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Mohism -> Mozi -> Book 8 -> On Ghosts III -> 18

Not only is this so.
Anciently, King Zhou of Yin
天子was also an emperor in honour
天下 and possessed the whole empire in wealth.
He cursed Heaven and blasphemed against the spirits above
天下 and destroyed the multitudes below.
He exposed the aged
and murdered the children,
tortured the innocent,
and opened a pregnant woman.
The common people and the widows and the widowers
cried aloud, but were not heard.
使武王Thereupon Heaven commissioned King Wu to carry out the judicious punishment.
武王With a hundred selected chariots and four hundred warriors King Wu
appointed his officials and reviewed his forces.
He battled the armies of Yin in the Wilderness of Mu.
費中惡來 He captured Fei Zhong and E Lai,
and the multitude deserted and ran away.
武王 King Wu rushed into the palace.
He executed Zhou and hung him on a red ring
with his crimes published on a white flag,
天下諸侯 to punish him for the feudal lords in the empire.
Now King Zhou of Yin
天子was an emperor in honour
天下 and possessed the whole empire in wealth.
費中惡來崇侯虎He had men of such daring and strength as Fei Zhong, E Lai, and Duke Hu of Zhong, who could kill a man at the move of a finger;
and the number of those killed amounted to a million,
and they were thrown into the lakes and mountains.
Yet with all these Zhou could not evade the punishment from the ghosts and spirits.
This is why I say even wealth and numbers, daring and strength, strong armour and sharp weapons cannot frustrate the punishment from ghosts and spirits.
:『』。Moreover, Qin Ai has said: "No virtue is too small, no extermination of a lineage is too big."
This is to say, in distribution of rewards by ghosts and spirits
no man is too insignificant to be rewarded for his virtue.
And in the meting out of punishment by ghosts and spirits
」。 no man is too great to be punished.


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