Chapter 31: Little Injury, Extremely Insulting(1/2)
Knowing that the First Emperor would fulfill his promise.
The Dragon Kingdom audience complained about Li Si.
Little did he know that he had been stared at by countless eyes.
"Your Majesty! Li Si pays homage to Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, Xiao He, pays homage to your Majesty!"
The two of them, one behind the other, bowed to the First Emperor.
Qin Shi Huang raised his right hand slightly:
"You two dear ladies, there is no need to be polite!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
It turns out that his name is Xiao He!
His Majesty’s newly recruited talents!
Suddenly, Li Si realized something and seemed to have remembered something?
"Li Xiang, what I asked you to do has been completed!"
I met the First Emperor and asked.
Li Si was secretly happy that he could show off his skills in front of the First Emperor.
Let Xiao He, a newcomer, see what is the background.
Li Si bowed and replied: "Your Majesty, I have already dismissed hundreds of schools of thought and straightened out the affairs of foreign Confucianism and internal law. This is a policy written by me. Please read it!"
As he spoke, Li Si took out a bamboo slip from his sleeve.
This is Li Si's latest effort.
Qin Shihuang said: "Send it up!"
Li Si then presented the bamboo slips to the Dragon Case.
The First Emperor picked it up and opened it to take a look.
There was no change in his expression. After reading it, he put it away.
Looking at Li Si with an expectant look on his face.
"The plan written by Prime Minister Li is quite good!"
Li Si, who wanted to be praised, was stunned for a moment.
Quite good.
A little thump.
It means that what I wrote is just average.
how so.
I have carefully prepared this after countless deliberation and taking into account Da Qin's situation.
The results were just so-so.
Qin Shihuang then said to Xiao He: "Where are you, Xiao Qing?"
Xiao He also took out a bamboo slip from his sleeve and said:
"Your Majesty, I have listed here the clear instructions for abolishing the association, cutting down the harsh laws, as well as the lenient laws for the industry. Please take a look at it!"
What! Abolition of Lianzu and cutting of harsh laws were left to Xiao He.
I let a guy who doesn't know the details handle my legal stuff.
impossible.
You absolutely cannot let him do it.
Li Si was so angry that he almost exploded.
Xiao He, you want to dig up the grave of my Legal family.
It would be fine if you were a famous person.
A partial birth is nothing.
Legalist laws can only be carried out by me, a Legalist disciple.
Outsiders cannot touch it.
Qin Shihuang picked up the bamboo slip written by Xiao He.
His eyes swept all the way.
The look remains the same.
But as I looked at it, I fell into thinking again.
After a long time, the First Emperor put down the bamboo slips and laid them flat on the dragon table.
"Xiao Qing, there are really so many harsh laws that need to be deleted!"
Qin Shihuang did not expect that Xiao He would use so many laws and regulations.
Without the constraints of strict laws, those common people would be too free.
Xiao He said: "Your Majesty, although harsh punishments are good, they are only suitable before unifying the world and are conducive to the unity and cohesion of the national army under the Qin Dynasty."
"However, now that the world is unified, there will be no fighting in internal affairs, and the country will be transformed into a country to rest and recuperate, and the harsh laws and torture will be appropriately deleted, the resistance of the people of the six countries to our Qin can be eliminated, and the integration will be accelerated to become the real people of Qin!"
Qin Shihuang nodded slightly when he heard this.
Li Si became anxious after hearing this.
He stood up directly and said: "Your Majesty, no, every decree of the Qin Code is the foundation of the empire. Changing or deleting it without authorization will shake the foundation of the country."
"The six kingdoms were destroyed because the national laws were not strict, the laws and regulations were unclear, and the people were undisciplined and acted recklessly."
"We, the Qin Dynasty, must not follow in the footsteps of the Six Kingdoms. Please, Your Majesty, imprison Xiao He and severely punish these villains!"
What Li Si objected to was not the practice of the law, but Xiao He's practice of the law, so out of desperation, he directly refuted it.
When Xiao He heard this, he directly refuted it: "The remarks of Zuo Xiang are wrong. It is true that the foundation of the empire is the law of Qin, but the foundation of the country is the common people, the tens of millions of people of Qin!"
"The Qin Code is a tool used to consolidate the country and protect the people, rather than a shielding wall for a single doctrine."
“Although the six kingdoms were destroyed due to unclear and lax laws, it was by no means the root cause of their destruction.
The law should be both lenient and strict, changing with the times and following the trend.”
"In the past, the empire wanted to conquer the six countries, because of the strict laws of Qin at that time. Now the Qin Dynasty has unified the six countries, from mounting a horse to conquer the world, to dismounting to rule the world. If strict laws and torture are being carried out, the left prime minister wants to force the people to rebel, and we, the Qin Dynasty, will not be allowed to
no?"
"You are talking nonsense!" Li Si blushed and was embarrassed by the rebuttal.
In fact, Xiao He is right.
But Li Si couldn't admit it because he was Li Si and because many of these laws came from his own hands.
You can move these things yourself, but others cannot.
It's like your own child, you can fight it yourself, but if someone else fights you, I will fight you tooth and nail.
The First Emperor should be a war-machine Great Qin, not a weak Great Qin with benevolence, justice and morality.
"Your Majesty, Xiao He, who has deceived the king's heart, must be the remnants of the Six Kingdoms sent to harm our country, the Qin Dynasty. Your Majesty, please follow the law and kill him in half!" Li Si bowed to Qin Shihuang and asked for orders.
He knew that between himself and Xiao He, the First Emperor would definitely lean towards him.
He is his closest confidant.
He is the left prime minister, inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.
Xiao He is just a newcomer who has just entered the court.
"Bang!"
But this time Li Si was wrong.
The First Emperor slapped the dragon case heavily with his big hands.
A torrential chill swept down.
Li Si and Xiao He were both startled and hurriedly bowed to the First Emperor.
"Asshole, Li Si, you and Xiao He are ministers of the same dynasty. I, Qin Dynasty, can argue normally. Why should we send people to prison to be executed?" The First Emperor slashed towards Li Si:
"It was I who asked Xiao He to check and delete the harsh censures in the Qin Code. It was I who asked him to modify the laws that were not suitable for strictness. It was I who asked him to abolish Lian Si. Why do you want to take me down!"
Li Simeng.
Everything was done at His Majesty's command.
Li Si seemed to remember something at this time?
To be continued...