Bai Qi stepped forward and shook the man's hand: "Brother, your surname?" ”

The man's smile was like a spring breeze: "Down there is a Qin person, surnamed Li." ”

Li Shimin was a little surprised: "Ah, you have the same surname as me?" ”

Cao Cao reminded: "He is a Qin person, and in terms of seniority, he should be the ancestor of your ancestors." ”

Li Shimin: "Cao thief! ”

Bai Qi asked again, "What is your full name, brother?" ”

The man smiled and said, "In the lower Lis." ”

……

Who is Lees?

During the Warring States Period, there was smoke everywhere.

This person used to be Chu Chen, and he didn't do it well, so he resigned directly, went all the way to the north, ran to Qi State, and studied with Xunzi as his teacher. After the division was completed, he ran to the Qin State, which was rushing forward at that time, and Li Si was reused, and he also soared into the sky.

It is no exaggeration to say that for a long time, Li Si was the number two person in Great Qin. Swept the six countries he was present, abolished the division of his command, small seal font he developed. The construction of the same track and the unification of monetary weights and measures all came from his suggestions and plans. All in all, he was the gold medal assistant of Qin Shi Huang's victory, and made great contributions to the unification of the empire and the construction of institutions throughout his life, and left an extremely far-reaching impact. It can be said that he is a great planner of Chinese history.

But the evaluation of him by later generations did not leave much good name, but was involved with rats.

"Historical Records: The Biography of Lislie" records: "When I was young, I was a county official, and I was frightened when I saw rats in the toilet of the officials' houses, and they couldn't eat. Si into the warehouse, watching the rats in the warehouse, eating the accumulated millet, living under the big house, not seeing the worries of people and dogs. So Li Sinai sighed: 'The sage of a person is like a mouse, and he is in his own ears!' ’。 ”

When Li Si was a small official, he loved to observe mice, and he found that the rats in the latrine were timid and afraid, and when they saw a dog, they would hug their heads and run away; But the rats in the rice barn are different, they eat the best grain, they walk with swagger, and they are not afraid of people and dogs.

He was full of emotion and came to a conclusion: whether a person is promising, like a mouse, is determined by his own environment. Life is like a mouse, with different positions and different fates.

Lis's life credo is the "Mouse Philosophy". It is extreme egoism, like a greedy rat, whose eyes are rolling and seizing every opportunity, seeking to maximize personal gain at any cost. When naked interests are placed in front of rats like Li Si, the moral creed preached by Confucianism is no different from Wang Ba's recitation.

I have to admit that this philosophy of life has helped Li Si to achieve success. With the acumen of a mouse, Li Si smelled the trend of Daqin unifying the world, and with the insidious cruelty of a mouse, he swept away the obstacles on the ascending channel, so he became famous, prosperous and wealthy.

……

"Sinner Li Si, knock to see Your Majesty." Li Si bowed to Yingzheng and proclaimed himself.

He is a Qin minister, born as a Qin person, and died as a Qin ghost.

Everyone focused their eyes on Ying Zheng, the first emperor in the history of Chinese civilization to complete the cause of great unification, and said with a gloomy face: "Li Si, are you guilty? ”

"Minister, the sin is unforgivable." Li Si's face was calm.

The demise of Great Qin, Fez wished, and he, like Qin Shi Huang, hoped that the great cause of Great Qin would last forever.

But the fall of Great Qin was inseparable from him after all, Li Si was unwilling to defend this, and he was willing to admit his guilt.

In October of the 37th year of the First Emperor, the first emperor of Qin, who was more than half a hundred years old, fell ill on the way to his fifth tour. Although he has spent his life seeking the secret recipe for immortality and "hates people talking about death", he still can't resist the natural workings of life.

As the illness worsened day by day, Ying Zheng knew that his time had come, and the top priority was to quickly determine the matter of establishing the reserve. Although the eldest son Fusu has repeatedly disagreed with his political views, he is resolute and brave, believes in people and fights hard, coupled with the assistance of the general Meng Tian, he will undoubtedly be a virtuous king. Moreover, according to the primogeniture, it should also be passed on to him.

