Note 1 — Chapter III · Tung Cho Silences Ting Yüan: Li Su Bribes Lü Pu.

“You are mistaken, Illustrious Sir,” said Lu Chih. “Of old1 Tai Chia was unenlightened. Wherefore I Yin immured him in the Tʻung Palace till he reformed. Later2 Prince Chʻang I ascended the throne, and in less than a month he committed more than three thousand categorical faults. Wherefore Ho Kuang, the regent, declared in the ancestral temple that he was deposed. Our present Emperor is young, but he is intelligent, benevolent and wise. He has not committed a single fault. You, Sir, are not a metropolitan official and have had no experience in state administration. Neither have you the pure intentions of I Yin which qualified his actions. Without that justification such an act is presumption.”