Becoming a Crown Prince entails learning a great many things. Yang Yi has his strengths, but his weaknesses are also evident. Having grown up wandering outside, his scholarly knowledge is inevitably lacking. However, the art of governance is the most profound, with no shortcuts to take.
He feels as if he has returned to being ten years old, reconnecting from the broken point of that year.
Besides being personally taught by Grand Preceptor Gu, Scholar Shen and Scholar Wu from the Hanlin Academy are also arranged by the emperor to take turns teaching.
One teaches national history, the other two teach poetry and philosophy. Apart from learning, the rest of the day is spent in the Qianqing Palace following the emperor in handling official documents.
