Chapter 9 Chapter 9: Li Si dies unjustly

Looking at Xianyang, there is also a lot of blood here. Since Zhao Gao gained the favor of Qin Er Shi, he has been engaging in killing contests with Qin Er Shi. Those who had enemies with Zhao Gao in the past, he used his power to retaliate and killed them severely.There were so many people killed, Zhao Gao was worried that the family of the bitter master would go to the court and scold Zhao Gao by the nose, or sue Qin Ershi (of course, Qin Ershi would support Zhao Gao. But being sued for a long time will also affect Zhao Gao's image in Qin Ershi's heart. Zhao Gao has always regarded himself as a loyal, pure and virtuous man. If Qin Ershi knows about him, Zhao Gao He also bullies others, is unreasonable, and avenges his personal revenge. He is a villain, and Qin Ershi will inevitably alienate him).

So Zhao Gao had to stop those who sued the court, and the way was to persuade Qin Ershi not to go to court from now on.He said: "Your Majesty, why is the Son of Heaven a noble man? Because he doesn't speak much, and all the officials can't see his face, only hear his voice. The word 'zhen' means omen, that is, he does not speak, but only hears his voice." Hint. Your majesty, you are rich in age and young, so you may not understand all the affairs of the country. Once you say good things or bad things and make mistakes, the ministers will laugh at you. You are different from the first emperor. The first emperor ruled the world for more than 30 years and has rich experience , the ministers cannot cover him face to face."

"Then what should I do?" "You should stay in the prison, find a group of sensible secretaries, and me, to study things with you, and reply to the minister after the research is clear. The minister will not dare to deceive you, and the world will call you the Holy Lord gone." Qin Ershi is a person who cares about face, so Qin Ershi didn't go to court to meet the ministers, and hid in the forbidden room to work, and let Zhao Gao often fool him by his side. All major events depended on Zhao Gao's likes and dislikes. Li Si shook his head at this. Zhao Gao has occupied the emperor, and we ministers have no chance to say anything. Now that the world is in such chaos, does the emperor know it or not?

Li Si shook his head so loudly that Zhao Gao knew about it.Zhao Gao hated Li Si (the ancients said that it is better to provoke ten gentlemen than one villain, which seems to be reasonable). Zhao Gao went to see Li Si, framed him and said, "Prime Minister, the bandits in the Kwantung region are very arrogant now, and the emperor seems to be obsessed with large-scale projects. I'm a rascal, my status is too low, and my words have no weight. As a senior prime minister, you can't Don't say a few words." Li Si said: "That's exactly what I mean. There are too many things I don't like now. I've wanted to talk about it for a long time, but I haven't had the opportunity to speak out in person."

Zhao Gao said, "I'll go and make arrangements for you. Wait for my news in two days." Two days later, Qin Ershi held an extravagant party in the palace, and a group of beauties in little clothes danced in front of him. Zhao Gao saw that he was having a good time, so he sent someone to inform Li Si: "Prime Minister, the emperor is now If you're free, come and give me advice." Li Si immediately dressed neatly, with his seventy-year-old waist pouted, hurried to the gate of the palace by car, holding a name card saying that he wanted to see the emperor. Wei Jun gave the name card to Qin II, and it said that he wanted to talk about state affairs.Qin Ershi was in heat, and he was very anxious, why was he so annoying, he came to make trouble just as he was about to go into heat.In view of Li Si's relatively high seniority, he had no choice but to drink some soup, dressed seriously, and went to the office to meet Li Si.

After Li Si saw Qin II, he immediately fell to his knees, burst into tears, and yelled that the situation was in a mess: "Now the Kwantung bandits are coming together, and thousands of people are gathered together, which is innumerable. We send troops to kill and attack. There are countless, so it is still impossible to control the situation..." "Hey, who said you can't control the situation? Didn't Zhang Han beat Zhou Wen out? Isn't Chen Sheng already dead?" Qin Er Shi was most unhappy when others said that he had not managed the world well. "No, the fundamental problem has not been solved. There are a lot of bandits now, all because our taxes are too heavy. People transport the grain by water and land, and transport it to the capital and the border. It is very hard to travel, and there are other hard labors. I can't stand it."

