This year the Emperor was already sixteen, Zhuge Liang was also sixteen; yet Zhuge Liang, relying on his own ability, was about to be ennobled, while the Emperor had turned into a mess!
If one says that the Emperor's performance at twelve still had some excuse in Zhongg Ji's eyes, then what he did not long ago truly made Zhongg Ji unable to forgive him, because he did it far too badly—so badly that even Zhongg Ji felt he had no face to meet the late emperors of past generations.
The Emperor is sixteen now, he's been sitting on the throne for six years; let's not even talk about those Former Han emperors who were basically running on cheats while wrestling with the Huns—just taking the Later Han alone, Zhongg Ji cannot think of a single emperor at sixteen who performed worse than Liu Xie.
