Sun Zi's outlook on credibility takes the high-ranking military officers as the standard and requires that the high-ranking military officers should attach great importance to credibility; the monarch should trust the high-ranking military officers; and the subordinates should trust and follow the high-ranking military officers.Based on this outlook on integrity, Sun Zi interprets the relationship between the ethics of the high-ranking military officers and the monarch and their subordinates. He places 'credibility' at the second place among 'five ethics,' which is located between 'wisdom' and...