Enough food and enough soldiers

Enough food and enough soldiers

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is Z ú B ī ngz ú sh í, which means sufficient food and armaments. It comes from the draft of Geng Lu · Dai Tian Wan Qing to Ren Xie Biao.

The origin of Idioms

According to the draft of Geng Lu · Dai Tian Wan Qing's gratitude form written by Hu Xu of Song Dynasty, "it is appropriate to think of the army and food when you hold the sword and hold the thunder; to herd horses and cattle, you should talk about the politics of war and farming."

Idiom usage

As a subject or object; of armaments

Examples

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