Six Secret Teachings, Dragon Teaching — The General's Awe六韜 將威
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 · 111 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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.
King Wu asked, "By what does a general make his awe? By what does he make his clearness? By what does he make his prohibitions stop men and his commands be carried out?" Taigong said, "A general makes his awe by putting the great to death, makes his clearness by rewarding the small, and makes his prohibitions stop men and his commands be carried out by looking closely to punishment. So if killing one man will make the three armies tremble, kill him. If rewarding one man will make ten thousand glad, reward him. In killing, it is the great man who counts. In rewarding, it is the small man who counts. When the killing reaches a high and heavy minister in a place of power, punishment has gone up to the very top. When the reward reaches the boy who feeds the oxen, the man who washes the horses, and the crowd who tend the stable, reward has gone down through all below. Punishment going up to the very top and reward going down through all below is how the general's awe is carried out."