[Wei Nie] Vertical and horizontal killing

It was already late when Li Si returned to the mansion from Xianyang Palace.

His Majesty the Emperor was in a good mood, but he hesitated again and again, and in the end he did not address the issue of lack of labor to repair the Great Wall at this time.Because, after having a banquet with Mrs. Qing, he suddenly had an idea.

Isn't it short of a husband?Then he would think of a crime, just increase the number of civilian husbands.

After a few days, the emperor's mood improved, and he was placed among the people. Then there was news that some people said that the emperor was afraid of death and wanted to live forever, and the mirage was repaired because people from the Yinyang family went to sea to obtain elixir. He also said that His Majesty has many eyes and ears, and you must not conceal anything, big or small, and even ordered that if the minister's daily load is less than 120 catties, he will not be allowed to rest, etc.

These news are not confidential, the emperor did not deliberately conceal the fact that he often summoned the Moon God of the Yin Yang family before, and the review of the bamboo slips can also be interpreted as His Majesty's diligence and self-denial.However, as the emperor's authority grew, his suspicions gradually expanded.What does it mean that the things around me can spread to the world like this?

Right now, it's nothing more than irrelevant news, but what if one day the emperor's whereabouts are revealed?

Thinking of this, Ying Zheng sent someone to send a message, and Xiangguo entered the palace immediately.

As soon as Li Si entered the palace, he heard the emperor say, "I remember that there are more than 500 rooms in the Efang Palace?"

Li Si replied: "Efang's palace is five hundred steps from east to west, fifty feet from north to south, and three rooms in 580. Zhou Chi is the pavilion road, from His Highness to Nanshan."

Ying Zheng pondered for a moment, and said: "Not enough, we need to increase the number of palaces. I want more than a thousand palaces, and I have at least a hundred living quarters. Li Si, do you understand?"

Li Si raised his head slightly, wanting to say something, but finally lowered his head and said: "Your servant can summon the craftsmen to modify the blueprint."

Ying Zheng shook his hand, "Don't worry, there is one more thing. I want to dig a secret palace under the Xianyang Palace to attract immortals. I will leave this matter to Ai Qing."

Li Si finally showed a look of embarrassment, and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, I—"

Ying Zheng looked up at Li Si and hesitated to speak.

Even in the inner palace, the emperor still wears a crown made of pearls from the East China Sea.His face was hidden behind the bead curtain, making it hard to see clearly.

Li Si hesitated for a while, then lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty's forgiveness, it's still because half of the country's power has been spent on building the Great Wall to resist the Hu people, plus the expansion of the Afang Palace in the suburbs, and the straight road leading to the frontier fortress of the empire, not to mention the treasury coins. Just say that Mrs. Min can't make ends meet. At this moment, if we expand the palace and excavate the underground palace, I'm afraid..."

His Majesty the Emperor looked at Li Si quietly, his voice was very low: "Li Si, I'm still thinking about when you will say it."

Li Si was startled, and raised his head a little nervously: "Your Majesty, you already knew?"

The emperor turned around, and his sharp eyes looked at the rivers and mountains flowing above the sand table through the bead curtain, as if staring at a peerless beauty.

He said slowly: "Li Si, you are my arm. For so many years, you have been by my side and shared my worries. Do you think that if you tell these things, I will think you are incompetent?"

Li Si lowered his head: "It's my minister's intention to go wrong, Your Majesty forgive me."

The emperor didn't look back, he suddenly changed the subject: "You have heard the rumors about me in Xianyang City, right?"

This time Li Si answered quickly: "The minister has already caught the person who deceived the public."

The emperor turned his head slightly: "Oh?"

Li Si: "It's two warlocks who have already used torture and confessed that they were talking nonsense in the wine shop because the pills offered by their colleagues were not effective and they were executed. The matter. The colleagues of these two people claimed to be from Penglai, and the palace man who offered the prescription last time died after taking the medicine, and then he was beheaded for public display."

The emperor frowned thoughtfully.

Li Si waited quietly.

