Li Si was a native of Shangcai (now Lisilou Village, Lugang Township, Shangcai County, Henan Province), a famous politician, writer and calligrapher in the Qin Dynasty. After the death of the first emperor, Reese and Zhao Gao forced Fu Su to commit suicide and made Hu Hai emperor. After the peasant uprising broke out at the end of Qin dynasty, he suggested that II should be more legal, implement "the art of supervising responsibility" and strengthen monarchical power.