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necessary to have many men but good drilled ones.
III. The Country. (Where the encounter may take place) The Country between Shan Chun & Pan Tin is very hilly; were the Barbarians to move, they would run into our ambushes, all could be killed, no trace of them to be left. From henceforth nobody should be allowed to praise the mighty force of the barbarians to frighten the soldiers' hearts. Nobody should speak of the righteousness of the barbarians' slaves.
IV. The Christians. The proselytes of the foreign doctrine who have intercourse with the Barbarians & sold the Country to them should all be killed, and nobody left alive of their families. Do not say that speaking of this is premature. I have now given my plans lest nobody can afterwards say that these things were not discussed beforehand.
Regarding the minutes of the Military plans, these cannot now be made known yet.
R.A.J.