The First Emperor's Translation of Classical Chinese in Xianyang Palace

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, "If the five emperors don't get together, the three generations won't attack each other. They rule each other, not oppose each other, and the times 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 set a statue in black and white, and learn privately and teach illegally. As soon as people hear the order, they will talk about each other and then discuss it in the street. They will praise the Lord for having different names, which is a high rate. If you are slandered in the group, you will be banned, and the main situation will fall on the party and success. I asked historians to burn all the records of the Qin Dynasty. If you are not a doctor, people who dare to collect poems, books and hundreds of languages in the world will learn to keep them and burn them. Those who dare to talk about "poetry" and "books" abandon 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 learn the law, take the official as the teacher. " The system says, "Yes."

(from historical records? Biography of Qin Shihuang, with deletion)

Reference translation

Qin Shihuang gave a banquet in Xianyang Palace, and 70 doctors came forward to offer wine to celebrate his birthday. Zhou's servant went up to praise him and said, "In the past, Qin was only a thousand miles away, and it was up to your majesty's gods and sages to pacify the world and expel barbarians." Wherever the sun and the moon shine, no one does not surrender. " Change the vassal state into a county, and everyone will live and work in peace and contentment without worrying about war. Achievements can be passed down from generation to generation. Your weeds are unparalleled since ancient times. "Qin Shihuang was very happy. Doctor Yue of the State of Qi stood up and said, "I heard that the Yin and Zhou Dynasties ruled the world for more than a thousand years, and enfeoffed their descendants to save themselves. Now your majesty owns the world, but your children are ordinary people. If courtiers like Tian Chang of Qi and Liu Qing of Jin murdered the monarch, who would help them? I've never heard that anything can last long without imitating the ancients. Just now, Zhou's fawning on your majesty aggravated his mistake. This is not a loyal minister. "

Qin Shihuang passed on their opinions to the 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. What is worth imitating? 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 rose up together, saying that they were referring to the past harming the present, pretending to commit perjury and disturbing the name and reality. People only appreciated what they had learned and accused the system established by the court. Today, the emperor unified the world, and it is up to the emperor to distinguish right from wrong. But private schools criticize laws and regulations together. As soon as people hear the order, they discuss it according to what they have learned. Accuse yourself in your heart when you enter the DPRK. When they leave North Korea, they will take to the streets to talk about it. They brag about themselves in front of the monarch to seek fame and fortune, pursue strange ideas to raise themselves, and take 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 better to ban it. 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. Anyone who dares to talk about "poetry" and "book" together will be sentenced to death and shown to the public. Use the past instead of today. 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 Cheng Dan's punishment. 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."