From the perspective of absolute monarchy, the book Shang Jun advocates the rule of law, attaches importance to agricultural warfare, advocates heavy punishment and generous reward, takes enriching Qiang Bing as the top priority, and eliminates wisdom and stupidity as the means, which has its own historical significance. However, the title of this book is Ren Fa, but it is actually Shu Ming. The focus is only on how to keep the envoys from losing power, how to drive them to engage in agricultural wars by weakening the people, and regard knowledge as enemies and wisdom as lice. It seems to advocate the authority of the monarch, but in fact it teaches the monarch to be the enemy of all. Therefore, in medieval China, this book was not only the pillow secret of dictators who advocated Confucianism, but also the object of criticism by scholars of past dynasties.
Shang Jun's books have various styles. There are more than a dozen articles discussed, such as the agricultural war, the start of the game, and planning. , either first comprehensive analysis, or first comprehensive analysis, but also with induction and deduction, echo from beginning to end. Sometimes rhetorical devices such as metaphor, parallelism, contrast and metonymy are used. Lai Min uses the fable of "Qi people have the right to open the East" to enhance the effect and image of reasoning. The explanatory body is Kenling, Jinling and China, which is the interpretation of Qin government orders. The controversial body is Geng Fa, and the central argument is expounded through the dialogue between characters. Sima Qian entered Historical Records. The Biography of Shang Jun (with some changes in the original text) shows Shang Yang's ideas.