When the envoy came to Jieshi, he saw that Lu Sheng had already run away, so he grabbed a few inconsequential people. The envoys wanted Lu Sheng everywhere, and when they saw that he had escaped without a trace, they had no choice but to take these people to Xianyang to come to the first emperor. And the emperor questioned them, and they said the preceding words. When the First Emperor heard that Lu Sheng was still scolding him so badly when he fled, he was furious and said: "I recruited magicians, just to let them find the art of immortality for me, many years have passed, the country has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, Xu Fu also abducted thousands of boys and girls, Mao Ying persuaded me to build an orchid pond, but nothing was found, and now Lu Sheng is so offensive to me, so that everyone in the world blames me for my mistakes." These warlocks are truly abominable! Li Si was already dissatisfied with the other warlock, and because the scholars in Xianyang scolded him, he took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, the minister has already investigated, these magicians are all tricky and treacherous, they don't learn and don't know how to cheat money, and none of them really ask for blessings for Your Majesty." What is hateful is that they also mixed with some Confucian scholars in Xianyang, wantonly slandering the government, insulting the imperial court, and confusing people's hearts. This phenomenon is even more serious than before, and some people are still indifferent to the ban of the imperial court, especially after the book burning, some literary scholars in Xianyang, they openly get together, not in front of the public, or in the streets and alleys and alleys to complain, scolding Your Majesty, cursing Your Majesty, and even some people trying to incite people to rebel! Lu Sheng's words are exactly the same as them, please ask Your Majesty to advise your ministers to resolutely stop this kind of thing, and you must not let these vertical people mess with the laws of the Qin State? Li Si also collected many witnesses about how the Confucian scholars scolded the emperor.

When the First Emperor learned of these circumstances, he was indeed annoyed, and he said bitterly: "I recruited literary scholars so that they could make suggestions and suggestions for me and seek the construction and development of the country, but they colluded with the warlocks to slander the government and humiliate me, which is a bad plot!" So he immediately issued an edict and arrested all the magicians and Confucian scholars in Xianyang, and there were seven or eight hundred people.

The officials in charge of the prisons tortured them to extract confessions in order to show their talents. Among these people, there are indeed many people who see that they have no books to read, so they scold the emperor as a bastard, and also talk about this is baozheng. The officials reported the names of the people one by one. The first emperor thought to himself: The classics of the whole country have been burned, and the scholars can still use their knowledge to praise and disparage the current affairs, and if they are all killed, the trend of slandering the government will definitely stop. He asked Li Si: "There are many people who violate the ban, how should they be dealt with?" Li Si said: "During the Zhou Dynasty, people wrote books and spoke one after another, expressing their views on governing the country to the monarch, and they were all called sages. Now that the country is unified, the laws and systems are also unified, and people's thoughts, words and deeds should also be unified. Before the book was burned, the imperial court had already issued an edict in advance: 'Those who discuss the government and talk about poetry and books, that is, the language of a hundred schools, must be punished.' Now it should be carried out in accordance with the edict. The First Emperor condemned all the more than 460 people who had violated the ban to death, and ordered the whole country to immediately cease freedom of speech. In this way, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the sages and philosophers and famous Confucians who have risen from all walks of life have written and spoken, and the situation of a hundred schools of thought contending has come to an end.

The First Emperor burned the poetry books and killed some scholars, fearing that it would cause uneasiness among the scholars in the court, so he summoned all the doctors one day and asked them tentatively: "I have heard that the Five Emperors implemented the Zen concession system, and the kings of the Xia and Shang dynasties implemented the hereditary system, how should I inherit the throne?" "The wise men did not dare to speak for fear of attracting calamity. Dr. Bao Bailingzhi stepped forward and said: "If Your Majesty wants to take the world as the public, you should implement the Zen concession system, and if you want to take the world as your own self, you should implement the hereditary system." The Five Emperors took the world as the public property, and the Three Kings took the world as the private property. The First Emperor looked up to the sky and sighed: "The three emperors of the high level of virtue and the five emperors have made great achievements, of course, the Zen concession system has been implemented, who can take over the world after me?" Bao Bai Lingzhi saw the true thoughts of the first emperor, so he said bluntly: "Your Majesty is the way of doing the right and the way, implementing baozheng, and wanting to implement the system of the five emperors, which is not the original intention!" When the First Emperor heard this, he was furious and said, "Fanatic, how dare you curse me? Why do you say that I am doing the way of the Guardian and the Ruler? Tell me about it, or I'll kill you! Bao Bai Lingzhi said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty built a goose shooting platform that connects the clouds, and built a five-mile Afang Palace, and cast a large bell and drum weighing a thousand stones in front of the palace, and a bell and drum frame of ten thousand stones. Thou hast dug a great mausoleum and dug it a thousand feet deep into the ground; The palace room was built, and it was 300 miles long from Yongmen to the east. There are thousands of palace concubines, and singing and dancing acrobats fill the palace. Your Majesty has exhausted the world's resources for his own pleasure, and has exhausted the people's strength of the whole country for his own pleasure, how can you be with the Five Emperors, and how can you take the world as a public property? Are you really ashamed to say this? When the First Emperor heard this, his face turned red with anger.

