During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, every vassal state, big or small, had its own historical records and its own legislative system. There is no dependency, but a parallel relationship. In other words, countries are big or small. This is the case in every country in the world today. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, actually every smaller vassal state was also under his control. This requires that the history of one country and the history of other countries should be erased. Let the history of these countries become the history of a province, not a country.
Need to burn the history books of every state. Only when the history books of Qin State are handed down can this effect be achieved. Confucianism is a scholar who maintains the old order. What he said is retro, and he is in awe of the master. This means that breaking the old order will destroy Confucianism, and maintaining order will obey Confucianism. This is also a historical law. Burning books and burying Confucianism is the idea of Lisi, a disciple of Xunzi. Even if it is wrong, it is also the fault of Qin Shihuang? Why did Qin Gui blame Zhao Gou for the Yue Fei incident? This is really a strange thing.
Only a part of the burned books are not conducive to rule. If all the books were burned, why can we still see The Book of Songs, Zuo Zhuan, Li Sao, The Analects of Confucius and Zhuangzi today? According to Confucian scholars, shouldn't it be completely burned? At the beginning of Qin Dynasty, a hundred schools of thought contended and expressed their opinions. It is not easy to form a unified value system. The above-mentioned incident of burning books and burying Confucianism happened for the sake of ideological unity.