"Hey, shouldn't the subjects do these things?" "Some things can be done less. For example, expensive government image projects like the Efang Palace can all be reduced. This is not only my opinion, but also the right prime minister Feng Quji and general Feng Jie." "Hey, this is something that was decided by the first emperor. How can I change it?" The young man Qin Ershi was very filial, "There is nothing wrong with what the first emperor did. Is there anything wrong with the first emperor's invasion of barbarians and guarding the border?" ?Isn’t it good to build some palaces to subdue the world, show off your own pride, and let you and your subjects see the achievements left by the late emperor to admire and obey? These people can't ban thieves, but they want to interrupt the projects run by the late emperor. This is sorry to the late emperor upwards, and sorry to me downwards! Are people like you still competent?!"

When Qin Ershi said this, he was also furious, and Li Si was even more shocked. After Li Si left, Qin Er Shi murmured to Zhao Gao: "This old prime minister is really confused. He just picks on me. I usually have a lot of free time, and he doesn't come. I just wanted to have a little privacy." Space, drinking and flirting with girls, he will definitely come to ask for instructions, and when he comes, he will only look for me!" Zhao Gao added insult to injury, "I understand psychology very well, and the prime minister wanted to express his thoughts." "What's on his mind?"

"The prime minister also contributed to the matter in the sand dunes. Now that His Majesty has been the emperor for two years, Li Si's official position is still so great. He hopes that you can make him king, the side of the land. In addition, his eldest son Li You He is the sheriff of Sanchuan County, guarding the east gate of our Hangu Pass, but Li You allowed Chen Sheng and the gang of thieves to pass through his ground freely, and never refused to go out of the city to attack. I heard that they have exchanged documents with Chen Sheng. The matter needs to be investigated. Presumably the prime minister conspired with Chen Sheng because he resented that he could not be crowned king. He and Chen Sheng are actually from neighboring counties of Chu State!"

To be able to apply psychology to this level, Zhao Gao is really a talent. Soon, Li Sihe heard that Qin Ershi was sending people to Sanchuan County every time to secretly investigate his eldest son Li You's secret information about the bandits of Chu. The more Li Si thought about it, the more frightened he became. Probably the emperor doubted my loyalty and ability. Li Si didn't dare to speak out anymore, so he made a 180-degree turn, thinking about how to save his life.He remembered what Qin II had said to him before. The young man Qin Ershi also loves to read. He once said to Li Si: "I read the book of the legalist sage Han Feizi, saying that Yao lived in a thatched cottage, and even the conditions in the roadside hotels were better than him; They are all coarse rice and wild vegetables, and even the people in the reception room are better than him. Dayu crawled in the mud to dredge the Jiuhe River, and the hair on his legs was worn away. Migrant workers are not as miserable as him. But I have a different view of Han Feizi Opinion, is being an emperor just to suffer? This is what the lower class should do, not what the upper class should do. The so-called standard of the upper class is to be able to stabilize the world and govern the people. Yao and Dayu , I can’t even guarantee my own physical interests, so how can I prove that they can rule the world. So I should do my best to enjoy the blessings, so that no disasters will happen, and I will enjoy the world forever. Only by doing this can I be regarded as capable Monarch, how can you, as subjects, help me achieve this?"

