The situation in Shu may not be terminal, but it does need strong medicine; otherwise, Li Xiong wouldn't have sought out Zhao Hanzhang.
He has thirteen sons, every one of them useless.
Not to mention the older ones, even the younger ones consider themselves princes. They think Cheng Country is the realm the Li Family built through great sacrifices. By the age of seven or eight, they are already domineering, wanting whatever they desire, and if they don't get it, they either throw tantrums or severely punish servants and slaves.
Li Xiong is too busy with state affairs to have much energy to educate his children. Those around them, to appease and curry favor with the princes, tend to indulge them a lot.
By the time Li Xiong realized this, it was too late to properly educate them.
The worst part is, after replacing all the attendants around his children, the new attendants, to avoid punishment and trouble, quickly submitted to the children as well.
