Final answer:
Emperor Qin ordered all of the Confucian books to be collected at the capital in order to burn and destroy them as a way to suppress Confucian ideology.
Step-by-step explanation:
Emperor Qin ordered all of the Confucian books to be collected at the capital for D. To burn/destroy all of them as a way to suppress Confucian ideology. At the suggestion of his advisor Li Si, the First Emperor required that privately-held copies of the Book of Odes, the Book of Documents, and the various philosophers' works be burned. The aim was to deny scholars an appeal to an external moral standard to criticize the emperor. Additionally, the emperor carefully preserved outlawed books in the imperial library for scholars working for him.