(2) King Xuan of Qi asked: "King Wen's garden is seventy miles square. Is there such a thing?" Mencius said to him: "There is such a thing in the legend." Mencius replied: "There is such a record in the literature." He said: "How big is it?" King Xuan asked: "Is it so big?" He said: "The people still have it. "I think it's small." Mencius said, "The people still think it's small." He said, "My garden is forty miles square, but the people think it's big." King Xuan said, "My garden is forty miles square, and the people think it's small." Why do you still think it's so big?" He said, "King Wen's territory is only seventy miles away, so far can those who eat grass and pheasants and rabbits go there. It's the same as the people. The people think it's small. Isn't it appropriate for me to come here? I asked about the great ban in the country before I dared to enter. I heard that there was a limit of forty miles in the Jiao Pass. Anyone who killed the elk would be guilty of murder. Then the forty miles was a trap in the country, and the people thought it was too big. Is that appropriate?" Mencius said: "King Wen's garden is seventy miles square. Those who cut grass and chop wood can go there, and those who hunt birds and animals can go there. It is for the enjoyment of the common people. The common people think it is too small. Is it natural? When I first arrived at the border of Qi, I asked about the important prohibitions of Qi before I dared to enter. I heard that there was a garden forty miles square in the suburbs of the capital. Killing the elk in it was like committing a crime. It's like setting up a forty-mile-square trap in the country. Isn't it right that the people think it's too big?

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