Li Si then wrote an ingratiating article titled "The Art of Supervision and Responsibility", answering Qin Ershi's previous questions: People like Yao and Dayu make themselves miserable, live worse than a dog, get up earlier than a chicken, and work more than a donkey, because they don't know how to supervise. A capable monarch is not like this, he will supervise and blame.That is felonism.Misdemeanors must be punished heavily. People will be less likely to commit serious crimes when they see such harsh punishments for minor crimes.So the world is peaceful.That's why the sage Han Feizi said, "A person who doesn't know martial arts dares to steal a long piece of cloth, and a big man like Robber Zhi dare not snatch a hundred catties of melted gold" because he is afraid of burning his hands. .As long as you use heavy punishment and deep punishment, the robber will not dare to move. If you dare not supervise, the child will dare to steal a few feet of cloth.Mount Tai is so high that even a lame shepherd dares to step on it. The city wall is only five long, and even a spider-man like Lou Ji (Lou Lao Si) cannot climb it.It is because the slope of Mount Tai is gentle and flat while the walls of the city walls are steep.A wise and superior person wants to cultivate himself steeply, and use strict supervision to make everyone in the world afraid of him. A wise monarch must eliminate the interference of three kinds of people when implementing the technique of supervision and responsibility.One is a person who yells about thrift and benevolence every day, the other is admonishing every day, and the other is a martyr and upright person.Once these three kinds of people make trouble, the monarch can no longer supervise and punish them.Therefore, the monarch's solution to these three types of people is to close his eyes and plug his ears so that they cannot influence you.If the monarch supervises and punishes effectively, the country will be prosperous and strong, and if the country is prosperous and strong, the monarch can have fun and enjoy happiness without the danger of subjugation.Isn't this much more brilliant than Emperor Yao and Dayu?This is what you call Mingjun!Moreover, the officials and the common people are so supervised by you, thinking about how not to commit crimes all day long, how dare they plot rebellion? This article written by Li Si is simply not human, it can be described as a human head!Of course, the word "human head and animal cry" was used by later generations to describe Qin Ershi, who had a head but let out a donkey bray. Qin Er Shi read Li Si's article and was much happier.So Qin II strictly implemented the supervision technique, and put forward the supervision standard of "those who tax the people deeply are Ming officials, and those who kill many people are loyal officials".After some hard work, Qin II finally turned the entire empire into a large prison and a mass slaughterhouse-"The torturers look at each other in the Tao, and the dead accumulate in the city day by day."All the people walking on the street lacked noses and feet, and the dead people piled up in the farmers' market every day, killing more people than pigs.The conflict between the ministers and the empire, which had already been at war with each other, was further intensified by Li Si's memorial. What made Li Si abandon his original behavior of admonishment (reduction of projects and military service, the only way to save the empire) and instead flatter and beg for mercy?In fact, just as it is inevitable for courtiers like Zhao Gao to appear under the imperial autocratic system, it is also an inevitable trend caused by the system that ministers become soft-boned and lack professional principles under the imperial autocratic system. Zhang Dai was a very good writer in the Ming Dynasty. He said, "Swiss is like influence, and turning is like a flying pendant." He described a person's idea as changing like a flying grass, up and down, and changing as quickly as a shadow. human body. Li Si is used to always follow others, from admonishing to supervising and scolding all of a sudden, it can be said that he has turned like a fly. Unfortunately, Li Si's article did not reverse his fate.Zhao Gao continued to fabricate the matter of Sanchuan County, and wanted to catch Li Si with the French Open. Li Si found that the rope around his neck was getting tighter and tighter, so he planned to fight to the death.On this day, Qin Ershi was watching Jiaodi opera and ancient sketches in Linguang Palace on Ganquan Mountain, and Li Si went to him again. Jiaodi opera is performed in military combat, while ancient sketches are humorous farces of haiku.At that time, there was a Zhao Benshan-level skit actor named Youzhan (Nianzhan) in the Qin Dynasty. Once, Qin Shihuang discussed expanding the Royal Wild Animals and Botanical Garden, extending it eastward to Hangu Pass and westward to the ancestor’s Yongcheng.Youzhan said: "That's a good idea, let's put more animals in it. When the enemy invaders