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To prevent criticism, Shi Huangdi and his prime

minister, the Legalist philosopher Li Su, murdered

hundreds of Confucian scholars. They also ordered

"useless" books burned. These books were the works

of Confucian thinkers and poets who disagreed with

the Legalists.

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