The exam question posed by Zhao Xi was not mentioned to anyone in advance, not even to his personal eunuch, Eunuch Sanbao.
However, Song Yuanbao and Xu Dengke had discussed it privately.
During that period, the situation with Amuer was causing quite a stir. The populace was spreading rumors without even knowing what Amuer looked like. They gathered outside the Su Family's gate, demanding Lin Xiaoyue hand over the child, even threatening to set the Su Mansion on fire if she refused.
One day, when Song Yuanbao encountered Xu Dengke reading in the garden pavilion, he brought up the matter. Xu Dengke said the root cause wasn't the ignorance of the populace, but the court's failure to handle the cultural integration between the two nations properly. If Chu Country's people understood and respected the Jiuli Clan's culture sufficiently, such events wouldn't occur.
Song Yuanbao had thought the same at that time.
