Cao Mao's letter left Lu Kang utterly bewildered.
It was not what Lu Kang had expected.
This letter from Cao Mao was not a demand for his surrender.
Nor was it a reprimand, much less one of those letters full of corrections and revisions in the Cao Family tradition.
It was actually a letter discussing the classics with Lu Kang.
It was like the letters famous scholars exchanged, discussing their views on the classics, putting forward a few ideas of their own, and asking the recipient to correct them.
And the classical scholarship Cao Mao wished to discuss with Lu Kang was Wang Learning, currently all the rage in Wei.
Lu Kang had initially thought the other man intended to use scholarship to persuade him to surrender, but after reading it, he discovered that Cao Mao had mentioned nothing whatsoever about the realm or the current situation. The entire letter was a perfectly serious discussion of scholarship.
Moreover, Lu Kang could be certain that no one had ghostwritten it.
In fact, different people had very distinct styles when interpreting the classics, something a discerning reader could recognize at a glance. Lu Kang was unfamiliar with Cao Mao, but his understanding of the classics alone revealed the identity of the person studying them.
People of different stations often arrived at vastly different interpretations when studying the same classic.
Wang Su and Zheng Xuan, for instance, had differed considerably when annotating the same classics, simply because their stations were different.
When an emperor studied the classics, his scope was anything but ordinary.
Lu Kang could not help clicking his tongue in wonder.
Cao Mao truly did possess a gift for the classics. Besides, he now also had the bonus from "Foresight."
Whatever classic he read, his insights penetrated three-tenths of an inch