As a Member of the Growing Shi Class of Well-To-Do

As a member of the growing shi class of well-to-do, educated commoners and lower aristocracy, Confucius _____________.

A) Easily found employment in his native state of Lu and far beyond.
B) Argued that whatever the shi class maintained to be moral was actually moral.
C) Advocated the "well-field" system as a means of ensuring crop surpluses and equality among peasant cultivators.
D) Sought a position as political adviser to the courts of several states, but was largely unsuccessful.