The man who called Li Si his benefactor, saw that Li Si had finished writing the blood, so he hurriedly left in his arms. After he came out, he came straight to see Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao took the chapter, squinted his triangular eyes and read it in one breath, he was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, so he laughed loudly: "If this falls into the hands of the emperor, we will be finished!" Hum! Is this incriminating evidence? This is clearly a credit! Hehe, I still want to use this method to impress the emperor, phew! A death row prisoner dares to cry blood and write a book? He called a little eunuch, and said in a weird manner: "Do you want to?" The little eunuch was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled on the ground and said, "Why do you ask this?" The little ones don't dare. Zhao Gao laughed wildly a few times, and said in a commanding tone: "If you don't pull, you have to pull, go!" Take this, tear it to pieces, rub it into your ass piece by piece, and show it to me when you're done. The little eunuch hurriedly took the piece and ran to the latrine.

Zhao Gao was worried that Li Si would continue to read the book, so he sent people to interrogate him again, and these people pretended to be from the palace and said to Li Si: "We came to visit the prime minister on the order of the emperor, and the emperor was very moved when he saw your recital. Remember your previous merits, prepare to release you from prison, and reinstate you! Li Si believed it, and happily crawled on the ground to thank him. However, the officials suddenly ordered the left and right to move together, and beat Li Si fiercely again. The official also shouted loudly: "Although you have written a concerto, why is there no mention of your collaboration with the enemy and treason?" If you don't recruit you today, I'll kill you! Li Si was like a slap in the face, and he was whipped again, and he was really angry, so he burst out from between his teeth: "That kid is a tyrant like a ruin!" A fool who doesn't distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and doesn't distinguish between right and wrong! If this continues, the Great Qin Kingdom will definitely perish! But in the end, he couldn't bear the pain of whipping and admitted that he was going to rebel. Only then did the official stop the torture, and finally threatened him: "You old stubborn, if you shout again for injustice, you will be beaten with a hundred lashes, and if you shout ten times for injustice, you will be beaten with a thousand lashes, remember?" Li Si swallowed his anger and wanted to cry without tears. When these officials saw that Li Si was already obedient, they walked away.

One noon a few days later, Li Si was sleeping groggily, and in a trance, he saw Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius and others descending from the sky, coming to his side and saying, "As a reader, why don't you take care of books?" We have worked hard to write books and say that we are exhorting the world to cultivate self-cultivation and morality, and to be kind to others, but you have burned our hard work, how can future generations know the truth of being a human being? Thou hast sinned heinously, and your retribution is not bad, and you should not live in the world! Li Si was so shocked that he saw Han Fei coming to him and said, "Old classmate, why do you want to kill me?" Li Si was shocked, feeling like he was living in the yang world, so he asked, "Your book is not burned, why are you still coming to me for trouble?" Han Fei said: "Although the book was not burned, why did you frame me?" Li Si said: "Your talent cannot be shown in the world, and the people in heaven will definitely like it, why are you still so downcast?" Han Fei said: "Although I am talented, I also advocate the use of law to rule the people, and the Emperor of Heaven said that if you are not careful, it will also frighten the people, so I have nothing to rely on!" After hearing this, Li Si was terrified, thinking that he had also persuaded the master to carry out the "art of supervision", didn't he also kill many people in vain? I am imprisoned today, probably because the Emperor of Heaven doesn't like me, and I am afraid that I will have nothing to rely on in the future. Suddenly, he heard someone summoning him, saying that someone from the palace was coming to review Li Si. Li Si woke up from his coma, and when he listened carefully, it turned out to be an official from the palace again.

When these officials saw that Li Si was asleep, they whispered into his ear. At this time, Li Si no longer had any illusions about the second, he had been tortured for several days to the point of exhaustion, energy and haggard, and now he heard that someone in the palace was going to review him, and he was afraid of being whipped again, so he had to say: "The minister is guilty, the minister is guilty, I'm sorry Your Majesty, I instructed Li You to collaborate with the enemy, I want to betray the Qin State, I want to rebel, I deserve to die!" I'm damned! ......" When the court officials heard this, they were so shocked that they didn't know what to say. It turned out that the people who came this time were really the people sent by the second emperor, and they patiently explained their identities, and said: "The emperor sent us to review, if the prime minister has grievances, please say it in person, and His Majesty will make the decision for you!" "Where did Li Si dare to say it, he only admitted that he was guilty. Seeing Li Si like this, the court officials had no choice but to sigh and shake their heads and leave. After hearing about Li Si's situation, the second said angrily: "If it weren't for Zhao Aiqing, I would have almost been betrayed by Prime Minister Li Cheng!" ”