After a long time, the emperor withdrew his eyes fixed on the sand table of mountains and rivers, and his expression became sharp again, like an epee about to be unsheathed.

"It always seems difficult for a living person to keep a secret."

Li Si was startled and lowered his head.

The emperor continued: "My whole heart is for the eternal foundation. They can't understand it. Instead, they are happy to talk about how I punish criminals. Back then, the Shang monarch reformed, but within a few decades, my great Qin ancestors rose from the land of Longxi, from the six kingdoms. The impoverished and weak borderlands in the mouth have turned into the hegemony of the Western Front. After careful calculation, there are only two generations of monarchs. Li Si, what do you think is the reason?"

Li Si replied: "Your Majesty, it's because of the unity of will."

The emperor's gaze carried the hostility of years of gold and iron horses: "What my great Qin ancestors were able to do, but the survivors of the six countries are short-sighted. Their eyes are stuck on the gains and losses of one country and one person. They can't do it."

Li Si was speechless.

Emperor: "In the past, if they wanted to talk, I would allow them to say; if they wanted to write, I would allow them to write. But how did they repay me?"

Li Si lowered his head, waiting for the emperor's decision.

Sure enough, the emperor said slowly: "Since they are dissatisfied, ungrateful, and unreasonable, I don't need to tolerate them. Li Si, from now on, you will have people thoroughly investigate who dares to make false comments on government affairs. They will be deceived by lies and all will be sent to prison." Ask the crime. Those scholars who are not sensible and still do teaching and educating people, you should investigate thoroughly, whoever still uses the six languages ​​​​is ulterior motives!"

Li Si was stunned, raised his head and said in surprise: "Your Majesty, scholars have never been weak-tongued, and the children of the noble family are fine, but if the students from poor families are investigated, I am afraid that they will not accept it."

The emperor turned his head and looked directly at Li Si: "Li Si, you don't have to say these words to test me. Since I ordered you to do it, I will not be afraid of Confucian scholars in the world. If they want to write, they will burn the bamboo slips they wrote; if they If you still don’t know how to repent your nonsense, then——I will make them speechless again!”

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Coming out of Xianyang Palace, standing on the long steps, Li Si looked at the place where the setting sun set.

This incident was initiated by him, but his original intention was to use strict laws to delineate more prisoners.The prisons of the empire were already full of unrepentant old citizens from the six countries, and he just had an excuse to let these people go to the frontier to act as civilian husbands to make up for the gap.

However, the emperor of the empire may have already set his sights on the scholar, and through this incident, he was also pushed to the cusp of the storm.

Li Si knew very well that he came from Confucianism. When Han Fei died in the past, people in the world at most secretly said that he didn't care about his fellowship;

Apart from the empire, he has no other support.

To be able to achieve the position of prime minister of a country and win the trust of the emperor, Li Si's means and ability are beyond doubt.

After Xiangguo left the palace, he began to draw up new policies and issued documents, ordering counties and counties to start hunting for fraudulent sorcerers and quacks.Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Mohist family once again felt the crisis, and the scattered Mohist strongholds were encircled and suppressed, and the Mohist family had no choice but to dive into a deeper dormancy again.

In the old days, the emperors loved red pills because the folks wanted to be rich and the magicians became popular, and the wealthy people were proud of being able to support a few magicians to make alchemy.Li Si made a lot of noise. Starting from the wealthy households who had just moved to Xianyang, they would kill chickens to make an example to monkeys. If anyone hides them, they will be punished together.

Since King Qin Huiwen, the state of Qin has implemented the system of continuous sitting.Not long after such an iron-blooded government order was issued, nearly ten thousand warlocks were arrested in the city of Xianyang alone, and half of them were innocent people.

However, under the rule of the empire, who can really stand up and claim to be innocent?

Although there are nearly [-] more people, it is just a drop in the bucket.There are still not enough folks to build the Chidao and the Great Wall, and the construction of the imperial mausoleum in Lishan is also working overtime.

