A statement asking that Yang Xingmin administer the military and civil affairs of Luzhou奏楊行敏知廬州軍州事狀
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) 桂苑筆耕集 · Choe Chiwon · 886 (Tang, 6th year of the Zhonghe era · Silla, 12th year of King Heongang) · 1 passages · 118 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) Book 4 — Memorials to the Throne A collection Choe Chiwon made by choosing out of the writings of his four years in the headquarters of Gao Pian, military commissioner of Huainan under the Tang, binding them into twenty volumes and presenting them to King Heongang of Silla in 886. It holds 366 pieces — memorials and reports sent up to the emperor, the proclamation denouncing Huang Chao, letters to the several military commissioners, orders and dispatches issued to those under him, Daoist and Buddhist texts for services, funeral offerings, records written for the outer wall of Chengdu and for a painting of Annam, and the reports and poems he sent up to Gao Pian. Here is the first report, which begins "I am a man of Silla," and the proclamation against Huang Chao with its line, "Not only do all the men of the world think to kill you openly; the ghosts under the earth have already discussed cutting you down in secret." The last volume holds the poems he made on the voyage home to the country he had left at twelve. It is the oldest collection by a Korean that survives, and when Hong Seokju and Seo Yugu printed it with movable type in 1834 they called it "the root and the beginning of the writing of our Eastern Country." Their two prefaces are translated with it.
For the above: your servant humbly considers that what a man of arms puts first is only loyalty and courage, and that Xingmin is one in whom loyalty and courage both stand out. Since he borrowed the tally of the commandery, he has been diligent in the ordering of government. His keen troops have the will to contend for the front, and the people have no word of turning away or of resentment. He has drilled his soldiers and made them even, and has soothed and settled the whole region, so that among the places under his patrol he truly stands above his fellows. Again and again I have drawn up reports asking that a regular appointment be granted; but fearing that the roads are hard and blocked and that it has not reached the imperial ear, and relying always upon his competence, I set out my recommendation once more. To speak once and for all of what he has achieved, he may well be made to promulgate the articles of government. I humbly beg that your sagely kindness grant consent by special favor. In sullying the imperial gaze I cannot bear my awe. With respect I set this down and report it, and humbly await the imperial rescript.