come from the east, let the elk push their ass!" So Qin Shihuang laughed and dismissed the idea.Another time, Youzhan was eating with Qin Shihuang in the hall, and saw the sergeant holding the shield was drenched in the rain, so he made an appointment with the sergeant, and then he called, "Shield man?" "What?" the sergeant shouted. Youzhan said: "You guys are tall, what's the use, it's only cheaper for you to stand in the rain; I'm short, but I'm enjoying myself here!" After Qin Shihuang heard this, he immediately corrected it, and asked half of these shield guards to rest and half to stand guard, replacing them in turn.Judging from this little thing in life, Qin Shihuang is also cute and easy-going. Another time, Qin Ershi had a whim and planned to paint the entire city of Xianyang with paint.Youzhan said solemnly: "This is a good thing! Although it brings a little trouble to the common people, when the enemy comes to fight, the city wall is so bright that they can't climb up. The only difficulty is that the shade room is not easy to get up. It means that before the paint dries, it needs to be kept cool in a shade room, which is not that big of a shade room.Even the big villain Qin Ershi laughed when he heard it, so he let it go. On this day, Youzhan and his group were performing a sketch for Emperor Qin II, and it was said that Prime Minister Li Si asked to see him.Qin Ershi said, I hate it, you old bastard, don't see him. Li Si had no choice but to write a letter to Qin Ershi, in which he cited the example of ancient powerful ministers to attack Zhao Gao: There was a Sicheng Zihan in Song Dynasty who took over the power of execution in the country, and the people of the country were only afraid of him, not afraid of him. monarch.In the end he hijacked his king.Tian Chang of Qi State was so rich that he could rival the country. He gave favors to the common people, won the hearts of the people, and finally killed Qi Jun surnamed Jiang.Now that Zhao Gao's obscenity has caught up with Sicheng Zihan, and his wealth is as rich as Tianchang, I'm afraid he will rebel against you. Qin Ershi saw the letter and replied: "Zhao Gao was just a eunuch. He got the current position of Lang Zhongling through his own efforts and loyalty. I trust this well-tested eunuch. You are so old, say Maybe one day I will bid farewell to the empire. I don’t rely on Zhao Gao, who is young and vigorous, who can I rely on? Stop thinking about it.” Li Si wrote again: "That's not right, Zhao Gao is a man of humble origin, a man of humble origin, with great greed, I think he is a great threat to you." Qin II was convinced that Zhao Gao had no doubts, so he ignored it.But seeing that Li Si and Zhao Gao were incompatible, and fearing that Li Si would use his position as prime minister to kill Zhao Gao, he reminded Zhao Gao to be careful.Zhao Gao said: "I don't have to be careful. I'll be killed by him. The prime minister is afraid of me. If he kills me, he will be fearless and carry out his original ambition of usurping Qi." (It's long gone. Tian Chang became famous this month, and the decent villains used him as dirty water and poured it on each other.) Qin Ershi thought about it, and felt that it was more likely that Li Si was Tian Chang, so he announced: "I ordered Li Si to be handed over to the judicial department for review!" Li Si was defeated. There were also Prime Minister Feng Quji and General Feng Jie, who were also rebellious and persuasive, and were also arrested and sent to prison to investigate and interrogate their crimes.When Er Feng saw that the officials came to collect them, he decided to commit suicide. Each of them made some Sudan red, soaked it in water and ate it.Before they died, they said: "A general cannot be humiliated." These two Feng are descendants of Feng Ting.Do you still remember Feng Ting, the sheriff of Shangdang County in the Battle of Changping?People in the pre-Qin period and the Qin-Han period were very concerned about face.Sima Qian once said that a person who does not commit suicide but accepts being arrested and imprisoned, suffers in prison, and is finally brought to justice is already a very shameful thing for a person with above-average intelligence.Therefore, people with a little status at that time valued their personal dignity very much. This is the legacy of the aristocratic spirit that emphasized individual independence and personal dignity in the enfeoffment era. (But in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor took off the clothes of his courtiers and spanked them. It was almost as common as the teachers in our primary schools used to punish students. This kind of court humiliation was inconceivable in the pre-Qin era. If it falls into that position, it will be a long time ago He died. Sima Qian was humiliated as a jailer and tortured, which became a shame that he never forgets in his books. The reason why he did not commit suicide at that time was just to complete his great "Historical Records" without shame. However, the