In such an atmosphere, the New Year comes.No matter how the people celebrate the new year, at this time of year, the Xianyang Palace will worship the ancestors, and then have a big banquet for the officials.

Li Si put down the documents for the time being, and started to prepare for the banquet in Xianyang Palace.Usually at this time, the itinerary and ceremonies of the emperor in the inner palace are in charge of Zhao Gao, the order of the CRRC Mansion.

The next day, when Li Si entered the palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor, he saw the CRRC Government Order who hadn't shown up for a long time.

The two met at the gate of the palace. When Li Si got out of the carriage, he happened to see that the CRRC Fu Ling had just got out of the car and was still sorting out the jade.

Both of them are important ministers under the emperor's seat, so naturally they have to exchange a few words when they meet.

"Master Xiangguo is well."

"The CRRC government order has worked hard all the way."

"Where. How can it compare to Xiangguo working hard for the country."

"Please." Li Si made a gesture, and the two of them, like all colleagues, walked into the south gate of Xianyang Palace side by side.

A little eunuch had already come forward to ask: "My lords, Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time, please."

Climbing up the steps all the way, the little eunuch was ten steps ahead.

There was no one around, Zhao Gao said casually, "Your Majesty really loves Xiangguo."

Li Si kept walking and his expression remained unchanged: "Oh? Why did the order of the CRRC government say that?"

The corners of Zhao Gao's mouth curled up slightly, implying something: "Just after the rumor that His Majesty reprimanded Your Excellency was released in the inner palace a few days ago, His Majesty locked up all the palace officials of Xianyang Palace and sent them to prison for torture."

Li Si's eyes widened, he did not pay attention to this matter.Looking at the majestic palace on the steps, he sighed: "As expected of a trap, the CRRC mansion is not in Xianyang, but it knows more details than I do."

Zhao Gao smiled lightly: "Your Excellency is too famous, and Luo Wang only does what it is supposed to do. But, does Your Excellency know what happened to those palace people?"

Li Si frowned: "I don't doubt the method of trapping the net."

Zhao Gao squinted his eyes and smiled, "Your Majesty can't interrogate anyone who leaks the secret, so these maids, eunuchs and guards all died, just ten days ago. However, my lord made a mistake, this time it wasn't the trap's meddling." The ones who carry out His Majesty's orders are the shadow guards."

Li Si's expression is very suitable for his status as the prime minister of a country. He seems not to care about these things, but is simply worried about the safety of the emperor: "The key to this matter is not that I was reprimanded, but who leaked the truth to His Majesty. The news around you."

Zhao Gao didn't answer this question, he just smiled lightly: "My lord, we are here."

The gate of the main hall of Hongtai Palace was pushed open, and the huge palace gate made a slow "Zigga" sound, and slowly opened, revealing the empty and huge inner hall inside.

The author has something to say: The history of burning books and burying Confucian scholars is always subtle.I checked the historical materials. In fact, the word "Zhusheng" was used instead of Confucian scholars when this incident was first recorded. Combined with what happened during the reign of the First Emperor, some of the murderers should be fake elixir and ineffective magicians.Later, the word "pit Confucianism" appeared for the first time in the Western Han classics more than 100 years after Zulong's death. Considering the principle of "successful people write history", it is actually worth deliberating who was killed.

that's all.

This paragraph also explained some clues that the emperor didn't want his whereabouts to be revealed, and paved the way for the future.

According to historical data, Zulong was very diligent.Never rest until you finish reading the 120-jin Zhangzou (bamboo slips) every day.He is cautious.In his hall, no one was allowed to carry weapons, and the guards were not allowed to go to the hall unless ordered, so that when Jing Ke came to murder him, everyone could only stare blankly.He is suspicious.His residence is different every day, and anyone who reveals his whereabouts will be punished with death.He is cruel.Once, his criticism of Li Si was spread outside the palace.Since the person who leaked the secret could not be found out, all the maids, eunuchs and guards who were around at that time were killed.

Here is such an allusion borrowed to foreshadow the following content.

In other words, I really like to write Gongdou!