Li Si is a person who does what he says, so the next morning, he entered the palace with a cart of slips.

Zhao Dan looked at the appearance of Li Si ordering the palace guards of Zhao State to carry several large baskets of slips, and his face couldn't help but be a little weird: "What are you doing here, isn't there enough paper on the lieutenant's side?" ”

Li Si smiled and said, "King, paper is such a precious thing, how can it be used in these places?" When the time came, the minister would transcribe it on paper and present it to the king. ”

Regarding Li Si's performance, Zhao Dan could only shake his head speechlessly.

From the first day of its appearance, all the ministers of Zhao who had used paper were completely impressed by this magical and convenient thing.

As a result, many important ministers of Zhao State used their tools for private use, and used the paper sent every month as their own use, and their subordinates could only use simple slips or something.

Zhao Dan does not intend to be too harsh on this, after all, the output of paper mills has been rising year after year, and now it has begun to slowly become popular in Handan City.

At the same time, there are several shops quietly began to sell paper in Handan City, although the quality of the paper is much worse than that of Zhao Guo's official, but it can indeed be used, so it is also in short supply.

With the first person to eat crabs, there will be second, third, and even more.

Merchants always had a keen sense of smell, so after realizing the ease of use and mass production of paper, some people began to do everything possible to find out the secret recipes, and bought back a large amount of paper for their craftsmen to study how to make it.

All in all, paper is still something that ordinary people can't afford, but Zhao Dan believes that with the thirst for profits and the expansion of large-scale production, paper will one day become all over the world.

And Zhao Guoguan actually has a lot of benefits in this, for example, the controller behind the few shops that sold paper in Handan City at the beginning was actually Zhao Dan himself.

The emperor's family has no food left.

In fact, Zhao Dan is now planning to set up a private institution like Shaofu to take care of his property and that of King Zhao's family.

Private money, a word that makes any man sound excited.

Throwing away the thought in his mind that he didn't know where it had gone, Zhao Dan looked at Li Si in front of him and said, "Entering the palace today, could it be that something happened to the plan?" ”

Just looking at the carriage slip brought by Li Si, Zhao Dan knew that there must be a problem with the plan, and the problem must not be small.

This was actually quite surprising to Zhao Dan.

After all, in Zhao Dan's opinion, the officials of the Legalist family should be relatively reliable, capable of doing things, and not afraid of offending people, which can be seen from the confrontation between Li Si and Zheng Zhu last year.

But now that Li Si has actually entered the palace and brought so many things, it proves that Li Si himself has encountered something that he can't solve.

Li Si smiled bitterly and said, "The king doesn't know, this time's plan is really weird." ”

As he spoke, Li Si told the original story of what he found with Han Fei yesterday, and then picked up the sixteen slips with great difficulty, and said: "Great King, these are the local senior officials who rank at the level of county guards and county lieutenants, and the rest are aimed at at the county magistrates, county lieutenants, and even other officials, at least hundreds, which are at least five times more than when they were counted in the past. ”

Zhao Dan frowned, and did not speak, but said, "Take these reports to the widow to see." ”

Zhao Dan read it very carefully, and when he read all the more than a 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: "Is this the case with all the reports here?" ”

"Yes, King."

"Have you confirmed everything?"

"Back to the king, we are dispatching people to confirm it, but this time there are too many people involved, and it will take a long time."

"How long?"

"I'm afraid it's going to be hard to get all the verification work done before New Year's Day."

Normally, the results of the above calculations will be announced before New Year's Day.

Zhao Dan was silent for a moment, and said very calmly: "The widow knows, you should go back first." By the way, all the reports that these widows have just read are kept, and the rest are brought 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 took the report a little unclearly, and after reading it, he paused for a moment, and then said: "The king, the minister will immediately send someone to find out the contents of this report. ”

Zhao Dan shook his head and said, "The widow doesn't want you to confirm any report, the widow wants to ask you, now these courtiers of the widow are making such a scene, don't you notice it at all?" ”

Beads of sweat broke out on Mao Sui's forehead, and he said, "Please give the minister three days, and the minister will definitely investigate this matter clearly." ”

Zhao Dan said in a deep voice: "The widow will give you a day." ”

Looking at the departing Mao Sui, Zhao Dan suddenly felt that perhaps it was not a good idea to hand over all the two major organizations of Hu Yiwei and Supervision Wei to Mao Sui.

