Mencius said, “One who relies on force but borrows humanity as a means will rule as a hegemon. A hegemon must possess a large state. But he who relies on virtue to put humanity into practice will rule as a True King, and a True King is not reliant upon his state being large. Tang’s state was a mere seventy miles square and King Wen’s but one hundred. “When one relies on force to make others submit, submission does not come from their hearts; it is merely that their strength was not sufficient. When one relies on virtue to make others submit they feel pleased in the heart’s core to do so, and their submission is sincere, as the seventy disciples submitted to Confucius. It is this the Poetry means when it says: From the West, from the East, From the South, from the North, None thought not to submit.”