不惩戒不足以平民怨
“I must punish you, or I can't calm them!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“No one died, but it was still wildly wrong!”
不惩戒 不足以平民怨
“I must punish you, or I can't calm them!”
好吧 就做回你的县主吧
“Alright. You may be the County Princess once more.”
“We have no choice but to punish her publicly to keep the commoners from revolting.”
Traditional Chinese statecraft emphasized that rulers must appease the anger of the populace (minyuan) to preserve legitimacy and social order, even if it meant penalizing nobility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
appease public anger; quell civil grievances
A formal political idiom used when deciding punitive actions to maintain state stability.
not sufficient to; inadequate to
A formal conjunction pattern used to argue that a given measure falls short of accomplishing a required standard.