 This said, the Book of Lord Shang does speak at times of “teaching” or “indoctrination” (jiao 教). Yet normally, this term refers not to imposition of a new set of values, but rather to the internalization of the government’s regulations, which would allow the people to comply with the government’s requirements without the need in coercion (cf. Sanft 2014). In a major discussion of jiao, the text says: