Tingwei Meng Yi glanced at the joy of being imprisoned and kneeling on the straw, there was admiration and regret in his eyes, and he turned to the comer.

"Doctor Yushi, I can only give you a moment."

Mao Jiaozuo said: "One moment is enough, thank you Tingwei." ”

Meng Yi returned the salute: "Don't dare, he is a little servant of the imperial history, but he has done what we Jiuqing dare not do, although Meng Yi can't follow suit, but he also admires it." ”

After that, Meng Yi asked all the officials to leave, leaving only Mao Jiao and Xi, looking at each other through the wooden fence of the prison, the straw laid on the floor was full of urine, there were no windows here, no beds, only the torches outside could reflect the shape of Xi.

"Confused!"

Mao Jiao finally couldn't help it, and angrily scolded this subordinate who was favored by himself.

"I asked you to picket the rule of officials and rectify illegal officials, but how dare you directly point it at Your Majesty, and even say that Your Majesty is the source of corruption in the rule of officials!?"

"I'm ashamed to love Dr. Yushi."

Xi had gone to the official uniform, took off the crown of the pig, and wore the ochre clothes of a prisoner. He bowed to Mao Jiao for a long time, and half a year ago, it was Mao Jiao who made Xi enter the imperial history of the dynasty.

"But I am happy, but I have never been ashamed of my duty and heart!"

Mao Jiao's anger was gone, and he sighed: "Why do you want to do this? ”

In this dimly lit prison, Xi told Mao Jiao why he did it.

"When I was young, I was fortunate enough to come to Xianyang to serve as a soldier and live for a year. At that time, the people of Guanzhong were still simple, their vocal music was not dirty, their clothes were not frivolous, they were in awe and deference to Yousi, and they worked hard. In the official government of Xianyang, every Qin official was solemn and frugal, respectful and faithful. The doctors are also out of their doors, in the public gate, out of the public gate, and in their homes, not compared to Zhou, not friends. I also heard that His Majesty had just been in charge of the government, and he was determined to forge ahead, and he reviewed and reviewed the recitals every day, and personally listened to the recitals, and he was diligent and thrifty, humbly accepting advice, and everything was decided by the law, and the rewards and punishments were fair. ”

"Since then, I have understood that Great Qin will definitely dominate the world, and I also know how to be a Qin official!"

Mao Jiao couldn't help but close his eyes, it was more than 20 years ago, at the beginning of the Qin Wangzheng's pro-government, the whole country was like a rising sun.

Today, the empire seems to be in full swing, but many things have changed.

Xi's voice became low: "This time, I have been in the capital for more than five months, and I have seen countless strange things that I have not seen in the past. ”

"From Wuguan to Lantian, there are anointed places along the way, it is the busy season of spring farming, but the people who are busy in the fields are all old and weak women and children. After asking, they said that all the children in the family had gone to serve. There are all kinds of places to go, or the Great Wall of Saibei, or the Western Regions of Zhangye, or the land of Haidong, or the south of the Yangtze River and Lingnan, but more of them are still in Lishan and Afang. ”

Xi recalls her shock when she saw these two wonders: no wonder there is no one in the field, and hundreds of thousands of laborers are concentrated here. Twenty years ago, when he came to serve, he also built Lishan, but the scale was not large, and it could be completed by a few thousand people, but now the foundation has been expanded a hundred times!

How big is it? After all the above-ground and underground buildings are included, it is equivalent to half the area of Anlu County!

And the scale of Afang is no less than that of Lishan, or in other words, the emperor has turned the entire Guanzhong into a large palace room, with buildings everywhere, and every step is a pavilion.

Xianyang has no outer city walls, because Hangu, Wuguan, Xiaoguan, and Longguan are the four gates of Qindu!

What a grand ambition, what a magnificent spectacle, but Xi did not have the slightest excitement, but a chill down his spine.

"This, how many people do you have to cultivate it......" Old Qin couldn't imagine.

With full of questions, Xi started his work in Xianyang, but he found that this was no longer the officialdom and court he was familiar with.

As in Qianzhong County, there are those who find excuses to accept gifts, those who directly corrupt and pervert the law, and those who extort money from prisoners in various places.

Among the doctors, they are no longer selfless, but dare not do things, most of them are in the mix, and even the prime minister and Jiuqing have begun to advocate extravagance, forming a party for personal gain, Li Si rode a car and trespassing, but there were internal officials to report the news, which is the most typical example.

When Qin Shi Huang ordered the Imperial History Office to rectify the rule of officials, Xi also geared up, personally led the team, went in and out of the major official offices, and arrested Cao Ji and other corrupt and bribe-takers, which made Xianyang chickens and dogs restless.

Even if others secretly scolded him for being "An Lu Jingman", Xi was unmoved, and only hoped that a trace of clear water could be injected into the filthy water, so that the imperial court could be restored to the same as it was twenty years ago.

