Letter Sent to the Marshal of the Mongol State送蒙古國元帥書
右啓。季春。緬惟元帥幕府節下起居萬順。馳戀之誠。靡須臾暫捨也。前所使陪送行李郞將池義深來。稱貴國廻駕次。喩你等此去。須於春三月時發遣人。使會得我國坐住處。今依所敎。復差前使池義深及若干人等發遣前去。其每來文字內所及諸𤳖事。圖踵後廻報。伏冀炤悉。又閱淮安公所蒙手簡。稱你國選揀人戶。赴開州館及宣城山脚底住坐種田。竊思大國所以割與分地。將使吾民耕食。則其義在所欣感。然我國每處人民牛畜等物故損失者大夥。故遮一國區區之地。尙不勝耕墾。忍使鞠爲茂草。況於千里邈遠大國之境。將部遣甚處人物牛畜等。使之耕種耶。力所不堪。理難強勉。惟大度諒之。云云。
I report. It is late spring. Far off, I think of Your Honor at the marshal's headquarters as being altogether well. My longing, which would run to you, has not been laid aside for a moment.
Commandant Ji Uisim (池義深), whom we earlier sent in attendance on your envoys, has come back. He says that when your country turned its carriages homeward you told him, "When you go this time, you must without fail send men in the third month of spring to find out where our country is encamped." Now, in accordance with what you instructed, we have again chosen the former envoy Ji Uisim and a few others and send them. The several matters you spoke of in each of the letters you sent, we mean to answer afterward. I beg you respectfully to look into this.
Further, looking at the letter in your own hand that the Duke of Hwanan (淮安公) received, you said, "Let your country pick and choose people to go and dwell at the post-station of Gaeju (開州館) and at the foot of Mount Seonseong (宣城山) and till the fields there." Quietly I consider that the great state means to cut off a portion of land and apportion it so that our people may till and eat of it, and for that righteousness we are glad and grateful. But in our country, place after place, the people and the oxen that have died or been lost are very many. So we cannot till even the trifling bit of land that is this country's own, and perforce leave it fallow and overgrown with weeds. How much less could we lead people and oxen from some quarter and send them off to till and sow land of the great state a thousand li away and far beyond reach? Our strength does not stretch so far, and by reason too it would be hard to force. Let your great magnanimity alone weigh it. And so forth.
Interlinear notes 1
是年三月。池義深齎去。
Ji Uisim took it with him in the third month of this year.