Prefect Li thought that it was impossible for him to remain in office forever.
After all, mortals were always limited by their lifespans.
Unless one was a Deity.
But wasn't there a Deity now?
Yet how could a mortal covet a divine position? So he decided to properly train his sons.
Ten years passed.
He discovered that his eldest son was an idiot.
Though kind and upright, and sufficiently diligent and frugal under his guidance,
he was not as rigidly upright as outsiders imagined.
He was shrewdly upright.
He was skilled at using existing conditions to seek benefits for the people and for the court.
However, his own son clearly lacked that ability.
So he had no choice but to have another child.
Still an idiot.
He had another.
For some reason, he discovered that he was aging very slowly.
This should have been a gift from the gods.
He understood it in his heart, but he would not blindly believe in gods because of it.
Yet he had forgotten: if he did not blindly believe in gods, why should he believe in sovereigns and fathers?
Did he not understand that the so-called sovereign was the greatest thief of all?
With that thought, he continued educating his children.
At last, a clever heir appeared.
But he soon discovered that this child was too clever.
So clever that he merely treated the people as a pretext for seeking benefits for himself.
Using the excuse of doing things for the people, he applied to him for money and grain, but in reality, only one three-thousandth of it was spent on the people.
This youngest son applied for one million taels of silver to build canals, but in the end spent only thirty taels. He hired thirty people and hastily dredged several existing