"If you are righteous, you will get many help, but if you are unjust, you will have few." comes from "Mencius Gongsun Chou", which means that if you stand on the side of justice and benevolence, you will get support and help from the majority of people; if you violate morality and righteousness, you will inevitably be isolated.

We usually use the phrase "the right person will get a lot of help, but the unjust person will get little help" to express: those who are in line with justice will receive support and help from many aspects, while those who violate justice will be isolated and helpless. Here, we understand "Tao" as "justice". So, what is "justice"? "Modern Chinese Dictionary" says: "Justice" refers to "just principles that are beneficial to the people." This is a modern understanding, but it is consistent with its original meaning.

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"If you gain the right, you will get many help, but if you lose the right, there will be little help" is a famous assertion of Mencius. "Mencius Gongsun Chou Xia" said: "Those who have gained the Tao will have many help, and those who have lost the Tao will have little help. When few help come, they will be surrounded by relatives; when many help come, the world will obey them. If the world obeys, attack the relatives. Therefore, if a gentleman does not fight, he will win. "The word "pan" here is connected with "rebellion", which means betrayal and opposition. This passage means that for those who have attained the Dao, there will be many people who will help them; for those who have lost the Dao, there will be fewer people who will help them. When the number of people he helps is extremely small, even his relatives will oppose him; when the number of people he helps is extremely large, everyone in the world will obey him. Use the power that the whole world obeys to attack those who even oppose your relatives. If you don't fight, you will win in one battle.

When Mencius talks about "the people who gain the Tao" and the "people who lose the Tao" here, they do not refer to ordinary individuals, but to the king of a country. The king of a country is not only the commander-in-chief of war, but also the political leader. By discussing the issue of victory or defeat in war, Mencius introduced the view that "the right people will get more help, but the wrong people will get less help." However, in Mencius' view, "people's support" is of fundamental significance to war, and it is equally important to politics. Mencius said: "To win the world, there is a way: to win its people, this is how you win the world; to win its people, there is a way: to win their hearts, this is how you win the people." This means that to win the world, you must first win the people, and to win the people, you must first win the people's hearts. . The so-called "winning the people" means getting the support, support and help of the people. The so-called "won the world" refers to "ruling the world" through the implementation of benevolent government, rather than relying solely on force to compete for the world. Benevolent government is to convince people with virtue, so that they will be sincerely convinced and automatically come to join you; but to convince people with force, it cannot convince people's hearts. According to Mencius, to gain the right way for the world is to implement benevolent government. Because benevolent government is government that "gets people's hearts".