The Academy Head of Taiping Academy, just thirty years old. He is younger than all the instructors but wears the Qing Yuanling Pao representing provincial graduate status, which gives him seniority. He passed the provincial examination on his first attempt in the fifth year of the Hongzhi reign, becoming a twenty-year-old provincial graduate. He had been a provincial graduate for ten years and was a renowned scholar in Luzhou with considerable reputation throughout the Shu region. The previous academy head made three personal visits before retirement to invite him. He set unconventional exam questions to test adaptability rather than rote memorization.
