舜有臣五人而天下治。武王曰：“予有乱臣十人。”孔子曰：“才难，不其然乎？唐、虞之际，于斯为盛，有妇人焉，九人而已。三分天下有其二，以服事殷。周之德，其可谓至德也已矣。”
1Shun had five ministers, and the empire was well-governed.
2King Wu said, 'I have ten able ministers.'
3Confucius said, 'Is not the saying that talents are difficult to find, true? Only when the dynasties of T'ang and Yu met, were they more abundant than in this of Chau, yet there was a woman among them. The able ministers were no more than nine men.
4'King Wan possessed two of the three parts of the empire, and with those he served the dynasty of Yin. The virtue of the house of Chau may be said to have reached the highest point indeed.'