《汉书·志·五行志下之上》
从此就白以为圣贤，焚烧《诗》《书》，坑埋儒士；奢侈暴虐，以扩大土地为要务；南面派兵驻守五岭，北筑长城，以防胡越，堑山填谷，西起临洮，束至辽东，径直数千里。
遂自贤圣，燔《诗》、《书》，坑儒士；奢淫暴虐，务欲广地；南戍五岭，北筑长城，以备胡、越；堑山填谷，西起临洮，东至辽东，径数千里。
From then on, he thought himself a sage, and burned the <Book of Poetry> and the <Book of History>, and buried Confucianists; he was extravagant and tyrannical, and regarded expanding the territory as the most important issue; he sent soldiers to garrison Wuling to defend against the Hu and the Yue in the south, and built the Great Wall in the north to defend against the invasion of northern ethnic groups; he dug down mountains and filled up valleys, and built from Lintao in the west to Liaodong in the east, for thousands of li in a straight line.