Chapter 26 5. Liz is a big mouse

Just when the situation of the uprising was very good, another embarrassing thing that cannot be explained happened. The embarrassment happened in Qi State.The former, Qi Wang Tian Dan aided Wei, was killed by Zhang Han, only Tian Rong packed up the remnants and fled back.When he came back, he was shocked to see that there was another king of Qi in the state of Qi, who was set up by Tian Jiao and his younger brother Tian Jian.Tian Rong was furious, so he immediately attacked Xin Wangjia. Xin Wangjia couldn't resist, so he ran to Chu State, while Tian Jiao and Tian Jian brothers went to rescue Zhao State. After hearing about this, they stayed in Zhao State and dared not come back.

At this time, Xiang Liang was full of confidence. He had the most powerful armed force, and urgently needed the cooperation of Qi State to send troops to contain Qin soldiers, so that he could defeat Zhang Han in one fell swoop.So Xiang Liang asked Tian Rong to send troops, but Tian Rong said: "Unless the state of Chu kills Qi Wangjia, and the state of Zhao kills Tian Jiao and Tian Jian brothers, otherwise I will not send troops." It was impossible for Chu State to kill King Qi, and Zhao State had no reason to kill Tianjiao Tianjian. As a result, everyone froze here, allowing Zhang Han to take the opportunity to recuperate, and soon regained his combat effectiveness.

At the critical point, Zhao Gao, the eunuch next to Qin Er Shi, felt that this would not work, so he made a reasonable suggestion, how about killing Li Si? "Why did you kill Li Si?" Qin Ershi asked. "Because Li Si rebelled." Zhao Gao replied. "You said Li Si rebelled, do you have evidence?" Qin Ershi asked again. "Evidence is easy to deal with," Zhao Gao said confidently, "Our Qin State lacks everything, except evidence." So Zhao Gao ordered Li Si to be arrested and tortured. Speaking of Li Si, the prime minister of Qin, he is a famous master of "rat philosophy" in Chinese history.He is a native of Shangcai in the state of Chu—in fact, he is an exile of the state of Cai.Once, when he went to the toilet, he found that the mice in the toilet were thin and small, and they ran away in panic when they saw people coming.Then he went to the rice barn again, and found that the mice in the rice barn were huge and fat, and they were indifferent to anyone who came.This incident made Li Si suddenly wake up: it doesn't matter how capable or capable you are, what matters is where you are.

In the same way, if a mouse lands in the toilet, it won’t be able to eat enough, it’s so hungry that it doesn’t look like a mouse, and it still has to worry about it.When they fall into the rice barn, they will eat and drink, and have a big belly.The same person, who falls on the high point of benefit distribution, can eat and drink endlessly, honor and decent.If you fall to the bottom, you will be exhausted, and you may not be able to eat and wear warm clothes. So Li Si vowed to be a rice hamster. He chose the rice warehouse in Qin State and ate happily for many years.In fact, Qin's plan to destroy the six countries was planned and actually implemented by him.Because Qin Shihuang ordered the expulsion of guests from all over the world after Qin Shihuang came to power, Li Si was reluctant to leave this rice warehouse, so he worked hard and planned, and asked to continue to eat in Qin at the cost of the plan to destroy the six countries.

Moreover, Li Si is notoriously jealous.In his early years, he and Han Fei were educated under Xunzi's school at the same time, and they were regarded as brothers in the same school.Xunzi is a well-known master of the theory of evil in nature, he believed that human nature is inherently evil.Li Si and Han Fei inherited and developed this theory, and both became the leaders of Legalism's thought on punishment and the people.But the strange thing is that although two of Xunzi's disciples were Legalists, Xunzi himself insisted that he was a Confucianist, a true descendant of Confucius, and regarded Mencius as contemptuous.

Now that Li Si is about to leave, I will take this opportunity to briefly introduce the thoughts of Confucianism and Legalism: Whether it is Confucianism or Legalism, the source of their thought comes from Confucius.But Confucius was very cunning and refused to take a positive stand on human nature.This led to the confrontation between the two armies between Xunzi and Mencius during the Warring States Period.Mencius is a school of goodness in human nature, and believes that human nature is to be kind, to have self-dignity, and to be positive and upward.Xunzi, on the other hand, is an evil school of human nature, who believes that human nature is evil, negative, backward and shameless.