The next day, Zhao Gao saw that the second emperor had not executed Li Si, and he was very worried, so he fabricated another charge and framed Li Si and said: "Prime Minister Li wants to imitate Lü Buwei, and the girl he used to marry your imperial brother is not his biological daughter, but his concubine." But that royal brother was lucky that he didn't inherit the throne, which is really lucky! As soon as the second heard of this, he was very angry, and immediately condemned Li Si to death. Zhao Gao took the opportunity to say again: "Li Si is treason against the enemy, and his crime is extremely heinous, he should be executed with five punishments, and then destroy his three clans, so that he can warn other ministers!" "The second immediately played on point.

One day in August of the third year of Qin II, the state of Qin decided to execute Li Si. Since Li Si was imprisoned last year, after a year in prison, he has finally come to the end of his life. Today he has seen all his relatives, and the scene is really heartbreaking. According to the laws of the Qin State, if a person commits a major crime, all the relatives of his father, mother, and wife, including the householders, doormen, military service, maids, maids, maids, and pawns, as well as the infant baby, cannot be pardoned, all of them must be executed, a total of more than 400 people, all with torture instruments. In this long procession, Li Si led them towards Xianyang City. Those who had a good relationship with Li Si in the past also had many people who were implicated, including those who were beheaded, imprisoned, and dismissed, in short, the scope of the attack was very large. The supervisor is Zhao Gao's son-in-law, Yan Le, who served as the Xianyang Order, and he is flying to the extreme today.

Lees was at the head of the line, his unkempt white hair and beard showing that he hadn't combed in a long time, and looked like frosty thatch. He still had words tattooed on his face, apparently left behind by the torture. He looked full of vicissitudes and skinny at the moment. In the past year, because he was in prison, he was in endless panic, disappointment, lamentation, regret, and remorse all day long, and he was tortured by the world, so all this has tormented him to the point that he is no longer human. Every deep wrinkle on his face is like a relief carved out of a knife, as if every wrinkle is inlaid with the joys and sorrows of his ups and downs and the unfathomable blessings and misfortunes of life. His clothes were ragged, his whole body emitted a foul smell, and what was even more painful was the scars on his body that had been beaten again and again, and the harassment of lice, the situation was really miserable. No one thought that Li Si at this time and Li Si, who used to hold power and was in phase, would be like two people. Although Li Si is seventy-six years old this year, he already looks like an old man in his eighties and nineties, and everything will show that he has really reached the point of running out of oil at this moment. While Li Si was walking, he still remembered the dream he had that night from time to time, this dream was so strange that he was terrified when he thought of it, and he would blame himself in his heart: Is there really retribution in the world? If there is retribution, how to face the sages when they die? How to face the first emperor? And his old classmate Han Feihe?

