In May in Handan, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. There were continuous showers a few days ago, and in an instant it was hit by a high sun.
Zhao Yong was wearing only a thin robe and was sleeping among the pile of letters in the side hall. His forehead was soaked with sweat and his face was flushed. He seemed to be still thinking about the complicated political affairs in his dream.
Prime Minister Zhao Bao had been buried ten days ago in the Zhao family's ancestral tomb on the outskirts of Handan. Zhao Yong personally inscribed him and posthumously named him Yihou.
All of his diplomatic responsibilities were temporarily taken over by Zhao Yong. Zhao Yong also ordered that from then on, all administrative affairs of officials in various parts of Zhao State need to be presented directly to him.
However, imagination is beautiful. Only after Zhao Yong took over did he realize...this life is really too difficult.
Although today's information carriers are cumbersome and the dissemination of information is inconvenient, there are still more than fifty miscellaneous official documents from all over the country in such a large Zhao country on average every day. These days, those thick simple books can stand as tall as a person. Moreover, approval should not be taken carelessly. Even if he approves dozens of words for an official document, it is still a huge workload.
It wouldn't matter if it was a time of peace, but at this moment, what he needs to focus on is not only ordinary government affairs, but also the more important military.
Without Xiangbang, he would be exhausted.
But before the new national political system is implemented, he can only bear it temporarily.
Anyway, Zhao Yong didn't sleep well these past few days. Even the bride was left out. In his dream, he could still recall that beautiful face full of sadness at that moment, which made him feel heartbroken.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." A voice suddenly fell from the sky.
Zhao Yong suddenly turned over and climbed up. In his confusion, he saw the gray-haired Chen Zhong standing in front of him with a bow.
After a while, he came back to his senses, swallowed his saliva and said, "I fell asleep while sitting...it's so hot today!" As he said that, he casually wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeves. .
Chen Zhong stepped forward, took the wooden fan from the palace man next to him, and while fanning Zhao Yong, said: "Several ministers are already waiting for the king outside the palace."
Zhao Yong held his forehead and nodded slightly. After a moment, he stood up and said to the palace maid beside him: "Change the court clothes for me."
"Here."
...More than twenty important ministers of the Zhao court were already waiting in the meeting hall, including not only the clan ministers headed by Anping Lord Zhao Cheng, but also the newly promoted foreign dignitaries represented by Su Qin, Wu Guang, and Pang Nuan.
But without exception, these people are all from the ruling class above the nobles.
However, everyone looked worried at this time. Even Pang Nuan, the young and successful Lord of Wuyang, looked serious.
"The king has arrived!" The eunuch's sharp voice suddenly sounded.
The ministers hurriedly recovered their thoughts, turned around, and bowed their heads respectfully.
Zhao Yong came up and looked down at the ministers. He saw the faces of the people and had some idea of their concerns.
This time he summoned all the ministers to ensure three things.
One: implement a new national government system, establish three officials and nine ministers, and promote "three provinces" and six ministries!
However, what is different from the Sangong and Jiuqing and the Three Provinces and Six Ministries in later generations is that the Sangong and the Nine Qings only retained the actual power of the Three Gongs. In addition, Zhao Yong also decided to directly remove the three provinces, abolish their actual rights and change the cabinet.
The three princes are: Da Sima, Da Situ, and Yushi Dafu.
Among the nine ministers, Fengchang, Langzhongling, Weiwei, Taipu, Tingwei, Dianke, Zongzheng, Neishi, and Shaofu were merged into six departments: officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and work.
Zhao Yong had already decided to launch the new system before, but considering that his prestige at the time was not enough to meet the shock brought by this change.
At the same time, Prime Minister Zhao Bao is also the greatest balance.
But at this time, he felt that the time was ripe. The success of military reform, the concentration of military power, the accumulated momentum of several personal expeditions, the defeat of barbarians, the killing of tigers and wolves, and the defeat of foreign powers all brought his prestige to its peak.
In addition, Zhao Bao's sudden death made him feel that a major change was necessary to resolve the subsequent turmoil.
Of course, for those in power, any reform is to continuously strengthen the royal power and consolidate dynastic rule. In addition, it is to strengthen the central government's rule over local areas.
In this turbulent and changeable era, each vassal state has its own set of governance methods, and they are all groping for the correct system.
Zhao Yong not only had the foundation, but also caught the general trend, so he decided to get it done in one step. Take advantage of this and abolish the prime minister.
Zhao Yong believes that at the current stage, the cabinet system is even more suitable than any dynasty in later generations.
First of all, the establishment of the cabinet system represented Zhao Yong's decentralization and distribution of royal power. In this era of great contention, it can further stimulate the fighting spirit of knowledgeable people.
