"Your Majesty, Confucian scholars are scholars, but scholars are not all Confucian scholars. Confucianism is one of the hundred schools, but not all of them recite Confucius and learn Confucianism. Because of a few Confucian slanderous and vain words, all schools of thought in the world were implicated, private learning was completely banned, and the words of hundreds of schools of thought were burned. ”

After hearing these words, Li Si's eyes narrowed, he was originally pointing at Wang Juan, but who expected, Wang Juan's old man was still stunned in place, but it was Heifu, who had always been close and kind to him, who stood up first.

"Ruzi, Ruzi, after pretending to be moderate for so long, I finally can't help it, do you want to make your voice heard?"

Seeing Heifu talking eloquently, the corners of the old prime minister's mouth showed a smile.

Today, Li Si came out of the ranks and threw out the astonishing words of "book burning", which was by no means a whim, but had been brewing for a long time.

The Legalist Qin swept the world, which should have brought an end to the century-long dispute between Confucianism and Law, but Qin Shi Huang was a pragmatic emperor who did not completely abandon Confucianism, but instead recruited many literary Confucian scholars to Xianyang as doctors.

The venue of the Confucianism controversy has shifted from the folk to the court, although every time the Legalists completely beat the Confucians, this group of people has Wang Juan as a backer, and they can be safe and sound every time, and they will continue to talk about it in the vernacular next time.

This kind of open and secret fighting, when Mount Tai sealed Zen, reached a white-hot level, Li Si just used a little trick, Wang Juan and Dr. Confucian 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 career in the past few decades, the biggest threat to Li Si is neither Wang Juan nor Ye Teng, but Han Fei, who is from the same family.

For Li Si, Qin Shi Huang just regarded him as a tool to dominate the world and monopolize imperial power, and he was promoted to an official position, all for this purpose. But for Han Fei, it was from the heart of appreciation, and even issued a sigh of "the widow has to see this person swim with him, and he will not hate him when he dies", it seems that every word in Han Fei's pen was written for Qin Shi Huang.

The fear of being excluded and replaced by Han Fei spontaneously arose, Li Si took advantage of Han Fei's fatal wound in the previous book, united with Yao Jia, and when Qin Shi Huang was most suspicious, he first let Yao Jia destroy him, saying that Han Fei is the son of Han, loyal to South Korea, and will never help Qin destroy Han, such a great talent in the world, if he is allowed to return to Han, I am afraid it will become a big disaster for Qin, it is better to punish him!

Li Si praised Han Fei just right, blowing him to the sky, as if Guan Zhong and Shang Ying were reincarnated, and if they went to Qin, Qin would be weak, just like Shang Ying left Wei back then. In the end, Qin Shi Huang made up his mind that since he couldn't get it, he would kill him!

By the time Qin Shi Huang regretted it, Li Si had already galloped to Yunyang, and after killing Han Feiyao, he cried and cleaned up his body.

Eliminating evil has always been the principle of life that Prime Minister Li Cheng 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 often in the emperor's heart, one was the thoughtful Zhao Gao, who could always be trusted by the emperor, served as a guard all year round, and was even qualified to do seal affairs. The second is Li Si himself.

But Li Si's rank is obviously slightly higher than Zhao Gao, he does not figure out the details of the emperor's preferences, but focuses on the general trend. What Qin Shi Huang wants to do next, he can make suggestions in advance, abolish the feudal line of counties and counties, and the same track book and the same text, all of which are Li Si put the words in the position that the emperor glanced at, and respectfully ask His Majesty to settle down!

Who doesn't like such a courtier? It's almost to the extent that "Zhao Gao is indecisive in internal affairs, and Li Si is indecisive in foreign affairs".

He thought that the emperor wanted to conquer Lingnan and arranged his son Li You to Changsha County, but the bamboo basket was empty, but the three sons of Meng Tian, Li Xin, and Heifu became famous.

Especially Heifu! Although he carefully avoided making more military exploits and letting Li Xin be in the limelight, Li Si knew that Heifu was the one who started it all.

Jane is in the heart of the emperor, and there is one more.

And the advantage of Heff was that he could often induce the emperor to deviate from his original intention and turn his attention elsewhere. Li Si didn't know that this black guy was open, so he was able to win the lottery again and again, and thought that he had extraordinary skills, and his vigilance against Heifu also deepened with the respect of Heifu's status.

But this time, Yi Li Si originally thought that Heifu was too far away from the court to be touched, but he didn't expect him to come in.

Li Si glanced at Ye Teng, the court lieutenant not far behind him, and said secretly in his heart:

"Was it Ye Teng's instructions? Did Tingwei want to show that he didn't think the same as me, and was anxious to establish political opinions in order to win the position of future prime minister of the left and even the right, and instigated his son-in-law to come forward? ”

No matter what the reason is, Li Si decided to teach the young man a good lesson today, and by the way, he also stepped on Ye Teng's careful thoughts. Let Heifu know that Jiang is still old and spicy, and the matter of Xituo is just a coincidence, and the emperor's mind is much more complicated than you think!

The Fengzen incident made Li Si sure that Qin Shi Huang's next attention would be on unifying the hearts and minds of the people and public opinion in the world, and his proposal to burn books was to cater to the emperor.

At this time, after Heifu finished speaking, Li Si shook his head and said: "The words of the Jiaodong County Shou are just standing on a lawsuit filed by the public, thinking that only the Confucian scholars and scholars involved in the case are responsible, and the rest of the people do not need to be investigated. Do you know why Shang Jun wanted to burn poetry books back then? ”

Heifu arched his hand: "I heard that it is for the ...... of the law"

"However, the book of burnt poems is for the sake of clarifying the law!"