All the doctors were so frightened that they thought that Bao Bai Lingzhi should have suffered, but after a long time, the first emperor laughed and said: "Lingzhi's words really make me ugly in front of everyone?" If I don't practice Zen, I should do hereditary. Then tell me, which of my princes can be the heir? Bao Bering's way: "Fusu is virtuous, filial piety and benevolence, and he is the eldest son, isn't he the right person?" Qin Shi Huang thought to himself: Fusu is indeed the only candidate, but he is too benevolent and weak, and he has no honor to work for the country, how can he serve the public as the crown prince? He should find an opportunity to experience some training in the wind and waves. At this time, a person suddenly broke into the palace and shouted: "Your Majesty, no! No! And they were all astonished, and they all looked to the door of the temple.

I saw Fusu hurrying to the front of the emperor, kneeling down and praying: "Your Majesty, the country has been stable for a few years, and the people of the six countries have not yet been attached. The First Emperor said, "What do you want to say?" Fusu said: "I heard that Your Majesty is going to kill scholars, they are all sages, what crime have they committed?" Do you have to kill them? Erchen was worried that this move would lose the hearts of the people. Everyone was very shocked, thinking that Bao Bailing had collided with Long Yan just now, and now Fusu had come to criticize the scales again, and they all sweated for Gongzi. The First Emperor said casually: "This group of scholars is really hateful, they even colluded with the magicians, ignored the prestige of the court, discussed the government in vain, and killed them to show the ruthlessness of the national law." You're interceding for them, what a fool! Fusu said: "Your Majesty, the warlock is hateful, but the Confucian is innocent, and it is ominous to kill!" Erchen only intercedes for the Confucian students, think about it, if the scholars have no books to read, can they not scold people? Your Majesty, please pardon them, right? The First Emperor scolded: "What do you kid know? When I issued the order to burn books, I said first: Whoever dares to slander the government and discuss the affairs of the court in vain will be beheaded all over the house. How can these fanatics obey the people if they dare to ignore the power of the people, slander the government indiscriminately, and do not kill them? You kid doesn't know how to govern the country, and you don't know filial piety, and you dare to teach me a lesson? You leave Beijing immediately now, and go to the north to be General Meng Tian's supervisor, supervise the construction of the avenue, and when the avenue is repaired, I will inspect the north. Without my edict, you can't enter Beijing on your own! After speaking, he asked someone to write an edict and immediately send the son out of Beijing. Fusu was shocked.

The next day, the First Emperor hated Xu Fu for causing the people to be separated, and was angry that Mao Ying had deceived him, Lu Sheng cursed him, and all the Confucian students scolded him, and in a fit of anger, he condemned all these people to death. Among these people, most of them are magicians, there are also a few extreme haters of Qin, and some are sour Confucians who love to complain and have no real talents, and sages also account for a small part, a total of more than 460 people, which can be described as good and bad, mixed with fish and dragons, and now no one can save them, so they were driven out of the city by the Qin army and sent to the Hongkenggou on the shore of Weishui for execution.

Just as everyone was leaving the city, a young woman stood on the side of the road, looking at her husband in the procession and weeping sadly. The First Emperor happened to be out of the city, and when he saw her, he got out of the car and walked to the woman's side and said, "Who are you crying for?" The woman said, "Cry for your husband." The First Emperor said, "You know that he violated the prohibition and did not report him, are you guilty?" The woman replied unhurriedly, "The little woman has heard that the king who practices virtue is like the Big Dipper in the sky, sitting in his place, and all the stars are facing it." How do people look up to you when the king himself comes to kill these defenseless and weak? The First Emperor was shocked, so he looked at the woman in surprise and said, "The Qin State has always ruled the country by law, they are the ones who violate the prohibition and should be executed, is there any objection to this?" The woman replied, "Does the king know the relationship between the seedlings and the rain and dew?" The First Emperor said, "How do you say this?" The woman replied, "In July and August, the seedlings wither, and in the winter they die." But when the spring breeze blows in the coming year, the sky will rain and the seedlings will grow vigorously. If the king is kind to the people, it will be like rain from heaven on the seedlings, then the king will be invincible! The First Emperor admired her even more, and said: "I use the law to measure everything in the world, if I abandon the law and use benevolence and righteousness, I will not lead by example, how can I be an example in the world?" The woman continued: "The people on the left and right say that this man can be killed, so don't listen; All the ministers said to kill, or don't listen, the people of the country said to kill, and the king examined it carefully, and found that there was a crime that could be killed, so that this person was killed by the people, and such a king can be the parent of all peoples. The First Emperor looked ashamed and said, "I have established the law in the past, and the law is the standard for the people of the country to abide by, and now if I listen to your words and pardon your husband, it will be a bend of the law for personal gain, and the law will become a dead letter, how will I face the people of the world?" The woman said: "The little woman heard that the reason why the people lost the world was because they lost the people, and the loss of the people was actually the loss of the hearts of the people." There is also a way to win the world, that is, we must first win the hearts of the people, and those who win the hearts of the people will win the world, which everyone knows but can't do. The First Emperor said with great admiration, "I can pardon your husband!" ”

