Use when building popular support or consolidating political power through economic generosity. Implements asymmetric resource distribution — collecting with small measures, distributing with large — to cultivate mass loyalty and clan influence over time.
A method for gaining popular support through asymmetric economic policies that benefit the populace.
This strategy involves using different measures for collecting and distributing resources to build goodwill among the people, creating a foundation for political power.
Implement asymmetric measurement system
Maintain consistency over time
Avoid official prohibition
Build clan strength
田釐子乞 (Tian Xi Zi Qi) used this method in Qi state: collected taxes using small measures, distributed grain using large measures. The people sang praises and eventually the Tian family gained the throne.