Only achieving the lowest grade of officialdom when he was 50, he was of the opinion that the farmer was "the first grade person between heaven and earth." The gentleman, on the other hand, was the lowest of the four classes of people, and special contempt was reserved for the literati.
這位大器晚成，五十歲開始作了十二年七品縣令父母官的「八怪」之一，向以勤苦農夫為「天地間第一等人」，而以士為四民之末，最討厭酸腐文人。