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虽然间或派使者巡行，但苟且于宠爱俸禄，巧为妄语荒诞，成就其事，至于请求全部实行这些法令，上下互相隐瞒，习以成风。
虽间遣使循行，而苟且宠禄，巧为妄诞，成就其事，至请遍行其法，上下相隐，习以成风。
Although it occasionally dispatches envoys to do patrols, they indulge in their love of titles and salaries while creating specious absurdities and attributing them to their work, as for requesting the complete implementation of these orders, they cover up for each other in collusion up and down, these become their established practices.
<s>[INST] Take each pair of old and new sentences and unite them into a single translation that captures the core meaning: Archaic: 虽间遣使循行，而苟且宠禄，巧为妄诞，成就其事，至请遍行其法，上下相隐，习以成风。 Updated: 虽然间或派使者巡行，但苟且于宠爱俸禄，巧为妄语荒诞，成就其事，至于请求全部实行这些法令，上下互相隐瞒，习以成风。 [/INST] Although it occasionally dispatches envoys to do patrols, they indulge in their love of titles and salaries while creating specious absurdities and attributing them to their work, as for requesting the complete implementation of these orders, they cover up for each other in collusion up and down, these become their established practices.</s>
Take each pair of old and new sentences and unite them into a single translation that captures the core meaning: Archaic: 虽间遣使循行，而苟且宠禄，巧为妄诞，成就其事，至请遍行其法，上下相隐，习以成风。 Updated: 虽然间或派使者巡行，但苟且于宠爱俸禄，巧为妄语荒诞，成就其事，至于请求全部实行这些法令，上下互相隐瞒，习以成风。
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Although it occasionally dispatches envoys to do patrols, they indulge in their love of titles and salaries while creating specious absurdities and attributing them to their work, as for requesting the complete implementation of these orders, they cover up for each other in collusion up and down, these become their established practices.
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