Who is "He"? …..He divined with three tortoises, and they all indicated good fortune. He then open the lock and looked at the wr
iting: it too indicated good fortune. He said, “The configuration shows that the king will not suffer harm, and that I, the small child, have obtained a renewed mandate from the three kings. It is the long range that must be considered, and so I await my fate. They will take care of our king.” He returned and put the scribe’s record in a mental bound box. By the next day the king had improved.
As the text states, the person in question starts talking after the divinations. He starts by acknowledging the existence of a king that seems to be sick (the king will not suffer harm + the king had improved). So the person is not the king.
Then he states "I, the small child, have obtained a renewed mandate from the three kings. It is the long range that must be considered, and so I await my fate". Therefore, it is possible to inferr that the person talking is the small child.
The statement that best explains the economic benefits of building a smaller courthouse instead of a larger one is that a smaller courthouse would require fewer workers and materials to build it and could also open more quickly compared to a larger one. Hope this helps!