The most important thing is the distribution of power. Compared with the power of the prime minister, although the power of the cabinet is heavy, it is undoubtedly more dispersed. As far as the political system is concerned, the cabinet system only performs part of the political power on behalf of the monarch. It does not compete with or even affect the royal power like the power of the prime minister. The cabinet system is just a link between officials and the ruler. Its power is given by the ruler. Therefore, once the ruler wants to take it back, the cabinet system has no choice but to do anything.
There will not be a battle between prime ministerial power and royal power like in later generations.
Da Sima is the original position of Zhao State. His duty is to be the highest official in charge of Zhao State's military. He is the highest military officer in the country and is in charge of military and political affairs in the world. Zhao Yong decided that Dingyang Jun Feiyi would still be in charge.
The new official positions of Da Situ and Yushi Dafu were established.
Although the Zhao State has the post of Situ, it has never had a chief Situ.
The responsibilities of the Great Situ are also completely different from those of the Situ in the ordinary sense. In fact, they are similar to those of the Prime Minister, but his direct rights are divided by the Imperial Censor.
The duties of the imperial censor are to accept the official reports on behalf of the royal power, manage important national atlases and classics, and draft edicts on behalf of the imperial court. His duties and powers have always been vested in the prime minister.
In addition, the imperial censor also had the responsibility of supervising all officials, which was equivalent to integrating Korean martial arts into it.
The Chief Situ was appointed by Zhao Cheng, Lord of Anping, and the Chief Imperial Officer was appointed by Su Qin, Lord of Wu'an. In addition, the Sikou and old official positions were abolished, and among the six ministries, a new Yushitai was established, and the Metropolitan Inspectorate was merged into it.
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The six ministers were directly appointed by Zhao Yong, and the orders of the six ministers directly served the royal power.
Second, implement a new military system and increase the intensity of farming warfare: newly add the generals (whose titles and responsibilities are the same as those of the Grand Sima), the hussar generals (to command the national cavalry troops), and the chariot generals (to command the national chariot troops). ), General Wei (in charge of the imperial army).
There are generals on the left, generals on the right, generals on the front, and generals on the rear. Their title is second only to the minister.
There are four generals, as well as many miscellaneous generals and partial generals.
Feiyi is also a general, and Pang Nuan is a hussar general.
Third, the State of Zhao will thoroughly implement the county system: the entire territory of the State of Zhao is divided into seven counties: Shangjun, Taiyuan County, Shangdang County, Daijun, Jiuyuan County, Yanmen County and the plain political center where the Department of Internal History is located in Handan.
Yanmen and Jiuyuan include the old places with lush water and grass such as Loufan and Linhu, which means that they will soon become the territory of Zhao State.
The seven counties govern a total of 105 counties.
There are naturally some die-hards with old-fashioned ideas. But they failed to stop the Hufu Cavalry and Shooting last time. How can they resist this new state system?
Following the trend, once the decree was promulgated, the implementation of the new system was quickly implemented throughout the Zhao Kingdom.
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This reform of Zhao State does not seem to have caused many waves among the Chinese countries.
Just because the pace of the countries has now completely fallen into the quagmire of war.
This summer is destined to be troubled.
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The capital of Qi State is Linzi.
King Tian Bijiang of Qi took advantage of the chaos in Yan to intervene in Yan's internal affairs. Unexpectedly, he had just taken the capital of Yan and received a heavy blow.
When the Qi army crossed Laishui north, they were ambushed by the new prime minister of Yan State at night. They lost tens of thousands of soldiers in the battle and returned in defeat.
Prince Kuai of Yan defeated the Qi army and ascended to the throne of King Yan with the support of all the officials of the Yan state.
Seeing the defeat of the Qi army, Ji Xie, the 'Pseudo King of Yan', immediately fled from Jidu. After many twists and turns, he fled to Laizi for refuge.
In the palace of the King of Linzi, King Tian Bijiang of Qi warmly entertained King Yan who was "forced away". Faced with the cry of the down-and-out King Yan, Tian Bijiang immediately promised to uphold "justice" even at the expense of national power.
Qi State will once again mobilize its army to relieve Yan State's difficulties.
After Ji Xie retreated, Qi Prime Minister Tian Ying immediately asked the King of Qi with a puzzled face: "I don't understand why the king would agree to this king of subjugation again?"
"What do you think I should do?" Tian Bijiang said.
"If your Majesty is really serious, why did you transfer General Kuang Zhang back from the front line? Otherwise, how could our Qi army be defeated by the Yan army? Thirty thousand Qi soldiers were sent to a foreign land for nothing." Tian Ying said.
Tian Bijiang shook his head and looked at the briefing in his hand without answering the other party.
Tian Ying was about to say something more, but his sleeve was tugged by a teenage boy beside him.
The young man whispered to Tian Ying: "Father may not know the king's deep meaning."
Although the young man's voice was small, it still reached King Qi's ears.
