During the aftermath of the social reforms he worked passionately and singlehandedly at famine relief, against the colossal obstruction of bureaucracy.
Due to the ethnic discrimination and differential treatment policy advocated by the rulers of the Yuan dynasty, the officialdom of Han nationality were strictly controlled and suppressed.
He had a critical mind which readily turned to history and to literary composition; and he was by nature a woodsman and a huntsman, a rustic who resented all officialdom.