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Confucianism -> Liji -> Wang Zhi -> 24

If in a state there was not accumulated (a surplus) sufficient for nine years, its condition was called one of insufficiency;
if there was not enough for six years, one of urgency.
If there was not a surplus sufficient for three years, the state could not continue.
The husbandry of three years
was held to give an overplus of food sufficient for one year;
that of nine years,
an overplus sufficient for three years.
Going through thirty years (in this way),
though there might be bad years, drought, and inundations,
the people would have no lack or be reduced to (eating merely) vegetables,
天子 and then the son of Heaven would every day have full meals and music at them.


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