"Your Majesty, Confucian scholars are scholars, but not all scholars are Confucian scholars. Confucianism is one of the hundred schools of thought, but not all of the hundreds of schools recite Confucius and study Confucianism. Because a few Confucian scholars slandered and lied, they implicated all schools in the world and banned private study.
Burning all the words of hundreds of families, will this bring disaster to the pond and implicate innocent people?"
After hearing these words, Li Si's eyes narrowed. He originally aimed his sword at Wang Wan, but unexpectedly, Wang Wan was still there, but Hei Fu, who had always been close to him and kind, stood up first.
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"Boy, oh boy, after pretending to be moderate for so long, you finally can't help but want to make your own voice heard?"
Seeing Hei Fu talking there, a smile appeared on the corner of the old prime minister's mouth.
Today, Li Si made an impressive appearance and made the shocking statement of "burning books". This was by no means a whim, but had been brewing for a long time.
The legalist rule of Qin swept across the world, which should have brought an end to the centuries-old dispute between Confucianism and Legalism. However, Qin Shihuang was a pragmatic emperor and did not completely abandon Confucianism. Instead, he recruited many literary Confucian scholars to study in Xianyang as Ph.D.
The venue for the debate between Confucianism and Legalism shifted from the people to the court. Although the Legalists completely scorned the Confucians every time, this group of people had Wang Wan as their backer, so they were safe every time and continued to talk in vain the next time.
This kind of overt and covert fighting reached a fever pitch when Mount Tai was enshrined in Zen. Li Si only used a small plan, but Wang Wan and the Confucian scholars and doctors were all defeated, and the emperor completely lost patience with them...
Li Si knew that his chance to completely defeat this group of people had come!
Looking back on his decades of career, the biggest threat to Li Si was neither Wang Wan nor Ye Teng, but Han Fei, who came from the same school.
For Li Si, Qin Shihuang only regarded him as a tool to unify the world and monopolize the imperial power. He was promoted and recruited for this purpose. But for Han Fei, he admired him from the bottom of his heart and even said, "I can't help but see this person and Li Si."
"I will never hate you until I die", it seems that every word in Han Fei's pen was written for Qin Shihuang.
The fear of being squeezed out by Han Fei arose spontaneously. Li Si took advantage of Han Fei's petition to defend Han's fatal injury, and joined forces with Yao Jia. When Qin Shihuang was most suspicious, he first asked Yao Jia to destroy him, saying that Han Fei was the leader of Han.
The young master is loyal to Korea and will never help Qin to destroy Korea. If he is such a great talent in the world, if he is allowed to return to Korea, he may become a serious trouble to Qin. It is better to kill him!
Li Si praised Han Fei just right and made him so popular that he seemed to be Guan Zhong and Shang Yang again. When he left Qin, Qin would be weak, just like Shang Yang left Wei. In the end, Qin Shihuang made up his mind to kill him if he couldn't get it.
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By the time Qin Shihuang regretted it, Li Si had already galloped to Yunyang, killed Han Feiyao, and collected his body in tears.
Eliminating evil has always been the principle that Prime Minister Li adheres to, and this time is no exception.
Of course, he would not expose his selfishness so obviously. In the eyes of the emperor, Li Si's words were to realize the emperor's own ideas!
In the past, there were two people in the court who were always in the emperor's heart. One was Zhao Gao, a thoughtful man who could always be trusted by the emperor. He served as a guard all year round and was even qualified to carry out seal affairs. The second one was Li Si himself.
But Li Si's rank was obviously slightly higher than that of Zhao Gao. He did not speculate on the details of the emperor's preferences, but focused on the general trend. He could advise Qin Shihuang in advance on what he wanted to do next.
Li Si placed the words on the spot where the emperor's eyes caught his eye, and respectfully asked His Majesty to make a move!
Who wouldn’t like such a minister? It’s almost to the extent that “if you don’t decide on internal affairs, ask Zhao Gao, and if you don’t decide on foreign affairs, ask Li Si.”
