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merit is all mine. Let my parents have his oxen and
sheep. Let them have his storehouses and granaries.
His shield and spear shall be mine. His lute shall be
mine. His bow shall be mine. His two wives I shall
make attend for me to my bed. ’ Xiang then went
away into Shun’s palace, and there was Shun on his
couch playing on his lute. Xiang said, ‘I am coming
simply because I was thinking anxiously about you.’
At the same time, he blushed deeply. Shun said to
him. ‘There are all my officers: —do you undertake
the government of them for me.’ I do not know
whether Shun was ignorant of Xiang’s wishing to
kill him.”

Mencius answered, “How could he be ignorant
of that? But when Xiang was sorrowful, he was
also sorrowful; when Xiang was joyful, he was also
joyful.”

Wan Zhang said, “In that case, then, did not
Shun rejoice hypocritically?”

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