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The law must bind its author too

This lesson plays out across 1 chapter of the chronicle. Read where it was learned — and what it cost.

• The Reformer and the Ambush
  Warring States · 368 – 321 BC

  Forty-eight years that turn the age. King Wei of Qi finds his ministers, Shang Yang turns Qin into a knife, Sun Bin breaks Wei twice, and Su Qin ties six states together with a sentence.