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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 (-5[1])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 (15[1])Lu. This man supposedly compiled the Book of Documents and the (*) Spring and Autumn (10[1])Annals, which Li Si ordered destroyed. Sima Qian may 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 official state ideology. For 10 points, name this philosopher whose Analects informed imperial governance. (10[1])■END■

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