In the history of the Qin State, there are many famous monarchs and courtiers who have made great contributions to the development of the Qin State and the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, such as Qin Mugong and Baili Xi, Qin Xiaogong and Shang Martin, Qin Huiwen Wang and Zhang Yi, Qin Zhaoxiang Wang and Fan Ju, and of course, Qin Shi Huang and Li Si. Li Si's contribution to the establishment of the Qin Dynasty cannot be said to be high, but this extremely popular minister in the history of the Qin Dynasty was ultimately defeated at the hands of Zhao Gao, to be precise, Li Si was defeated in his own hands, one wrong step, one wrong step, and finally ended up with the fate of the Yi three tribes.
Li Si was originally just a small official in the Chu kingdom who could not be smaller, day after day work was just repeating and repeating, Li Si felt that every day was wasting his life, but he did not know how to break through this limitation, however, people's enlightenment is often suddenly awakened at a certain moment, Li Si is no exception, his enlightenment is due to two rats, seeing people panic and fleeing toilet rats and leisurely wandering granary rats, different environments, completely different encounters, let Li Si sigh: "The sage of man is not like a rat, In your own ears! ”
So he resigned, ran to Xun Qing to learn the art, and after completing his studies, he finally decided to go to the most worthwhile Qin State to make meritorious achievements. Li Si's goal is very clear, he wants to make a contribution to the Qin Kingdom, and his reputation has been through the ages, but in fact he has done it.
At that time, Lü Buwei was recruiting talented people from all over the world, so he went to Lü Buwei's door, and through Lü Buwei's recommendation, Li Si finally had the first intimate contact with Qin Wangzheng, and with the first time, there was a second and third time, and then Li Si put forward his own propositions for Qin Wangzheng, and he persuaded Qin Wangzheng to take advantage of the weakness of the Six Kingdoms in Shandong to move east, annex the Six Kingdoms, and unify the world.
After receiving the approval of Qin Wangzheng, Li Si also suggested that Qin Wangzheng sat down on the monarchs of the Six Kingdoms, and the monarchs were not harmonious and even suspicious of nature's benefit to the Qin state, which was also adopted by the Qin Wangzheng, just when Li Si gradually won the trust of the Qin Wangzheng, Qin Wangzheng suddenly came with an eviction order, which was recorded in the "Historical Records" that because the spy identity of the Korean Zheng Guo, the builder of the Zheng GuoQu, was exposed, the qin clan took the opportunity to persuade the Qin wangzheng to expel the guest secretaries of the qin state, and Li Si from the Chu state was naturally also expelled.
Li Si was not willing to let this matter become an obstacle to his political career in the Qin state, so he wrote to list the great deeds made by the guest secretaries of the qin state to persuade the Qin wangzheng to take back his life, and finally the Qin wangzheng did not expel the guest qing, Li Si became the most trusted courtier of the Qin king, and the monarch promoted the great cause of the unification of the qin state, and finally ended the chaotic situation of the seven heroes of the Warring States in 221 BC and established the great unified Qin Dynasty.
After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Li Si became a chancellor as he wished, advocating the abolition of the system of division and feudalism and the implementation of the county system nationwide, and then clarified the law and the law, and implemented the severe punishment law, thus assisting Qin Shi Huang in establishing the first feudal dynasty in history of a unified nature, with the same track, the same book, and the same line, and it was Li Si's proposition that made the imperial power above everything and the imperial power supreme.
Li Si integrated his legalist thoughts into the political system of the Qin Dynasty, and made great contributions to the construction of various systems of the Qin Dynasty, and as a result, Li Si became the most respected courtier at that time, and his life reached its peak, his eldest son Li You became the sanchuan county sheriff, and "all the men were still Qin princesses, and the women were married to the princes of Qin." The so-called prosperity will decline, and even Li Si himself said: "Those who have no place in the position of subjects today can be described as extremely rich and noble." The extremes of things are decaying, and I don't know what to tax! ”
If he could retreat in a hurry, it is not known whether he would have had a good outcome, but he did not, and all his wealth and power had become less clear with the death of Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang also died in his prime, and died on the way out of the tour, that is, in the sand dunes. Considering that Qin Shi Huang died outside the capital of the country and did not have a crown prince before his death, in order to avoid causing turmoil, the chancellor Li Si concealed the news of Qin Shi Huang's death for the first time and did not send a funeral.
LangZhong made Zhao Gao see his own opportunity from the death of Qin Shi Huang, and he persuaded Hu Hai, the young son of Qin Shi Huang, to take the throne, and then persuaded the high-powered Li Si to side with Hu Hai. History pushed Li Si to the fork in the road, he did not know how to choose the way forward, if he insisted on standing far away in Shangjun Erfu Su as emperor, it was bound to take some means, and after Fu Su ascended to the throne, Meng Tian was bound to be reused, and he Li Si, the chancellor, was likely to fall from the position of the chancellor, even if he did not fall, he would not be used as much as in the past.
The desire for power made Li Si unable to give up his immediate interests, and Zhao Gao pinched this weakness of Li Si and persuaded Li Si to support Hu Hai as emperor. Li Si trusted himself too much, he did not put Hu Hai and Zhao Gao in his eyes, he thought that after Hu Hai took the throne, he was still an extremely popular subject, still a great hero of the Qin Dynasty, but he did not expect that he was calculated by Zhao Gao at the beginning.
