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Jie Cai (Rob Wealth): Also Support. The Question Is What It Competes For

Jie Cai also supports. It is the same row as Bi Jian. Do not split them into one good and one bad. For a Jia day master, Jie Cai is Yi: still wood, opposite yin-yang. It can still support the day master. The difference is that it is not another you. It is the one in the same kind that faces the other way.

When the day master is weak, Jie Cai is still help. What you lack is wood's force. When Yi arrives, count it as help first, not as theft. When the day master is strong, that opposite wood easily becomes a contest: the same wealth, the same decision, and both sides think it should be theirs. The "rob" in the name describes that contest. It does not rule that someone will take your things.

Ask first whether the day master still needs support. If it does, Jie Cai is support, same as Bi Jian. If it does not, then ask what it is competing for. Do not let the three characters override strong or weak.

Only Yi against Jia is Jie Cai. If your day master is not Jia, do not call every different character Jie Cai. Match the element first, then yin-yang. Only then ask whether the day master still needs support. If it does not match, it is a different god.

Source: the chapter on Jie Cai in *Ziping Zhenquan*. This is Ichinen's own reading.