Six Secret Teachings, Martial Teaching — Opening by According with All under Heaven六韜 順啟
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 · 174 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 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.
1Only when you cover All under Heaven can you hold All under Heaven
King Wen asked Taigong, "What must a man be like to govern all under Heaven?" Taigong said, "When his greatness covers all under Heaven, then he can hold all under Heaven. When his good faith covers all under Heaven, then he can bind all under Heaven. When his benevolence covers all under Heaven, then he can cherish all under Heaven. When his kindness covers all under Heaven, then he can keep all under Heaven safe. When his power covers all under Heaven, then he can keep from losing all under Heaven. If he acts and does not doubt, the turning of Heaven cannot move him and the changing of affairs cannot shift him. When these six are complete, then he can carry on the government of all under Heaven. So all under Heaven opens itself to the man who benefits it, and shuts itself against the man who harms it. All under Heaven counts as virtue the man who gives it life, and counts as a robber the man who kills it. All under Heaven lets through the man who lets it through, and counts as an enemy the man who straitens it. All under Heaven leans upon the man who makes it safe, and counts as a calamity the man who puts it in danger. All under Heaven is not the realm of one man. Only the man who has the Way dwells in it."