Li Si and Zhao Gao corrected Hu Hai as emperor and removed Fu Su and Meng Tian, completely transferring the power of the Qin Dynasty. This was the first time Zhao Gao had fought with Li Si, who had fallen into the trap set by Zhao Gao without realizing it, so that he took a wrong step.
After Hu Hai ascended the throne, although Li Si was still Zuo Cheng Xiang and still above ten thousand people under one person, in fact, Hu Hai's most favored person was always Zhao Gao, even if Zhao Gao was under Li Si, he could maintain the government. At this time, Zhao Gao began his second step, that is, to eliminate dissidents, and he persuaded Hu Hai to become the emperor in the high cabinet, away from the Qunchen, and he became the connection between Hu Hai and the Qunchen.
He persuaded Hu Hai to implement severe punishments in order to consolidate imperial power, and carried out massacres of Qin Dynasty clan members and important courtiers, and more than twenty sons of Qin Shi Huang were killed and committed suicide, and the princesses were also killed, which is the so-called "destroying the ministers and leaving the flesh and bones; the poor are rich, and the untouchables are precious." Remove all the former emperors. After Zhao Gao's tossing and turning, the DPRK and the central government became Zhao Gao's people, Zhao Gao began to act recklessly, the people of the world began to suffer Qin, and there was chaos everywhere, at this time, Zhao Gao attacked Li Si.
After Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, although Li Si was a left chancellor, Hu Hai did not trust him, nor was he suspicious. Li Si wrote many times but did not get Hu Hai's attention, some even sank into the sea, especially after Zhao Gao's dictatorship, Li Si directly did not have the opportunity to see Hu Hai, his dissatisfaction with Zhao Gao was accumulating, and then Zhao Gao said to Li Si: "Now there are many thieves in Kanto, the emperor still has to continue to build Afang Palace, looking for useless treasures and playthings everywhere, I want to advise, but the status is too low, you are the prime minister, how can you not advise?" ”
Li Si did not know that there was deception, and said to Zhao Gao: "I have long wanted to advise, but I am bitter that I will not see the emperor." ”
Zhao Gao said, "This is a trivial matter, and when the emperor rests, I will send someone to tell you." ”
As a result, Zhao Gao informed Li Si every time when Hu Hai was playing with the harem concubines, and Li Si disturbed Hu Hai's good deeds every time, which naturally caused Hu Hai's annoyance, and Zhao Gao took the opportunity to complain to Hu Hai, saying that Li Si had merit from the dragon, but his status had not improved, so Li Si had already complained about the emperor, and Zhao Gao suspected that Sanchuan County's shou Li Yu was colluding with the Kwantung thieves, but it was only a suspicion, after all, Li Si's right to speak outside the chancellor was better than the emperor.
Zhao Gao's words made Hu Hai wary of Li Si, and he was ready to investigate Li Si and Li You, waiting for an opportunity to get rid of Li Si. I have to say that Zhao Gao's move is really clever, but three words and two words make Hu Hai suspicious of Li Si. This was the second confrontation between Zhao Gao and Li Si, also Zhao Gaosheng, who won hu hai's heart on his side.
Li Si naturally did not want to sit still, so he wrote a letter exposing Zhao Gao's evil deeds, And Hu Hai not only did not believe it, but was worried about Zhao Gao's safety, so he informed Zhao Gao of this matter and asked Zhao Gao to investigate and deal with Li Si. With Hu Hai's permission, Zhao Gao was relieved to give Li Si a cruel hand, and he arrested Li Si and imprisoned him, as well as Li Si's family members and guests.
Under severe torture, Li Si had been beaten into a confession, but he thought that he still had a glimmer of hope, he learned to be rich in five cars, once persuaded Qin Shi Huang to annex the Six Kingdoms, carry out a divisive plan, let Qin Shi Huang withdraw the eviction order, he had the confidence to persuade Hu Hai to let him go, but the premise of convincing Hu Hai was that he could see Hu Hai or his statement could be known by Hu Hai, but with Zhao Gao, everything Li Si did was in vain.
In prison, Li Si wrote a heartfelt sonata, stating his achievements for more than thirty years, in Li Si's view, this sonata was enough to impress Hu Hai, and then the song book was obtained by Zhao Gao, and he said lightly, "Prisoner can be safe!" "It determines the fate of this book."
Later, Zhao Gao also found someone to pretend to be Yushi, guru, and waiter to interrogate Li Si, true or false, Li Si could not tell when to tell the truth, when to confess against his heart, and when Hu Hai's people came, Li Si just confessed against his will, and then he was beheaded and destroyed the three tribes.
In the dune coup, Zhao Gao's exclusion of dissidents, and Li Si's beheading of the three tribes, in these three things, Zhao Gao has always been superior, leading Li Si to death step by step.
Li Si's ability is obvious to all, why didn't anyone win when he fought Against Zhao Gao? Quite simply, Li Si died not so much at the hands of Zhao Gaoshi, at his obsession with power, and if he was not too attached to power, how could Zhao Gao persuade Li Si to launch a dune coup and change the history of the Qin Dynasty?
One step wrong, step wrong, Li Si thought that in the Second Dynasty, he could suppress Hu Hai and Zhao Gao and call the wind and rain, but in fact, it was he who established the idea of the supremacy of imperial power, so that he was subject to this, although he was a minister, he could not be reused by Hu Hai, but instead was designed by Zhao Gao step by step, took his own life, and also lost the three tribes.