Chapter 47 Section 6 Cai Ze's Weirdness

Li Si, like his teacher Xun Qing, and his brother Han Fei, firmly believes that human nature is inherently evil.That is: there is no love without reason in the world, but there is absolutely hate without reason.If you screw things up, people will hate you; if you do things well, people will still hate you; if you don't do anything, people will still hate you. Lu Buwei once promised Li Si that he would support him secretly, but the lip service was not delivered, which is really hateful.Li Si could only struggle under Cai Ze's claws alone.Cai Ze cast eyeliner around Li Si and strictly monitored his every move.Under such precautions, Li Si had no access to any secrets at all.

Li Si would regularly submit an undercover report to Lu Buwei, saying it was a report, but all he could come into contact with was trivial matters, and he had nothing to report.But it didn't bother Li Si at all.He is a good hand at making fuss.Mr. Lu Xun said: Li Si was the only one who wrote articles in the Qin Dynasty.Brother Xun has always been reliable in his words.Li Si didn't worry about having nothing to write. He wrote thousands of words at every turn, from the wind blowing willows to the rain hitting plantains, from the loneliness of palace flowers to the sunset; , There is not a single word that interests Lu Buwei.Poor Lu Buwei, holding the dozens of catties of bamboo slips sent by Li Si every day, was dizzy from reading them, but he saw that they were full of gorgeous words, and his teeth and cheeks smelled fragrant when he read them, so he read nothing.Soon, Lu Buwei developed aesthetic fatigue, so he criticized: Mr. Bu Weizhi has fulfilled his duties, and I am very pleased.From now on, big things will be played, and small things will be avoided.

Without the tedious task of handing in homework to Lu Buwei regularly, Li Si was at ease, and for quite a long time, he had almost cut off contact with Lu Buwei.A spy had already reported this situation to Cai Ze.Cai Ze's servant, Wang Wan, is a descendant of the aristocratic family. He is quite talented and highly regarded by Cai Ze.Li Si made great efforts to make friends, and soon the two became friends.Wang Wan talked with Li Si, admiring Li Si's talent, and felt ashamed.Wang Wan spoke well for Li Si in front of Cai Ze.Slowly, Cai Ze saw that Li Si hadn't changed anything, so he relaxed his vigilance a little bit, and occasionally summoned Li Si to serve a banquet when he was drinking and having fun.

Cai Ze was mean, ungrateful, brutal and domineering, and his leadership style caused many complaints among his subordinates.This man's catchphrase is: Back then, when I was prime minister... Cai Ze liked to give lectures, and every time he summoned his subordinates, he uttered nonsense: "Listen to the truth, you are all cattle, horses, pigs and dogs. I will be slaughtered and cut down. Stealing the world, walking dead. I am deeply ashamed of you." What is Zhulang doing to him, Cai Ze?But he insisted on adding bad words, this is hatred for no reason.Cai Ze is also good at self-proclaiming: "Only I can reach the top of the blue sky, and my name will shine in the annals of history, and it will last forever. I don't hate that I don't see future generations, and hate that future generations don't see me." This is love with a reason. .

In Li Si's view, Cai Ze is already a doomed and useless person, who only knows how to lie on the glory of the past, remembering sentimentality, discussing the current government affairs, full of complaints, and being critical, thinking that the new is not as good as the old, and the present is not as good as the past. Cai Ze couldn't express his compassion for the common people.However, the fact is that his official career is nearing the end, and the position of Lang Zhongling is the last position he guards.The officialdom loses power, and then the mentality becomes unbalanced. Anyway, the official career is hopeless, so he breaks the jar and falls into the psychological maze of self-pity and self-pity.Li Si couldn't help feeling sad for Cai Ze, and asked himself: which is worse, to have it but lose it, or to never have it at all?