Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Three birds with one stone.

Although these thoughts are extremely complicated, it only takes a few seconds to sort them out in Zhao Bao's mind.

After all the calculations, Zhao Bao stood up and began to fight for his own reasons.

However, to Zhao Bao's surprise, Zhao Dan didn't play cards according to common sense at all.

To be honest, Zhao Dan has been wanting to move Zhao Bao, the Sikou, for some time.

Without him, it's really because Zhao Bao's position as the commander now, his power is too great.

You must know that if the power in Zhao Bao's body is placed hundreds of years later, it can be divided into three institutions: the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Yushitai.

But now the power of these three organizations is all concentrated in the hands of Zhao Bao.

This is undoubtedly very unhealthy.

The so-called centralization of power should mean concentrating power in the hands of the monarch, Zhao Dan, rather than concentrating power in the hands of courtiers like Zhao Bao.

This is what Han Feizi said: "A ruler of the right way does not value his ministers. If he is noble and rich, he will replace him."

If the country is regarded as a big tree, then the monarch is the trunk, the ministers are the branches, and the people are the pages.

If the power of the ministers is too strong, then there will be a phenomenon of strong branches and weak stems.That is to say, "The branches are big and the roots are small, and the spring breeze is unstoppable. If the spring breeze is unstoppable, the branches will hurt the heart. Since there are many sons, the clan is worried."

The reason why the state of Jin was divided up by the three families of Wei, Zhao, and Han was precisely because the power of the state of Jin was not in the hands of the king of Jin, but was controlled by the six ministers who were ministers.

Therefore, Zhao Dan has been looking for an opportunity, an opportunity to "lighten" Zhao Bao.

Now it seems that this opportunity has appeared.

In fact, what Zhao Bao didn't know was that all of the present was led by Zhao Dan.

This is a pit, just waiting for Zhao Bao to jump in.

It's not that Zhao Dan is treacherous and intends to dig a hole on purpose. If Zhao Dan directly talks to Zhao Bao and asks Zhao Bao to give up his power, will Zhao Bao let it?

Zhao Bao definitely won't.

Let any official give up a little power in his hands, it will make the official feel worse than death.

Eat the meat in your mouth, and want to spit it out?

Why?

I, Zhao Bao Si Kou, did a good job, why should your king cut my power when you say it?It's unreasonable!

If Zhao Dan was a monarch who had already established a strong majesty throughout the country like Qin Wangji, let alone cutting power, just a word could kill Zhao Bao.

But Zhao Dan is not that kind of monarch. Zhao Dan is just a young monarch who has just been on the throne for six years and has barely consolidated his power.

Under such circumstances, if Zhao Dan wanted to cut Zhao Bao's power, he had to find some reason, he had to dig a hole for Zhao Bao to jump in, and then he could justifiably cut his power.

The pit was dug, and Zhao Bao jumped, so what are you waiting for?

Hang up!

So Zhao Dan slapped his thigh fiercely, and smiled at Zhao Bao: "That's right, I forgot. Come on, Mr. Pingyang, tell me, what should this Sima say?"

Zhao Bao thought for a while, and said: "Determine according to the laws of the country. Anyone who betrays the country will be punished and his three tribes will be exiled."

Although the current state of Zhao is not governed by legalists, in fact, the state of Zhao has already had its own laws, and it is 200 years earlier than the well-known Qin state that "uses laws to strengthen itself" in later generations.

This is the law of the country mentioned in Zhao Baocai's words.

The predecessor of the national law came from 513 BC. At that time, Zhao Yang and Xun Yin, two of the six officials of the Jin Dynasty, resisted all opinions and engraved the Xing Shu revised by Fan Xuanzi on the top of the bronze tripod. In fact, this is the so-called "Zhao Xun cast Xun Ding".

This is also the second time that the whole of China has promulgated a formal law after Zheng Guo's "Zi Chan Zhu Ding".

It is interesting to say that after Zhao and Xun cast the punishment tripod, Confucius, the most sage of Confucianism, criticized the two, saying: "Jin Qi is dead! I lost my degree, and now I abandon it. It is a punishment tripod, and the people In the tripod, why is it honorable? What is the honor of the profession? The noble and the humble are out of order, so what is the country?"

This cast punishment tripod laid the legal foundation of the state of Jin, and after the division of Jin, it was evolved and developed by the three states of Wei, Zhao, and Han. Wei state had Wei Xian, South Korea had punishment symbols, and Zhao state was the national law.

In later generations, there will always be people who think that legalism is equal to law, and that where legalism is in power, there will be law. This is actually a very wrong point of view.

In addition to the Three Jins, the Qi State had seven laws, and the Chu State had constitutional decrees, which also had a relatively complete legal system at that time.

The verdict made by Zhao Bao is based on the national law of Zhao State.

Zhao Dan laughed immediately after hearing Zhao Bao's words, and said to Mao Sui and the others, "You must have heard what Si Kou said, why don't you bring Sima Shuo and others to justice?"

So amidst the grievances of Sima Shuo and others, more than a dozen monitoring guards mercilessly dragged them out of the hall.

After a while, several bloody human heads were presented on the plate.

There was complete silence in the hall, and dozens of ministers of the Zhao Kingdom looked at the dead heads, and they felt a little cold in their hearts.

Even though this monarch is young, he really doesn't even bat an eye when he kills someone!

Unknowingly, many ministers of Zhao State began to look at Zhao Dan with a little awe.

But the other ministers were in awe, but Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao did not have such awe.

For a Si Kou who is in charge of the power of prison picketing, in what year will hundreds of people not be sentenced to death?

In fact, Zhao Bao was not only not in awe, but also a little dissatisfied in his heart.

Dissatisfaction with Zhao Dan.

Just say it if you are upset.

So Zhao Bao started talking.

Chapter 123 Supervising guards, superfluous

What dissatisfaction does Zhao Bao have?The reasons for dissatisfaction are, firstly, because of Zhao Dan's usurpation of the judicial power, and secondly, because of the supervisory guard.

The issue of judicial power was solved after Zhao Dan asked Zhao Bao's opinion or asked Zhao Bao to make a trial and killed Sima Shuo and others who rebel against the party. At least it has passed.

But the monitoring guard is not done yet.

Zhao Bao has known the Supervising Guards organization for some time, but at the beginning Zhao Bao didn't take the Supervisory Guards organization seriously until today.

Just when Zhao Dan took the information brought by the surveillance guard and read one by one, it was not only Sima Shuo himself who was shocked, Zhao Bao was also extremely shocked.

In this situation, everyone knows that what Zhao Dan read about Sima is true, and the source of these contents is undoubtedly these supervisory guards.

These monitoring guards can actually stare at a minister in such a detailed manner, and even know what the minister is going to do and who he is dealing with!