Edict Enshrining the Late Assistant Administrator of Government Affairs Jeong Geugon (鄭克溫) Together in the Shrine of the Great King Sinjong故參知政事鄭克溫配享神宗大王敎書
云云。君畢喪而祔神主。是國家不易之規。臣有功則配廟廷。實今古相沿之制。卿昂躔毓粹。嵩嶽降精。氣雄韓信之登壇。早紆將印。略邁張良之借筋。密轉軍籌。當寧考之承圖。掌中樞而佐命。曁參大政。逮事寡人。故及見爾之平生。眞可謂古之遺直。朕曩遭憂釁。深軫衣傷。地隔九天。雖未還於仙馭。禮終三載。將奉入於宗祊。顧侑位之難虛。與群寮而迺議。當代之佐。未必乏其人焉。衆論所歸。顧無易於卿者。爰擧追崇之典。俾躋與享之聯。嗚戲。不以生死而有異者。君之寵恩。無以幽明而有間者。臣之忠義。朕將嘉乃丕續。誓萬世之不忘。卿亦相我先君。佑三韓之永固。云云。
And so forth.
That a sovereign, when mourning is done, should have the spirit tablet enshrined in the ancestral temple is a law of the state that cannot be altered; and that a subject who has merit should be enshrined together in the shrine courtyard is truly an institution handed on from old times to the present.
You, my lord, nursed your clearness in a lofty constellation, and were one upon whom a great mountain sent down its essence. Your spirit was grander than Han Xin's (韓信) mounting of the platform, and early you wore a general's seal-cord; your plans and strategies surpassed Zhang Liang's (張良) scheming with borrowed chopsticks, and in secret you turned the counsels of war. When the late king took up the great succession, you held the Privy Council and aided the mandate of Heaven; and when you came to take part in the great government, you came to serve me. Therefore I have seen your whole life, and you may truly be called one who has left behind the bearing of the upright men of old.
Of late I met with mourning and was deeply pained at heart with grief. The earth is barred by the Nine Springs and the immortal's carriage cannot return; yet by the rites the three years are done, and I am about to bear him reverently into the ancestral temple. The place of the companion spirits being hard to leave empty, I took counsel with the many officials. Among the aides of that age men were surely not wanting, yet where the many arguments turned there was none like you. Therefore I take up the law of exalting a man after his death and let you rise into the ranks of those who share the sacrifice.
Ah, what is not made other by dying or living is a sovereign's favour; and what is not set apart by the dark and the bright is a subject's loyalty and righteousness. I hold your great achievement beautiful and swear not to forget it for ten thousand ages. Do you also aid our late sovereign and help the Three Han to stand firm forever.
And so forth.
Interlinear notes 1
The base text has 「張良之借筋」, but taking it as an error for 「借箸」, the old matter of Zhang Liang's reckoning with borrowed chopsticks, it has been read as corrected. — Translator