Wei Zhi said seriously: "I heard that if you exhaust your resources to fish, it's not that you can't get fish, but that there will be no fish next year;" Burning forest for hunting is not that you can't catch wild animals, but that there are no wild animals to play next year. If more than two men are recruited into the army, what supplies will the corvee rely on? Besides, in recent years, the national guard has been unable to attack and fight. Where is it because there are few people? All because of unfair treatment, they lost their fighting spirit. It is to recruit more soldiers and let them all do odd jobs. Although there are many people, it is useless after all. If we carefully select strong adult men and treat them with courtesy, everyone will be a hundred times braver. Why do we have to have more soldiers? Your majesty has always said that when I am a monarch, I treat people with sincerity, so that the officials and the people will not be hypocritical. However, since your majesty ascended the throne, he has only done three major things, all of which are broken promises and broken promises. How can you win people's trust? "
Emperor Taizong asked in surprise, "What do you mean by breaking your word?"
Wei Zhi described in detail several important events that broke the trust of the people since Emperor Taizong ascended the throne four months ago, including tax reduction and exemption inside and outside the customs, and repeated corvee letters, which made Emperor Taizong tongue-tied and had to come to his senses and said, "... I don't understand people's feelings after hearing you say that the country has broken its promise today. I have never seriously considered it, and my mistakes are not small. How can we manage the country well when things are handled so badly? " So Taizong withdrew his mandate and stopped recruiting China men to join the army, and praised Wei's sentiment from the aspects of daring to speak out, being good at training and observing people's feelings