聖人之用兵也.It is unclear to me what this means. Possibilities include: - Traditional Confucian sage kings. This is what most of the commentators assume: that he is talking about Yao, Yu, Tang, and Wu.
- Daoist versions of sage kings: Not those guys but the real sage kings, who go unnamed.
- The Daoists behind the traditional sage kings. In 1:05, we speculated Zhuangzi was giving an alternate origin story behind Emperor Yao. Something similar may be going on here. That is, you are right about Yao etc. being sages, but you are wrong about what made them sages; not their actions, but their inaction.
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