The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

74. See XIII. § 27, note. Further details on T’ai Kung will be found in

the _Shih Chi_, ch. 32 ad init. Besides the tradition which makes him a former minister of Chou Hsin, two other accounts of him are there given, according to which he would appear to have been first raised from a humble private station by Wen Wang.