"Confucianism is ill?"
Empress Ma was utterly shocked. She never expected Ma Yu to utter such words. This was not a critique of a specific individual or a flawed institution, but a direct indictment of Confucianism itself.
This was Confucianism, after all. A philosophy developed over two millennia—you dare call it ill? Even if these words had come from his elders, they would have been considered profoundly arrogant. She could no longer imagine what kind of people Ma Yu’s elders were. Geniuses? Without a doubt. Lunatics? They certainly seemed to possess a touch of madness. The key was that they seemed to study everything, and in everything they studied, they produced results. That was what made them most incomprehensible.
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