"Let Lord Xuande handle the production of small glass items in his little glass kiln, and have standard glass materials fired in the official kilns. Separating the productions will avoid giving the Pure Stream Celebrities something to latch onto," Chen Xi suggested.
What exactly were the Pure Stream Celebrities? In the past, these people just indulged in a pleasure-seeking life, discussing metaphysics, playing the lute one day, drinking wine the next. But ever since Chen Xi discovered that the Pure Stream Celebrities actually had abilities and cared more about their reputation than official titles, he had found tasks for them to do.
He set them to nitpick, to see where the governance could be improved and to speak on behalf of the commoners who dared not speak up. After all, their characters were quite impeccable, even if their behaviors were sometimes aberrant.
