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Six Secret Teachings, Civil Teaching — Reward and Punishment六韜 賞罰

Wujing Qishu (The Seven Military Classics) — the six besides the Sunzi 武經七書 · Ascribed to Jiang Taigong · ascribed to Huang Shigong · Wei Liao · Wu Qi · Sima Rangju · Li Jing · Warring States to Tang (4th century BC to 7th century AD) · 1 passages · 82 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Wujing Qishu (The Seven Military Classics) — the six besides the Sunzi Six Secret Teachings The six that remain when the Art of War of Sunzi is taken out of the seven military books the Song set as the texts for examining military officers. The Six Secret Teachings is sixty chapters of questions and answers in which King Wen and King Wu ask Taigong Wang, running from the governing of a state to chariots, cavalry, battle in the open and the crossing of water; the Three Strategies is three short books said to have been given to Zhang Liang by Huang Shigong; the Wei Liaozi is twenty-four chapters setting down in detail the military orders and the squads of five and ten around the time of Qin; the Wuzi is six chapters of Wu Qi's answers to Marquis Wu of Wei; the Methods of the Sima is five chapters handing down the military rites of before the Spring and Autumn period; and Questions and Replies with Li Weigong is three books in which Taizong of Tang and Li Jing go back and forth over the unorthodox and the orthodox, the empty and the full, the frontier peoples and the Han, and attack and defense. "Arms are an instrument of ill omen," "bring the enemy to you and do not be brought to him," and "a thousand chapters and ten thousand phrases do not go beyond that one phrase" all come from here. The remaining six streams of the military school, read after the Art of War, are gathered in one place.

1Let reward be trusted, and punishment be certain

文王問太公曰:「賞所以存勸,罰所以示懲。吾欲賞一以勸百,罰一以懲眾,為之奈何?」太公曰:「凡用賞者貴信,用罰者貴必。賞信罰必於耳目之所聞見,則不聞見者莫不陰化矣。夫誠,暢於天地,通於神明,而況於人乎。」

King Wen asked Taigong, "Reward is there to keep men encouraged, and punishment is there to show a warning. I wish to reward one man and so encourage a hundred, and to punish one man and so warn the multitude. How is it to be done?" Taigong said, "In using reward, what is prized is that it be trusted. In using punishment, what is prized is that it be certain. When reward is trusted and punishment is certain in what the ear hears and the eye sees, then even those who have not heard or seen are every one of them quietly changed. Sincerity reaches through Heaven and earth and passes through to the spirits. How much more, then, to men?"