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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 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 Annals, which Li Si ordered destroyed. Sima Qian may have lied about (-5[2])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 (10[1])basis of official state ideology. For 10 (10[1])points, name (10[1])this philosopher whose Analects informed imperial governance. ■END■

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