At that moment, Yingzheng no longer hesitated, and summoned Zhao Gao, who was also in charge of the emperor's Fu Xi and issued orders, and asked him to draft an edict for his eldest son Fusu. When Fusu was in Shangjun, Ying Zheng ordered him to entrust the military to Meng Tian and rushed back to Xianyang to preside over the funeral. This has effectively confirmed the identity of his successor.

In July, the first emperor died, and the eunuch Zhao Gao and Li Si conspired to launch the "Dune Change", tampered with Yingzheng's edict of succession, abolished the prince Fusu, and renamed Hu Hai as the new emperor and Qin II.

In the end, Fusu, who was highly expected by Yingzheng, committed suicide, the general Meng Tian committed suicide by swallowing medicine, and Li Si was framed for rebellion and beheaded to death. The great cause of Great Qin was immediately destroyed, and the country collapsed.

"Li Si, the widow still misbelieved you after all."

Ying Zheng said coldly, "You are a butcher's knife, but only a widow can control this butcher's knife, and the widow should kill you before he dies." The widow is alive, and you are the ruler of Great Qin. After the widow, you are the traitor of the Great Qin! ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he let out a long sigh: "Brother Zheng, you are not alone. ”

……

Zhu Gaoxian didn't pay much attention to the dispute in his mind at this time, he was instructing Lu Chaoyang before leaving.

"This time there was a flood in Shandong, and the emperor was very unhappy, and the relocation of the capital was delayed at this time. This time, the imperial court used work for relief, and the water was washed into the sand, and it was inevitable that there would be moths. Zhu Gaoxian said seriously, "The task of the Beizhen Fusi is to uproot these moths, play the role of overseer, and urge the local people in charge of the flood to calm down this matter in the shortest possible time." ”

Lu Chaoyang hesitated for a moment and asked, "But if you encounter resistance, do you want to?" ”

He made a "throat-cutting" gesture to suggest Zhu Gaoxian.

The resistance that Lu Chaoyang said is, of course, not an ordinary resistance. He has the support of King Qi's mansion, if ordinary corrupt officials see one and kill another, no one dares to say anything. But with such a huge project, it is inevitable that there will be some big people who are doing ghosts in secret, Lu Chaoyang can not care, but if he adds an enemy to Prince Qi, it will be his sin.

Zhu Gaoxian smiled: "Washing the water and sand is a clever plan that the king gave to the emperor, this method is more effective than "work for relief", but the emperor attaches more importance to work for relief, do you know why?" ”

Lu Chaoyang shook his head: "The minister is ignorant, please show the prince." ”

"Cash-for-work is not a precedent for this king, it has appeared and implemented as early as the reign of Qi Jinggong, and it is a commonly used method in the Song Dynasty." Zhu Gaoxian raised a finger and said, "But the shortcomings of cash-for-work are also obvious, and the way of forcibly recruiting labor to build projects in the form of forced labor will increasingly show its drawbacks." Because it has mobilized too many human and financial resources in a super-economic way, it has led to the killing of many soldiers, the exhaustion of people's wealth, the waste of the world, and the displacement of the people, which is not only a kind of destruction of tens of millions of laborers, but also has caused a financial and economic crisis in the country. ”

Lu Chaoyang was a little confused, the topic was too high-end, and the people's hearts were too impetuous, he hated himself for being so uneducated for the first time, and he couldn't understand what the prince was saying.

But Zhu Gaoxian didn't expect Lu Chaoyang to understand, he said these words, more like saying them to himself.

He muttered to himself: "If we want to make up for these problems, we need to have a watchdog to keep an eye on the executors, use strict means to prevent corruption, reduce the financial burden of the imperial court's appropriation for disaster relief, and let more food fall into the bowl of laborers." ”