Answer:
"The weather is not as good as the geographical place, the geographical place is not as good as people" from Zhuangzi's "a good way to help much, a bad way to help little."
Excerpts:
The weather is not as good as the geographical place, and the geographical place is not as good as the people. Three miles of the city, seven miles of the Guo, the ring and attack and defeat. If the husband attacks it, the time will come, but the time is not as good as the geographical place.
Translation:
The weather and seasons conducive to war are not as good as the geographical situation conducive to war, and the geographical situation conducive to war is not as good as the popular will and internal unity in war. For a small town of three miles in a radius, only the outer city of seven miles in a radius surrounded it on all sides and attacked it, but could not win. If you besiege a city on all sides, you will certainly get the weather and the season conducive to battle, but you cannot win. The season is not as good as the geographical situation conducive to battle.
Text interpretation
Mencius put forward three concepts: the weather, the geographical location, and the people, and compared these three, layer by layer. In the first paragraph, the author puts forward the central argument by comparing weather, geographical conditions and people. The use of two "inferior" emphasizes the importance of "man and people" and reflects the "benevolent government" said by Mencius.
The comparison between the three, in essence, focuses on the comparison between the former and the latter, emphasizing that various objective factors and many factors in the war can not compare with the subjective conditions and "people" factors, and it is people rather than things that determine the outcome of the war.