Li Si's voice became louder: "Chivalry violates the ban with martial arts, and Confucianism uses literature to disrupt the law, which is not allowed by the law." It is easy to understand the prohibition of using force, but how to create chaos if the law is messed with literature? It depends on their 'Fa Xian King' theory! ”

This word made Heifu stunned, Zhang Cang once told him, "King Faxian", is the common proposition of a hundred schools, like Tuogu and even retro.

Needless to say, no matter which school of thought, they all believe that the three generations are the best golden age, the present is not as good as the ancient, the future is not as good as the past, what the future generations have to do is to imitate, restore and continue the ruling model of the three generations of antiquity as much as possible, and finally achieve "self-denial and revenge".

Like the disciples of Confucius and Mencius, he must be called Yao Shun when he speaks, and he must talk about benevolence and righteousness when asked, and you ask him how to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and he will reply to you with a sentence of "Zhongni's disciples, those who have no Tao Huan and literary things". You ask him how to rule the world, and he replies to you, "It's not good for a murderer to be able to rule 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 who are dying and the enemy soldiers are approaching the city?

The Taoists of the Lao Zhuang faction, although they do not like Confucianism, also believe that it is best to return to the era of "the voice of chickens and dogs, the people die of old age, and do not interact with each other......

Li Si criticized the stubborn "Fa Xian King" and said: "Nowadays, all beings are not the past and not the present, and this is what they say, just like hoeing grass in the field, if they do not kill their roots and only pluck their leaves, after a while, the fields will be overgrown with weeds, and the seedlings and corn will be sluggish!" Therefore, they will chase after their evil, and burn the hundred schools of the Fa Xian Wang, together with the "poems" and "books" that he advocates retro, so that no one dares to use the past and the present! ”

In Li Si's view, most of the hundred schools of thought are "the kings of the law", and from the perspective of state affairs, those people of the hundred schools and the books they wrote are all guilty! Even if some schools of thought do not have the plot of the Fa Xian King, but like weeds in the field, which farmer would squat down and look at their varieties? It is often better to kill mistakes than to let them go, and it is not a pity to go down with a hoe and eradicate them all!

Only by killing these schools of Fa Xian Wang, and the "Fa Hou Wang" and "Fa Jin Wang" advocated by Legalists, can they really become popular!

In the view of Legalism, with the change of the times, the way of ruling is also constantly changing, there is no consistent and unchanged way of the ancestors, and even the deeds of those ancestors are also fabricated and imagined by Confucianism. In an era when the whole world is competing for strength, the monarch should aim to enrich the country and strengthen the army, implement strict punishment and strict laws, and use the two handles of rewards and punishments to mobilize the strength of the whole people.

In the words of the next generation, it is "advancing with the times"!

Therefore, in the view of the Legalists, with the passage of time, the most beautiful era is always the present, the "present king", that is, the world ruled by Qin Shi Huangdi!

"Those who don't go, the book of medicine divination and tree planting. If you want to learn the law, take the officials as teachers. In this way, public opinion can be one. ”

This sentence was addressed to the arbiter.

Qin Shi Huang nodded slightly, what public opinion did he want? Is the present not as good as the ancient, is it Qin who inherited the cause of three generations? No, no! The emperor sealed the Zen carved stone on the top of Mount Tai, and the meaning was obvious:

"Before Qin went down for a day, it was dim and dim and chaotic, and from then on, the world entered a new stage of new light!"

In short, lawlessness is king, and law is king!

This coincides with Li Si and the political orientation of the Legalists! Therefore, Li Si advocated the ban on 100 schools of poetry and books, so that after the sealing of Zen, Qin Shi Huang, who had a great change in thinking, was a little moved.

After that, Li Si began to talk about the history books of the Six Kingdoms.

"The head of Qianqian has not been gathered, and people's thoughts about their homeland are all due to the historical events of the Six Kingdoms."

He began to list the recent incidents, didn't the advocates and scholars captured in Linzi often talk about Qi Huangong, Yan Ying, and Tian Dan in the streets and alleys of wine shops? When the people listen to these things every day, they may miss their old lives, and the ghost of the restoration of the kingdom will hover over the six countries forever.

And in the history books of the Six Kingdoms, there are often vicious slanders against Qin, the people of Chu scold the Qin people "Qin Rong", and the Kwantung princes also say that Qin is "the same as Rong Di", as if they are a foreign race that drinks blood from Ru Mao - there are really many people in the Six Kingdoms, and they still think so.

In Li Si's opinion, this matter is easy to do, first burn the plundered history books of the Six Kingdoms, burn all the private histories of the people, and then strictly prohibit talking about the history of the Six Kingdoms, so that after one or two generations, who still remembers Yan Ying and Tian Dan?

If you want to destroy its country, you must first destroy its history! Lis's solution is simple and crude, some people's names must be erased from history, from the memory of the people, and the books about them are better to disappear silently, forever.

In the end, there is only Qin, only now! Only the great Qin Shi Huangdi!

"If you burn its history, you will have a heart!"

After Li Si expounded on the thoughts he had been thinking about for a long time, he looked at Heifu, who came out rashly:

"Shao Shangzao, do you still think that all beings are not guilty, books cannot be burned, and the words of a hundred schools of thought cannot be forbidden?"

Heifu suddenly lowered his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes: "The prime minister is very far away...... Public opinion and people's hearts are indeed very important, and they are also the most important things that the imperial court needs to do now. ”

But he raised his head again, glanced at Qin Shi Huang, whose balance in his heart had gradually tilted in favor of Li Si, and his smile was still the same: "However, the minister has a way, he doesn't have to ban hundreds of private schools and burn all books, so as to achieve the effect of public opinion and people's hearts as the prime minister said!" ”