Ming Dynasty The ministers are different. The long-term social system of imperial autocracy has made them tame and look like slaves. The ministers are not their own. They are the emperor's personal belongings like every grass and thing in the empire. Of course they can fight. They don’t have the same independent and complete personality as the emperor. The relationship between the emperor and his ministers is sadism and masochism. In the pre-Qin era and the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a certain relationship between the emperor and his ministers. .Looking at the US government now, for example, the upper and lower levels seem to be pre-Qin.) However, Li Si was different from Er Feng. Li Si was born in civilian clothes and had a more flexible view of life and dignity. He felt that living in prison was better than Ga Beng dying. So Li Si took his luggage and went to live in the prison.As the prime minister of the empire, when I came here to see it, I realized that hell is on earth.Fried hungry ghosts are everywhere.He commented to the jailer, saying: The conditions here are too bad, why do you mistreat the prisoners. "They are all bad people, why not mistreat them." The prison guard said. The trial day began. Zhao Gao was the presiding judge of Li Si's case, so the court judge was also arranged by Zhao Gao. He asked Li Si: "Why do you want to rebel?" Li Si said, "It's a long story." "Then let's talk about it next time! Come and beat him with a hundred sticks!" So he couldn't help but push Li Si down and beat him with a hundred bamboo boards.After the beating, Li Si was hehe, his skin was ripped apart, he could only breathe out, not in.The judge asked him: "How is it? Have you been honest?" Li Si said, "Okay...okay..." "Then tell me, how long have you known Chen Sheng?" "……I do not know." "Okay, hit another eighty!" Li Si was pulled onto the board again, and his whole body became hot from the crackling beating.After pulling it off, the judge asked him: "Is there something I want to hear?" "I am a loyal minister!" "Okay, eighty more!" The jailer said: "My lord, I can't explain to the higher authorities after being beaten to death." "Return to the prison and put on a bondage, lest he escape from prison!" The so-called shackles are shackles, so Li Si was put on shackles—his hands were behind his back, and his hands were clamped with shackles (if a maid, such as Li Si's wife, used shackles to clamp his hands in front of his chest), his feet were covered with shackles. Tie it up with wooden shackles, so that Li Si is like a trapped mouse, unable to escape from prison.Li Si found that all his guests and relatives had also moved in with shackles.His wife and children are a large family, all living in the prison, and the voices of mourning and complaints kept coming and going all night long. That night, Li Si was in the prison, looking up to the sky and sighing: "What a pity! What can I do with this innocent king! Xia Jie killed Guan Longpang, King Zhou killed Prince Bigan, Fucha Kill Wu Zixu. A loyal minister like me is about to die. I am like the former prince Bigan. It’s not that I don’t give advice, but that he doesn’t listen. There is no inspiring and enlightened monarch in a thousand miles of land, and there are no flattering and flattering monarchs. My colleagues with different surnames are not my bosom friends either. I think it will not be long before the elk will swim in the palace of the imperial court!" The morning sun was like a vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the night in the prison. Li Si dragged his body, which was not intact, to stand the trial again.Over the past few months, the judge has accumulatively plundered more than a thousand sticks from Li Si.It's a miracle that Li Si's old body can withstand more than a thousand lashes without dying. In prison, Li Si began to write revolutionary memoirs. The reason why Li Si has been unwilling to die is that he is conceited that his eloquence is the best in the empire, and he hopes to write a defense letter summarizing his historical achievements. Fortunately, Qin II will wake up and pardon him after reading it, and Pardon the capital crimes of the entire family.Li Si wrote a long petition letter in prison, summarizing his seven achievements in his 30-year prime minister career.Of course, he didn't dare to beat himself up, but wrote his own seven deadly sins in name. First, help Qin Shihuang unify the six countries. Second, drive the Xiongnu in the north and settle Baiyue in the south. Third, exalt the titles of the ministers and make them close and loyal to the royal family. Fourth, build ancestral temples and shrines to highlight the wiseness of the monarch. Fifth, unify weights and measures. Sixth, repair the way. Seventh, ease the penalty, lighten the tax and pay less, so as to fulfill the monarch's desire to win the hearts of the people. It is particularly worth mentioning that the last item, Li Si, should not have dared to fabricate and exaggerate when he