The only thing Li Si lagged behind was the expansion of the west. He originally thought that the emperor wanted to conquer Lingnan and arranged for his son Li You to go to Changsha County.
Become famous.
Especially Heifu! Although he carefully avoided making too many military exploits and letting Li Xin steal the spotlight, Li Si knew that Heifu was the initiator of all this.
Jian has one more person in the emperor's heart.
Moreover, the advantage of the black man is that he can often induce the emperor to deviate from the original intention and divert his attention elsewhere. Li Si did not know that the black man was cheating, so he won the lottery again and again. He thought he had extraordinary abilities.
The vigilance against Heifu also deepened with the respect of Heifu's status.
But this time, Li Si originally thought that Heifu had been away from the court for too long and was too far away to be involved, but unexpectedly, he still intervened.
Li Si glanced at Tingwei Ye Teng not far behind him, and thought to himself:
"Is it Ye Teng's instruction? Did Tingwei want to show that he has different ideas from me and is eager to establish political opinions so that he can win the position of prime minister of the left or even prime minister of the right in the future, so he instigated his son-in-law to take the lead?"
No matter what the reason was, Li Si decided that he would teach the young people a lesson today, and by the way, he would also suppress Ye Teng's little thoughts. Let Heifu know that Jiang is still smarter than old, and that the expansion to the west was just a coincidence, and that the emperor's
The mind is more complicated than you think!
The Feng Chan incident made Li Si certain that Qin Shihuang's next focus would be on unifying the hearts and public opinion of the world, and his proposal to burn books was to cater to the emperor.
At this time, Hei Fu also finished speaking, and Li Si shook his head and said: "The Jiaodong County Sheriff's words are just based on a public lawsuit. He thinks that only the Confucian scholars and scholars involved in the case are responsible, and the others do not need to be investigated. It would be too glaring.
Qian, you still didn’t stand from the perspective of state affairs. Do you know why Lord Shang burned poems and wrote books back then?"
Heifu handed over his hand: "I heard it was to clarify the law..."
"Of course, burning poems and writing books is to clarify the law!"
Li Si's voice became louder: "Xia use military force to violate the prohibition, Confucianism uses literature to violate the law. These are all prohibited by laws and regulations. Using force to violate the prohibition is easy to understand, but using literature to violate the law, how can chaos arise? They rely on their 'Law Ancestor King'
'Say!"
This word made Heifu stunned. Zhang Cang once told him that "faxian king" is a common idea among hundreds of schools of thought, and they like to refer to ancient times and even to restore ancient times.
Needless to say, Confucianism, no matter which sect, believes that the three generations are the best golden age. The present is not as good as the past, and the future is not as good as the past. All future generations have to do is to imitate, restore and continue the ruling model of the ancient three generations as much as possible.
, and finally achieve "self-denial and restoration of propriety".
Like the disciples of Confucius and Mencius, they always praised Yao and Shun when they spoke, and talked about benevolence and righteousness when asked. If you ask him how to enrich the country and strengthen the army, he will reply to you: "Zhongni disciples have no way, Huan, and literature." If you ask him how to unify the world,
, he replied to you, "Those who do not kill people can dominate the world." Although the words are nice and morally correct, does it really have any practical significance for the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, who are facing life and death, and the enemy is approaching the city?
Although the Taoists of the Lao-Zhuang sect do not like Confucianism, they also believe that it is best to return to the era of small countries and few people where "we hear the sounds of chickens and dogs, and people do not interact with each other until they grow old and die"...
After criticizing the stubborn "Faxian King" of various schools, Li Si said: "Nowadays, people think that the past is not the present, and this is the reason why they are confused. It's like weeding in the field. If you don't kill the roots, you only pull out the leaves.
Soon after, the fields will become overgrown with weeds again, and the seedlings, millet and wheat will all wither! Therefore, we must pursue his evil deeds and burn down the hundreds of schools of the former king of France, as well as his "Poems" and "Books" that advocated restoration, so that no one can survive.
No one dares to change the past from the present!"
