Li Si is a scholar who supports Legalism. He has his own set of views and opinions on governing the country. In order to help the king of Qin win the world and realize his dream, Reese constantly advised him. In order to prevent the unification of the six countries from posing a certain threat to Qin, Reese constantly sent advisers to alienate the kings of various countries and prevent them from uniting, because Reese clearly knew that as long as the kings of these countries were kept in an independent state, Qin would surely crush them one by one.
Under the suggestion and implementation of Reese, Ying Zheng finally swept the other six countries and achieved the great cause of reunification. After reunification, Reese took the opportunity to make a speech, abolishing the titles of Qin State and King of Qin and calling Ying Zheng and its empire by Qin State and Emperor. In this way, under the step-by-step planning of Reese, Ying Zheng became the first emperor in the history of China to complete reunification.
Reese made a lot of contributions to the development of the empire. First, he suggested abolishing the enfeoffment system and changing it to the county system. The reason is that it is conducive to better governance and management, invisibly increasing the power of the central government and preventing the possibility of local governments threatening the central government.
In terms of cultural unity, he encouraged Qin Shihuang to adopt a book-burning policy, forbidding Qin people to read unnecessary books, and must read books and textbooks that have been stipulated. This practice is undoubtedly to strengthen the control of people's thoughts and prevent other new ideas from appearing under the rule of the Qin Dynasty. To some extent, this consolidated the rule and political power of the Qin Dynasty.
In a word, Lisi's contribution to the Daqin Dynasty is enormous.
Reese's help to Zhao Gao actually has something else to hide.
Perhaps because of the appearance of Zhao Gao in Qin Dynasty, the patriarchal clan system appeared in later generations. What is this patriarchal clan system? Eunuchs are not allowed to intervene? . Zhao Gao was the first eunuch in the history of China. It is said that his relationship with Hu Hai was excellent at that time. In order to please this dude, Zhao Gao also thought of many ways. Later, after the death of Qin Shihuang, Zhao Gao personally found Li Si, then the prime minister of Qin State. At that time, Reese was actually unwilling to go along with Zhao Gao, because Reese was a scholar and a eunuch to Zhao Gao. What can't be eaten? Why is there nothing? So in his heart, he thought Fu Su was a man who could shoulder the heavy responsibility of the Qin Dynasty. But Zhao Gao, who is good at attacking, has his own way to deal with such an old pedant. What did he just say to Reese? Which is better in Montaigne?
As far as credit is concerned, Li Si's credit is definitely greater than Meng Tian's, but this is for Qin Dynasty and Qin Shihuang. You know, Fu Su trusts Montaigne the most, and Montaigne can be said to be Fu Su's confidant. Zhao Gao's sentence is to wake up Reese. Although you are now the prime minister of Daqin, all this was given by Qin Shihuang, but now Qin Shihuang has passed away, only Hu Hai and Zhao Gaocan gave you these. If Fu Su succeeds in becoming Qin Shihuang, Fu Su will definitely choose Meng Huo as the prime minister, so Fu Su's death represents Reese's stepping down.
Moreover, Li Si is the spokesman of the Legalist school, and Fu Su, the son of the Legalist school, is obviously a pro-Confucian school, and his political ideas and opinions are completely opposite. Therefore, it is impossible for Reese to support Fu Su, the son of the school. Once Fu Su ascended the throne smoothly, the political ideas he had painstakingly managed for many years would be abandoned, and Reese certainly could not have any future. Therefore, Reese has no reason to support Fu Su, whether he is attached to power or not, in order to keep his political views unchanged.