Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that
there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their
rewards.
These are two difficult sentences, which I have translated in
accordance with Mei Yao-ch‘ên’s paraphrase. We may incontinently
reject Capt. Calthrop’s extraordinary translation of the first:
“Wantonly to kill and destroy the enemy must be forbidden.” Ts‘ao
Kung quotes a jingle current in his day: 軍無財士不來軍無賞士不往. Tu
Mu says: “Rewards are necessary in order to make the soldiers see
the advantage of beating the enemy; thus, when you capture spoils
from the enemy, they must be used as rewards, so that all your men
may have a keen desire to fight, each on his own account.” Chang Yü
takes 利 as the direct object of 取, which is not so good.