The history of Chinese civilization spanning for 5,000 years is a kind of wealth for our nation, and it is also a vivid history book that draws lessons and lessons. In the long course of five thousand years of history, in my opinion, the zhou and qin periods were a huge turning point in China's historical development.
The most typical point is that the Qin Dynasty emerged from a small border country, and Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms to establish a dynasty, achieving a comprehensive change in the political system, and becoming the first king in Chinese history to implement an authoritarian central centralism within the scope of national rule.
Although the Qin Dynasty only existed for a short period of time for more than ten years, as the first dynastic empire in China's history to achieve great unification, to this day, the Qin Dynasty still has a lot of desirable experience and historical enlightenment that we have not excavated.
As the core figure of the Qin Dynasty, Li Si's thoughts and actions are closely related to the fate of the Qin Dynasty, and the "art of the emperor" has won him political support, but in his lifetime, we will find that Li Si's utilitarian view also bears witness to the brilliant and short history of the Qin Dynasty.
Li Si ignored the opposition for the sake of immediate interests and insisted on supporting Hu Hai to succeed to the throne, a decision that not only buried the Qin Dynasty, but also made himself a martyr of history.
The wind is rising, the art of the emperor
Li Si was born in a chaotic world, in the face of the rise of princes, the warring states period, after experiencing a life of uncertainty and displacement, Li Si established a lofty political ideal and great ambition. Li Si, who had no money and no power, relied on his own efforts to become a small official in the county bureau.
In the countries governed by the princes at that time, "related households" abounded, and there were only a few aspiring young people like Li Si.
However, the work of sorting out books all day long made Li Si feel that his talent should not be wasted on these trivial matters, and he also longed to be reused by a country like many civilian and military generals, whether it was above the court or on the battlefield.
In this way, he resolutely resigned from his official position and learned the "art of emperorhood" from Xunzi to assist the monarch. Xun Zi's careful teaching, coupled with Li Si's extraordinary talent, made Li Si quickly understand the "Art of The Emperor", but the things in the book will always be only theoretical knowledge after all, and they must withstand the scrutiny of practice to verify.
In this way, choosing a suitable platform is even more crucial for Li Si, choosing a strong country is humble and light, it is not his turn to speak, and choosing a small country is afraid of being annexed by other countries before he can exert his ambitions.
After thinking about it, Li Si valued the development potential of the Qin State, at this time, the Qin State was becoming more and more powerful, and it had the potential to sweep through Liuhe, which was also an excellent platform for him to perform the imperial art.
When Li Si entered the Qin state, it coincided with the 13-year-old Yingzheng succeeding to the throne, and the power in the palace was controlled by Lü Buwei, and Li Si, who judged the situation, was determined to hold the big tree of Lü Buwei and climb him as a step forward for his promotion and wealth.
Li Si relied on his cleverness and alertness to quickly get Lü Buwei's appreciation and appointment, and then he obeyed the order of the King of Qin to lobby the Six Kingdoms with jewels and money, and secretly sent people to stir up dissension, causing suspicion among the Six Kingdoms, and the King of Qin saw that Li Si's actions had made the Qin State gain a lot, and he was deeply pleased and made Li Si a guest secretary.
Coincidence of opportunity, the pinnacle of power
However, just after entering the first step of his career, Li Si was hit in the head. After the construction of the water canal incident, the Qin state issued an "eviction order", asking the guest secretaries and lobbyists of various countries to be expelled from the Qin state, and Li Si was of course also included.
Li Si, who had come to this step, was willing to tie his hands and capture, from a new arrival, he risked killing his head and wrote to advise Ying Zheng and pray for the recoupation of his life.
Perhaps it was Li Si's content that was sincere and sincere, or it was the King of Qin's fear of evicting guests that would lead to the use of talents by other countries and hinder the great cause. After a few days, he took back his life and recovered Li Si, who was made a lieutenant of the court, and Li Si was now in charge of the affairs of the Qin state.
Objectively speaking, Li Si did make indelible contributions to the unification of the six kingdoms of the Qin Dynasty in the past few years of the Qin Dynasty, and his strategy also accelerated the grand goal of Qin Shi Huang's "six kings and one sea".
The abolition of the feudal system and the change to the county system to eliminate the scourge of war and chaos, and the unification of writing, currency and weights and measures are epoch-making events in the history of our country. After helping the Qin state to unify the world, Li Si also got what he wanted, that is, power, which was the reward he had fought for for half his life- Xiang Xiang.
The phrase "One man gets the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven" is the most appropriate description of Li Si, who is the prime minister. The marriage of the son and daughter to the descendants of the Qin royal family is not to mention, and the eldest son is even more appointed to the position of county sheriff at a young age.
However, things must be reversed, and surpluses are losses, rather than saying that Li Si does not have a clear understanding of the fate of his political career, it is better to say that the violent death of Qin Shi Huang disrupted his layout of the full plate, and he himself is also facing a turning point in his fate.
The rat's eyes were inches away, and the Qin Dynasty was martyred
In the 210 years before the park, Qin Shi Huang died violently, before his death, the First Emperor originally wanted to order his eldest son Fu Su to succeed to the throne, but the emperor's death was too important, Li Si was afraid of causing chaos in the world, and kept the death of the First Emperor secret, hiding the body in the car, and still sending people to the palace regularly to deliver meals every day.
When Li Si was painstakingly working hard and bloody for the Qin Dynasty, he never imagined that he would become a pawn in other people's calculations. The death of Qin Shi Huang had long been known to Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, and the two had been secretly conspiring to agree on the usurpation of the throne, but Zhao Gao knew very well that the most important way to make Hu Hai emperor was to get Li Si's approval.
When Zhao Gao and Li Si talked about the new crown prince all about you and me, Li Si bluntly rebuked it as "the words of the subjugation of the country, Hugh will mention it again." But Zhao Gao had already grasped Li Si's seven inches, and he knew that what Li Si cared about most and feared most was power.
When Zhao Gao said that if you set up Fu Su as the crown prince, then no matter how trusted, close, and strategic, it is not as good as the Meng Tian he values, do you think you can still stay safe in the first place of the prime minister?
A sentence awakened the dreamer, although Li Si had previously spoken out and denounced the villain, he still chose to yield when it came to his own interests, and it was his decision that Hu Hai succeeded Fu Su and was killed, completely cutting off the Qi of the Qin Dynasty.
Soon after, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up, and righteous incidents broke out one after another in various places, and at this time, Li Si was no longer the resourceful and calculating Li Chengxiang he used to be, and in order to save his wusha hat, he was turned around by the treacherous and cunning Zhao Gao.
And Zhao Gao even joined him in front of Qin II, framing Li Si for rebellion, and this was also the final head-to-head duel between Zhao Gao and Li Si, Li Si was put on death row by the suspicious Qin II, and finally sentenced to beheading for treason and destroying the three tribes.
Li Si was the founder of the Qin Dynasty, and his ambitions allowed him to assist the Qin king to unify the six kingdoms, and he himself became a general of a country and a very popular subject. But at the same time, the lingering power and the mentality of not being able to put it down made him fall from the clouds to the bottom, and eventually became the funeral companion for the collapse of the Qin Dynasty.