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
~, strict punishment follows, but people are self-defense. Wang Kaiyun's book on military affairs with Chamberlain
Chinese PinYin : zú bīng zú shí
Enough food and enough soldiers
Change the soup but not the dressing. huàn tāng bù huàn yào
to cast out the wicked and cherish the virtuous. jié zhuó yáng qīng
the needle seems to fly and the thread seems to run. fēi zhēn zǒu xiàn