This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, for example, before the Six Kingdoms invaded Qi, Zhao Guo did not receive any news at all, which is undoubtedly the dereliction of duty of Hu Yiwei, a foreign intelligence agency, and this time the situation shows that there seems to be a problem with the internal supervision and guard.

Intelligence is extremely important to any king, and without enough information, the king is blind and deaf, and he will become the object of fooling his courtiers and other kings.

Mao Sui proved one thing with facts, that is, the ability to supervise the guard was actually not bad, because just one day later, the information that Zhao Dan wanted had been sent to the desk by Mao Sui.

Zhao Dan looked at this information, and his expression gradually became solemn.

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

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

Or rather, partisanship.

The so-called party struggle is when officials form parties to attack each other and seek political benefits for their fellow party members, while sparing no effort to suppress people from other party groups.

In fact, this kind of party struggle is not beneficial to the state and the king at all, because it will inevitably evolve into "as long as it is the policy of other party, we must oppose it, and as long as it is the courtiers of other party, we must be killed." ”

For example, the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party of an imperialist country in later generations.

The result of this is that the courtiers will be obsessed with engaging in political struggles, rather than doing some practical things for the country and the people.

For the current Zhao Guo, this will cause extremely huge internal friction, which Zhao Dan will never be able to tolerate.

If the struggle between the Buyi faction and the Gong clan faction was relatively mild before, now this struggle has undoubtedly escalated.

However, if you think about it carefully, in fact, this kind of sign appeared when Zhao Bao stepped down, and now it is just a concentrated outbreak of contradictions.

Zhao Dan thought calmly for a while, and suddenly said, "Is this all true?" ”

Mao Sui patted his chest and swore and said: "Please rest assured, the king's guarantee of his life is absolutely true." ”

"Good." Zhao Dan nodded slowly, and there was no expression on his face.

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

On October 30, before the New Year's Day, the results of the plan that all the officials of Zhao had been waiting for were finally announced.

Among the seven major departments controlled by the seven important ministers of the Zhao State, Yu Xin's Si Kou became the penultimate this year.

A number of ministers of Zhao State, such as Lian Meng, Yu Kang, Zheng Fan, and Le Feng, were either removed from their posts and dismissed because of many illegal things, or demoted because they failed to pass the assessment.

In addition, there was another incident in the palace of Zhao State, Madame Zheng was once again severely reprimanded by the queen, not only her treatment was reduced, but her rank was also downgraded from Madame Zheng to Zheng Concubine, who was second only to the queen.

On the day the results of the above calculation were announced, Zhao Dan also announced another thing.

"Li Mu, the envoy of the Northern Economic Strategy of the Central Army, and the Zhonglang General of the Northern Army of the Central Army, Ju Xin Gong, were loyal to the country, and made great contributions to the widow and Zhao Guoguo, and promoted Li Mu to the governor of the seven northern counties, and promoted Ju Xin to the deputy general of the Central Army, and the two of them can enter Longtai from now on."

As soon as this news was announced, it immediately shook the civil and military officials of Zhao State who came to participate in the last great court meeting of the year.

Li Mu's selection can be said to be not surprising at all, but what is surprising is that Zhao Dan has increased two places this time, and the second place is not for Lecheng who originally thought that he could compete with Li Mu, but for the drama Xin who everyone felt was hopeless!

Li Mu is okay, Ji Xin simply feels like a pie in the world, and when he thanked Zhao Dan for his salute, he was even so excited that he couldn't speak.

After some warm words of comfort, the two new ministers sat down in their new positions.

Zhao Dan looked at the silent Longtai main hall, his gaze swept over the faces of every courtier, as sharp as a blade, making many people feel a kind of breathless pressure.

"For example, today is undecided, but there are always some people who like to fight for power and profit behind their backs, ignoring the overall situation of the country, and the widow does not like it very much. The widow hopes that from now on, all of you will be able to unite and continue to fight for the hegemony of Zhao State, not limited to the country, let alone only know that gangs and factions are formed, and the party is the same and different! ”

As soon as Zhao Dan's words came out, some of the important ministers of Zhao State turned pale, some were uncertain, and some were smiling.

What made everyone feel reassuring was that Zhao Dan didn't seem to have any intention of continuing to investigate, otherwise, the second or even third Zhao Bao might appear.

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

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

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