Chapter 377: Li Si Arrives

"Young Master Fusu."

"I didn't expect the Left Prime Minister to come too."

Su Fan arrived at the Little Sage Virtuous Manor and saw Li Si sitting beside Fusu, somewhat surprised. He didn't expect the other party to really come.

Now Li Si and Wang Wan were both Left and Right Prime Ministers, overseeing the court ministers, and generally would not easily leave Xianyang City.

*The Legend of Qin* and this world were different after all.

For a person of the Three Excellencies like Li Si, once there was any loss, it would probably be a huge loss for Great Qin's national luck.

After all, in this world, ministers like Li Si also had a great influence on national luck.

These ministers were also the targets of the Divine Court.

Before, there had been incidents of deities ambushing important court ministers.

Even if Su Fan hadn't brought out agricultural technology, he would have been assassinated by deities after becoming a minister comparable to the Nine Ministers.

It just wouldn't have been like before, sending a Three Flowers deity to assassinate him.

In reality, what Su Fan didn't know was that it was precisely because of him that Li Si dared to walk out of Xianyang City.

Because the Divine Court had lost a Three Flowers deity, in the short term, even if they wanted revenge, they would have to investigate the intelligence clearly; otherwise, they would be sending heads again. They couldn't possibly send five or six Three Flowers experts all at once.

After all, the Divine Court had many Three Flowers, but most were all over the world, and many had left Great Qin's territory early because they feared Great Qin, heading to the ocean.

After all, compared to the continent, the ocean was even broader.

So the Divine Court's wariness now allowed Li Si and the others to walk out of Xianyang City. This secret visit to Dong Commandery was also for the Little Sage Virtuous Manor.

If Fusu coming to Dong Commandery was to deter the local clans and the Little Sage Virtuous Manor, then Li Si's arrival was to use his relationship with the Little Sage Virtuous Manor.

Li Si was originally a disciple of Xunzi. Even though he had now become a Legalist disciple, there was still some relationship there.

A carrot and a stick—it was also to pull the Little Sage Virtuous Manor onto Great Qin's carriage.

The reason for this was that Xunzi of the Little Sage Virtuous Manor had already broken through and reached the Three Flowers realm.

If Xunzi had only been at the peak of Five Qi Morning Origin before, Great Qin wouldn't have cared. There were many at the peak of Five Qi Morning Origin.

But once he broke through, Three Flowers would be another realm. There were not many people in Great Qin at this realm.

Adding one more would mean one more force for Great Qin when they attacked the Divine Court in the future.

This was the purpose of Li Si's secret arrival this time.

Others didn't know this.

Seeing Su Fan arrive, Fusu and Li Si both stood up to return the greeting; after all, Su Fan's status was not much lower than theirs.

Li Si was the Left Prime Minister, but there was Wang Wan to contend with him, and even the Commandant of Justice Meng Yi and the Censor-in-Chief Feng Jie were not below him.

Li Si wanting to be "above one person and below ten thousand" was still a bit off.

For Su Fan, this Director of the Agriculture Office, he also had the intention to win him over. After all, the future Agriculture Office would not be below the Nine Ministers like the Commandant of Justice or the Lesser Treasury.

It might even be more important. As a core member of the court, he knew very clearly the future status of the Agriculture Office.

In politics, allies were naturally the more the better.

"Agriculture Director Su has worked hard and achieved much in these days."

"I heard that some people in the local area are not behaving, and have been obstructing the Agriculture Office?"

"Haha! They are just a group of clowns. Once the Empire's army arrived, they all admitted defeat."

Su Fan smiled slightly: "These people are all profit-seeking people. Only when they see the majesty of the Empire's laws do they know how to respect."

"Correct! Donghai is too far from the center of the Empire, and some people in the local area are like local emperors, not putting the Empire's laws in their eyes at all. Agriculture Director Su, punish them well and let them know the majesty of the Empire."

Speaking of laws, the smile on Li Si's face also became a bit more sincere. Regardless of whether the law was a tool for him to climb up, he had truly maintained the Empire's laws.

Before, when he was the Commandant of Justice, he was very strict. Even some nobles of the Empire, he didn't let go.

Not to mention beheading them, at least he punished them, and even used Qin law to demote the titles of several nobles.

This punishment measure was not low.

Some people would rather die than have their titles demoted, because if they died, it was just them alone, and their descendants and clans could still inherit their titles.

But if the title was demoted, then wanting to rise again would be very difficult, and the loss would be extreme.

This also led to him having many political enemies in Xianyang City.

But fortunately, the Emperor had always valued him, and he lived up to expectations, reaching the position of Left Prime Minister.

Up to this point, he also attached more importance to the law.

Because of Qin law, Li Si and Su Fan communicated. As a person from later generations, Su Fan also knew the importance of the law.

No matter how many lives he had lived, having lived for hundreds of years, he was still that person. Even if he embarked on the path of cultivation, after entering the world, his behavioral concepts were still closer to later generations.

"Haha! Communicating with Agriculture Director Su is better than reading books for ten years."

Some of Su Fan's legal concepts also opened Li Si's eyes.

The Qin law of this era was very strict; in Su Fan's view, some were even inhumane. It was true that Legalist disciples needed to maintain the law.

But it didn't mean that strict law was the best.

Law is prevention, nipping things in the bud, and warning. Strict law was sometimes not appropriate.

"If I didn't know Agriculture Director Su's identity, I would have really thought that Agriculture Director Su was an outstanding disciple of my Legalist school."

Su Fan's concepts, although he didn't agree with them, the communication between the two was indeed of great help to him.

And as one of the great elders of the Legalist school, he also knew that Great Qin's current laws were already somewhat unsuitable for the world.

Qin law needed to change, but how to change it, he didn't know. This time, he was ordered by the Emperor to come to the Little Sage Virtuous Manor in Donghai, apart from inviting Xunzi to Xianyang City, it was also to ask Xunzi for advice.

Great Qin's path ahead was not easy.

Conquering the world was easy, but governing the world well was not easy, especially since the people of the Six States and the old Qin people originally had hatred.

How to integrate the people of the Six States into Great Qin—this problem was quite thorny.

Relying solely on strict Qin law, it was impossible to achieve. Li Si understood this.

Even in these days, he had gone to various places and could feel the resistance of the people of the Six States to the strict Qin law.

This was not a good thing. Although the Empire had unified the world, it had not yet won the hearts of the people of the world.

Hearts—as a superior, he was very clear that this was still very important.

Sometimes, it might even cause bad consequences. ===== CHAPTER 378 =====