After ten years of accompanying me in my studies, the entire court begged me to shut up.

Zhu Houzhao: Confucius said, "To subdue people with virtue," what does that mean? Yang Shen: The character "服" (fú) is related to "斧" (fǔ), meaning that when you can't reason with someone, you use an axe to chop them down! Zhu Houzhao: "If I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening!" What does that mean? Yang Shen: The Way is a weapon of mass destruction. When the enemy discovers the Way, they are already close to death.