In 213 BC, Qinshihuang adopted นำมาใช้ his prime minister, 李斯Lǐsī 's advice that, all books, except for those on medicine and agriculture should be burned, in order to strengthen the regimeระบบการปกครอง's ideological เกี่ยวกับลัทธิหรือความนึกคิด control of the people. To further guard against dissentผู้คัดค้าน, the Emperor had 460 Confucian scholars buried alive in the second year. These two matters were called “burning the books and burying the Confucian scholars”.