But the more he went inside, the more he realized that the water was bottomless.

The words of a corrupt official made Xi suddenly realize.

"An Lu Jingman, even if you arrest and sentence all the corrupt officials in Xianyang and even the whole world, you will be able to live a better life in Qianshou? The little money we are greedy for ink is enough to burn a few bricks in Afang Palace? ”

Looking back suddenly, I like to see clearly where the disobedience that he has been vaguely aware of since he entered Xianyang came from.

"The Way of Officials" taught the Qin officials: you need to know the people's ability and be good at the people's strength. But the fact is that the imperial court has never taken into account the people's livelihood, and one-tenth of the world's labor has been running on the road and the frontier.

Officials were convicted of embezzlement of a penny, but countless people's fat and ointment were used to build palaces, corridors, and bridges, and hundreds of officials took the opportunity to make profits from them.

The imperial court required officials and leaders to follow the law, but the imperial court itself often liked to take the lead in breaking the law: the one-year term of service was extended to three years, and the annual oral endowment was added more than ten times at most. The people who should have been killed, the emperor let them go, and the people who didn't have to die were killed together because of the anger of the superiors.

Legalists do not speak of ghosts and gods, do not even believe in heaven, and firmly believe that everything is determined by man. However, Qin Shi Huang blindly sought immortality and immortality, and did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money to send envoys to the Western Regions, build a thousand-mile-long road to Yumen Pass, and build a house, looking forward to the immortal queen mother to stay.

Xi raised his head and looked at Mao Jiao, his eyes were full of puzzlement: "Doctor Yushi, I am a contemptible person in the countryside, since I entered the martial arts, I have seen countless palace rooms, there are already so many rooms, even if His Majesty's harem is full of beauties, it is enough to live, right?" “

He couldn't understand why he had wasted the really important things for the sake of such useless things.

Don't use small merit to interfere with big things, don't harm personnel with selfish desires, husbands do their best to cultivate farmers, and women do their best to weave, this is the ideal of the Legalists, but now, how can it all be reversed?

All of the above is the center of the empire, the biggest violation!

"I secretly thought that if we want to rule clearly, we must not only be strict in the law, but also need the monarch to take the lead in abiding by the law, abide by the way of the king, and set an example for us. Otherwise, the heart of one person, the heart of tens of millions, people all over the world see that His Majesty likes luxury, and they will follow suit, treating the law as nothing. Therefore, the defeat of the rule of officials stems from the improper way of the king, if His Majesty does not change his course for a day, even if all the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the world are arrested, it is still difficult to clear the rule of officials! ”

Corruption is a problem that every regime has to face, of course, things are not so simple, but Xi is a stubborn person, a stubborn person, will recognize a reason, do what he thinks is right!

"You're right."

Mao Jiao sighed: "But as a servant of the imperial history, and you are not a doctor or doctor, why do you have to be so strong and straightforward, this is overstepping your authority......"

"Because no one speaks."

Xi smiled bitterly: "The doctors who advise are not at their word, Dr. Confucian advocates that the world is peaceful every day, and those who dare to speak, such as Chun Yuyue and others, have long been driven away." ”

As for the prime minister of Jiuqing or even the imperial doctor? They have been catering to the emperor, trembling and guarding their posts, not daring to say more than half a word, accompanying the king like a tiger, they are afraid.

"Doctor Yushi, what I am most afraid of is not the corruption of the officials, but that everyone is accustomed to it and turns a blind eye to it, and it is clear that they see it in their eyes, but they pretend not to see it!"

Xi stood up and held the wooden fence of the prison: "The embankment of Zhizhang will collapse with the nest of ants; A hundred-foot room, burning with a sudden gap, someone has to tell the truth.

Mao Jiao listened quietly, his eyes were compassionate, from Xi, he seemed to see his former self, and when he thought that Qin Shi Huang had done something wrong, he stood in front of the boiling Dading, scolded him without changing his face, and then happily cooked.

And His Majesty, who came to his senses at that time, persuaded him to come, and said to him: "Mr. Fei, the widow has made a big mistake. ”

At that time, His Majesty was an ideal king who could be courteous and virtuous, humbly admonished, and thrifty.

But ah, people can change, from being a widow to becoming a me.

After dominating the world, the emperor not only ceased to be thrifty and began to obey, but more seriously, he was self-sufficient, arrogant and indulgent, and his ministers were afraid of it.

In the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang, that is, the year when the world was just unified, it was still possible to achieve "everything is decided by the law", but in the thirty-fifth year of Qin Shi Huang, it became "everything in the world is decided by the top." ”

All of this was unfortunately said by Wei Yizi.

"The King of Qin is less kind and has a wolf heart, and he is easy to get out of people, and he is also a light eater. I clothed myself, and then I saw that I was always under me. Sincerely make the king of Qin aspire to the world, and the whole world is captive......"

