"Why are there so many prisoners?!"
Li Si pointed at Tingwei's prison, which was almost full, with a hint of coldness in his voice.
"Return to my lord."
The jailer had a grimace on his face, and he was unwilling to admit so many prisoners.
"These are all sent by the city defense army. They said these people are suspicious."
Li Si resisted the urge to draw his sword and said with a dark face: "Suspicious? Just suspicious? Which law in the Qin Code says that people can be arrested if they are suspicious!"
Qin's laws are very detailed and cover all aspects of the Qin state. The disadvantage is that it puts a set of shackles on the Qin state, but the advantage is that the Qin laws are particularly perfect and there will be no ambiguities.
For example, this kind of suspicion of guilt is untenable in Qin State, and suspicion cannot be used to convict someone.
On a certain level, Qin’s rule of law thinking is extremely close to modern times and has many similarities.
"Why are you standing there in a daze? Why don't you let me go!"
Li Si gave the order, and all the jailers heaved a sigh of relief, opened the doors of each prison one after another, and released all the people captured by the city guards that day.
Tingwei's prison became more than half empty in an instant.
"What nonsense!"
Li Si went out angrily.
"This matter must be reported to Your Majesty. The rule of law is the foundation of Qin. How can it be abused!"
After leaving Tingwei's mansion, the angry look on Li Si's rigid face disappeared.
Instead of calling a carriage and rushing to the palace, he rushed home, sat in the hall, and asked Xijun to make a pot of tea and drink it slowly.
Xijun is the general term for wives during the Qin Dynasty.
The tea soup is turbid and salty. The tea soup during the Qin Dynasty did not taste that good, but it was already a snack that only high-ranking officials could enjoy.
Li Si drank slowly, sipping in small sips, and sat like this for a quarter of an hour.
He looked at his reflection in the turbid tea soup and talked with his reflection.
"Li Si, you have become the Qin State's top minister, you should be satisfied."
The division of civil and military affairs in the Qin State is not clear. Civil servants can be military generals, and military generals can also be civil servants.
Just like Meng Tian, he was a general when he wore armor during war. He stepped down from the general position when there was no war and held positions such as Xianyang Order.
And Shangqing is a general term.
Tingwei, imperial censor, internal history officer, internal history officer, etc. In recent years, the official positions with a salary of two thousand dan were all called Shangqing.
In the Qin court, there were only two official positions above Shangqing, one was the prime minister and the other was the state captain.
The Prime Minister is the leader of the court, and the Guowei is the highest military leader of the Qin State.
Although both of them have a salary of two thousand dan, their power is much greater than that of Shangqing.
To put it simply, the prime minister is qualified to take charge of all matters in the court. The lieutenant has the authority to handle all matters related to the war.
Li Si is now a Tingwei and one of the ministers.
He has never fought in a war, and his knowledge has nothing to do with fighting. He knows nothing about military affairs, but he is pretty good at it.
If he wanted to take a further step in the Qin State, he would only have the position of prime minister. He did not have the ability to become a lieutenant.
Tuk-tuk-tuk~
Someone knocked lightly on the door.
Who is disturbing me at this time? Don't you know what I'm thinking about?
Li Si looked up displeased.
Everyone in the house knew that no one should disturb him while he was drinking tea, not even his wife.
This is a habit of Li Si.
The hall door was not closed, and the person who came was knocking lightly on the open door.
He had a round and chubby face, and the skin on his face was like baby skin. He looked at Li Si with a smile on his face, like a Maitreya Buddha.
"It is you."
Li Si's anger subsided, he took a sip of tea and waved to Maitreya Buddha.
"Junior brother, come and sit."
Li Si's junior brother walked indoors with a big belly and talked at the same time.
"I passed the Tingwei Mansion on my way home from the balcony. I wanted to say hello to my senior brother, but when I went in, I found that my senior brother was not there. I heard from officials that my senior brother was furious because Meng Yi was arresting people indiscriminately and wanted to go into the palace to see His Majesty to file a complaint. Cang then came. Check to see if Senior Brother is at the house, Senior Brother is indeed here."
Li Si took out a teacup and poured half a cup of tea soup for his junior brother.
"The rule of law is the foundation of the Qin Dynasty. Meng Yi messed up the laws and destroyed the foundation of the Qin State. I can't just sit back and ignore this matter. I am sitting here quietly because I want to answer your Majesty later. I will go to Xianyang Palace in a while."
Seeing the profuse sweat on his junior brother's head and hearing his heavy breathing, Li Si really wanted to pour the pot of tea soup on his junior brother's head.
"Zhang Cang! You don't want to die, don't you? How come you are so obsessed with things between men and women!"
Zhang Cang wiped the sweat from his hands on his clothes and took a sip of the tea soup Li Si poured for him.
The slightly hot tea soup entered his mouth and flowed into his stomach through his esophagus, bringing a touch of warmth to his body.
He let out a pleasant breath and said with a smile: "Zi Feiyu, how do you know the joy of fish?"
"Don't use that madman's words to prevaricate me!" Li Si's old-fashioned face was full of solemnity.
"You are so weak and obese. If you don't consolidate your essence and protect your yang, you will still indulge in carnal desires. How will you survive in the future?!"
Zhang Cang is fat, his eyes are small, and he loves to laugh.
Therefore, most of the time, Zhang Cang's eyes are not visible to others. Because of the squeeze of fat on his face, Zhang Cang's eyes are often narrowed into a slit.
Holding the tea soup in one hand, Zhang Cang blew it gently with his mouth, and then faced his senior brother Li Si with the two slits.
Although there was a smile on his face, there was no smile in his words.
"Senior brother, you and I are not necessarily the ones who went to see senior brother Han Fei first."
Han Fei.
Li Si couldn't calm down, and was filled with a strong sadness that could not be resolved.
He thought he had forgotten this person...
Han Fei, Li Si, and Zhang Cang were all students of Xunzi.
When they were in Jixia Academy, the three of them had the best relationship. Han Fei was the best in learning, followed by Li Si, and Zhang Cang was at the bottom.
After completing his studies, Han Fei went to South Korea, and Li Si and Zhang Cang came to Qin.
In this era, the best honor for an educated person is to get the word "子".
For example, Confucius, Laozi, Xunzi, and Mencius are all honorific titles.
It is a great honor to be given the character "子" in your lifetime.
And what about Han Fei? Before he was less than thirty years old, he was already respected as Han Feizi by others.
His book is also called "Han Feizi". Ying Zheng saw the instantly transformed little fanboy and said, "If I see this man and travel with him, I will hate him to my death."
The translation is that if I had only taken two steps to meet Han Fei, I would have no regrets even if I died now.
Being able to easily get the word "zi", and being able to be mastered by great talents, and being so valued by the First Emperor who swept across the world, shows how amazingly talented Han Fei is.
For the sake of Han Fei, Ying Zheng sent troops to the Korean border and called for Han Wangan.
"If you don't hand over Han Fei, I will destroy your Korea."
Han Wangan did not hesitate and handed over Han Fei happily, and Han Fei entered Qin.
From then on, Han Fei, Li Si, and Zhang Cang met in Qin and became ministers of the same palace.
A few months later, Li Si and Han Fei had conflicting views on whether Zhao or South Korea should be destroyed first if Qin unified the world.
