Mencius told Qi Xuanwang: "Your minister is like a hand and foot, then he is like a heart." If you treat me like a dog or a horse, then I treat you like a Chinese; If you treat me like dirt, then I treat you like enmity. "

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Mencius told Qi Xuanwang: "The monarch regards his liegeman as his own hands and feet, and then the liegeman will regard the monarch as his own heart;" The monarch regards the liegeman as a dog and horse, and then the liegeman will regard the monarch as an ordinary person; The monarch regards his lieutenants as dirt and dirt, and then his lieutenants will regard the monarch as an enemy. "

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Confucius said, "A monarch makes his ministers be courteous, and a minister is loyal to him", and a monarch is courteous and loyal to him. Zhu Xi said: "Do your best", the monarch does his best, the minister does his best, and the "monarch, minister, father, son and son" do their best. If Confucius talks about the relationship between loyalty and propriety, then Mencius talks about it very vividly and concretely. First, from the front, the king treats the minister like a hand, and then the minister treats the king like a heart, which is dependent on the inside and outside, closely linked and integrated. Next, from the opposite side, the king treats the minister like a dog like a horse, so the minister regards the gentleman as a passerby, meeting strangers coldly, meeting strangers opposite, separating the monarch from the minister, and walking in the opposite direction. What's more, the king regards his officials as dirt, tramples on them at will, and abandons them at will. Then the ministers regard you as robbers and enemies, drawing swords and glaring at each other. In this way, the people will have no peace, the country will have no peace, and the world will have no peace, resulting in a disaster. How can a "gift" and a "loyalty" be born?