This man decided to enter his chosen profession after he realized that rats in the barn were well-fed, but rats in the bathroom were not.
This man decided to enter his chosen profession after he realized that rats in the barn were well-fed, but rats in the bathroom were not. This man divided the kingdom into 36 subunits and once annulled a law that expelled all aliens from the kingdom, realizing that it would deprive the government of its best advisors. He carried out the first government-enforced writing standardization, making the small-seal script mandatory. During a succession crisis, this man allied with a eunuch, Zhao Gao, who eventually killed him by cutting him in half. He once forced a rival philosopher to drink poison; both he and that man were former students of Xun-Zi. After the man he served under was fooled by a pair of alchemists, this man advised immolating them, which came immediately after his effort to suppress Confucianism and the other Hundred Schools, the so-called "Burning of the Books". For 10 points, name this Qin dynasty official and staunch defender of Legalism, the Prime Minister of China under Shihuang-di.
This man decided to enter his chosen profession after he realized that rats in the barn were well-fed, but rats in the bathroom were not.
{Li Si} [or {Li Ssu} from godless Wade-Giles bastards]