This Han Feizi‑Chapter 38.8 challenges Guanzi’s call for full‑open royal speech. It distinguishes public, proclaimed fa (law) from secret inner shu (ruler’s technique), arguing law should be widely known while state‑controlling method stays concealed.
Mencius distinguishes royal kinsmen ministers from unrelated ones. Kinsmen may replace a repeatedly unrepentant ruler after remonstrance, while outsider ministers resign if their earnest advice fails, stressing different political duties tied to blood bonds.
One very hot morning, he was playing with a group of monkeys under the shade of some pine trees to escape the heat. So, after the monkeys had frolicked for a while, they went to bathe in the mountain stream.