My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 19 Ying Zheng and Li Si (new book please read and reward!)

Fusu was lying on the couch, but all he could think about was Li Si's face.

In the dead of night, Li Si came to Ying Zheng with the memorial slips in his arms.

He also compiled the memorials from the ministers and presented them to Ying Zheng.

No matter what era, scholars are usually able to discover the clues of changes in the times and predict the general trend of future development earlier than mediocre people based on what they have learned.

Many people express their political opinions by writing articles.

Most of these people are retainers raised among noble families.

They exhausted what they had learned, and together they gathered and wrote the same article or book together with the hard work of their whole life.

And the last one to sign is their lord.

This is the fashion of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

This is the case with "Lü Lan", which is named as written by Lu Buwei, but is actually the collective wisdom of his thousands of disciples.

As for the monarchs of the various vassal states, in addition to reading memorials, they also read books written by talented scholars from various countries at that time.

There are seven countries in the world in name, but in fact there are still small states in the corners of many places.

The vassal states are all over the world, and it is also an era when various schools of thought contend with each other.

All kinds of thoughts are full of horizontal, good and evil are mixed, and it is difficult to distinguish the good from the bad.

The legalists of the Qin State became the strongest of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

Ying Zheng also grasped the essence of Legalism.

Legalism advocates practicality, using human nature to maintain the rule of the country.

Legalism is pragmatic, and it will not imagine that everyone is equal like Mohism; it will not advocate the restoration of Zhou etiquette and benevolence as the foundation, like Confucianism.

The Legalists just obeyed human nature, and human nature is to pursue interests.

If you make good use of this, you can govern the country.

By using the law to protect the actual interests of all classes, to maintain fairness as much as possible.

This is the fundamental reason why Qin can become the strongest among the seven countries.

Yingzheng, as the monarch of Qin, naturally inherited the crystallization of the wisdom of the previous kings.

He doesn't have any illusions, hoping to gain their support by exercising benevolence to his ministers.

But even so, he will still absorb some useful things from various schools of thought and use them to govern the country.

Therefore, he often sends people to collect the articles of talented scholars from all over the world, so as to see what sages in the world can really understand what he thinks in his heart, and who can be in this great cause of world domination? Give him pointers on the road.

The result disappointed him greatly.

For example, the articles submitted by the courtiers of the Qin State are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality; the talented scholars of the Chu State handed over poems written for ghosts and gods; , Righteousness is the most important thing in the world, and everything else is second.

Look at a leaf and you will know the world is in autumn.

After reading these articles, Ying Zheng knew about the customs and customs of different countries, and also knew how the people of different countries thought.

It's just that he didn't see any interesting articles these days.

Among the ministers of the Qin State, there were also celebrities, but the articles they wrote were eventually processed into admonitions.

The so-called remonstrance, Ying Zheng grasped the essence.The remonstrance text is to make your scalp numb and full of pride when you read it, but after reading it, you can only sit on the ground slumped, at a loss, and useless.

At the beginning, Ying Zheng often read these remonstrances.

Later, he was particularly disgusted with these remonstrances.

When Ying Zheng saw these memorials, he only needed to look at the names engraved on the outside of the bamboo slips to know what they were about.

I don't know since when, people in the clan and nobles have become people of different ranks.

Occupying the status of public ministers and nobles, the palace has dead soldiers and retainers, but the things they write after brainstorming are all exaggerated and useless articles.

It's too easy to do the widow's three lords and nine ministers.

Ying Zheng glanced at these memorials and acted as if he hadn't seen them.

"Let's put it aside for now—"

"only."

The eunuchs trembled.

Yingzheng will be happy when he sees a good article, but he will lose his temper when he sees a bad article.

At this moment, Li Si spoke.

"Your Majesty, I have recently obtained a new article. Maybe Your Majesty will be interested."

Ying Zheng raised his head, only to realize that Li Si was on duty today.

"I have seen your literary talents before. The articles that impress you must not be vulgar. Although you are only serving as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I allow you to submit your articles. I will submit them together tomorrow."

"My lord, when Li Si came tonight, he had already brought the article."

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si.

He thought to himself, this Li Si really knows how to read people's minds.At the beginning, the widow saw that his "Book of Remonstrance and Expelling Guests" was indeed reasonable, so the order of expelling guests was abolished.

But after careful consideration of his articles, I found that he was good at rhetoric.

Such a person is good at flattery and cannot be used as a great talent.

But he is also rich in literary talents and knowledgeable, so Ying Zheng chose a suitable place for him - Shangshutai.

A few months later, he actually became self-righteous and tried to figure out other people's thoughts.Could it be that he has seen through his loathing for those royal clansmen and old nobles in the palace?

Ying Zheng was naturally angry, he hated others trying to figure out his intentions.

"Bring it up."

Li Si was able to penetrate Ying Zheng's mind and found that he hated those pretentious articles that were vain and hypocritical. He could also find that Ying Zheng did not like honorable ministers in name only.

However, how could he, who is so smart, fail to see through Ying Zheng and not want outsiders to discover his true inner thoughts?

Recommending articles to Ying Zheng today is another political bet for him with his life.

Li Si took out a bamboo slip from his bag.

These are small bamboo slips made of narrow and thin bamboo slices, and all of them are written stroke by stroke in the small seal script of the State of Qin.Although the font is small, every word is neatly written.

Such a single-handed memorial slip is the best among the memorials of the court, middle and Shangqing officials.

Ying Zheng could see that this was carefully prepared by Li Si for him.

It's just that Ying Zheng saw that the article was called "Five Beetles", and the article was signed by Han Fei.

Ying Zheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and his dissatisfaction with Li Si was swept away.

"Han Fei? I've heard of this name before."

"Report to Your Majesty. Han Fei is the prince of the Korean royal family. Li Si used to be a classmate with his predecessor when he was studying under Master Xun. Now that he has returned to Korea, he has been depressed."

Zhu, Shu means.

"I lock myself up all day and write a book behind closed doors. This is an article I got from him a few days ago, called "Five Beetles". Its content is profound, remote and thought-provoking. Its incisive arguments are good words for governing the country."

"The old minister copied his article in Qin's language and showed it to the king."

Han Fei is Korean, so he is naturally written in Korean characters.

Li Si is proficient in the languages ​​of the six countries, and he is knowledgeable about the past and the present.

Upon hearing this, Ying Zheng nodded in satisfaction.

"good."

Han Fei's article was not easy to read.

Ying Zheng lowered his head to read for half an hour.

But when he read Han Fei's article, he only felt that he had found a bosom friend.

"This Han Fei, he has great talent!"

Li Si guessed that Ying Zheng would like Han Fei's article.

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