Mencius said to him, "The king is belligerent. Please use the metaphor of war. Replenish drums, weapons company, abandon armor. Or stop after a hundred steps, or stop after fifty steps. What if the pot is too black? "
He said, "No, it's not a hundred steps straight, it's also a walk."
He said, "If Wang knew this, there would be no hope of more people than those in neighboring countries."
"Don't go against the farming season, the valley can't win food. If you don't count, neither fish nor turtle can be eaten. Axe gold gets into the mountain in time, and mywood can't be used. Valley and fish turtles can't fight for food, and wood and wood can't fight for it, which makes people lose their lives and have no regrets. There is no regret in being born and dying, and the beginning of the king is also. "
"Five acres of house, the tree to mulberry, fifty clothes. Chickens, dolphins and dogs are all domestic animals, so there is no time to waste. Seventy people can eat meat. A hundred acres of land, if you don't hurry, a few people in a family can be hungry; I am willing to teach you the order of itching, and apply it with filial piety. The winner can't bear to wear it on the road. Seventy people eat meat, while Li people are neither hungry nor cold. However, they are not kings and have nothing. "
"Dogs don't know when they eat people's food, and they don't know when they are hungry. When people die, they say,' It's not me, it's age.' What's the difference between stabbing people and killing people, saying,' It's not me, it's a soldier'? The king is innocent, and the people in the world are heavy. "
Liang (that is) said: "I am really loyal to my country (Ear Yi means" righteousness ","ear "means the tone of restriction, and" righteousness "means the tone of statement after being used together): the Wei land on the north bank of the Yellow River was poor in harvest and there was a famine, so (I) moved the people there to Hedong and transported the grain from Hedong to Hanoi at the same time. The same is true of the famine in Hedong. No country is as concerned about the politics of its neighbors as I am. The people of neighboring countries have not decreased (plus: more) because of this, and my people have not increased because of this. Why? "
Mencius replied, "Your Majesty likes war, so I will use it as a metaphor. Drumming (fill in: onomatopoeia, describing drums), the blades of weapons collide, throw away armor, and drag the weapons to escape. Some people stop after running a hundred paces, while others stop after running fifty paces. If you only run 50 steps, why do you laugh at others for running 100 steps? "
King Hui said, "No, it's just that I didn't run a hundred paces. This is also an escape. "
Mencius said, "If you understand this, you can't expect to have more people than your neighbors. If the season of agricultural production is not delayed, there will be an inexhaustible supply of grain. If you don't fish in the pond with dense nets, there will be endless fish and turtles (according to ancient regulations, fishing in the pond is forbidden if the mesh is less than four inches [now more than two inches and seven minutes]). When the axe cuts down trees in a certain season (when the vegetation is falling, at the end of the growing season), the wood will be inexhaustible. Food, fish and turtles can't be eaten, and wood can't be used up. In this way, the people will support the elderly and children without regrets and hold funerals for the dead. People have no regrets about life and burial, which is the beginning of kingly way.
Five acres of homestead (five acres: more than 20 cents per acre), mulberry trees are planted, and people aged 50 can wear silk fabrics. Raise poultry and livestock, such as chickens, pigs and dogs (dolphins: piglets. B: Don't delay their reproductive opportunities. Seventy-year-olds can eat meat. One hundred acres of arable land, without delaying its production season, several families are not hungry. Earnestly do a good job in school education, and repeatedly carry out the education of filial piety to parents and love for brothers (the school was in the Yin Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty), so that gray-haired old people would not walk on the road with heavy things on their heads or shoulders. Seventy-year-olds wear clothes and eat meat, but ordinary people can't be hungry or frozen. Never before have they reached such a level, but they can't dominate the world.
Rich people let pigs and dogs eat other people's food, and they don't know how to restrain them. There are people starving to death on the road, but they don't know how to open the granary to help the people. When people die, they say,' It's not my fault, it's caused by poor years.' What's the difference between this statement and stabbing and killing people and saying,' I didn't kill them, it was the murder weapon'? Your Majesty, don't blame Niancheng, then people all over the world (referring to people from other vassal States) will come to submit. "
Interpretation: Sometimes people's original intention is good: Excellence, but once implemented, it is always limited to the appearance of things. It seems to be very different from the past and others, but it is still the same. Mencius hit the nail on the head and relieved Liang's long-term troubles.