Xianyang.

The forces of all parties were in a strange situation. The ministers of the powerful Qin Empire used their own secret tricks to get the greatest benefits in the battle with the enemy. The Qin Empire has indeed reached a time of destruction and desolation.

Tingwei Prison.

This Xianyang prison is located in Anqingfang, not far from the imperial palace. It was originally the former site of the Qin Dynasty Tingwei Mansion. After the First Emperor ascended the throne, the Tingwei Mansion moved to the new site on the banks of the Wei River. The old mansion was immediately transformed into a place where some important prisoners were imprisoned. In the 34th year of the First Emperor, Dr. Chunyu Yue and others proposed to oppose the feudal division and imitated the ancient system to distribute counties to their children.

Li Si, who was the prime minister at the time, naturally refuted this revision of this regression of history. He immediately suggested that Shi Huang abolish private schools, burn private books, and imprison and behead Confucian scholars such as Chunyu Yue. This is the famous "burning books and burying scholars" incident in history. After Confucianism officially became the orthodox doctrine of the feudal dynasty in China, Li Si's suggestion was refuted by literati of all dynasties. Among many historical books, Li Si's evaluation was always low. In addition to his character, one of the reasons is this.

A year ago, it was July of the second year of Qin II.

A political storm that swept through Xianyang caused a fundamental change in the Qin Dynasty's government. Li Si was detained by the second emperor on the charge of possible collaboration with the enemy. Under Zhao Gao's instruction, the Tingwei Mansion had experienced no less than ten trials. During the repeated arraignment, Li Si, the former prime minister, was almost broken. He was only fifty years old, and he looked like a sixty-seventh-year-old eroded old man.

The elegant scholar who came to Cai was gone.

The Prime Minister Li, who was tremblingly giving advice beside the powerful back of Emperor First Emperor, has long become a thing of the past.

One day the emperor and another day the minister.

The biggest tragedy in Li Si's life is that he does not understand this truth. The First Emperor valued him, which does not mean that the second emperor would also value him. Although there were important ministers who were prime ministers in history for three generations, there were absolutely few such smart people. Moreover, such people know when to delegate power and when to retreat to advance.

Li Si obviously did not understand these. His achievements in Confucianism as a child of the Legal family were equivalent to those of a child. After becoming the prime minister of Qin State with more than ten thousand people, Li Si's heart was also constantly expanding.

In prison, Li Si and his son were locked in a small cell in the upper house. With a little light from the small window, Li Si's hair was shivering, his blood-stained hands were shaking, and he wrote a quick pen on a bundle of bamboo slips used to make him write the book of guilt.

"Since ordering the prime minister, all his thoughts and concerns have been worrying about His Majesty the Emperor. He cannot be ignorant at night and cannot be at peace with each other--!" Li Si wrote with difficulty one word at a time. Over the past year, he seemed to have become accustomed to writing hopeless memorials again and again, hoping that one day, Hu Hai would see his loyalty.

"Aweng, take a break. I have written more than ten copies of this memorial. If the emperor saw it, he will definitely send someone to ask Aweng to see him." Li Zheng, the second son of Li Si, advised him.

Li Si turned his head and looked at Li Zheng, who was also haggard with a turbid look. After a long time, he sighed and said, "What Zheng'er said, don't I know, but this young emperor has no deep friendship with my Li family. Now, I am in prison again. If no one talks to the emperor anymore, I'm afraid--!"

Li Si choked and felt a sense of discomfort and regret in his heart. One step was wrong. At the time of the sand dune change, among the three important officials trusted by the First Emperor, Li Si ranked first, Meng Yi was second, and Zhao Gao was only ranked third. However, just a year later, Li Si was in prison and the Li family was also facing a situation of disintegration. Meng Yi was sentenced to death, and the prominent Meng family also collapsed due to the death of Meng Yi and Meng Tian. Among the three major families, Zhao Gao was the only one who truly benefited.

"Aweng's meaning, Zheng understood, but can Aweng's comments really be sent to the emperor? There have been more than ten times before and after. If the emperor knew Aweng's wishes, how could he not even send someone to him?" Li Zheng said. From the second son who was respected and admired in the prime minister's mansion to the first-class prisoner, Li Zheng, who was only 26 years old, experienced ups and downs in his life, which made him even more discouraged about his career.

After hearing what Li Zheng said, Li Si's hand that had been moving his pen stopped. Slowly, he raised his waist, raised his head, and glanced at the place where only a little light was sprinkled.

"I, Li Si, are wrong. I'm sorry to the emperor, and I'm sorry to the ancestors of the Li family!" Li Si's voice was sad, and his almost turbid old tears covered his face.

At this moment, he was just an old man who made a wrong decision for his own selfishness. The reason why he kept saying to the second generation was that he subconsciously did not want to admit that he was wrong.

The First Emperor was buried in the huge underground palace. Li Si didn't dare to imagine that if one day he saw the First Emperor Ying Zheng underground, if he asked: How is my empire now? How are you assisted by the ascended prince Fusu? What is the wilderness of my Qin army now? What will Li Si answer?

"Take care of Ah Weng. Although the eldest brother is gone, the Li family's children have not given up. Third brother and third brother will avenge us." Li Zheng comforted.

At the instructor of Zhao Gao, the court official who came to interrogate him to Li Si. Zhao Gao's heavy punch made his old opponent Li Si feel in pain and almost vomited blood on the spot.

"A Zheng, don't talk nonsense. My Li family has only two males, and there is no third person." Li Si's body trembled and sat down in the wet mat with a shaking shaking.

"Aweng, I heard that my brother Yuan is in Xingyang--!" Li Zheng's face flushed, and he couldn't help but continue to say excitedly.

"Zheng'er, am I not clear about it? The Li family has no third male. No, that bastard, let him die for himself." Li Si's voice was sharp, interrupting Li Zheng's statement at once. The violent emotional ups and downs made him almost unable to breathe.

"Aweng, Zheng knows it, I won't say it." Li Zheng replied discouragedly.

Unlike his eldest brother Li You who was leading troops abroad to fight wars, Li Zheng's personality inherited Li Si's hobby of literary and mom when he was young. One was a literary and the other was a martial artist. Both sons were the best choice. Li You married the eldest princess of Qin, and Li Zheng's fiancée had already been settled. He was a far-reaching daughter of the royal family. This marriage with the royal family demonstrated the unique status of Li's family in Qin.

Li Zheng was careful. From the attitude of the Tingwei toward Li Si, he had already noticed that the situation was not good. If the guards could still take care of one or two in the first few months, now the treatment of their father and son was exactly the same as that of other criminals.

This is a bad sign.
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