During the Warring States period, there was a young man named Li Si in Shangcai Commandery (上蔡郡, in present-day Shangcai, Henan) in the Chu state, whose family was poor, but he was diligent and studious, and through hard work, he mixed a small official in charge of clerical affairs in the county.
The "Chronicle of History" records that one day, Li Si went to the toilet of the dormitory to untie his hands and found several disgusting rats nibbling on the excrement. "The rats in the toilet of the official's house are unclean, close to people and dogs, and the number of frightened people!" -----------------
Another time, "Si entered the warehouse, watched the hamster rats, ate the millet, lived under the big house, and did not see the worries of people and dogs." Li Si found a few rats in the rice barn, these guys ate fat heads and big ears, Yuzha wandered in the rice pile, playing and mating, people and dogs appeared in the rice barn, and the rats loved to ignore it, as if they didn't see anything.
Li Si then sighed loudly: "The sage of man is not like a rat, but in his own ears!" This man, like these rats, depends entirely on his own circumstances. People don't care whether they have talent or not, people are similar to people's intelligence, the key is to seize the opportunity and choose the environment that suits them.
Li Si resigned angrily, determined to go out and break out of a new world. Li Si came to the state of Qi, where celebrities were born, and learned the "art of emperorhood" to govern the country. After completing his studies, Li Si weighed it up again and again and decided to go to the Qin Kingdom to develop his career.
Li Si came to the Qin State and was appointed as a Lang official by Lü Buwei of the Xiang State. Later, he repeatedly advised the Qin king To conquer the princes, and finally achieved imperial hegemony.
The King of Qin promoted Li Si to Changshi, adopted his plan, and sent his advisers to the Six Kingdoms of Kanto with gold and jade to lobby, alienating the monarchs of various countries and appointing them as guest secretaries.
In the tenth year of the reign of the King of Qin (237 BC), the King of Qin ordered the expulsion of the guest secretaries of state, and Li Si wrote a letter to dissuade him, and was soon promoted to the rank of court lieutenant. Don't underestimate this official position, Ting Wei is one of the nine secretaries, in charge of the state prison.
King Yingzheng of Qin swept away the Six Kingdoms and unified the world, and Li played an irreplaceable role. The King of Qin completed the great cause of unification, and the court lieutenant Li Si and the Prince of Qixiang [wǎn], the imperial master Feng Hao, and others agreed to honor the King of Qin as emperor, and the history was called the First Emperor of Qin.
After Qin Shi Huang ascended the throne, Wang Qi, the prince of Qin, suggested that the crown prince, the clan, and the meritorious servants be sealed to remote places such as Qi, Yan, and Chu, and that the town be guarded to maintain the stability of the Great Qin Empire. Li Si deliberately confused the concept of the Zhou Dynasty's feudal princes, saying that doing so would be like the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, causing chaos in the world.
Li Si suggested that the central government should highly centralize power, abolish the sub-feudal system, and implement the county system, and the local governors should be directly appointed by the imperial court. Qin Shi Huang adopted his suggestion and implemented the county system throughout the country.
Later, Li Si succeeded Wang Xuan for his merits, was promoted to the position of chancellor, and completed a wonderful counterattack from a small document in place.