made his final statement. Therefore, we have reason to believe that during a certain period when Qin Shihuang was emperor, the Qin Dynasty implemented light punishment and light taxes. policy.It was the bad boy Qin II who began to abuse punishment and abuse his people. In the end, Li Si became more and more excited as he wrote. At the end of the writing, he was in tears, and was moved to tears by his 30 years of hard work, dedication and loyalty.We believe that if Qin Er Shi read this letter, his hard-hearted heart would soften. Unfortunately, it is impossible for Qin II to read this letter.Zhao Gao said to the judge: "How can a prisoner write a letter to the emperor!" So the letter went where it should go. According to the legal procedures of the Qin Empire, the Second Emperor of Qin would finally send someone to review a high-ranking official like Li Si.Because Li Si couldn't stand the torture, he falsely admitted that he had colluded with the eldest son Li You to conspire against the bandits of Chu.But he pinned his chance on overturning the case during the review. However, Zhao Gao also had retainers, and he sent his retainers into more than a dozen groups, pretending to be a group of censors, ceremonial officials, and servants sent by Qin Ershi to interrogate Li Si. "Are you Li Si? The facts of treason are all there, are you obeying the law?" "I don't obey the law," Li Si said, "It's all done by torture. Do you think I still have any good flesh on my body?" So, after the fake censor left, Zhao Gao, as the presiding judge, plundered Li Si again, and then told Li Si: "The censors just now were pretended to be by us to test you. It seems that you are still not convinced. I will beat you to death." old fox. The next time, another fake censor came, and Li Si claimed that he was wronged, and after he left, he was beaten again.If so, more than a dozen times.Later, when the real censor sent by Emperor Qin II came, Li Si thought that Zhao Gao sent someone to pretend to be him again. In order not to be beaten again, he said he obeyed the law, admitted that he had communicated with the bandits of Chu for rebellion, and stopped complaining. The real censor reported the situation to the second emperor, and the second emperor Qin said happily: "Thanks to Mr. Zhao, if it weren't for Mr. Zhao, I really wouldn't have discovered such a criminal prime minister lurking around me, and was almost betrayed by Prime Minister Li Si." Thus, Li Si's death penalty for treason was determined.After Li Si found out, he didn't know how to stumble and sigh!During this period, his eldest son Li You was defeated and killed by Liu Bang Xiang Yu in the Central Plains. This kind of death for the country could have erased Zhao Gao's smear on Li Si, but Zhao Gao messed up the cause of Li You's death, which did not affect Li Si at all. The progress of the case is over. Finally, on a sad dawn, the verdict came down, it was cut in half, punished with five punishments, and exterminated three clans (father clan, mother clan, wife clan)! From then on, Li Si became very peaceful, and the guards seemed to be kind to protect him, fearing that he would commit suicide.In the morning, the water for washing his face was brought to him, and he soaked his face in cold water. The dull morning situation suddenly became clear, and he felt like a smart and healthy young man in Shangcai, standing under the window in front of the court or in the rippling brook. On the side, reviewing some homework taught by Teacher Xunzi, the exam is still far away, he is just a young man, carefree.Ah, can I be young and young again, pure as ever again. In this gloomy room, Li Si was repeatedly struck by a series of empty memories about the past.He thought of his classmate Fu Qiubo, who, like him, was a student of Xunzi and a top student.Li Si entered the Qin Dynasty, and took the position of the three princes, according to the honor of Wancheng, to control the sea, while Fu Qiubo ate hemp leaves, lived under the white house, and enjoyed his life choices. No worries. In July 207 BC, with the chilly morning breeze blowing, Li Si and his wife, hundreds of family members, wrapped in ochre-colored prison clothes, lined up in a long line, walking from the national prison to the Xianyang market.Li Si walked at the head of the team, and the chains on his body rattled.Because of the pain, he moved very slowly, and the whole team was slowed down by him. Li Si saw people without voices and faces surging on both sides, like a bunch of pigeons flying faintly, and some buildings stood outside the crowd in a resigned attitude.It seemed that it had rained in the night, and the rain was icy cold.Those dozens of spring and autumn rains that have been experienced are like a hallucination, buried in Li Si's memory, and seem to have disappeared.And all the vigorous past events in my turbulent life are nothing but erratic bursts of moist air. Li Si raised his head, and saw thousands of birds flying together, flying across the Xianyang sky at