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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Outer Chapters -> Tian Zi-fang -> 8.3

(The king) then met the old man of Zang, and committed the government to him.
The statutes and laws were not changed by him;
not a one-sided order (of his own) was issued;
文王 but when the king made a survey of the kingdom after three years,
he found that the officers had destroyed the plantations (which harboured banditti), and dispersed their occupiers,
that the superintendents of the official departments did not plume themselves on their successes,
and that no unusual grain measures were allowed within the different states.
When the officers had destroyed the dangerous plantations and dispersed their occupants,
the highest value was set on the common interests;
when the chiefs of departments did not plume themselves on their successes,
the highest value was set on the common business;
when unusual grain measures did not enter the different states,
諸侯 the different princes had no jealousies.
文王 On this King Wen made the old man his Grand Preceptor,
and asked him, with his own face to the north,
天下?」 whether his government might be extended to all the kingdom.
The old man looked perplexed and gave no reply,
but with aimless look took his leave.
In the morning he had issued his orders, and at night he had gone his way;
nor was he heard of again all his life.


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