Mao Jiao recalled these words, his heart was extremely sour, he was sure that if he spoke as bluntly as he did back then, he was afraid that he would really be cooked.

That's the situation that Xi is facing.

"The last person to speak out to His Majesty is called Youhan."

Mao Jiao slowed down his tone: "He is an advocate, he speaks funny and naughty, and he has always liked His Majesty, that time he pretended to be drunk and said in public, how can there be a Western Queen Mother in this world, let alone immortality, and he intends to admonish." But he didn't expect that His Majesty was also drunk, and in a fit of rage, he cut off his tongue. ”

Since a few years ago, Qin Shi Huang has been the most taboo in two things, one is to say that immortality is fake, and the other is to propose the establishment of a crown prince, both of which will make the emperor think of one thing:

Death!

"Happy, your rhetoric is ten times more drastic than your words, I'm afraid I'm going to be beheaded!"

This is also the reason why Mao Jiao came to the prison to see the joy, he wanted to pull this reckless man who touched the scales.

"Immediately Chen Shu confessed his mistake to His Majesty, or he could avoid death!"

Xi Mo was half loud, but said: "Imperial Doctor, in the past, when there was no engraving printing and no paper, I liked to copy the law on bamboo slips, and one copy was ten years. ”

"There are only two situations in those legal answers, right and wrong. I told the chiefs who came to inquire about the law over and over again. Remember to do what is right and not what is wrong. ”

He raised his head: "In the eyes of the prison peng, the things in this world are only right and wrong, I like to think that I am not wrong, it is Your Majesty's mistake, so even if I die, I will not regret it!" ”

"You! Why are you so stubborn? ”

Mao Jiao was so angry that he wanted to kick the prison out, and slapped Xi out a few times to make him sober up.

Once, Gongzi Fusu was also stubborn, thinking that he dared to tell the truth all over the world, and he contradicted the emperor again and again, so he was snubbed.

But that was when he was sent to Haidong to eat snow for two years, and after learning something from Heifu, Fusu also became smooth, and returned to Xianyang for half a year, even if he saw many unpleasant things, he never said a word.

Fortunately, he was transferred from the grassroots level, and after 20 years as an official, he didn't understand that this world is not black and white, and if he didn't make changes, he couldn't do things?

"Because, I promised someone one thing."

Said with a smile: "In Anlu County, I have a very optimistic junior, more than ten years ago, I once said a word to him, after more than ten years, he gave it back to me before I entered Xianyang as an official, please don't forget, if you want to disobey now, wouldn't it be a joke for the future generations, saying that I am hypocritical." ”

"What's that?"

Xi's expression became serious: "The Dharma Practitioner, the program of the world, and the instrument of everything!" ”

"Officials, the people's lives are also hanging!"

He retreated to the wall and bowed to Mao Jiao for a long time: "As a minister, I don't dare to bully the king, and as a lawyer, I don't dare to see my mistake and not say anything!" ”

Mao Jiao was speechless, what could he say, he could tell Xi that he also knew that the emperor was going down the wrong path, but it was useless to persuade him, so he simply kept his mouth shut.

Astute people can see that the emperor's health is gradually getting worse, and there is no hope for longevity, I'm afraid it won't be a few years, for Mao Jiao, to maintain the status quo, drag it until the mountains collapse, and drag it until the son Fusu succeeds to the throne, this is his goal!

At that time, all problems will be solved! Ah Fang, border soldiers, and conquests can all stop! can truly achieve Li Shu has no resignation, men are happy, and women are cultivating their careers!

He had given up on his old master and was looking forward to new possibilities.

Mao Jiao believes that Fusu, and even Changnanhou in the south, think the same way!

Therefore, taking advantage of the change of Qin Shi Huang, Li Si is on the left, Feng Qujian is on the right, and the situation is turbulent, Mao Jiao is also taking the opportunity of rectifying the rule of officials to suppress those who may oppose the succession of Fusu, and install those who are close to Fusu.

But this good situation has been ruined by a happy letter!

"Doctor Goshi!"

At this moment, Tingwei Meng Yi came behind him again.

"The moment has come?"

Mao Jiao was a little stunned, even if there were really readers who would see their dialogue word for word from beginning to end, it would only be half a moment, right?

Meng Yi's face was serious, and after holding back from the left and right, he whispered a few words in Mao Jiao's ear......

Mao Jiao suddenly changed color, pointed at Xi and scolded:

"You are a great blessing! For half a year, the eldest son has not said a word, but this time, for you, a mere 600 stone servants of the imperial history, but he resolutely entered the palace and strongly persuaded His Majesty to spare your life. If he angers His Majesty and loses the emperor's heart again, Xi, no matter what your intentions are, right or wrong, you will be a sinner of Great Qin! ”

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