If a sovereign follows not the right way, nor has his mind bent on benevolence, to seek to enrich him is to enrich a K?ě.
2. "Or they will say, 'We can for our sovereign form alliances with other states, so that our battles must be successful.' Such persons are now-a-days called 'good ministers,' but anciently they were called 'robbers of the people.' If a sovereign follows not the right way,nor has his mind directed to benevolence, to seek to enrich him is to enrich a K?ě.