In the thick of the night, Zhao Jie's room was brightly lit. "Your Highness, it's getting late, it's time to rest." The personal maid Yanjing reminded Zhao Jiedao.

"You go and rest first, I don't need anyone to serve me here for the time being." Zhao Jie commanded casually.

"No!" Yan Jing answered, and then exited Zhao Jie's bedroom. The night was very quiet, and the sound of Yanjing's footsteps became smaller and quieter, until when everything around was silent, Zhao Jie took out the letter sent by Zhao Ying.

When you open the bamboo slips, you will see a large number of names, including almost all the elites of the Zhao State. The bamboo slip reads:

"His Royal Highness has the posture of heaven and depth, and the talent of the master, Zhao Sheng, the minister of the plains, has one or two words to inform His Highness, in case His Highness needs it from time to time.

Fang Jinzhi Zhao has four factions, one is the royal faction headed by the king, the second is the queen mother headed by the queen mother, the third is the clan faction headed by Zaixia, and the fourth is the former king's relict faction headed by the first Si Kou Li Dui.

The king sent Shangqing Yu Bu, Yanmen and Li Mu, the county guard of Dai County, Sima Shang, the envoy of Hu defense in the north, and Le Cheng, the general of Western Xinjiang......

Later, there were left divisions to touch the dragon, the eastern border defense envoy Qi Ji, Handan defense envoy Yan Ju, and Pingyang City to guard Huhu......

The clan faction includes Situ Zhao Bao, Ma Fuzi Zhao Kuo, Duwei Zhao Jia, Southern Defense Envoy Zhao Cong, Handan City Shou Xu Li, and Handan Jufu Zhuo Clan......

The relict ministers of the first king sent a general and Shangdang county guard Lian Po, Si Kou Lin Xiangru, the southern Xinjiang general Jia Yan, Shangdang defense envoy Li Min, Handan rich Guo Shi ......"

The entire letter made an arrangement of all the ministers of Zhao Guoqun, and almost nothing was omitted. It can be said that as long as you read this letter, you can understand the government of Zhao State; As long as you master this letter, you can be in the court of Zhao State, and you can play it with ease.

"No wonder Zhao Ying wants to secretly give me this letter!" Zhao Jie secretly thought to himself: "This letter is quite important, I'll transcribe him!" ”

He did whatever he wanted, so Zhao Jie began to copy it.

Under the cover of night, Zhao Jie spent a sleepless night. On this night, in various parts of Handan City, there are still many people who are destined to be unable to sleep.

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On the second day, Handan Palace, Qinzheng Palace, and the first great dynasty after Pingyuan Jun's departure began, and the competition for the phase left by Pingyuan Jun by all parties and parties also kicked off.

Phase, originally a unique title for the blind guide, later extended to the meaning of auxiliary. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Jinggong changed the 'ruling power' to the left and right ministers, and the history of being the official name began from there.

Xiang is the highest official position in the bureaucracy, and it is the person who is the prime minister of the national government affairs in the ancient dynasties, and its status is below one person and above ten thousand.

On the other hand, there is a duty to appoint officials and recommend talents; When there is an important matter, it is necessary to organize a meeting to discuss it in front of the emperor to avoid arbitrariness; The emperor was required to show reasonable respect, and sometimes he could refute the emperor's improper edicts.

In the meantime, the country's military plans, the examination and dismissal of officials, the compilation and interpretation of laws and regulations, the sentences of prisons, the adjustment and deployment of military or border defense, the local governance plan, the management of the national register and various books and other archives all need to be resolved separately without exception.

In one sentence, the rights and responsibilities of the phase are summed up - the phase is to reconcile yin and yang, and to connect the Chinese and foreign. Since its appearance, it has undoubtedly attracted countless social elites to go crazy and do whatever it takes to replace the ruling power in terms of rights and duties. In the following thousands of years, regardless of the vicissitudes of the world, only the phase battle will never change.

Many people in later generations did not see the true meaning of the phases, so they were never able to understand the madness of the ancient scriptures about the phases. Only by going through the countless layers of tabernacles and discovering the true essence of the power of the prime minister -- the person who has the right to propose -- can he truly understand the motives of the ancients who fought for thousands of years.

When the central government wants to solve a problem, there are three essential processes that need to be completed, one is the writing of the solution, the second is the submission of the solution, and the third is the selection of the solution. In the three-step process, the first two have been in the hands of the prime minister for most of history, and gradually form the relative power, while the last step has always been in the hands of the emperor, and finally the royal power has been formed. When dealing with problems, the phase determines the solution, and the king can only choose among the solutions provided by the phase, so to a certain extent, it can be said that the phase power sets a limit for the exercise of the royal power, so there is a millennium dispute between the phase power and the royal power, and its essence is the dispute between the right to propose and the right to decide.

Whenever a dynasty began, the power to propose was often encroached upon by the founding emperors, and the position of the emperor became awkward, because the founding emperors had in their hands a large number of talents and a violent group that could destroy all rules, the army. However, the unscrupulous descendants of the founding emperor are often not as strong as him, because the object of military allegiance has changed from the emperor to the country that pays them, and the imperial examination system promotes talents to unite around the prime minister or the replacement of the prime minister, and at the same time, in terms of IQ, they are difficult to compare with those prime ministers who are talented and born in the imperial examination, and the prime minister has completed the comprehensive suppression of the king, so the right to propose will inevitably flow back into the hands of the minister, and even some ministers will extend their hands to the decision power to solve the problem - royal power.

Even the Ming Dynasty, which abolished the position of prime minister, failed to change this trend, and the proposal power finally returned to the hands of the cabinet chief assistant, the replacement of the prime minister, bit by bit, and even the emperor had to admit this reality, and even said a sour sentence: "You and others are called auxiliaries, but they are actually ministers." ”

Throughout the millennium, China's power to make motions -- the power of the prime minister -- is not insignificant, and the status of the minister who holds the power to make motions is not insignificant.

The topic turned back to the court meeting of the Qinzheng Palace, and with the sound of Zhao Dan's decision-making, all parties quickly launched the candidates of their own faction to compete for the phase.

Shangqing Yu Bu, who had just become a member of the Zhao court and did not have much seniority, became the representative of the royal faction.

The defense of the eastern border that returned to the capital from the border of Zhao Qi overnight made Qi Ji the preferred candidate of the later faction.

King Zhao Huiwen's maternal brother, Situ, Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao became the best candidate for the clan faction.

And the remnants of the former king did not hesitate to send Lin Xiangru, who was very famous and senior, to participate in the decision.

A battle concerning the fate of each faction for a long time to come has begun in the court of the Qinzheng Palace, and the people they have elected will lead them to fight hard in this war without gunpowder, and the winner will ascend to heaven and have the upper hand from now on; The loser will fall into hell and even live forever without being able to turn over.