Looking at Zhao Bao in front of him, Zhao Dan subconsciously smacked his lips.

Since he had already envisaged the situation in front of him, it was certainly impossible for Zhao Dan to be unprepared for this.

In fact, not only Zhao Dan, but even Zhao Bao himself was ready to meet Zhao Dan's anger.

But from Zhao Bao himself, he is actually not too afraid of Zhao Dan's anger.

Why?

Because Zhao Bao felt that he was justified.

Everything in the world is inseparable from a rational word, as the so-called reason goes all over the world, and it is difficult to move an inch without reason.

Whether it is self-cultivation or self-cultivation, education and education, or even governing the country, it is inseparable from a rational word.

This reason, as far as this matter is concerned, it is the legal law of Zhao State.

What does the law of Zhao State say? It stipulates that matters such as prison proceedings and picketing are under the jurisdiction of the Celebrity.

This is the reason of Zhao Guo and the reason of Zhao Bao.

With this reason in hand, Zhao Bao has the confidence to sing against the king Zhao Dan.

Reason is both law and norm.

It delineates the power to which the Si Kou belongs, and it is like a barrier that firmly limits the power of the Si Ko and cannot be exceeded.

But when someone wants to put their hand into the territory to which the Sikou belongs, this kind of fence becomes a kind of protection, because inside the fence is the Sikou's own land.

The monarch Zhao Dan put his hand into the fence and destroyed this "reason".

So Zhao Bao, who was in the fence, stood up and expressed his opposition.

Zhao Bao felt that he was justified.

If it is justified, it will be supported.

With the support of the other ministers of the Zhao State.

Today, Zhao Dan, the monarch, can reach out to Si Kou's belonging, tomorrow he can reach out to Yushi's belonging, the day after tomorrow he can reach out to the lieutenant's belonging, and so on.

So Zhao Dan is unreasonable.

One is reasonable, the other is unreasonable, who will the ministers support, isn't it a very obvious thing?

Once most of the ministers of Zhao State are on Zhao Bao's side, even with Zhao Dan's monarchy, it will be difficult to confront him.

This is the power of reason.

Reason is not only a rule, but also a benefit, and you can get benefits by abiding by the rules, which is also a way of expressing reason.

In the opinion of the reasonable Zhao Bao, the unreasonable Zhao Dan wanted to break this rule, but he was too impatient and naïve.

In such a political struggle, impatience and naivety, that comes at a price.

Although Zhao Bao is absolutely loyal to Zhao Dan, this does not mean that Zhao Bao will obey Zhao Dan.

No official or institution will willingly give up his power, because the word official is synonymous with power.

Power is everything for officials.

So Zhao Bao decided to make Zhao Dan pay the price for this unreasonableness.

A small lesson.

It will not make Zhao Dan too jealous, and it can keep the power of Zhao Bao's Sikou, and at the same time, it can also enhance Zhao Bao's influence in the political arena of Zhao State.

Kill three birds with one stone.

Although these thoughts were extremely complicated, they were actually sorted out in Zhao Bao's mind in just a few seconds.

After completely calculating, Zhao Bao stood up and began to fight for his own reason.

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

To be honest, Zhao Dan has wanted to move Zhao Bao for a while.

Without him, it is really because of Zhao Bao's position now, his power is inevitably too great.

You must know that if the power on Zhao Bao's body is placed in a few hundred years, it can be split into three institutions: the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and Yushitai.

But now the power of these three institutions is all concentrated in Zhao Bao's hands.

This is undoubtedly very unhealthy.

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

This is what "Han Feizi" said: "The king of the Tao is not a noble minister." The rich will be replaced. ”

If the state is seen as a big tree, then the king 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 branches. That is, "the branches are big and the roots are small, and they are not better than the spring breeze." If you don't win the spring breeze, the branches will hurt your heart. The son is both many, and the clan is worried. ”

The reason why the Jin State was divided by the Wei, Zhao and Han families was precisely because the power of the Jin State was not in the hands of the Jin monarch, but was controlled by the Liu Qing as a courtier.

Therefore, Zhao Dan has been looking for an opportunity, a chance to "reduce the burden" of Zhao Bao.

Now, it seems that the opportunity has already appeared.

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

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

It's not that Zhao Dan is treacherous and wants to deliberately dig a pit, if Zhao Dan talks to Zhao Bao directly and asks Zhao Bao to give up power, will Zhao Bao let it?

Zhao Bao definitely won't.

Let any official give up a little bit of power in his hands, and that will make the official more uncomfortable than dead.

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

Why?

I, Zhao Bao Sikou, have done a good job, why do you say that your king will cut my right to cut me? Unreasonable!

If Zhao Dan was a monarch like Qin Wangji, who had already established a strong and majestic monarch throughout the country, let alone cutting power, even a word could make Zhao Bao lose his life.

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 can barely be regarded as a young monarch who has consolidated his power.

In such a situation, if Zhao Dan wants to cut Zhao Bao's power, he must find some reasons, he has to dig a pit for Zhao Bao to jump in, and then he can justifiably cut his power.

The pit has also been dug and Zhao Bao has also jumped, so what are you waiting for?

Pit up!

So Zhao Dan slapped his thigh violently and smiled at Zhao Bao: "Yes, yes, the widow forgot." Come, Pingyangjun, tell me, what kind of crime should this Sima say? ”

Zhao Bao thought for a while and said: "Decide by the law of the country, and whoever betrays the country should be punished and razed by his three clans." ”

Although the Zhao State was not in power at this moment, in fact, the Zhao State had already had its own laws, and it was one or two hundred years earlier than the well-known Qin State of "using law to be strong".

This is the "National Law" mentioned in Zhao Bao's words.

The predecessor of the "National Law" was born in 513 B.C., when Zhao Ying and Xun Yin, two ruling ministers in the six secretaries of the Jin State, overrode public opinion, and engraved the Xing Shu revised by Fan Xuanzi when he was in power on the bronze tripod, which is the so-called "Zhao Xun casting punishment tripod".

This is also the second time that the entire Chinese land has promulgated a formal written law after Zheng Guo's "sub-production casting tripod".

Interestingly, at that time, after Zhao Xun and the two cast the punishment tripod, the Confucian sage Confucius also criticized the two and said: "Jin Qi is dead!" Misdemeanor... Now abandon is the degree, but for the punishment of the Ding, the people are in the Ding, why is it noble? What kind of business do you keep? How can it be a country if there is no disorder? ”

This casting of the Ding laid the legal foundation of the Jin State, and after the three families were divided into the Jin Dynasty, it was evolved and developed by the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao and Han, the Wei State had the "Wei Xian", the South Korea had the "Punishment Fu", and the Zhao State was the "National Law".

In later generations, there will always be people who think that Legalism is equal to law, and that only where Legalism is in power can there be law, but this is actually a very wrong view.

In addition to the Three Jin Dynasty, the State of Qi had the "Seven Laws" and the State of Chu had the "Constitutional Order", which also had a relatively complete legal system at that time.

Now the ruling made by Zhao Bao is based on Zhao Guo's "National Law".

Zhao Dan immediately laughed after listening to Zhao Bao's words, and said to Mao Sui and the others: "Presumably, you and the others have already heard what Si Kou said, so why don't you quickly correct Sima Shuo and others?" ”

So in the midst of the shouts of grievances from Sima Shuo and others, more than a dozen supervisors and guards mercilessly dragged them out of the main hall.

A moment later, a few bloody human heads were served on the plate.

There was silence in the main hall, and dozens of ministers of Zhao Guo looked at the dead heads, and their hearts began to swish a little cold.

Don't look at this monarch is young, but when he kills people, he really doesn't blink his eyes!

Unconsciously, many ministers of Zhao looked at Zhao Dan with a little awe in their eyes.

But the other ministers were in awe in their hearts, but Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao did not have this kind of awe.

For a coward who is in charge of prison picketing, how can he not sentence hundreds or thousands of people to death?

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

Dissatisfaction with Zhao Dan.

If you are not happy, you have to say it.

So Zhao Bao began to speak.