Suddenly the sergeant's shout interrupted his thoughts, and Li Si settled down, and staggered forward, step by step, with a strange expression on his face, which was unpredictable, and I don't know whether he was remorseful or reminiscing. After walking for a while, Li Si only felt top-heavy and couldn't control his body, so he fell backwards, but was grabbed by a man in his thirties behind him and used his body to resist him. It turned out to be his youngest son, Li Gu. Li Gu's hands were also firmly locked with torture instruments, so he could only use his body to top it, and after he stabilized his father, he shouted in his mouth: "Father, go steady, don't let traitors laugh at us!" The child believes that the traitor who framed us will not end well! Father, do you hear me? Li Si's head was buzzing, as if he was drunk, but when he heard his son cursing the bad guy and scolding Zhao Gao, he suddenly came to his senses, he thought that things had come to this point, and he really couldn't let that devil, traitor, rebel, and beetle look down on our father and son! A year ago, Prime Minister Feng and General Feng Lao desperately admonished, but they were unwilling to be humiliated and committed suicide. The two patriarchs, as generals, were upright and committed suicide to show their ambitions, doesn't this show their loyalty and unyielding? The two old friends really died well, as heavy as Mount Tai! How calm and fearless were they in the face of death? I, Li Si, am also a dignified Qin minister, an important minister of the first emperor, how can I bow to traitors and eunuchs? It's been a year since I was framed and imprisoned last year, and I don't want to die early, because I still have a sincere heart for the Qin State, and I still have a little hope for Hu Hai, and I don't want to see the Qin State end here, and I always think that the Hu Hai boy will wake up and be able to listen to my advice. But Hu Hai, the king of eight lambs, is really a complete fool and bastard! He didn't understand my loyalty at all, and now he is completely desperate for him, you kid wait, and one day you will understand, but unfortunately I can't see it anymore. It is precisely because this kid is so stupid that the scheming Zhao thief has succeeded in his conspiracy step by step, and now he is covering the sky with one hand. But it is inevitable that he will fall into this fate, if it weren't for the mistakes of the year, how could there be today? Think about it, in the sand dunes, you shouldn't be in the same league as the Zhao thief, tamper with the edict, and let Hu Hai, this kid, inherit the throne! If Fusu is allowed to ascend the throne, how can he end up like this? This is really a big mistake I made, God! If you didn't have the hot-headedness at the beginning, how could you have planted such a bitter fruit? Now I have to take the lives of more than 400 members of my clan! But if not, how could the dead Fusu and the loyal and resolute Meng Tian and Meng Yi be blinded under the Nine Springs? Everything is my fault, I shouldn't have conspired with the tiger, retribution! Retribution! How will I face the Emperor after I die?

When Li Si thought of this, his heart slowly calmed down, because he figured it out, his body relaxed, so he walked much more briskly. At this time, many good memories suddenly appeared in front of Li Si's eyes, and a faint smile gradually appeared on his face, and he turned back to Li Gu and muttered, "Alas! I was originally an ordinary person in Shangcai County, because I was born in troubled times, I was unwilling, so I had to be involved in the whirlpool of politics. If I had retired from then on, I would not have had the result I have today. This man's life is really elusive, because sometimes good cannot defeat evil, but in the end, there is a result! If I had been an ordinary person from the very beginning, I would not be where I am today! All this is caused by the 'barn rat', the hateful 'hamster rat'! Li Gu silently listened to his father's words of resentment, and didn't know what he was talking about the hamster, he only felt very sad in his heart, so he comforted: "Father, although our family has been calculated by villains, your contribution to Great Qin is outstanding, and your name will shine in the annals of the entire Chinese history, because your county system will not be erased, you are worthy of the great First Emperor, worthy of the great Qin Empire, and you are also a great hero of this era!" ”

Li Si listened to his son's evaluation, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Son, your evaluation of your father also has some truth, I love to hear it." Do you remember when we were in our hometown, we led our big yellow dog together and chased hares in the suburbs of Shangcai East Gate? Li Gu looked at his elderly father, his heart was very sad, he didn't expect that his father would remember what happened when he was a child, and he still remembered it vividly, so he hurriedly replied: "Father, how can I forget?" At that time, I was too young to hold the big yellow dog, but I had to cry and lead myself, and once the big yellow dog ran away from my hands. Li Gu said, and the corners of his mouth also flashed a wry smile. Li Si said with emotion: "It's a pity! Those happy days are gone! Li Gu's heart was like a knife when he heard this.

On the north bank of the Wei River, in the city of Xianyang, where the Shu people were concentrated and business travel was frequent, it was the largest and fixed commercial market in the Qin capital, but the execution of prisoners by the Qin State was also carried out here. After Li Si and the others were escorted here, Yan Le ordered the knife and axe men to escort Li Si to the execution platform first and wait for the time of execution. At this time, many onlookers had gathered around, they were all expressionless, and they didn't understand why they couldn't die well as the generals of the Qin State? These generals, when they are in power, they can call the wind and rain, but when they lose power, they are exterminated by the three clans, why is this?

When five o'clock came, Yan Le read out Li Si's "guilt" in public, saying that Li Si, as the prime minister, had bad intentions and secretly instigated his eldest son Li You to rebel, and the evidence was very conclusive, and Li Si committed a heinous crime. Now that the Emperor has ascertained all the facts of the crime, he wants to exterminate his three clans. After hearing these things, the people did not know the actual situation, so they had to watch Li Si's execution.

