A destroyer of the people would not have been tolerated in the times of Yaou and Shun.
3. "Though by a single battle you should subdue Ts＇e, and get possession of Nan-yang, the thing ought not to be done."
4. Shan changed countenance, and said in displeasure, "This is what I, K?-Le, do not understand."
5. Mencius said, "I will lay the case plainly before you. The territory appropriated to the emperor is one thousand li square. Without a thousand li, he would not have sufficient for his entertainment of the princes.The territory appropriated to a Hau is one hundred li square. Without one hundred li, he would not have sufficient wherewith to observe the statutes kept in his ancestral temple.