King Hui of Liang said, "I am a country, and I devote myself to it. If Hanoi is fierce, it will move its people to Hedong and its millet to Hanoi. Hedong is also fierce. People who observe the politics of neighboring countries have no intention like me. There are not many people in neighboring countries, and there are not many people in my country. Why? "
Mencius said to him, "The king is belligerent. Please use the metaphor of war. Fill the drum, spear ③, and leave the 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 knows this, there is no hope that there will be more people in neighboring countries. If you don't go against the farming season, the valley can't take 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. Keeping in good health and dying without regret is the beginning of kingly way.
Five acres of houses, trees are mulberry, and fifty people can wear clothes and silks. 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 seize the opportunity, a family of several can be hungry. I would like to teach you the order of filial piety, and those who win prizes should not be placed on the Tao. Seventy people eat meat, clothes and silk, and the Lebanese are neither hungry nor cold, but they are not kings and have nothing.
Dogs eat people and don't know what to do, but they don't know what to do when they are hungry. When a person dies, saying' it's not me, it's age' is different from stabbing someone and killing someone and saying' it's not me, it's a soldier'. The king is innocent, and the people in the world are heavy. "
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Liang said: "I really dedicated myself to my country. When there was a famine in Hanoi, some people there were moved to Hedong and food was transported to Hanoi for relief. There is a famine in Hedong, and so do I. Looking at the government affairs of neighboring countries, no monarch can worry about the people like me. However, the population of neighboring countries has not decreased, nor has the population of Wei increased. What is the reason? "
Mencius replied, "Your Majesty likes fighting. Please let me compare it with war. Beating drums, the blades collide, (some soldiers) abandon their helmets and armor and drag their weapons to escape. Some escaped a hundred paces and stopped, while others escaped fifty paces and stopped. What if you laugh at those who have escaped a hundred steps just because you have only escaped fifty steps? "
Hui Wangdao: "No, it's just that the people behind can't escape a hundred steps. Is this also an escape? "
Mencius said, "If your majesty knows this, he can't expect the people of Wei to outnumber his neighbors. Don't delay the people's farming season and can't finish eating food; If you don't put fine fishing nets into the pond for fishing, fish and turtles will never finish; If the forest is cut down in a certain season, the wood will not be used up. Food, fish and turtles can't be eaten up, and wood can't be used up, so people can raise children and do funerals without regrets. People have no regrets when they live, raise, die and mourn. This is the beginning of kingliness.
There are many kinds of mulberry trees, and people of fifty can put on silk cotton-padded jackets. Domestic animals such as chickens, pigs and dogs do not miss the breeding season, and 70-year-olds can eat meat. A hundred acres of land, if you don't take away the farming season, a few people in a family can go hungry. Do a good job in school education, constantly instill filial piety and love for brothers in young people, so that white-haired old people don't have to carry things on their shoulders. Seventy-year-old people put on silk cotton-padded jackets to eat meat, and the people are not cold or hungry. If they can't unify the world like this, it will never happen.
Pigs and dogs (now from wealthy families) are eating people's food, but they don't know how to stop it; There are starving bodies on the road, but I don't know how to open a warehouse for relief; When people starve to death, saying' it's not my responsibility, it's a bad harvest' is different from stabbing people and saying' I didn't kill them, I killed them with weapons'. Your Majesty, please don't blame the bad years, as long as the benevolent government is implemented, so that the people of the world will come to you. "