones

"Phishing Enforcement". The most common evil is the demand for money and food. Whenever they encountered peasant households who refused to pay their taxes happily, the catchers arrested the heads of these peasant households and locked them in their usual resting rooms, tortured them, starved them, beat and scolded them, forced them to eat feces and urine, and did everything they could.

It wasn't until the family of the arrested person couldn't stand it anymore and obediently handed over the money and food that they were put back.

Of course, you have to give the catchers an extra hard fee. The Qing Dynasty stipulated that local officials should restrict officials from going to the countryside as much as possible.

However, the big structure determines the pattern of sluts doing evil things, and there are no restrictions. And the slut itself is also caused by the system.

Artificial classification of some people as pariahs, and then let them do bad things, in order to divert the attention of the common people's resentment, in fact, the final resentment still has to fall on the ruler.

If you catch fast and have no face in the official face, you will naturally be unscrupulous when you do evil things. The common people were detained, and if they wanted to be less tortured, they had to be sent

"Foot Shoe Money",

"Wine and rice money". If the detainee does not want to go to the official for the time being, he has to give it

"Grace Money"

"Buy and lend money", and even if the plaintiff wants to withdraw the lawsuit, both sides have to be arrested quickly

"Say and money". Worse things are called

If there is a theft, the thief who catches it will often instruct the thief to climb his fingers more, and point out some peasant households who have no power but are wealthy as places to hide stolen goods and harbor stolen goods.

Of course, this kind of finger climbing will not let the county order know about it at first, but most of the farmers who are fingered will beg to find a way to catch it quickly, so that a large amount of money will come.

received money from others, and returned personal favors.