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If in attacking a city or besieging a town they can capture 8,000 heads or more, it is accounted ample; if in a battle in the open field they take 2,000 heads, it is accounted ample. From the cao officers up to xiao officers, the great general fully rewards the officers in the ranks. He who was formerly gong-shi is promoted to shang-zao; a shang-zao to zan-niao; a zan-niao to bu-geng; a bu-geng to great officer, da-fu. When an officer is raised to the rank of a district commander, hsien-wei, then he is presented with six prisoner-slaves, and provided with 5,000 soldiers and an income of 600 piculs of grain; da-fu are raised to the rank of guo-wei; one who was formerly a da-fu is promoted to gong-da-fu; a gong-da-fu to gong-sheng; a gong-sheng to wu-da-fu, and then receives a tax-paying city of 300 families. A former wu-da-fu is promoted to shu-zhang: a shu-zhang to a zuo-keng; one of the three kengs to a da-liang-zao. In all these cases there is presented a town of 300 families, or the taxes of three hundred families. Where there is a tax-paying town of six hundred families, an office of vice-chancellor is conferred. Those who ride in the company of the great general are all promoted three degrees. He who was formerly assistant chancellor, when he is accounted to have the full merit, is promoted to the actual chancellorship. |
