Mongke's Chinese advisors reform the postal system

1262

The Yuan administration established a relay network of post stations across Eurasia, providing food, fresh horses, and lodging for imperial couriers and merchants with proper passes. A letter could travel from Karakorum to Tabriz in weeks. The network glued the Mongol world together. At its peak the system maintained over fourteen hundred stations, each stocked with horses, oxen, and provisions, connecting the empire's far-flung provinces.