Excerpt from the original:
Mr. Guo Kun said to him: "Emperor and teacher, monarch and friend, bully and minister, country and minister. Learn from the north and learn from yourself. First hurry and then rest, first ask and then hey, and then who you are. People follow their own trends and follow their own. According to the staff, Monsoon ignored these instructions and the servants arrived. If you hit hard, you are a slave. This ancient costume leads to The Scholars. Wang Chengbo chooses the sage of the country, and under his door, the world is famous for its sages, and the things in the world will inevitably become awkward. "
Translation:
Mr. Guo Kun replied: "The monarch who achieved imperial career took the sage as his teacher, the monarch who achieved Wang Ye took the sage as his friend, the monarch who achieved hegemony took the sage as his minister, and the dying monarch took the sage as his servant. If you can serve Feng Xian humbly and receive instruction as a subordinate, people who are a hundred times stronger than yourself will come. Study early, rest late, consult others first, and then meditate. People who can surpass themselves ten times will come.
What others do, they follow suit, and then people who can compete with themselves will come; If you rely on several cases and command others with a crutch, the people who are driven to run errands will come; If you indulge your arrogance, behave rudely, yell, curse you, yell at you, then only slaves and prisoners will come. This is the way to practice kingliness and attract talents in past dynasties. When the sages of the world hear the king's move, they will surely get to Yan State. "
Introduction to the work:
The Warring States Policy is a famous historical work in ancient China. It is a national history book (Mandarin is the first one), also known as national policy. It is the work of lobbyists in the Warring States period.
It mainly records the struggle between strategists and counselors during the Warring States period. This book was written in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Western Zhou Dynasty, Qin State, Qi State, Chu State, Zhao State, Wei State, South Korea, Yan State, Song State, Wei State and Zhongshan State. Divided into 12 strategy, 33 volumes, 497 articles, about120,000 words. There is a recorded history, from 490 BC when Zhi Bo destroyed Fan to 22 1 BC when Gao Jianli attacked Qin Shihuang. It is one of the most accomplished and influential historical prose works in the pre-Qin period.