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As minister of justice, this person ordered the execution of the crowd-drawing Shaozheng Mao for the crime of perverted speech. Empress Dowager Dou resisted this person’s influence on her grandson’s Jianyuan reforms. This person’s followers were known as ru. This (15[1])statesman led a campaign to tear down the walls of three noble families in his home state of Lu. This man supposedly compiled the Book of Documents and the (*) Spring and Autumn (10[1])Annals, (10[1])which Li Si ordered destroyed. Sima Qian may (10[1])have lied about hundreds of this man’s followers being buried alive under Qin Shi Huang. Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty made this man’s Five Classics the basis of (10[1])official state ideology. For 10 points, name this philosopher (10[1])whose Analects informed imperial governance. ■END■

ANSWER: Confucius [or Kongzi or Kong Fuzi or Master Kong]
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