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In the middle of the Warring States Period, there was a monarch named Hui Liang. In order to expand the territory and accumulate wealth, he thought of many ways to drive the people to the battlefield to fight for him.

One day, he asked Mencius, "I did my best for my country!" " If the year in Hanoi is not good, I will move the victims in Hanoi to Hedong and transport the grain from Hedong to Hanoi. When there was a famine in Hedong, I also tried to help the disaster. Look at the kings of neighboring countries. No one has done it like me. However, the people of neighboring countries have not fled in large numbers, and the number of people in China has not increased significantly. What is the reason? "

Mencius replied, "Your Majesty likes to fight, so I will take this as an example. On the battlefield, when the drums rang, the soldiers of both sides were knife-to-knife and gun-to-gun. The defeated side, disarming, dragging a knife and gun, fled quickly.

Life. One man escaped a hundred steps, and the other man escaped fifty steps. At this time, if people who run fifty paces laugh at those who run a hundred paces, wouldn't you say so? "

Liang said, "of course not. Even if he didn't escape to a hundred paces, he escaped! "

Mencius said, "since your majesty understands this truth, how can you hope that your own people are more than those of neighboring countries?"

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Escaped 50 steps and escaped 100 steps. Although there are differences in quantity, they are essentially the same-both are escapes. Although King Hui of Liang was a little kind to the people, he waged war and oppressed the people, and there was no essential difference between him and tyrants in other countries. This fable tells us that we should look at the essence of things and not be confused by superficial phenomena. The idiom "pot calling the kettle black" is extracted from this fable.