Those who advocate loyalty will respect those who are honest and don't cheat; People who honestly don't cheat, there is no magic to cheat.

Ordinary people interact with each other, and they don't have a lot of money to use, and there is no big power to threaten each other, so they all seek honest people.

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Since the measures to govern the country should be based on the actual situation, Han Fei began to describe the actual situation at that time. Because ordinary people are the main body of social governance, Han Fei first talked about the situation of ordinary people.

Han Fei mentioned that "cloth and clothes touch each other, and there is no wealth to benefit each other and no potential to fear each other." The life of ordinary people is rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. There is no wealth to benefit each other, and there is no power to make each other afraid. They live a normal life. This portrayal of life is the realm of "small country and few people" advocated by Taoism.

This kind of real life pursues "people who don't cheat." Of course, Han Fei's era has entered a relatively mature farming period. Ordinary people are all solar farming, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. They are simple and punctual, and there is no dispute between interests and power, so there is no need to deceive people.

In this state of life, the communication between people is very simple, just respect each other, keep your promises and abide by the rules. Therefore, the governance of the country can be set according to this reality, and it is good to follow the system that has been inherited from history, regardless of what "the rich and the rich complement each other and respect each other."

Because of this, faithful people respect honest people, and the whole society will show a good atmosphere of mutual respect and abiding by agreements. Everyone will be an unfaithful person, and the whole country will keep its promise and abide by the law, so as to realize the world that people pursue!

At the same time, "people who don't bully others don't have the ability to bully others", because there is no bullying in essence, and naturally there is no bullying. In fact, the whole society respects each other and abides by the agreement, and there is no need to bully others in any way.

This is also the ideal state to be achieved by the strategy of governing the country, which is actually determined by the living conditions of ordinary people at that time. Among them, "no wealth benefits each other, no potential fears each other" is also the reason why Confucianism has always wanted to retreat to the Zhou Dynasty.

This state was basically caused by the low social productivity and the lack of redundant social wealth at that time. With the development of society and the improvement of productivity, there will be mutual benefit and "wealth" and "respect for each other as guests". Only at this time will the monarch's ability to govern the country be truly tested.

Throughout the thousands of years of historical changes in China, from the beginning of breaking away from the lifestyle of "small country with few people", the coordinated distribution of social wealth resources and the balanced restriction of bureaucratic rights have become the core issues in the study of governance measures in past dynasties, in which legalist thought and governance system have played an important role.