Mao (1) traveled long distances to Tian She, where he met a villager and asked him about his birth. When Weng told me the date, it was the same as above. Mao said, "Do you have a son?" Answer: "No" "Is there a field?" Say, "No" "But how can you be self-sufficient?" Said, "I rely on beekeeping ears." Say, "What is the geometry of bees?" For example, "fifteen barrels." Mao Moran said, "I have two cities and thirteen provinces, and fifteen barrels of bees in the canal." The symbol of this year, month and day. " Mao asked again, "You are a bee, and you cut honey at the age of eighteen. How many times? " Weng said, "There are many flowers in spring and summer, bees are easy to pick, and honey is not difficult to bear. I cut it every month. After autumn, there are fewer and fewer flowers, so chrysanthemum honey will not be cut. Remove three from ten, leaving seven. Listen (5) to the bee's vomit (6) and count the age of death. I cut honey in spring and summer, and money is easy, so I can live within my means. And bees also have extra honey, so they won't lose heart. Tomorrow's age, honey will be brewed. I am 50 years old, but I am fed by bees. He was not a beekeeper. He cut it in spring and summer, even in autumn, and there was no honey left, so many bees died. There is honey this year and no honey next year. " Mao sighed and said, "The people are still bees. If you don't rest, you can exhaust your resources, and the people can be safe and not poor. When the people die and the country has no people, is the tax safe? Yes, there is no honey. The words of bees can be passed on and used by the people. "

(Selected from Ming Jiang Yingke Xue Tao's novels, with deletion)

Note (1) Taizu: Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. (2) Micro-tour: The emperor or senior official disguised his identity and modified his itinerary. (3) Second Beijing and Thirteen Provinces: Second Beijing refers to Nanjing and Beijing; Thirteen provinces refer to thirteen provinces such as Shandong, Shanxi and Henan. (4) Canal: What? (5) Listen: Listen and let it go. (6) (Dan): Eat.

Second, translation:

Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, visited a village incognito and met an old man in the village and asked him the date of birth. When the old man told Ming Taizu his birth date, it happened to be Ming Taizu's birthday. Ming Taizu asked the old man, "Do you have children?" The old man replied, "No." Ming Taizu asked, "Do you have land?" The old man replied, "No." Ming Taizu asked, "In that case, how do you support yourself?" The old man replied, "I feed myself by bees." Ming Taizu asked, "How many bees do you have?" The old man replied, "fifteen barrels." Ming Taizu said to himself, "I have Nanking, Peking and thirteen provinces. He keeps fifteen barrels of bees, the same number. My birthday is exactly the same as mine. " Ming Taizu asked the old man again, "Do you keep bees and sell honey several times a year?" The old man replied, "In spring and summer, when there are many flowers, bees are more likely to collect honey to make honey, so I collect honey every month." After autumn, there are fewer flowers, and chrysanthemum honey can't be harvested. I cut off three-tenths of the honey, leaving 70% for the bees to eat, ensuring that they have food all year round. I exchange honey harvested in spring and summer for money, cloth, rice and millet, and the income from selling honey determines the expenditure of supporting my family; However, bees also have extra honey. They won't starve to death. The next year, they can make honey again. I have lived to be fifty years old now, and I have survived by these bees. Other beekeepers don't do this. They not only cut honey in spring and summer, but also cut honey in autumn, leaving no honey for bees at all, so bees are dying. They have honey this year and no honey next year. They are all different from me. Ming Taizu sighed: "People are like this bee." . The monarch doesn't know how to recuperate, but he just exhausts his resources and fishes for the people. How can people not die of poverty? "? People are dead, and the country has no people, so taxes can no longer be collected? That's why you don't leave any extra honey. I want to remember what honey bee said today. This is the way to recuperate! "