So from Mencius's theory that nature is good, we walked out of the lineage of Confucianism in later generations.This academic school believes that human nature is positive, bright, and tends to be good, so rulers should rule the world with benevolence. And from Xunzi's theory that nature is evil, came out of the legalist thought school of punishment and people represented by Li Sihanfei.This academic school believes that human nature is negative, dark, and evil, so rulers don't have to be polite to the common people, even if they punish the common people with severe torture. In Chinese history, almost every emperor wore Confucian clothes and held the banner of Confucianism, but he was a follower of Legalism and engaged in legalist activities.Historians of later generations had their brains flooded, and when they saw the clothes and banners of Confucianism, they crazily criticized Confucianism, and all the dirty things of Legalism were blamed on Confucianism.But in reality, Confucian ideas have never been practiced in China since the invention of the centralized system, nor could it be practiced.How can we centralize power after it has been implemented?

Therefore, from the time when Qin Wang was in power, the rulers were full of desire for the human resources of the Legalists, the so-called talent is hard to find.Gein wants a scholar to be full of hatred for the common people, and help the ruler to harm the common people for no reason. This contradicts the conscience of the scholar and violates basic human nature.Therefore, in history, the number of Confucian scholars is huge, but Legalist scholars are waiting for empty seats, and talents are rare. Therefore, as early as when Qin Shihuang destroyed South Korea, South Korea sent Li Si to Fengxi Nadi, so Qin Shihuang planned to reuse Han Fei.This incident aroused Li Si's sense of crisis. He was afraid that after his junior brother arrived, he would have nothing to do with himself, so he first falsely accused Han Fei of bad intentions and put Han Fei in prison. Han Fei was poisoned to death.

After helping the tyrant to swallow up the six kingdoms and poisoning his junior brother to death, Li Si continued to eat in the rice barn of Qin with peace of mind.But now, it was his turn to pay for the millet he ate. Zhao Gao arrested Li Si and tortured him severely: "Are you recruiting or not? Are you recruiting or not? If you dare not admit to treason, I will beat you to death." Li Si couldn't bear the beating, he thought, I will beat you to death Well, when I see Qin Ershi, I will appeal again, and it will not be too late to report that Zhao Gao tortured me to extract a confession.So Li Si recruited.

After recruiting, Qin Ershi sent envoys to investigate.Seeing the envoy, Li Si immediately burst into tears, and shouted for grievances: "Emissary, please tell the emperor that I did not rebel, but was tortured by Zhao Gaota to extract a confession. ..." But he didn't want the envoy to wipe his face: "Hahaha, do you really think I am the envoy? Idiot, let me tell you, I am Zhao Gao's subordinate, and I am here to test you because I am afraid that you will retract your confession when the time comes. You really are not good, just keep calling me." Then there was another torture, which made Li Si unable to live or die, and was forced to confess to treason again.After being recruited, the imperial envoy came again, Li Si hurriedly retracted his confession again, not realizing that the imperial envoy was still a fake, and Li Si suffered another misfortune as a result.

Just like this, the confession was retracted once, and the torture was severe once, which finally exceeded Li Si's physical endurance limit. Li Si collapsed completely and firmly believed that he had rebelled. The imperial envoys still came from time to time, Li Si believed that they were all testing him, and insisted that he was rebelling against him, and he would not be fooled by Zhao Gao.In fact, the real envoy had already come, but the real envoy was mixed with so many fake envoys that Li Si couldn't tell the difference at all. Li Si's confession of rebellion was handed over to Qin Ershi. Qin Ershi was very sad and said, "Look at this Li Si, everyone has fun together. Why do you have to rebel? Is rebellion really that fun?" Li Si and his second son were sentenced to be cut in half! After being tied up and released from the prison, Li Si said to his second son, "Son, do you still remember the happy time when we took the little yellow dog and chased foxes and hares up the mountain when we were in Shangcai?" Life is like a dream, with one knife being swung into two parts. Li Si and his second son were executed, and his eldest son, Li You, was guarding Yongqiu.Unfortunately, Xiang Liang sent his golden combination Liu Bang and Xiang Yu to rush towards Yongqiu.