Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

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As he said that, Li Si told the truth about what he and Han Fei discovered yesterday, and then picked up the sixteen bamboo slips with great difficulty, and said, "Your Majesty, these are the first-level county guards and county lieutenants." There are at least hundreds of letters directed at county magistrates, magistrates, county lieutenants and other officials, which is at least five times more than in the past.”

Zhao Dan frowned, didn't speak, but said: "Bring these reports to the widow."

Zhao Dan looked at it very carefully. After he had read all the dozen reports, it was already more than half an hour later.

After reading it, Zhao Dan didn't have any expression on his face, but asked very calmly: "Are all the reports here like this?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Has it been confirmed?"

"Going back to the king, we are currently mobilizing people to confirm, but this time there are too many people involved, and it will take a long time."

"how long?"

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete all the verification work before New Year's Day."

Generally speaking, the results of the calculation will be announced before New Year's Day.

Zhao Dan was silent for a moment, and said very calmly: "The widow knows, you go back first. By the way, the reports that these widows have just read are kept, and you take the rest back."

After Li Si went back, Zhao Dan sent someone to call Mao Sui, and threw one of the reports in front of Mao Sui: "What's going on?"

Mao Sui was a little confused, so he took the report. After reading it, he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty, I will immediately send someone to find out the contents of this report."

Zhao Dan shook his head and said: "I don't want you to confirm the report, I just want to ask you, these courtiers of the widow are making such a fuss, don't you notice it at all?"

Beads of sweat appeared on Mao Sui's forehead, and he said: "Please give me three days, Your Majesty, and I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly."

Zhao Dan said in a deep voice, "I will give you a day."

Watching Mao Sui leave, Zhao Dan suddenly felt that it might not be a good idea to hand over the two organizations of Hu Yiwei and Supervisory Guard to Mao Sui.

This is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened. For example, before the Six Kingdoms attacked Qi, Zhao Guo did not receive any news. This is undoubtedly the negligence of Hu Yiwei, a foreign intelligence agency. There seems to be a problem with the internal surveillance guards.

Information is extremely important to any king. Without enough information, the kings will be blind and deaf, and they will be fooled by their ministers and other kings.

Mao Sui used the facts to prove one point, that is, the ability of the monitoring guard is not bad, because after only a short day, the information that Zhao Dan wanted was sent to the desk by Mao Sui.

Looking at this information, Zhao Dan gradually became serious.

In fact, Mao Sui has actually noticed some people through checking the eyes and ears of the palace these days, and it is precisely because of the checking of this matter that Mao Sui neglected the above-mentioned matters.

But fortunately, these two things are the same thing in the final analysis, that is, some ministers in Zhao Guozhong launched a far more fierce competition than before for the position of Longtai.

Or rather, partisanship.

The so-called party struggle means that officials form factions to attack each other, seek political interests for those in the same party, and at the same time spare no effort to suppress people from other parties.

This kind of factional struggle is actually of no benefit to the country and the king, because it will eventually evolve into "as long as it is another party's policy, we must oppose it, and as long as it is another party's minister, we must kill it."

For example, the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party in a certain imperialist country in later generations.

The result of this is that the courtiers will be obsessed with political struggles instead of doing some practical things for the country and the people.

For the current state of Zhao, this will cause extremely huge internal friction, which Zhao Dan absolutely cannot tolerate.

If the struggle between the commoner faction and the Gongzu faction was relatively peaceful before, this struggle has undoubtedly escalated now.

But if you think about it carefully, this kind of sign has actually appeared when Zhao Bao stepped down, and now it is just a concentrated conflict.

Zhao Dan thought for a while calmly, then suddenly asked: "Is the above situation true?"

Mao Sui patted his chest and said solemnly: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I guarantee with my life that it is absolutely true."

"Very good." Zhao Dan nodded slowly, without any expression on his face.

