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Speaker 1: The Art of War by Swindsor Chapter thirteen, The Use
Speaker 1: of Spies. One Swinzer said, raising a host of one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy
Speaker 1: laws on the people and a drain on the resources
Speaker 1: of the state. The daily expenditure will amount to a
Speaker 1: thousand ounces of silver. There will be commotion at home
Speaker 1: and abroad, and men will drop down exhausted on the
Speaker 1: high As many as seven hundred thousand families will be
Speaker 1: impeded in their labor. Two hostile armies may face each
Speaker 1: other for years, striving for the victory, which is decided
Speaker 1: in a single day. This being so to remain in
Speaker 1: ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the
Speaker 1: outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honest and
Speaker 1: emoluments is the height of inhumanity. Three. One who acts
Speaker 1: thus is no leader of men, no present help to
Speaker 1: his sovereign, no master of victory. Four. Thus, what enables
Speaker 1: the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and
Speaker 1: conquer and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men
Speaker 1: is four knowledge. Five. Now this four knowledge cannot be
Speaker 1: elicited from spirits. It cannot be obtained inductively from experience,
Speaker 1: nor by any deductive calculation. Six. Knowledge of the enemy's
Speaker 1: dispositions can only be obtained from other men. Seven. Hence
Speaker 1: the use of spies, of whom there are five classes.
Speaker 1: One local spies, two inward spies, three converted spies, four
Speaker 1: doomed spies, five surviving spies. Eight. When these five kinds
Speaker 1: of spy are all at work, none can discover the
Speaker 1: secret system. This is called divine manipulation of the threats.
Speaker 1: It is the sovereign's most precious faculty. Nine. Having local
Speaker 1: spies means employing the services of the inhabitants of a district. Ten,
Speaker 1: Having inward spies, making use of officials of the enemy.
Speaker 1: Eleven having converted spies, getting hold of the enemy's spies
Speaker 1: and using them for our own purposes. Twelve having doomed
Speaker 1: spies doing certain things openly for purposes of deception, and
Speaker 1: allowing our spies to know of them and report them
Speaker 1: to the enemy. Surviving spies. Finally, are those who bring
Speaker 1: back news from the enemy's camp. Fourteen. Hence it is
Speaker 1: that which none in the whole army are more intimate
Speaker 1: relations to be maintained than with spies. None should be
Speaker 1: more liberally rewarded. In no other business should greater secrecy
Speaker 1: be preserved. Fifteen. Spies cannot be usefully employed without a
Speaker 1: certain intuitive sagacity. Sixteen. They cannot be properly managed without
Speaker 1: benevolence and straightforwardness Seventeen. Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one
Speaker 1: cannot make certain of the truth of the reports. Eighteen
Speaker 1: Be subtle, Be subtle, and use your spies for every
Speaker 1: kind of business. Nineteen. If a secret piece of news
Speaker 1: is devulged by a spy before the time is ripe,
Speaker 1: he must be put to death, together with the men
Speaker 1: to whom the secret was told. Twenty. Whether the object
Speaker 1: be to crush an army, to storm a city, or
Speaker 1: to assassinate an individual, it is always necessary to begin
Speaker 1: by finding out the names of the attendants, the aid
Speaker 1: to come, and door keepers and sentries of the general
Speaker 1: in command. Our spies must be commissioned to ascertain these.
Speaker 1: Twenty One. The enemy's spy is who have come to
Speaker 1: spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes,
Speaker 1: led away, and comfortably housed. Thus they will become converted
Speaker 1: spies and available for our service. Twenty two. It is
Speaker 1: through the information brought by the converted spy that we
Speaker 1: are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies.
Speaker 1: Twenty three. It is owing to his information again, that
Speaker 1: we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings
Speaker 1: to the enemy twenty four. Lastly, it is by his
Speaker 1: information that the surviving spy can be used on appointed
Speaker 1: occasions twenty five. The end and aim of spying in
Speaker 1: all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy, and
Speaker 1: this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance
Speaker 1: from the converted spies. Hence, it is essential that the
Speaker 1: converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality. Twenty six
Speaker 1: of old, the rise of the Yin dynasty was due
Speaker 1: to i Chi, who had served under the Shwar. Likewise,
Speaker 1: the rise of the Jiaou dynasty was due to lu Yah,
Speaker 1: who had served under the Yin twenty seven. Hence, it
Speaker 1: is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who
Speaker 1: will use the highest influence of the army for purposes
Speaker 1: of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. Spies are
Speaker 1: a most important element in water, because on them depends
Speaker 1: an army's ability to move. End of Chapter thirteen, End
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