将在外 君命有所不受
“A general in war isn't bound by imperial orders.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
难怪朝臣要非议
“No wonder ministers complain.”
将在外 君命有所不受
“A general in war isn't bound by imperial orders.”
“- I trust him. - I trust him too.”
“The emperor does not know what is happening here, so our general had no choice but to break protocol.”
Derived from Sun Tzu's philosophy, this principle captures the timeless conflict in dynastic China between absolute imperial obedience and pragmatic battlefield survival.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a general in the field may decline imperial orders
A famous classical idiom originating from ancient military treatises like Sunzi's Art of War, cited to defend autonomous executive decisions.