The crowd was also astonished, although their proposal for punishment came with their own thoughts, even the ministers close to the Li Family who argued with them would at most excuse Li Hao on the grounds that he was young and ignorant, spoiled by favor into arrogance, and inevitably frivolous.
Where did this ambition as soaring as the clouds and patriotic concern for the people come from?
It was not easy to make these rotting pedantic scholars utter such praise.
The Grand Tutor said respectfully, "Your Majesty, some days ago, one of my students hurried back from Qingzhou City, bringing with him a collection of poems. According to my student, all the poems in this collection were written by the young master of the Li Family; he verified it thoroughly, there is no falsehood!"
"Oh?"
Emperor Yu was surprised, that youth could actually compose poetry?
Upon reflection, if the other party could play chess, what was so difficult about composing poetry?
