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[Tu Mu enumerates the following classes as likely to do good

service in this respect: "Worthy men who have been degraded from

office, criminals who have undergone punishment; also, favourite

concubines who are greedy for gold, men who are aggrieved at

being in subordinate positions, or who have been passed over in

the distribution of posts, others who are anxious that their side

should be defeated in order that they may have a chance of

displaying their ability and talents, fickle turncoats who always

want to have a foot in each boat. Officials of these several

kinds," he continues, "should be secretly approached and bound to

one's interests by means of rich presents.