A memorial of thanks for being shown the terms of the peace with the Southern Man謝示南蠻通和事宜表
1The memorial of the Piaoxin is sent down to him
臣某言。二月二十六日宣慰使供奉官李從孟至。伏奉勑旨。入鶴拓使冑嗣王龜年，閤門使劉光裕等廻。得驃信表並國信兼布燮揚奇肱與西川節度使書。皆備述情誠。無不順命。其表及書白並答信物數。並令錄往。此事首末。自卿良謀者。遠降王言。深窺使節。跪閱上天之旨。坐知外域之心。寵飾踰涯。憂惶若厲。臣某誠抃誠躍。頓首頓首。臣才非間代。智不濟時。但以每鎭窮邊。粗安荒服。免使飽飛飢附。欲令前倨後恭。頃者忝守成都。冀申遠略。遂憑釋子。善諭蒙王。仰稟天威。得揚風敎。永戢干戈之患。俾陳玉帛之儀。雖群議沸騰。競衒鑠金之口。而宸衷剸斷。早推匪石之心。是以。暫事西巡。或虞南叛。爰遣維城貴冑。直閤近臣。廻聖德以降尊。遠傳玄化。譯訛言而獻款。備寫眞誠。旣令抱義戴仁。果見奉琛執贄。此皆陛下威德。臣何力之有焉。而迺謂臣有先見之能。知未來之事。設和蠻之良策。備幸蜀之嚴城。俯錄勤勞。迥垂稱獎。睹雕題之章奏。書軌旣同。息猾夏之猜嫌。梯航相接。驗南賝之贖咎。知北極之紓憂。雖云五利有餘。敢希茂賞。唯願四方無事。永贊昌期。臣限守藩條。不獲稱謝行在。無任欣躍感戴兢惕之至。謹因供奉官李從孟廻。附表陳謝以聞。臣某誠惶誠恐。頓首頓首謹言。
Your servant So-and-so speaks. On the twenty-sixth day of the second month the commissioner of consolation, the attendant officer Li Congmeng, arrived. Your servant respectfully received the imperial order, which said: the envoy sent into Hetuo, Prince Guinian, and the palace gate commissioner Liu Guangyu and the rest have returned. They have brought the memorial of the Piaoxin, together with the state gifts, and also the letter of the buxie Yang Qigong to the Military Commissioner of Xichuan. All of these set out their sincerity in full, and there is nothing in which they do not obey the command. The memorial and the letter, and the list of gifts sent in reply, are all copied and sent to you. The beginning and the end of this affair came from your own good counsel. The king's words have come down from afar, and your servant has looked deeply into what the envoy brought. Kneeling, he read the will of high heaven; sitting, he came to know the heart of a country outside. The adornment of your favor goes beyond his measure, and his care and dread are like a sickness. Your servant So-and-so truly claps his hands and truly leaps for joy, bowing his head to the ground, bowing his head to the ground. Your servant has no talent to carry on his age and no wisdom to rescue the times. He has only guarded a far border at each post and brought a little peace to the wild dependencies, keeping men from flying off when full and clinging when hungry, and wishing to make those who were haughty before respectful after. Not long ago he unworthily held Chengdu and hoped to carry out a far-reaching plan. So he leaned upon a Buddhist monk and won over the king of Meng with good words. Receiving the awe of heaven from above, he was able to spread your teaching, to put away forever the trouble of shield and spear, and to have the rite of jade and silk set out. Though the talk of the crowd boiled up and men vied in showing off mouths that melt metal, Your Majesty's heart cut through it and early on held to a heart that is no stone. And so, while you were briefly on your western progress and feared a revolt in the south, you sent a noble kinsman who is a wall of your house and a close attendant of the palace gate. You turned your sage virtue about and lowered your dignity, and carried your deep transforming power far off. They translated the crooked words and brought back an offering of good faith, and the true sincerity was written out in full. Having made them embrace right and bear benevolence on their heads, your servant has indeed seen them bring their treasures and hold out their gifts. All this is the awe and virtue of Your Majesty; what strength has your servant in it? Yet you say that your servant had the power of foresight and knew what had not yet come, that he laid the good plan for peace with the Man and made ready the strong walls for your progress to Shu. You have bent down to record his toil and from afar have let your praise fall on him. He looks at the memorial of the people with tattooed brows, and their writing and their wheel tracks are already the same. The suspicion and ill will that troubled the Middle Land have ceased, and ladders and boats reach one another. In the treasure from the south he sees their fault redeemed, and he knows that the cares of the Pole Star are eased. Though it is said that the five advantages are more than enough, how would he dare hope for a rich reward? He wishes only that the four quarters be free of trouble, and that he may forever aid this flourishing age. Your servant is bound by the duties of his command and cannot offer his thanks at your traveling palace. He cannot bear the utmost of his joy and leaping, of his gratitude for your grace, and of his fear. By the return of the attendant officer Li Congmeng he respectfully sends this memorial of thanks for Your Majesty's hearing. Your servant So-and-so is truly awed and truly afraid, bowing his head to the ground, bowing his head to the ground. Respectfully spoken.