廣弘明集 9.136

9.136

Furthermore, Emperor Wu of the Han exhausted the military and wearied the population of the Central Plains with corvée, so that the households under heaven were reduced by more than half. If Laozi is claimed to be Dongfang Shuo, how could he bear not to provide talismans for warding off weapons and abstaining from grain, or formulas for exorcising people and cursing demons, so as to protect the Han state? Watching the rampant disasters like this without any mind to save them—is this not deceitful and absurd?