Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
- The TTC isn't done telling rulers how to rule.
- It warns that the people starve when a ruler overtaxes them.
- When a ruler is too forceful and controls every little thing, the people eventually become hard to control.
- The people will rebel if the ruler lives a fancy life at their expense.
- If the people's lives are awful, they won't care if they die, so there's no reason they won't violently rebel against their corrupt ruler.