dawn, looking all over his eyes, which made people fascinated.Li Si couldn't help turning his head around, and said to his second son who was following him to be slaughtered: "I want to lead the yellow dog with you, and go out to Shangcai Dongmen to chase the cunning rabbit. How can I get it now!" I want to be with you, lead the yellow dog, go out of the east gate of my hometown, Shangcai County, and chase the wild and free cunning rabbits. Will such days be possible again? ——This is really a sad sigh of a thousand years. It has passed through two thousand years of history and space, and it still stimulates and trembles our human nerves. The tears of the two could not be held back any longer, and the father and son cried together on the road.This lament of life made the sky above the head change color for a moment. How can life issue a round-trip ticket. According to the laws of the Qin and Han Dynasties at that time, the "five punishments" that Li Si suffered when he died were the superposition of the five punishments of "tattooing, cutting off the left and right toes, killing them with flogging, taking their heads, and throwing their flesh and blood". trade fair.The scene is similar to a day trip to hell.There is no humanity at all, all animal ways. First of all, in the Xianyang Farmer’s Market (Xianyang City, which doubles as an execution ground, because there are so many people here), first ask a beautician to shave the face of the tortured.It is to engrave on the face and then paint it with ink.If the victim slanders and curses, his tongue must be cut off first. However, there is no need to worry about Li Si.Li Si is also a famous minister of a generation, he has the style of an ancient minister, even if he dies with hatred, he will not say anything that insults his monarch. Although Li Si's tongue was not cut off, the nose was to be cut off - this matter was done by sculptors, such as Michelangelo, who took the chisel used to chisel David's nose, and snapped off the bridge of the victim's nose .Once the whole nose is down, the face is bloody.If Li Si got here, the onlookers might gradually be unable to distinguish that the seventy-year-old prisoner was the old prime minister Li Si who had served for thirty years and made great achievements.Next, the surgeon took an ax and amputated both feet of the victim.Next, the executioner uses a whip, bamboo board or wattle, one whip after another, and beats the victim until blood and flesh splatter and the body rolls over, "killing" the victim alive.Generally, if the hands are heavy, one hundred blows can complete the task. If it is to satisfy the crowd, it may take one thousand blows before he dies. As the flogging progressed, Li Si was spraying blood from his mouth on the operating table, and his body was covered in erosion. He muttered some unsound words to himself, and the glory and dreams retreated to the deepest and final corner.When the bamboo board was lifted up for the last time in the world to cover the sunlight, Li Si's mind suddenly became dizzy, and all the depression, pain, and shame were suddenly formatted. The distant heights that can be seen. No pain anymore, but no fun either. Finally, the executioner raised the big bronze axe, swung it, chopped off Li Si's head, and raised it to announce to the surroundings.Then "cut his flesh and bones", this matter needs to be done by Zheng Tu, that is, Zheng Tu in the town of Guanxi, that is to say, he will use a knife and an ax to chop Li Si's flesh and bones into fine pieces Thin meat, like dumpling stuffing. This is the case with the whole Gu Wu Xing, whose bloody scenes exceeded the highest standard of the film's restricted rating. "Han Shu" said that the people of the Han Dynasty killed Han Xin and Peng Yue with five punishments. Alright, let's drop this horrific pervert scene.Li Si, a generation of tyrants, ended his strange life of being a commoner in Xianyang in this way. Although Li Si has human selfishness, we believe that he is still a great first-class statesman and a historical promoter with great contributions in Chinese history.The inscription Li Si wrote for Qin Shihuang and engraved on Mount Tai is still preserved on the peak, which also marks their height in history.In addition, it is said that since Zhao Gao, people have admired his superb calligraphy. There is still something to say.According to the "Qing Barnyard Banknotes": At that time, women traffickers in the Qing Dynasty often rode donkeys, cruising between villages. When they saw a village woman riding a donkey, if her husband followed behind, she would drive the donkey forward, intentionally Along with the village women.After that, they exchanged names with the village women, pretended to be courteous, but secretly drove the donkey to let it go fast.After a while, her husband fell behind while walking. "If you turn around a few times, the country woman is lost in a hurry."The female abductee pretended to comfort her and said, "Don't be afraid! There are my relatives in front of me, so you can go and have a rest. If you are tired, you can also stay overnight." So she led the village woman to the bandit's house.As soon as she entered the door, the abductee hid, but the room was full of men.When the village woman saw this, she would cry, so the kidnapper ordered someone to beat her up and told her: "You have fallen into our trap. If you don't obey us, I will kill you." Raping the village women is called "destroying shame".The village women were not only intimidated, but also lost to others, and gradually became cold-hearted.Therefore, they asked their colleagues to pretend to be buyers, come to buy them as concubines, and then asked them kindly, asking where they came from.After hearing this, the woman must weep and tell her grievances.The same party pretended to be unbearable to see, and then withdrew.Then the kidnappers beat the village woman again.Soon, another bandit came to buy it and asked each other as before. If the village woman still complained, she would be beaten again.After doing this three or four times, the village woman dared not speak any more, and then took her to the town to sell. This kind of ugly technique of human traffickers was actually practiced by Zhao Gao of the Great Qin Dynasty. Zhao Gao sent his own retainers, pretending to be the emperor's censor, to interrogate Li Si and then tortured him repeatedly. It was the same trick. What is used here is the technique! Art, this thing, was an invention of Warring States Shen Buhai.What is surgery?Although everyone talks about tricks, what is a trick? Spelling is to design a scene and technique so that the subject cannot judge the intention of the caster (usually the owner) for investigation, but has to obediently accept and obey the instruction or wishes of the owner.This is one of the methods that the ruler uses to control his subjects. We said that the number of rulers is limited, there is only one, and the number of ministers is hundreds of thousands. How can a master monitor and restrict his ministers to listen to him?Law is the restraint and assessment of laws and regulations, power is the power of reward and punishment, and here is art. If I babbled on for a long time just now, you still don't know what surgery is.Then let me give you another example. For example, in our personnel management, employees are not allowed to inquire about each other's salaries, and new employees are not allowed to disclose their own salaries. This is the law.But there are only one or two people in the personnel department, so how can we expect hundreds of employees?So like this, when a new employee joins the job, the personnel department will send someone pretending to be an ordinary employee to ask him: Hello, your surname, how much will the company pay you? If he said "two thousand and five a month".Okay, so you dismiss this employee (this requires you to have the power and the law, the power means that your personnel department has the power to dismiss him, no matter who he introduced to an important position, you can also dismiss him. If you don’t have power, you can’t do it. The law is the salary confidentiality system set by the Ministry of Personnel).After punishing the new employee, and spreading the story around, let everyone know.In the future, when a new employee comes, he will be asked: How much do you earn?He didn't dare to say, because he didn't know if it was a tester sent by the personnel department, or a colleague who was really curious was asking.In short, he simply dare not say.So your HR department is successful. This is the technique.A scene and technique are set up so that the other party can only obediently accept the restraint of the law enforcement officer, so that the owner can monitor hundreds of thousands of people to ensure that they dare not break the law.hehe. The power of spells mentioned by the Legalists is all here.It has the same purpose as today's benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, both are tools for the master to control his subjects. There is another example. We used to have a teaching director in a high school. When he invigilated the students, he sat in front, held a newspaper, read the newspaper, and then cut two eyes-sized holes in the newspaper, and it was over. .Haha, the students had no choice, no one knew when he was looking and where he was looking, so they could only obediently dare not move, they were all restrained by him alone.This dean can easily control dozens of people with one person, and he can be said to be a person who knows how to use skills! With the power of magic and benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, it is easy for the owner to rule the world with his hands down. This is Taoism. Therefore, although legalism, Confucianism, and Taoism are constantly in dispute, they are actually the same thing under the imperial autocratic system.The three are one, and there is no need to argue, they are all for the service of the king, and there are only some small differences in methodology.