这个故事出自司马迁《史记·商君列传》：「令既具，未布，恐民之不信，已乃立三丈之木于国都市南门，募民有能徙置北门者予十金。」原文用的词是「徙木」，后人常说「徙木立信」或「立木为信」。商鞅变法大约开始于公元前356年。

The story comes from the biography of Lord Shang in the Records of the Grand Historian: the new laws were ready but not yet announced, and fearing the people would not believe them, Shang Yang set up a log three zhang long at the south gate of the market in the capital and offered ten pieces of gold to anyone who would move it to the north gate. The original text speaks of moving the log, and later people called it moving a log to build trust. His reforms began around 356 BC.

起初百姓觉得奇怪，没人敢动，商鞅又把赏金加到五十金。有一个人把木头搬了过去，立刻得到了五十金，《史记》说这是「以明不欺」，用来表明官府说话算数。这次变法让秦国逐渐强大，为后来统一六国打下了基础。

At first people thought it strange and no one dared to move it, so Shang Yang raised the reward to fifty pieces of gold. One man carried the log over and was immediately given the fifty pieces, which the Records of the Grand Historian says was to show that the government did not deceive. These reforms made Qin steadily stronger and laid the foundation for its later unification of China.

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