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## The Thirty-Fourth Chapter
**345** The king should nourish his subjects in a place free from disturbances, and having established his people in his own country, he should protect them. ||16||
**163** Otherwise, in the event of a change in the kingdom, etc., the people will be oppressed by thieves, robbers, and other enemies. ||163||
**164** The king should forcibly destroy the livelihood of such thieves, robbers, etc., for the welfare of the people can only be achieved by removing thorns. ||164||
**165-167** Just as a cowherd keeps a newly born calf with its mother for one day, and then, out of compassion, ties a rope to its leg and ties it to a peg on the second day, carefully removes its umbilical cord and placenta, protects it from the fear of insects, and nourishes it daily by giving it milk and other means, ||165-167||
**168-169** so too, the king should accept a servant who has come to serve him for his livelihood with due respect and honor, and should consider the welfare and prosperity of such servants who have been accepted and who endure hardship for him, and should provide them with what they lack and protect what they have. ||168-169||
**170-171** Just as a cowherd, eager to determine the quality of animals, examines them by observing their milk, etc., and buys the most excellent ones when he is ready to buy cattle, so too, the king should buy well-examined sons of noble families. ||170-171||
**172** And the king should employ those servants who have been bought with the price of their livelihood in suitable tasks according to the occasion, for the fruit of that work can only be achieved by servants. ||172||
**173** Just as a guarantor is appointed for the purchase of animals, so too, a strong man should be appointed as a guarantor in the gathering of servants. ||173||
**174** Just as a cowherd, getting up diligently in the night when only one watch remains, drives the cows to a place with abundant grass and water, ||174||