"Go and call Li Si into the palace. The widow has something to tell him. Also, from today onwards, you will mobilize all the forces of the monitoring guards to assist Li Si in this plan."

On October [-]th before the New Year's Day, the results of the calculations that all Zhao officials had been waiting for were finally announced.

Among the seven major departments controlled by the seven important ministers of the State of Zhao, Yu Xin's divisional affiliation became the last one this year.

Lian Meng, Yu Kang, Zheng Fan, Le Feng and other ministers of Zhao State were either dismissed or dismissed because of many illegal things, or were demoted because they failed the assessment.

In addition, another incident happened in Zhao's palace. Mrs. Zheng was once again severely reprimanded by the queen. Not only was her salary reduced, but her rank was also downgraded from Mrs. Zheng, who was second only to the queen, to Concubine Zheng.

On the day when the results of the above plan were announced, Zhao Dan also announced another matter.

"Northern Economic Strategy Envoy Li Mu, Central Army Northern Army Zhonglang General Ju Xin Gong is loyal to the country, and has made great contributions to the widow and Zhao Guo. Li Mu was promoted to the governor of the seven northern counties, and Ju Xin was promoted to the deputy general of the Central Army. The two can enter the army immediately. Discuss on the Longtai."

As soon as this news was announced, it immediately shocked the officials of Zhao Guowu who came to participate in the last big court meeting this year.

It can be said that Li Mu's selection is not surprising at all, but what is surprising is that Zhao Dan has added two places this time, and the second place is not given to Le Cheng, who was originally thought to be able to compete with Li Mu, but to A drama that everyone thinks is hopeless!

Li Mu was fine, but Ju Xin felt like the world was falling apart. When he thanked Zhao Dan for paying homage, he was so excited that he was speechless.

After some soothing words, the two new important ministers sat in their new positions.

Looking at the silent main hall of Longtai, Zhao Dan glanced over the faces of every courtier, as sharp as a blade, which made many people feel breathless.

"The world is uncertain today, but there are always some people who like to fight for power behind the scenes, regardless of the overall situation of the country. I don't like this very much. I hope that from now on, all the noble families can unite and continue to fight for the hegemony of Zhao Guo. Don’t confine yourself to the country, and don’t just know how to form cliques and fight against dissidents!”

As soon as Zhao Dan said these words, some of Zhao Guo's important ministers turned pale, some were uncertain, and some were smiling.

What makes everyone feel at ease is that Zhao Dan doesn't seem to want to continue to pursue the matter, otherwise, the second or even the third Zhao Bao may appear.

No one wants to be the next Zhao Bao, so this seems to be good news for everyone.

This incident taught many people a lesson. Under the persecution of their own king, the ministers of Zhao State finally had to temporarily shift their attention away from the domestic struggle for power and profit, and once again turned to foreign countries.

Chapter 798 Entering Qilian Mountains West (Second Update)

Another year of winter passed, the earth rejuvenated and all things recovered. A loud and clear eagle's cry came from the sky of the cloudless prairie, scaring the wild sheep on the ground to flee in panic.

Just a few miles behind these wild sheep, a long cavalry army was advancing along the vast prairie towards the northwest, splashing billowing smoke and dust.

In the middle army of this cavalry army, Yiqu Sheng, the current monarch of Yiqu Kingdom, and the northern governor of Zhao Kingdom, rode horses and walked side by side surrounded by many guards.

This time they were leading a coalition of [-] cavalry from Zhao and Yiqu.

A loud eagle cry sounded, and then the black eagle descended from the sky and landed on Yi Qusheng's outstretched arm.

Yi Qusheng laughed loudly, and touched Hei Ying's head affectionately, in a very intimate manner.

Li Mu looked at this scene with some curiosity, and said to Yi Qusheng: "When did you get this habit of raising eagles?"

Yiqu City laughed when he heard the words, and said to Li Mu proudly: "Don't you think raising an eagle is a very cool thing? As a king, my dream is to be like this eagle, flying across the nine heavens." above!"