The people of Qi have good hunters. The people of Qi have good hunters. If it takes a long time to catch animals, they will be ashamed of their families.

There was a man in the state of Qi who loved hunting. He spent a long time without hunting any wild beasts. I feel ashamed of my family at home, and I feel ashamed of my neighbors in the countryside outside. He thought that the reason why he could not catch prey was because the dogs were not good. He wanted to get a good dog, but his family was poor and had no money to buy a dog. Others said to him: "You should work hard in the fields." The hunter said: "Why?" Others did not say. The hunter thought to himself, does he want me to focus on plowing the fields, and then buy a good dog? So he went home and worked hard to plow the fields. If he worked hard to plow the fields, his family would be rich. When his family was rich, he would have money to buy good dogs. If he had good dogs, he would often hunt down wild beasts. The harvest from farming and hunting often exceeds that of others. This is true not just of hunting, but of many things.

This fable shows that things are interconnected and all factors must be taken into consideration when doing things. When doing anything, don't act recklessly, consider the interconnection between things, find out the key points, and then find ways to solve them. Once the key issues are solved, things can be done well. If you just look at the problem in isolation without considering the crux of the problem, you will not be able to fundamentally solve the problem.