"Huang Zongxi," Fan Jingwen said in a deep voice, "today's agenda is to discuss the guilt of Wang Zhixin, not the deficit of the Imperial Court. Do not act on your own accord and deviate from the subject."
"Grand Secretary Fan is mistaken," Huang Zongxi replied, neither humble nor pushy. "Your humble servant believes that the case of Wang Zhixin arose because of the Imperial Court's deficit. The ancients said that to regulate a river, one must clear its source; to eliminate harm well, one must examine its root; to treat illness well, one must cut off its origin!"
"If we only deal with Wang Zhixin himself without resolving the deficit of the Imperial Court, similar cases will happen again in the future."
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