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So that both, not cloth. Fear of people who do not believe the letter, is the thirty feet of wood in the city south gate, raised the people have to move the north gate, to ten gold. People blame, Mo Gan migration. Fu said: "to migrants, to fifty gold." One person to migrate, no matter to fifty gold, Ordered to order.
In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, Shang Yang 's reform of the law was ready, not yet announced, worried that the people did not believe in themselves, so in the capital of the south gate of the city put up a thirty feet high wood, To the north gate of the people tours twelve silver. People are surprised by this, afraid to move. And said that "people who can move the wood to enjoy fifty-two silver" a man moved the wood, gave him fifty silver, Shang Yang this move, in the hearts of the people to establish a prestige, and Shang Yang's next law is very Fast in Qin country to promote the open. The new law makes Qin gradually strong, Qin unified China, the achievements of the king domineering.
Do not know how the implementation of the new law can be how to effect, so decided to engage in a popular law propaganda, which has a famous story of the door stand.
Shang Yang in the capital of the south gate of the city set up a long thirty feet of wood, ordered that someone can take it to the north gate, to reward ten gold. - At that time, "gold" refers to the copper, tours ten gold is to say ten pounds of copper.
10 pounds of copper is how much money? Until the Han Dynasty, your family has ten pounds of copper, you are enough for a middle class. [1]
Things are too simple, very rich bounty, but let the crowd feel very strange, no one hands to move. Shang Yang then said: "can take the past, reward fifty gold!"
This is very natural people will have such a lottery to buy the psychological: "that is, you take me to open rinse, I am nothing more than that effort in vain, if it is true?" So there is a man holding the wood to the north gate, Immediately received a fifty gold reward.
This is under the Qin people understand, Shang Yang is really talking to speak. So Shang Yang was ordered to enact the decree.
