《法言》 / Fayan
《法言》 / Fayan enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·周纪》56丨 瞧瞧两千多年前啥是大丈夫 as the 扬雄 text used to judge 张仪 and 苏秦 after the episode has introduced 孟子 / Mencius’s 大丈夫标准.
The cited passage asks whether the arts of Zhang Yi and Su Qin, associated with 鬼谷子, should be approved because they may have made the realm more settled for a time. Yang Xiong’s answer is negative: the episode presents him as calling the method deceptive and incompatible with the moral learning expected of a gentleman.
The text also supplies the episode’s contrast between 子贡 / 端木赐 and the zonghengjia pair. Similar diplomatic movement can receive different moral judgments when its purpose differs: Zigong is framed as preventing disorder and saving his state, while Zhang Yi and Su Qin are framed as chasing wealth and rank. In this wiki, Fayan therefore anchors 动机导向的才干评价 beside the older 才德之分 branch.