The Emperor of the Han Dynasty abides by his duty, not because they want to, but because the power of the prime minister has become too great.

For example, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, is he willing to divide power?

In the film and television drama, the emperor has Tianxian in his mouth, and he can kill whoever he wants, but this is not the case, because this sentence is only half true.

Although the emperor's power is heavy, he can't catch thieves and collect taxes by himself, let alone implant a chip in the head of every citizen to understand what he thinks, in the final analysis, the information he relies on to make decisions comes from officials at all levels, and no matter how great his whimsical ideas are, they also need officials to execute.

If this intermediate link is controlled, the emperor is just a prisoner in the majestic palace wall, and the prime minister is the most important link in this, because the prime minister is the "main minister".

So how does Jingdi do it?

Emperor Jing believed in his mistakes, set up Tao Qing, and ensured the implementation of his power through the battle between the prime minister and the imperial doctor.

No matter what it is, Emperor Jing and Chao Cuo met up, discussed it clearly, and then gave the Prime Minister's Mansion a result, and you just implemented it directly, which is like the ancient version of the "Book and Record Meeting".

Tao Qing could only pinch his nose and admit it, so in the final analysis, the battle between Chao Cuo and Tao Qing was a struggle between imperial power and relative power.

It was precisely because Zhou Yafu saw this that he said that Chao Buzhi's request was rude.

At this time, a person suddenly walked in outside the door, it was Zhou Yafu's soldier sent to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zhou Yafu frowned when he saw him come back and said, "Did you send the letter?" ”

Hearing this, the soldier said respectfully: "The general's letter has been sent to Prime Minister Tao, and after Prime Minister Tao finished reading it, he asked his subordinates to hand over this letter to the general." ”

After the soldier finished speaking, he respectfully put a scroll of books on the table in front of Zhou Yafu.

Zhou Yafu waved his hand to let the soldiers retreat, and then opened the book.

I saw that there was only a simple sentence on it, "The former ancestor entered the customs, made an appointment with his father, and the three chapters of the law; The murderer dies, wounds and steals. ”

After reading this sentence, Zhou Yafu immediately became angry, and threw the book in his hand out.

Although he is a world-famous general, familiar with military books and war strategies, and calm and calm when he is about to fight, he was humiliated by Tao Qing at this time.

Yes, in Zhou Yafu's opinion, this is Tao Qing's humiliation of him.

Who is Tao Qing? As mentioned above, the son of the ancestor Tao She, who is Tao She? Anyway, there is only one sentence above the encyclopedia, Gaozu Hero.

And who is Zhou Yafu? The son of Zhou Bo, the Marquis of Jiang, Zhou Bo not only made great contributions to the southern and northern wars of Gaozu, but if it wasn't for Zhou Bo to enter the military camp and seize military power, I am afraid that it is still the world of Zhulu now.

And Zhou Bo also served as the prime minister, it can be said that he is a very popular minister, and he is very favored by Emperor Wen.

In Zhou Yafu's opinion, why Tao Qing was able to become prime minister was just to occupy the light of his family background.

Because of the system of the Western Han Dynasty, the princes were often regarded as prime ministers, and those who had no military merits were not allowed to be marquis.

This ancestral system is equivalent to equating the prime minister with a family of military merits, so since Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Xiao He, Cao Shen, Zhou Bo, and Chen Ping, these "Xun generation" basically occupied the position of prime minister, followed by Tao Qing, Zhou Yafu, Xu Chang, Xue Ze, Zhuang Qingzhai, Zhao Zhou, these prime ministers are all "Xun second generation" or even "third generation".

But Tao Qing, the Marquis of Kaifeng, is better than Zhou Yafu's Marquis? Obviously, there is no comparison between the two, and the gap is not half a point.

So in Zhou Yafu's opinion, this is a very small matter, why don't you give face to me when I ask you to do such a small thing? Who do you look down on? In reality, I am afraid that many people will encounter this situation.

And Zhou Yafu's behavior is actually very rude, especially his temper, he is fine when he fights, but when it comes to peacetime, it will be over, which is why Zhou Yafu is angry in front of Emperor Jing because of a pair of chopsticks.

In front of Emperor Jing, Zhou Yafu was still fearless, let alone Tao Qing, who Zhou Yafu didn't care about.

And Zhou Yafu patted his chest in front of his friend Ju Meng and promised it, but Tao Qing was slapped in the face, how could Zhou Yafu bear it?

When Ju Meng saw Zhou Yafu's anger, he immediately knew that the matter was in vain, so he smiled bitterly: "Alas! Brother Zhou, it's the drama that thinks things simple. ”

Indeed, it is understandable for Tao Qing to do this, after all, it is according to the law, and the Spring and Autumn Righteousness is only the Spring and Autumn Righteousness, not the law of the Han Dynasty.

But Zhou Yafu didn't understand, and he didn't want to understand, he only knew that Tao Qing didn't give face, it was so simple and rude.

After suppressing the anger in his heart, Zhou Yafu said: "You said that the kid Chao Buzhi brought me a sentence, what are the words?" Brother drama, you come and listen. ”

Ju Meng glanced up at Zhou Yafu and said, "Brother Zhou is sure you want to listen?" ”

"Why not?" Zhou Yafu asked rhetorically.

"Although the general of the chariot cavalry is in a high position, or more powerful than the three dukes, he is still below the three dukes, but the general has been vacant for fifty years, can the chariot general be interested?" Drama Meng said.

Zhou Yafu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed, tears of laughter flowed out, and said: "Ignorant child, how can you teach each other in private as an official in the imperial court?" What's more, the appointment and dismissal of the general is really ridiculous. ”

The general of the chariot cavalry, the Han system of gold seal purple ribbon, is second to the general and the hussar general (established during the time of Emperor Wu, there is no such official position at this time), and above the general Wei and the front, rear, left and right generals, the rank is Shangqing, or than the three dukes.

Dianjing Division Guard, Zhanggong Guard, the second rank, is the commander of the chariot unit.

In the Han Dynasty, the general of the chariot cavalry was mainly in charge of the conquest and betrayal, and when there was a war, he went out to worship the official, and after the fact, he dismissed the official, and then it was permanent.

The general is the most expensive, higher than one of the three princes, and can stand side by side with the prime minister, which can be seen from the following.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao competed for hegemony, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, appointed himself as a general, and appointed Yuan Shao as a lieutenant, and changed the title of Marquis of Ye.

Yuan Shao felt deeply humiliated, and the above table was not worshipped, which shows that although the captain is expensive, his status is below the general.

At that time, Cao Cao's strength was not as good as Yuan Shao's, and there were Xuzhou Lu Bu in the east, Nanyang Zhang Xiu in the west, and Huainan Yuan Shu in the south.

So Cao Cao sent Kong Rong to Yecheng with the Son of Heaven Fujie, worshiped Yuan Shao as a general, and gave him a bow and arrow, a rune, an axe and an iron and a hundred tigers, and let him take charge of the four prefectures of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou, so as to alleviate the contradictions.

As of the time of Emperor Jing, that is, now, there is only one person who serves as a general, and that person is Han Xin.

And the general is not permanent, so the status of the general is conceivably noble and prominent, and Zhou Yafu at this time is the supreme commander who is directly in charge of the Beijing division and even the national armed forces.

But after all, the name is not right, maybe this is why Tao Qing dared to refuse himself, Zhou Yafu thought in his heart.