Wu Qi believes that the primary problem in army building is to do a good job in education, especially in ideological and political work. He said: "anyone who manages the country and the army must learn to be polite, encourage integrity and be humiliated." Madame has a sense of shame. She can fight in big feet, but she can keep it in small feet. "In other words, only the first use of the emerging landlord class should follow the moral code-etiquette, to educate the military and civilians. Encourage officers and men with the code of conduct that conforms to the interests of their own class-righteousness, let them know honor and disgrace, let them fight for the ruling class, and avoid shame with honor. Wuqi also deeply realized the role of morale in the war. He believes that "severe punishment and clear rewards and punishments" is important, but "not relying on" can't win completely by it. We must fully mobilize people's enthusiasm through ideological education to achieve the goal of "giving orders to make people like it, mobilizing the masses to make people happy to fight and make people happy to die" to ensure the victory of the war. Wuqi's way to boost morale is to use both material encouragement and spiritual encouragement. Material encouragement is to give people who have made meritorious deeds an official residence; Spiritual encouragement is to make people who have made meritorious deeds feel glorious. For example, he once suggested that Wei Ji hold a celebration banquet in the ancestral hall, which is divided into three rows: front, middle and back, and "sit down and enter" and eat fine dining tables and expensive tableware; "Take the Bank of China for the second time", and the treatment is slightly less; Doing nothing ",everything is very simple. The family members of the participants will also be called to a meeting outside the ancestral hall, not only to let them see the seating situation of their husbands, sons, brothers and sisters, but also to award prizes according to their achievements. There is no doubt that in this case, those who make contributions will feel glorious and those who fail will feel ashamed, which not only inspires those who make contributions, but also inspires those who fail. It is said: "After three years of travel, the Qin people moved to Xihe River, and the Wei family heard that there were more than a thousand people, and they fought hard without waiting for official orders." When Wu Qi asked, he led the "50,000 losers" to attack the State of Qin. Wei Ji agreed to his request and awarded him "500 chariots and 3,000 war horses". As a result, "500 people were defeated by Qin." People commented, "this inspirational work is also." It seems that Wuqi quite understands some knowledge of military psychology.
Wu Qi attached great importance to training in army building. He said: "My wife is often unable to beat her (not skilled in tactics) because she knows nothing." Therefore, although the local soldiers of the Standing Army are all able-bodied men selected through examinations, they still need strict training. The training content mentioned by Wu Qi is quite comprehensive, including personal movements, such as kneeling, standing, walking, stopping and turning ("sitting up, stopping, left and right, back and forth"), as well as queue coaches, such as dissolution, assembly and formation change ("dividing and combining, knot and solving" and "round and square"). It is particularly worth mentioning that his training method is innovative. Instead of adopting the general method of centralized training at the same time, he adopted the method of training a few backbones to improve first, and then training most of them for promotion. He said: "One person learns to fight, ten people learn to fight, a hundred people learn to fight, ten people learn to fight, and all three armed forces teach." . At that time, it should be said that it was quite advanced.
Although Wu Qi thought that victory could not be achieved only by "severe punishment and clear reward", he did not neglect military discipline, but placed great emphasis on it. He said, "The laws and regulations are unclear, and rewards and punishments are not believed. What's the use if there are millions? " Therefore, he demanded that foot soldiers must "obey orders", absolutely obey them, and must "prohibit them". Strictly no crime. "He executed an example of a pawn who cut off the enemy's head without command, which showed that he was strict in law enforcement. He also stipulated that when fighting, "those who enter will be rewarded, and those who leave will be severely punished." He believes that such an army, "whatever it pursues, the world can't do it. "
In military organization, Wu Qi advocated the establishment of elite troops according to his own characteristics. For example, "those who are brave and resourceful will gather into a single soldier (organized into a team)" and "those who can transcend heights and go into battle lightly will gather into a single soldier". This formation is conducive to the deployment of troops according to tactical needs. In the formation of each team, Wu Qi also advocated that quantity should be used and combat tasks should be assigned according to the specific situation of foot soldiers. For example, "A short man holds a spear and halberd, an old man holds a crossbow, ..... The weak help their peers, and the wise seek a master". At the same time, it also absorbed Guan Zhong's spirit of building the army, paying attention to "what and what protect each other compared with the village", so that people from fellow villagers and neighbors are included in the same class, helping each other and ensuring each other.