In Li Si's view, most of the hundreds of schools of thought are "faxian kings". From the perspective of national affairs, those people from the hundreds of schools of thought and the books they wrote are all guilty! Even if some schools of thought do not have the plot of "faxian kings", just like
They are weeds in the field. Which farmer would squat down to see their species? Often they would rather kill the wrong ones than let them go. It would not be a pity to go down with a hoe and eradicate them all!
Only by getting rid of these schools of thought of the former kings of Legalism can the "King of the Queen of Law" and "King of the Present Law" advocated by Legalism become truly popular!
In the Legalist view, with the changes of the times, the way of governance is constantly changing. There is no consistent way of the previous kings that remains unchanged for hundreds of generations. Even the deeds of those previous kings were fabricated and imagined by Confucian scholars. In the world's struggle for
In the era of strength, the monarch should aim at enriching the country and strengthening the military, implement severe punishments, and use rewards and punishments to mobilize the power of the entire people.
In terms of future generations, it would be "advancing with the times"!
Therefore, from the Legalist point of view, as the times go by, the best era is always the present, the world ruled by the "King of the Present", that is, the First Emperor of Qin!
"What should not be removed are books on medicine, divination, and tree planting. If you want to learn laws and regulations, take officials as your teachers. In this way, public opinion can be unified."
Li Si said this to the arbiter.
Qin Shihuang nodded slightly. What kind of public opinion did he want? Is the present not as good as the past and Qin inheriting the cause of three generations? No, no! The emperor engraving a stone on the top of Mount Tai made the meaning very clear:
"Before Qin Yi, the world was dim and chaotic. From then on, the world entered a new stage of new light!"
In short, if you don’t follow the law of the previous king, you should follow the law of the current king!
This happened to coincide with the political orientation of Li Si and Legalism! Therefore, Li Si advocated the ban on poetry and calligraphy, which made Qin Shihuang, who had a major change in his thinking after becoming Zen, a little moved.
After that, Li Si began to talk about the history books of the Six Kingdoms.
"The head of Guizhou has not yet been gathered, and people's hearts miss their homeland. This is all due to the historical events of the Six Kingdoms."
He began to list recent events. Don't the scholars and scholars captured in Linzi often talk about Duke Huan of Qi, Yan Ying, and Tian Dan in the streets and alleys of wine shops? The people listen to this every day, and they may miss their past lives and rejuvenate.
The ghost of the country will always hover over the six countries.
In the history books of the Six Kingdoms, there are often vicious slanders against Qin. The people of Chu called the Qin people "Rong of Qin", and the princes of Guandong also said that Qin "had the same common customs as the Rong and Di", as if they were a foreign race that drank blood like hair - really there is no such thing.
The people of the Six Kingdoms still think so today.
In Li Si's opinion, this matter is easy to handle. First, burn the plundered history books of the Six Kingdoms, burn all the private histories among the people, and then strictly prohibit talking about the historical events of the Six Kingdoms. In this way, no one will remember it in a generation or two.
Yan Ying, Tian Dan?
If you want to destroy your country, you must first destroy its history! Li Si's solution is simple and crude. Some people's names must be erased from historical records and from the memory of the people. It is best for the books about them to disappear silently.
, disappear forever.
In the end, only Qin is left, only now! Only the great Qin Shi Huang!
"Burning its history will cause people's hearts to become unified!"
After Li Si explained the idea he had been thinking about for a long time, he looked at Heifu who came forward rashly:
"Young Master Zao, do you still believe that all living beings are innocent, books cannot be burned, and the opinions of hundreds of schools of thought cannot be forbidden?"
Heifu suddenly became downcast and submissive: "The Prime Minister has far-reaching concerns...Public opinion and people's hearts are indeed very important, and it is also what the court needs to do most at the moment."
But he raised his head again and glanced at Qin Shihuang, who was gradually tilting towards Li Si. His smile remained the same: "However, I have a way. You don't have to ban hundreds of private schools and burn all the books to achieve the public opinion that the Prime Minister said.
