Escort agency is an organization dedicated to protecting people's property or personal safety. How did it come from?

The ancient escort agency was an organization dedicated to protecting property or personal safety. Also known as dart line. The ancient escort agency was also freight, which developed into modern logistics. However, the darts (goods) transported by ancient escort agencies are only precious things (such as rare treasures), and they do not transport ordinary items, so they must be protected by people who know kung fu.

Logistics can be transported as long as it is goods, and people who know kung fu are not needed, as long as the consignor can drive. This is the difference. In the history of China, it is similar to escort agency in nature, and it can be said to be a post station. The earliest post stations can be traced back to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. We know that the post station at that time was dedicated to escorting some letters to and from the imperial court.

It can be seen that the limitations of the post station are limited to the imperial court, and there is no guarantee mechanism for some commercial exchanges between the people. So in the early Qing Dynasty, with the rise of China's financial industry, escort agencies gradually appeared. Escort agency, also known as escort agency, is an organization that protects people's property or personal safety with money and martial arts.

In the old society, the traffic was inconvenient, and tourists were hard and unsafe, so there was a escort, which was the embryonic form of bodyguards in escort agencies. With the increasing complexity of social life, escort agencies undertake more and more extensive work. Not only will general private property be guaranteed, but the reimbursement paid by local officials will also be transported by escort agencies. Because the escort agencies have connections with various places or have semicolons, some remittance services are also undertaken by the escort agencies.

Later, guards, banks, etc. And the escort agency sent someone. The post station we mentioned just now is specially used to escort some letters coming and going from Chaoshan, forming the earliest letter dart; By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with the rise of the financial industry (the appearance of draft banks), the main business of escort agencies was to escort silver escorts for draft banks, forming two major escort agencies.

Silver darts and ticket darts; By the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the gradual decline of the ticket number, the main business objects of the Escort Agency were changed to some rich and distinguished guests who escorted some clothes, goods, jewelry and personal safety, and three dart systems, namely grain dart, material dart and personal dart, were formed, which was the six dart system adopted by the Escort Agency. There are six kinds of darts: letter darts, ticket darts, silver darts, grain darts, physical darts and human darts.

The boss of the escort agency has a wide range of people and a good relationship; Rich and powerful people (gangsters or lawless elements) dare not provoke them. If something goes wrong, the government will be flat, and the dart will be robbed and compensated. The big shopkeeper said an eagle-eyed but careful abacus; Be optimistic about the goods, the valuation is not outrageous, it is absolutely necessary to do something up and down, and the cost will never be wasted. As for the chief escort, they are generally well-known figures in the Jianghu, and they are either amazing in their artistic career or famous after retirement.