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 6 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SONSHI.

fighting tower, used and gone; so that 6/10ths of the Government’s income is spent.

Therefore the intelligent general, taking thought, feeds on the enemy: one bale of the enemy’s rice

counts as twenty from our own wagons; one bundle of the enemy’s forage is better than twenty of our own.

Wantonly to kill and destroy the enemy must be forbidden.

They who take the enemy at a disadvantage should be rewarded.

They who are the first to lay their hands on more than ten of the enemy’s chariots, should be encouraged; the enemy’s standard on the chariots exchanged for our own; the captured chariots mixed with our own chariots, and taken into use.

The accompanying warriors must not be abused, but treated well; so that while the enemy is beaten, our side increases in strength.

Now the object of war is victory; not lengthy operations even skilfully conducted.

The good general is the Lord of the peoples lives; the Guardian of the country’s welfare.