Be stern in the council-chamber,
Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the
sovereign. 廊廟 indicates a hall or temple in the Palace. Cf. I.
§ 26. It is not clear if other officers would be present. Hardly
anything can be made of 勵, the reading of the standard text, so I
have adopted Tu Mu’s conjecture 厲, which appears in the _T‘u Shu_.
so that you may control the situation.
Ts‘ao Kung explains 誅 by 治, and Ho Shih by 責成. Another reading
is 謀, and Mei Yao-ch‘ên, adopting this, understands the whole
sentence to mean: Take the strictest precautions to ensure secrecy
in your deliberations. Capt. Calthrop glides rather too smoothly
over the rough places. His translation is: “conduct the business
of the government with vigilance.”