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Who put forward the idea of respecting the people and the army?
Mencius suggested that the people are more valuable than the monarch. It means that from the standpoint of all countries, the people are the foundation and the foundation, and the people are more important than the king.

People-oriented is the core of Mencius' theory of benevolent governance, which has a great influence on later thinkers in China. "The people regard Ming Jun" and "The emperor is the son of heaven because of the Qiu people", that is, the emperor is a man who won the hearts of the people all over the world, which is both an inspiration and a warning to the vassal states at that time.

Introduction of Mencius.

Based on the experience of the Warring States period, Mencius summed up the laws governing the rise and fall of chaos in various countries and put forward a famous proposition rich in the essence of democracy: "The people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light." People think that how to treat people is extremely important to the rise and fall of a country. Mencius attached great importance to the opposition between people's hearts, and repeatedly expounded through a large number of historical examples that this is a key issue related to winning or losing in the world.