5. "If you, starting from the point of profit, offer your persuasive counsels to the kings of Ts＇in and Ts＇oo,and if those kings are pleased with the consideration of profit so as to stop the movements of their armies, then all belonging to those armies will rejoice in the cessation of war, and find their pleasure in the pursuit of profit. Ministers will serve their sovereign for the profit of which they cherish the thought; sons will serve their fathers, and younger brothers will serve their elder brothers, from the same consideration:--and the issue will be, that, abandoning benevolence and righteousness,