As a result, Zoulu became a descriptor for regions of flourishing and prosperous cultures.
[4] There is a quote from Mencius - Liang Hui Wang II, 19 (孟子 - 梁惠王下, 19): 鄒與魯鬨。穆公問曰：「吾有司死者三十三人，而民莫之死也。誅之，則不可勝誅；不誅，則疾視其長上之死而不救，如之何則可也？」 There had been a brush between Zou and Lu, when the duke Mu asked Mencius, saying, 'Of my officers there were killed thirty-three men, and none of the people would die in their defence.
'孟子對曰：「凶年饑歲，君之民老弱轉乎溝壑，壯者散而之四方者，幾千人矣；而君之倉廩實，府庫充，有司莫以告，是上慢而殘下也。曾子曰：『戒之戒之！出乎爾者，反乎爾者也。』夫民今而後得反之也。君無尤焉。君行仁政，斯民親其上、死其長矣。」 Mencius replied, 'In calamitous years and years of famine, the old and weak of your people, who have been found lying in the ditches and water-channels, and the able-bodied who have been scattered about to the four quarters, have amounted to several thousands.
All the while, your granaries, 0 prince, have been stored with grain, and your treasuries and arsenals have been full, and not one of your officers has told you of the distress.
If you will put in practice a benevolent government, this people will love you and all above them, and will die for their officers.