Chu Zhuangwang asked his ministers to mourn for the horse, and to bury it in a doctor's coffin inside and outside. A dead horse enjoyed the treatment of courtiers, which was a stimulus to ministers and they raised objections one after another.

Chu Zhuangwang ordered, "Anyone who dares to discuss horse burial again will be sentenced to death." When you Meng heard about it, he ran into the main hall. As soon as he entered the temple gate, he burst into tears. Chu Zhuangwang was very surprised and asked why. You Meng said, "The dead horse is the favorite thing of the king, and it is omnipresent in Chu. Now it is too fickle to bury it only with the gift of a doctor. I ask the king to bury it with the gift of a man." Hearing this, Chu Zhuangwang was speechless for a moment, so he had to give up the plan of burying the horse as a doctor.