Chapter Forty-Seven: Life, Death, Withering, and Blooming

me to trade with us. Later on, they became increasingly rare, until now, we have gone ten years without contact with any outsiders. The elders say that they might have all been wiped out, and it's ver... scholar of the Legalist school, Han Shen Tu, wrote in his widely circulated work *On Power* that: "When a powerful nation sends a child to wield weapons in a weak nation's marketplace, no one dares t...