The following year, many alchemists and Confucian scholars attacked Qin Shihuang. Qin Shihuang sent people to investigate and buried more than 460 alchemists and Confucian scholars alive.
Historically, these things have been called "burning books to bury Confucianism".
Qin Shihuang made this decision because:
After Qin Shihuang annexed six countries, he needed a national voice to safeguard national unity.
In fact, this is the same as "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" after the Han Dynasty, which is the "cultural fate" of a great revolution.
Only one is hard violence and the other is soft violence.
According to textual research, the so-called "burning books to bury Confucianism" was only recorded in historical records as "burning poems, books, and books to bury Confucianism", and was later misrepresented as "burning books to bury Confucianism" in the preface of the pseudo "Ancient Literature History" (which was suspected in the Song Dynasty and confirmed as a fake book in the Qing Dynasty).
"Burning poetry books and cheating warlocks" are two different things.
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The essence of "burning books to bury Confucianism" is actually a movement to unify thoughts. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he abolished the enfeoffment system in political structure and implemented the county system nationwide. Culturally, unified writing, official writing with Xiao Zhuan as the standard; In the economic field, unified currency and unified measurement. These measures are the basic elements of national unity and can be controlled by powerful national violence. 、
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