Pay for your work

Pay for your work

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is l á OSH ī m í Xi ǎ ng, which means to pay for the troops in vain. It comes from the petition of inviting soldiers after collecting Hedong.

Idiom explanation

Refers to the futile forces, empty expenses and military pay.

The origin of Idioms

Tang Luzhi's "request for soldiers after collecting Hedong": long time and long years, laboring and wasting wealth.

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object. Because the military supplies are hard to come by, the emperor is anxious to get rid of the siege of Jinzhou, so as not to waste his teachers and pay. Yao xueyin's Li Zicheng Volume 3 Chapter 15