Tian Bijiang, who was at the head, chuckled lightly, turned to the young man and asked, "Wen'er has any great opinions. You might as well tell them to clear up the confusion for me and the Prime Minister."
Tian Ying also stared at the youngest son beside him with a puzzled look.
Although he knew that he, the youngest son of a concubine, had always had a unique background, he still made up his mind. If Tian Wen couldn't explain why this time and made himself embarrassed in front of the king, he would definitely teach this traitor a lesson when he returned home. Fan.
Tian Wen first bowed to his superior, Tian Bijiang, and then bowed to his father, Tian Ying: "I don't understand the King's high opinion. I just boldly guessed the King's intention."
Tian Bijiang nodded.
Tian Wen continued: "I believe that the reason why the king sent General Kuang Zhang back to the country was because he was defeated by the Yan army on purpose..."
"Shut up, Shuzi, don't continue to talk nonsense..." Tian Ying immediately interrupted.
Tian Wen looked at his father with an innocent face.
While Tian Ying was scolding his son, he did not notice that a look of shock appeared on the face of the superior Tian Bijiang.
"Xiangbang!" Tian Bijiang suddenly spoke, "Let Wen'er continue."
Tian Ying looked at his son in confusion, then at the king, and had no choice but to shut up.
Tian Wen received the support of King Qi and continued to bow to his father and said: "My son is a general who has experienced hundreds of battles. I guess that the king must know that the reason why the sheep is sent to the tiger's mouth must be intentional. For What I want is for our country, Qi, to achieve great justice."
"Hahahahaha!" Tian Bijiang laughed suddenly and stared at Tian Wendao with interest: "You are right, I want to feed this piece of meat to the Yan Kingdom."
"I'm confused!" Tian Ying said immediately.
King Qi narrowed his eyes and smiled coldly at Tian Ying: "You are worse than a young son. If the Qi army is undefeated, why would King Yan come to my country of Qi? If King Yan doesn't come to ask for help, how can I have an excuse to silkworm silkworms?" Destroy the Yan State? I have no time to deal with the chaos of other countries, so it is my wish to help the Qi State expand its territory... If there are no 30,000 troops to kill the Yan State, how can I show my true anger?"
Tian Wen bowed to King Qi with excitement on his face: "It is just and justified for the king to send a large army to attack and destroy Yan!"
Tian Ying stared blankly at the king above him, and his heart suddenly shuddered.
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The capital of Ba Kingdom, Danshan City (now Xuyong, Sichuan).
The former Batu Jiangzhou City has never been recovered since it was occupied by the Chu State ten years ago. The people of Pakistan, who were oppressed step by step, had to move back to their old capital in the southwest.
Although they had been suffering from war for a long time, the Ba people, who would rather cut off their heads than cut off the city, never gave up their goal.
As the only official prince in the southwest who was entrusted by the Zhou royal family, the Ba people have always had their own pride in their hearts.
However, that despicable Chongguo!
This rebellion, which comes from the same origin as him, has now repeatedly colluded with the barbarians of the Shu Kingdom to encroach on his own suzerainty.
Fortunately, those Shu barbarians are not monolithic, especially the greedy Marquis Ju...
Bawang Jizhen was looking at the silk book in his hand with excitement. Not long after, he suddenly burst into laughter.
Ba Hongzi beside him was also staring at his king with a smile on his face.
When Ji Zhan's laughter stopped, Ba Hongzi bowed solemnly and said: "Your Majesty, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We need to send troops quickly. I am willing to be the vanguard for your Majesty. I will not surrender the capital and will never return!"
As a hero of the Ba Kingdom and a direct descendant of Ba Manzi, Ba Hongzi has always regarded his grandfather's spirit as the goal of his struggle.
Ji Zhan nodded, he was very pleased with Ba Hongzi's attitude. However, as a ruler, he still has some different ideas.
"The sudden death of Queen Du, the king of Shu, and the chaos in Shu are indeed a God-given opportunity, but...if Qin and Chu intervene..."
Ba Hongzi immediately opened his mouth and analyzed: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the Qin State has always been on good terms with the Ju State. We, Ba and Ju, allied forces to attack the Chong State. The Qin State has no reason to help the weak Chong State. And after the Hangu Battle, the Qin State has already We are unable to interfere in the national affairs of Bashu anymore. And Chu State is currently at war with Qin State in Shang Dynasty, and has no intention of looking westward."
Ji Zhan stared at Kanyu Tu in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he remained silent for a long time.
"As long as Chongguo can be destroyed in this battle, our country of Ba will be able to take advantage of the geographical advantage and form an advantage over Shu!" Ba Hongzi said forcefully.
"Okay, you will send a message to Juhou immediately, and our country of Ba will immediately recruit troops and attack them!" Ji Zhan said in a deep voice.
