"What you Confucian scholars are after is nothing more than achieving success and gaining renown!"
"The highest is to establish virtue, next is to establish merit, and next is to establish words. Though long passed, it is not forgotten—this is called immortality."
Lord Longyang had evidently prepared well in advance, doing his homework thoroughly to the point of unearthing the origin of the Confucian concept of the three immortalities.
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