The most important passage in Qin Shihuang's biography

The first emperor bought wine in Xianyang Palace, and seventy doctors celebrated their birthday. Zhou's servant saluted him and said, "He is only a thousand miles away from the State of Qin, but he relied on your gods to pacify the sea and expel barbarians. The sun and the moon shine on him, and he must obey. Taking princes as counties and counties, everyone is happy, and there is no war, which has been passed down from generation to generation. Not as good as your majesty wade since ancient times. " Stone.

Dr. Qi said to him, "I heard that Yin Zhou made contributions to his children in his spare time, so he himself was a branch assistant. Now, although your majesty has a family, his children are ordinary people, and his soldiers are ministers of Tian Chang and Liu Qing. How can he save you without help? No one listens to those who can not learn from the past for a long time. Today, my young minister is guilty of paying tribute to your majesty, and he is not a loyal minister. " The first emperor made a suggestion.

Li Si, the prime minister, said: The five emperors are at odds and the three generations do not attack each other, so they govern each other, not the other way around, and sometimes they will change. Today, your majesty has made great achievements and established eternal achievements, which fools don't know. What's more, it is a matter of three generations. What is the law? Different governors compete with each other to recruit foreign students. Today, it has been decided that a decree will be issued. The people will take charge of the peasants and workers, and the scholars will ban them from learning decrees. Today's students don't learn from now, but from the past, so they are very confused. The Prime Minister Si Mi said: The ancient world is scattered, and there is no way to be one. It is based on the combination of princes, and all words are harmful to the present, and the false is confusing. People are good at their private research and build on things that are not at the top. Nowadays, the emperor has the world, so don't decide on a black and white statue. Private school is related to illegal teaching. When people hear orders, they discuss them with their own knowledge. When they entered, they were insincere. When they left, they discussed it in the street. They praise the Lord by his name, choose differences by his height, and lead others to slander him. If this is banned, the main trend will fall and the party will succeed. I am forbidden to ask historians to burn all records of the Qin Dynasty. Those who dare to have poems, books and hundreds of languages in the world without being doctors will carefully preserve and burn them. Some people who dare to talk about poetry and books have abandoned the market. Think of the past as a family that is not the present. Those officials are all guilty of the same crime if they don't mention it. If it doesn't burn for the next 30 days, it will be a city. Those who don't go, the book of planting trees. If you want to study law, you should take an official as your teacher. "

The system says, "Yes."

Translation:

Qin Shihuang gave a banquet in Xianyang Palace, and seventy doctors came forward to offer wine to celebrate his birthday. Servant Shooter (Yee, Night) came forward to thank him and said, "In the past, the State of Qin was only a thousand miles away. By virtue of your holiness, the world was pacified and barbarians were expelled. The sun and the moon were dull, and all of them fell." Turn vassal States into counties, so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no need to worry about war. Achievements can be passed down from generation to generation. Your weeds are unparalleled in ancient and modern times. "The first emperor was very happy.

Yue, the doctor of the State of Qi, came forward and said, "I heard that the Yin Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty ruled the world for more than a thousand years, and they all gave credit to their children as assistants. Now your majesty owns the world, but your children are ordinary people. Once this happens, the courtiers who murdered the monarch, such as Tian Chang of Qi State and Liu Qing of Jin State, have no assistance. Who will help them? I've never heard that anything can last long without imitating the ancients. Just now, Zhou flattered his face again, which aggravated your majesty's fault. This is not a loyal minister. " Qin Shihuang gave their opinions to ministers for discussion.

Li Si, the Prime Minister, said: "The system of the five emperors is not repeated from generation to generation, and the system of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties is not inherited from generation to generation, and each has its own system. This is not because they deliberately want to oppose each other, but because times have changed and things are different. Now your majesty has started a great cause and established immortal power, which is beyond the understanding of simple Confucian scholars. In addition, Chun Yuyue is talking about the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Where is the law worth taking? Once upon a time, princes and princes clashed and a large number of lobbyists were recruited. Now the world is at peace, and the law only comes from your majesty. People should devote themselves to agricultural and industrial production at home, and scholars should study law and punishment. Today's Confucian scholars do not learn from today's people, but should imitate the ancients to slander the contemporary world and confuse the people. Prime Minister Reese risked his life and said: In ancient times, the world was scattered and no one could be unified. So the ministers got up together and said that they would lead the ancients to harm the present, pretending to be lofty and scratching their names. People only appreciate what they have learned in private and accuse the system established by the court. Today, the emperor unified the world, and it is up to the supreme emperor to distinguish right from wrong. Private schools, on the other hand, criticize laws and decrees together and educate people to discuss them according to their own learning as soon as they hear orders. When entering the DPRK, he criticized in his heart, talked in the streets when leaving the DPRK, boasted in front of the monarch for fame and fortune, pursued strange ideas to raise himself, and took the lead in creating slanders among the people. If this is not prohibited, the power of the monarch above will decline, and the influence of cronies will be formed below. I think it is appropriate to ban these. I asked the historian to burn all the books that were not Qin. In addition to the doctor's office, whoever dares to collect poems, books and hundreds of works in the world will be sent to the local officials to burn them together. Some people who dared to talk about "poetry" and "books" together were sentenced to death and publicly displayed, and were copied by the past. If an official knows and doesn't report it, he will be punished for the same crime. Those who don't burn books 30 days after the order is issued will be punished with tattoos on their faces, and sentenced to four years' imprisonment in Cheng Dan, where they will be sent to the frontier to prevent bandits during the day and build cities at night. What is not prohibited are books such as medicine, divination and planting. If someone wants to study law, they should learn from officials. "

Qin Shihuang wrote a letter and said, "Yes."