《孟子》一书中有数处提及助法,如《公孙丑上》云:“耕者助而不税,则天下之民皆悦,而愿为之氓矣。”《滕文公上》云:“夏后氏五十而贡,殷人七十而助,周人百亩而彻,其实皆什一也。彻者,彻也;助者,藉也。龙子曰:‘治地莫善于助,莫不善于贡。’……请野九一而助,国中什一使自赋。”战国时期,各诸侯国的租税已经普遍采取实物形式,孟子却主张实行助法及劳役形式。人们从已经熟悉的“劳役—实物—货币地租”的演进系列出发,是很容易对之作出“落后”、“倒退”甚至“反动”的评价来 There are several references in Mencius to help law, such as “Kung-sun Ugly” cloud: “Farmers help without taxes, the people of the world are Wyatt, and are willing to be rogue.” “Teng Wen Gong Shang Yun” : “Xia Hou’s fifty and tribute, Yin seventy and help, Zhou people hundred acres and thorough, in fact, one thing also .Corner, Toru; help, by also .Long Zi said: Good help, not good at tribute ... ... Please wild nine one to help, one of the country since the endowment. ”During the Warring States period, the vassal state tax has been generally taken in kind, Mencius advocated the implementation of aid and labor forms. From the already familiar series of evolutions of “labor-physical-monetary rent,” it is easy to make an assessment of “backwardness,” “backwardness,” or even “reactionary”