釋氏稽古略 3.265

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3.265

In the wuyin year, the twelfth year, in the winter, the tenth month, Minister of Works, Vice Director of the Chancellery, and Joint Manager of Affairs with the Secretariat-Chancellery Linghu Tao nominated Li Yuan as the Prefect of Hangzhou. The emperor said, "I have heard that in Li Yuan's poems, 'The long day is passed only in a single game of chess.' How could he govern the people?" Tao said, "Poets merely rely on this to express lofty spirits; it may not truly be so." The emperor said, "Let him go for the time being, and we shall observe him" (from the Book of Tang, individual biography).

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