The article, ”Cao Mo's Tactics,” inscribed on bamboo slips of the Shanghai Museum, deals first with politics and then with military affaires. The portion that dwells on military affairs has little or nothing to do with professional knowledge of military arts, technique or stratagem. Rather, it examines more the leadership and ways of resuming battles. It moreover places its emphases more on reward than on punishment, diametrically different from the military classics by pre-Chin authors, who were interested in the principles of leadership. This may result from the king of Lu, who wished to teach how to wage war rather than how to investigate a professional work on military sciences.