Suddenly, someone behind him said in a loud voice: "The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, not to mention that he is only the son-in-law of the minister!" Your Majesty can pardon the son-in-law of the minister today, and everyone in the world will think that you have a private affair! When the First Emperor looked back, it turned out to be Li Si. Li Si stepped forward and said, "According to His Majesty's edict, if anyone violates the prohibition, those who do not report it will be guilty of the same crime. Now the minister's family is not strictly governed, so that the minister's son-in-law dares to violate the ban, not only to punish his crimes, but also his wife! When Li Can heard this, he almost collapsed to the ground. The First Emperor was shocked and learned that she was Li Si's youngest daughter Li Can. The First Emperor said: "In this way, the prime minister can't get out of it?" Li Si was shocked, so he quickly lowered his head and stood aside, and said no more.

The first emperor said to Li Si: "The prime minister has raised a good daughter, can't she live without a husband?" Li Si said: "If Your Majesty really loves the people, you should cultivate the punishment." The ministers heard that Duke Wen of Jin had summoned the princes and doctors to serve the Thousand Palaces, but one of his favorite ministers was late, and the ministers asked how to deal with it. Gong Wen said to kill him. And the ruler beheaded him, and showed him to the people of the country. From then on, the people of the Jin Kingdom said in fear: 'Jie is so favored, and they are all Fa-corrected, let alone us!' Later, Duke Wen sent troops to attack Cao and Wulu, and the army won one after another, and then knocked down the walls of Zheng State, and also changed the fields of Wei Guo to East and West Ridges, and later fought a decisive battle with Chu State, and won a great victory in Chengpu. He ordered the three armies to advance, and the soldiers were as fast as water poured down the slope; He ordered the three armies to stop, and the soldiers stopped as if they had cut off their feet. None of the officers and soldiers of the three armies dared to disobey the order, and it was because of such an excuse that the Jin State was ruled from then on. and Zhou Gongdan killed Uncle Guan and exiled Uncle Huo, and everyone in the world said: 'Brothers can't be exempted from punishment if they are guilty, let alone estranged people!' When Zhou Gongdan's knife and saw were added to the imperial court, the country was also governed, so the road to the cultivation of punishment could be achieved without punishment. Today, if Your Majesty can kill the son-in-law of a minister, the people of the world will definitely say: Today, the emperor is enforcing the law, and even the son-in-law of the prime minister cannot be pardoned, let alone others. So the great rule of the Qin State is just around the corner, please Your Majesty to see it? Qin Shi Huang listened to Li Si's words, so he had to let Hu Sheng take him away. Li Can turned around and left very angrily.

After Fusu left the palace with the edict, he went home crying to explain the situation to his mother, and then left Xianyang with his entourage. The group of them made a detour north. Fusu walked with heavy steps, he didn't ride a horse, and his mind was full of the shadow of Confucianism. An hour later, someone suddenly chased after him from behind and said, "Childe! It turned out that Fusu Ping was a benevolent, virtuous and filial piety, and he knew that his father was going to kill Confucianism, but he didn't believe it in his heart, so he sent a few people to follow him secretly, and he wanted to know exactly how those who violated the ban were dealt with by his father. After these people saw it clearly, they ran to report in a panic: "Childe, those four hundred people were really buried alive!" When Fusu heard this, he was stunned. Then they said, "We waited outside the city on your orders, and all the more than 400 people were driven to the Hongkenggou on the shore of Weishui." Some people didn't want to die, so they ran out, but they were all tied up, and they couldn't escape, so they were driven to the bottom of the ditch. After a while, after a trumpet sounded, wooden rafts were pulled up on the hillsides on both sides of the valley, and the earth and stones slid down together, and the valley mouth was sealed, and then they were shot with arrows, and the sound was not heard for a while! ”

After hearing this, Fusu knelt on the ground with a thud, and he sighed in the direction of Xianyang: "Heaven! Why do you want to punish my Great Qin State so cruelly? "A cry of the sky, tears fell. Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and the merciless sand and dust blew on his cheeks. Then the men on the left and right lifted him up. Fusu covered his face with his sleeve and staggered north. Later generations called the place where the Confucian students were killed as the 'Pit Confucian Valley'.