I will also give you additional information on the subject. Making peace, fighting, marching against the enemy, waiting (for better opportunities), seeking shelter (by resorting to a fortress or a powerful king) and duplicity - these are the six expedients. Finding out means to begin an undertaking, having at command an abundance of men and stores, the proper division (affixing) of time and place, providing against accidents, and the final attainment of the desired object - these are the five parts of (the results to be attained by) counsel. Conciliation (the use of pacific means), giving gifts, discord (sowing seeds of dissension) and chastisement - these are the four means. The power arising from the king's personal energy, the power arising from good counsel, and the power due to the possession of an adequate army and treasury - these are the three regal powers. Having always paid due attention to all these, sovereigns, who wish to make conquests, become great. Royal fortune, which is not to be obtained even for the price of the abandonment of life, runs to the house of those who are consummate politicians, although fickle.