- The Great Dao of Leading Il-ggoon
- 1 Sahng-jeh-nim said to Hyung-yul, “This verse will be an important guide in becoming a leader under heaven. Study it well.” He recited an old passage:
- 夫用兵之要 在崇禮而重祿
禮崇則義士至 “基恁較ㅮ蠱笛?
- 2 The way to lead soldiers
- 3 is to treat them with respect and pay them well.
- 4 If you treat your soldiers properly,
the righteous will join you.
- 5 Provided with sufficient wealth,
the strong-willed will think lightly of death.
- 故 “幾芮貼櫛? 賞功不踰時
則士卒竝 敵國削
- 6 If you are not stingy with the wise
- 7 and are prompt in rewarding the meritorious,
- 8 soldiers, great and small, will defeat the enemy together.
- (JSD Dojeon 8,52)