The Emperor Cheng

question 30

Multiple Choice

The Emperor Cheng:

• A) Practiced a lenient policy regarding scholars and intellectuals, promoting a renaissance of learning in his domains.
• B) Left the disciplining of his opponents to the rulers of the individual states of his empire.
• C) Openly wished he could hire Confucius, or a Confucian student, as his principal advisor.
• D) Demanded that any literature not officially sanctioned by his government be destroyed.

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