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Generally, operations of war involve one-thousand swift chariots, one-thousand heavy chariots and one-hundred-thousand mailed troops with the transportation of provisions for them over a thousand li. Thus the expenditure at home and in the field, the stipends for the entertainment of state guests and diplomatic envoys, the cost of materials such as glue and lacquer and the expense for care and maintenance of chariots and armour, will amount to one-thousand pieces of gold a day. An army of one-hundred-thousand men can be raised only when this money is in hand. |
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The point that funds must be available before the attack is launched is emphasized in another translation:
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Only when you have in hand one thousand pieces of gold for each day can the hundred thousand troops be mobilized.
Roger Ames |
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