The lonely and sad tragic situation of Lis's death can only be described in four words: cocooning himself! Everything is of his own making.
Li Si was the minister of state when Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, and was an important helper. Without his "Book of Expulsion", there would have been no talent situation in which Qin Shi Huang was later born, and there would have been no final unification of the Qin state. However, LiSi, as a person, is really not a good person. He is a "legal person", a seemingly selfless person with an iron face, but in fact a fierce heart. His final outcome is also determined by his three choices.
First, Confucianism is still a Lawyer
Li Si's teacher was the famous Xunzi, a famous Confucian in ancient China. However, on the road of study, Li Si resolutely chose the idea of the Fa. It should be admitted that Xun Zi is not an orthodox Confucian, and his theory of sexual evil has begun to lean toward the Fa, but it still takes a certain amount of courage to "betray the Shimen" like Li Si without sparing any face.
Since Li Si chose the Legalist, he naturally inherited two main points of the Legalist's thinking: 1. Human nature is unreliable and must be regulated by law; 2. If there is a law, it must be followed, and the law enforcement must be strict and not emotional. After he came to the Qin Kingdom and became a chancellor, he was bound to make the Qin State, which was already under the leadership of Shang Martin, more legalized. In the face of tough laws, who will intercede for others? Not only Li Si, but also several ministers who were killed in the history of the Qin State, such as Shang Martin and Lü Buwei, were also not interceded with by anyone. The legal culture of the Qin State is like this. Li Si chose the Fa family, chose the Qin State, and chose this way of life. When he was in distress, there was no one to help, so don't blame anyone else, who made you a Dharma master?
Second, be a master brother or be a rival
Someone once said that Lis's popularity was not good, so no one interceded when he was killed, which is indeed correct. Li Si's character has already destroyed himself long ago. At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang read the article of Li Sishi's brother Han Fei and felt that this was a talent, and tried every means to get Han Fei to the Qin Kingdom. It is said that Li Si and Han Fei are classmates, and the two can work together to serve Qin Shi Huang. However, because Li Si was jealous of Han Fei's talent, he actually did something that violated the morality of the legal family: he colluded with the minister Yao Jia to frame Han Fei and personally offered poison!
As soon as this matter came out, Lis's popularity completely collapsed. You must know that the Dharma family is the only one of the hundred sons and hundreds of families who is only responsible to the monarch and rarely cares about the interests of the officials and the people. That is to say, all of Li Si's code of conduct must revolve around the principle of favoring Qin Shi Huang. However, Li Si killed Han Fei, who was useful to Qin Shi Huang for his own selfish interests, which could not be said from the Confucian way of friends or the morality of the Legalists, and was a proper "double standard". Li Si's behavior undoubtedly made the ministers see his villain's face clearly. In the future, if something happens to him, who will help him?
Third, power or responsibility
After the death of Qin Shi Huang, when Zhao Gao negotiated with Li Si for the first time and wanted to tamper with the edict and support Hu Hai, Li Si strictly refused. He was the prime minister and had the responsibility of guarding the qin world and carrying out the emperor's will. However, Zhao Gao moved out of Meng Yi to stimulate Li Si, saying that if Fu Su succeeded to the throne, he would inevitably reuse the Meng family, and Li Si's power and status were difficult to guarantee. At this time, Li Si was actually a villain, and easily gave up his responsibilities and chose to share power with Zhao Gao. So Li Si secretly did not mourn, used abalone to cover up the smell of corpses, and at the same time issued a false edict, forcing Fu Su to die and imprisoning Meng Tianyi. It was true that no one in the DPRK could shake his position, and the rise and fall of the Qin State was doomed at this time.
When Li Si chose power, he ate Zhao Gao's secret loss. Zhao Gao gave the power of the imperial court to Li Si, and he himself fooled Hu Hai into the deep palace, where only he could see him. As a result, Zhao Gao was equivalent to mastering the emperor, and thus grasping the highest power. No matter how powerful Li Si was, he was just a courtier and could not compete with the imperial power. Therefore, in the future administrative process, Zhao Gao's power has always suppressed Li Si. By the time Li Si sensed that something was wrong and wanted to meet Qin II directly, the emperor's pipeline had been completely sealed by Zhao Gao, and Li Si could only cry out in vain. When Zhao Gao gave him the hat of "wanting to split the earth and the king", Li Si had no way to shout injustice to Qin II. Who didn't even care about the emperor, who among the courtiers at the bottom would risk offending Zhao Gao and speak for him?
Li Si is actually very much like a small middle-class in the workplace, glamorous on the surface, but also very humble behind the scenes. He is just a simple person, without the heart to embrace the world, nor does he have the means to drill and forge ahead. When you fall into the game at the top, you find that you have nothing.