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Use when identifying and cultivating undervalued political figures for long-term gain. Follows Lu Buwei's 奇货可居 method: assess investability, provide resources, influence gatekeepers, and secure commitment from promising candidates.

Use when restoring a dismissed official to power or leveraging rival factions for political rehabilitation. Creates urgency by approaching rival powers with the dismissed leader's value, then returns to the original state with evidence of the rival's recruitment attempt to force restoration.

Use when entrusted with dangerous levels of military or political power by a suspicious ruler. Based on Wang Jian's (王翦) strategy — repeatedly requesting personal land, houses, and gardens to signal you seek wealth, not power, thereby reducing the ruler's fear of betrayal.

Use when analyzing rebellion risk or diagnosing why uprisings succeed or fail. Applies the principle 安民可与行义而危民易与为非 to assess popular contentment vs. endangerment using economic, legal, and safety indicators. References Chen She's rebellion.

Use when building popular support or consolidating political power through economic generosity. Implements asymmetric resource distribution — collecting with small measures, distributing with large — to cultivate mass loyalty and clan influence over time.

Use when abolishing the posthumous title system (谥法) to prevent subjects from judging rulers. Establishes sequential numbering from 始皇帝 onward as an alternative naming convention. Abolished by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BCE.

Use when applying disciplined archery in combat or hunting. Prioritizes shot certainty over volume of fire, conserving ammunition and maximizing psychological impact through patience and precise target assessment.

Use when stabilizing commodity prices, preventing merchant manipulation, or implementing the 平准 system. Covers government buy-low/sell-high intervention, 均输 distribution, and salt-iron monopoly policies.

Use when deciding whether to honor a commitment after circumstances change, especially after the recipient's death. Applies Ji Zha's sword-promise principle: internal assent creates moral obligation that transcends death.

Use when evaluating governance quality, assessing leadership effectiveness, or auditing a ruler's conduct. Provides positive and negative indicators covering talent retention, crisis response, wealth distribution, and popular sentiment to diagnose state health.

Use when protecting a vulnerable heir from systematic elimination by powerful enemies. Covers multi-layered deception: concealment, substitute infant decoys, staged betrayal to convince enemies the heir is dead, long-term secret raising, and eventual restoration when political conditions shift.

Use when defending a besieged city with limited forces against a superior enemy. Combines divine legitimacy, psychological manipulation, feigned weakness, and surprise attack (e.g., Tian Dan's fire cattle) to shatter enemy morale.

Use when performing pulse examination (脉诊) to determine organ pathology and prognosis. Covers the three positions (寸关尺), three depths of pressure (浮中沉), eight pulse qualities, and seasonal correlation as practiced by Bian Que and Cang Gong.

Use when standardizing education or controlling historical narratives across a unified empire. Categorizes texts for destruction vs. exemption, establishes enforcement timelines and punishments, and redirects education through officials (以吏为师).

Use when implementing uniform standards across a newly unified empire. Covers weights and measures (衡石丈尺), writing system (书同文字), transportation (车同轨), Five Elements cosmology, and symbolic renaming of rivers and populace.

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Use when commanding infantry-heavy forces against cavalry on flat terrain. Prioritizes speed over siege warfare, bypasses fortified cities, and seizes strategic objectives (armories like Luoyang武库, granaries like Ao) to neutralize cavalry advantages.

Use when organizing a coordinated multi-state military uprising. Based on Wu Wang Pi's Seven States Rebellion mobilization, covers command structure, conscription parameters, allied coordination, reward hierarchies, and financial backing.

Use when handling foreign royals or nobles seeking asylum or refuge. Covers assessment of political status, evaluation of ally potential, and three response tiers: full hospitality with marriage alliance, basic courtesy with safe passage, or diplomatic refusal based on risk calculus.

Use when attracting talented advisors or demonstrating respect for worthy individuals. Follows Zhou Gong's practice of interrupting meals and baths to receive scholars (一沐三握发, 一饭三吐哺) to prevent losing capable people.