This paper discusses how to implement benevolent government and unify the world with king. No regrets in keeping fit, no regrets in losing your life. At the beginning of Wang Dao, 70 people ate meat, while Li people were neither hungry nor cold. However, if you are not king, there is nothing, which is also the crowning touch of this article, highlighting the main idea of this article: only by implementing benevolent government can you win the hearts of the people; Only by winning the hearts of the people can we win the world. This idea of protecting the people as king is actually the embodiment of Mencius' people-oriented thought.

Liang Huiwang said, I am loyal to my country. If Hanoi is fierce, the people will move to Hedong and the millet will move to Hanoi; Hedong is also fierce. People who observe the politics of neighboring countries have no intention like me. There are no more people in neighboring countries, and there are no more people in my country.

Mencius said to him: Wang is belligerent, please use the metaphor of war. Drum filling, weapon company, abandoning armor and dragging troops away. Or stop after a hundred steps, or stop after fifty steps. What if the pot is too black?

Say: no! Straight (zhǐ) is not a hundred steps, but also a walk.

If Wang knows this, there is no hope of being more than his neighbors.

If you don't go against the farming season, the valley can't take food; If the number (ù) does not enter the pool (wū), the fish and turtles will not be able to eat; Axe gold gets into the mountain in time, and mywood can't be used. Valley and fish turtles can't be eaten, and wood and wood can't be used, which makes people lose their lives (sāng) and die without regret. Keeping in good health and dying without regret is the beginning of kingly way.

Five acres of houses, the trees are mulberry trees, and fifty people can wear clothes. Chickens, dolphins and dogs () and livestock () can eat meat for 70 people without wasting time. A hundred acres of land, if you don't hurry, a family of several can be hungry; I respect the teaching of Preface very much and apply it in the sense of filial piety. White prizes will not be placed on the road. Seventy people eat clothes, silk and meat, and the people are not hungry or cold. However, people who are not wàng are not here.

Dogs don't know how to eat people, and they don't know how to paint them. When people die, they say,' It's not me, it's also old'. Why is it different from stabbing people and killing people? Say,' If 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 am loyal to my country. When there was a famine in the north of the Yellow River, the people there were moved to the east of the Yellow River, and the grain from the east of the Yellow River was transported to the north of the Yellow River. The same is true of the famine years east of the Yellow River. No one cares more about seeing the monarch of a neighboring country preside over political affairs than I do. But there are not many people in neighboring countries, and neither are I. Why?

Mencius replied: Your Majesty likes fighting. Allow me to use the metaphor of fighting. When the drums are drummed, the weapon blades have collided, throwing armor and dragging the weapon to escape. Some people stop after running a hundred paces, while others stop after running fifty paces. What do you think of (it) running only 50 steps and laughing at others running 100 steps?

Hui Wang said: No. Just didn't escape to a hundred paces, this is also an escape!

Mencius said: If your majesty knew this truth, he wouldn't have to expect the people in his own country to increase compared with those in neighboring countries.

If you don't go against the farming season, you can't eat all the food. Fish and turtles won't be eaten up unless they fish in the pond (in ancient times, it was stipulated that meshes less than four inches [now more than two inches and seven minutes] were dense nets, and fishing in the pond was forbidden). If the trees are cut down according to the season (when the vegetation withers, when the growing season ends), the wood is inexhaustible. Food, fish and turtles can't be eaten up, and firewood can't be used up. There is nothing wrong with letting the people feed people and bury the dead. People can't live in poverty, and the dead can't be buried. This is the beginning of kingliness.

By planting mulberry trees next to a five-acre (five acres: more than two cents per acre) residential area, you can put on silk clothes at the age of 50. Livestock raise chickens, pigs, dogs and other poultry and livestock (dolphins: piglets. Don't miss the breeding season, you can eat meat at the age of 70. One hundred acres of arable land, don't delay its production season, so that families of several people won't go hungry. Carefully set up school education, and repeatedly tell the people the truth of filial piety (:school, Shang (Yin) generation called Xu, Zhou Dynasty called Yu), so that white-haired old people don't pick or carry things on the road. Seventy years old, people can still wear clothes and eat meat, and ordinary people can't be hungry or frozen. Never before have they reached such a level, but they can't dominate the world.

Pigs and dogs eat people's food, but (nobles) don't stop them. There are starving people (officials) on the road, and they don't know how to open a 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 someone with a knife and saying,' I didn't kill him, 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.