There was not much time, so Yan Le ordered Li Si to be executed. The first is execution, which is to cut off the nose first. The executioner stepped forward, only to see him wave the knife in his hand, and a cold light flashed in front of Li Si's eyes, followed by a heart-rending scream, and Li Si then scolded: "Traitor! Faint! You're not going to end well! In the near future, the rebels in Shandong will definitely fight here! What a pity! I won't be able to see that day with my own eyes, it will eventually turn into a desolate rubble field where elk walk! Hahaha! Blood gushed out of Lis's nose, and his entire face and chest were dyed red. Li Gu's wife, Li Si's wife, fainted on the spot. The rest of the relatives, family members, terracotta warriors, and maids wept loudly.

After a while, Li Si let out another heart-rending scream, and it turned out that the executioner had carried out the second execution, which was to cut off his toes. Li Si fell in response. Li Gu scolded Zhao Gao desperately, and all the relatives and dependents howled loudly, and the cry could simply make the clouds in the sky freeze and the wind turned. Li Si's concubine also fainted. This was followed by the third half-cut. The prisoner was put down by the executioner, his legs and shoulders were tied to the torture board, and a strong man swung a machete and cut the prisoner in two pieces at the waist. Poor Li Si has not yet lost his breath, his eyes are still rolling, and the corners of his mouth are twitching. When Li Gu saw this scene, he also fainted. The 400 relatives and dependents cried like thunder, crying out for the sky and the earth, some relatives were screaming, some of them were already crazy, some were scolding, and some were struggling. The next fourth item is to cut off the head. The executioners did not use much force, and cut off Li Si's head. I saw that Li Si's two eyes were wide open, which was clearly dead! In fact, when he was beheaded, the wisp of loyal soul and injustice had slowly detached from his body, floating in the air faintly, until he cut off his head, and the soul that had no place to return flew towards his hometown Shangcai County. The last criminal law is to abandon the city, that is, to abandon Li Si's body in the city and not to bury it.

When the Qin State executed the prisoners, they also drove the common people to the execution ground to watch, the purpose was to warn the people not to commit crimes. Although these people were frightened, their hearts were indescribably sad and angry. They also know that Li Si is a loyal minister, although they don't know some real insiders, but now that they see that Prime Minister Li Cheng is dead, everyone is very sad in their hearts, like mourning.

After the execution, the executioners killed Lees' wife and son. Then he slaughtered the 400 dependents. When some of the ladies saw the scene in front of them, they were so frightened that they desperately fled for their lives, but their weak bodies were in vain in their efforts in front of the tiger guards. The execution lasted so long that the swordsmen and axes were replaced by two shifts, and all the personnel, as well as the women and children, were finally slaughtered. The corpses on the execution ground were piled up like mountains, and rivers of blood flowed. The onlookers and soldiers were also terrified. Suddenly, for some reason, all the cries stopped, and people seemed to be able to hear the dissection of the knives, and everyone's face was like ash, and their eyes were glazed. For some time afterward, those who had witnessed the scene could not eat, could not sleep, and even dreamed of those weeping and wailing souls.

In the past three years, these executioners have executed many prisoners, and this kind of inhumane torture has long been commonplace for them, and in their eyes there is not much difference between killing people and slaughtering pigs and sheep. At this time, people's cries alarmed the entire Xianyang City, as if the earth was mourning and crying. But no one thought that since the Qin State killed Li Si, there was no one in the court to serve the second emperor, and no one could mediate the stormy situation at that time.

The Tang people also sighed at Li Si's death, and wrote a poem:

The soul of Shu and Xiang is sad for eternity, and Qin Xiang died when he was not sad.

Before leaving, I still remember the hamster rat, and I went to Cai Dongmen to be late.

The Song people wrote a poem:

(Part 1)

Burning out the Confucianism of staying in the country, I want to be foolish.

If he was expelled at that time, the dog at the east gate should be happy.

(Part 2)

How dare Li Si cheat Confucianism, but make a map of the king's position.

The creation of things wants to repay virtue for Confucianism, so he teaches to kill Fusu hastily.