A statement asking that the rebel general Lu Yanhong be appointed Military Commissioner of Xingyuan奏請叛將鹿晏弘授興元節度使狀
1Lu Yanhong holds Xingyuan and must be won over
右當道賀正子將許令琮等今月日廻得狀。稱三月五日。陳許軍潰散。節級鹿晏弘領兵馬二萬餘人。打破金，洋等州。突入興元府坐。節度使牛勗四日夜領隨從人並家累約二千餘人奔投龍州西山谷者。伏以天未悔禍。地多受災。旣當易動難安。非可懲一勸百。鹿晏弘早驅散卒。廣集叛夫。始聆焚劫東都。旋見奔衝西路。本道節度使周岌累令招諭。終不歸降。豈興破浪之風。但熾燎原之火。今者逆黨則鯨呑盛府。元戎則鼠竄危途。爪距已成。根株難剗。儻或未恕亂常之咎。別興伐叛之師。卽恐終成一秦。固應不利三蜀。且列藩貢獻。諸道表章。得達刀州。皆由劍路。況乃鳳城已復。鑾輅將旋。縱令鵰鶚在天。能摧狡窟。若更豺狼當道。必礙行宮。峽路雖通。水程多慮。不唯險阻。實且遐遙。兼至上江。皆爲賊境。唯憂進獻。莫遂通流。臣久竊寵光。深懷驚憤。遠詳事意。輒具奏陳。伏乞聖慈霽雷霆之威。廻雨露之澤。速飛寬大之詔。特委撫綏之權。鹿晏弘免致麏驚。便當豹變。必當克己。永務安人。聖主含弘。旣宥其窮斯濫矣。姦臣驚悟。亦免於尤而效之。謹錄奏聞。伏聽勑旨。
For the above: Xu Lingcong and the other junior officers of this circuit who went to offer New Year's greetings came back on a day of this month with a statement, which says: "On the fifth day of the third month the Chen and Xu army broke up and scattered. The sub-officer Lu Yanhong led more than twenty thousand horse and foot, smashed Jinzhou and Yangzhou and the rest, and burst into the seat of Xingyuan prefecture and took his place there. The Military Commissioner Niu Xu, on the night of the fourth day, led his attendants and their families, some two thousand people, and fled to the mountain valleys west of Longzhou." Your servant humbly considers that Heaven has not yet repented of its calamity and that the earth suffers much disaster. This is a time easy to stir and hard to calm, not a time when punishing one man can urge on a hundred. Lu Yanhong early drove together scattered troops and gathered rebellious men far and wide. First came word that he had burned and plundered the Eastern Capital, and soon he was seen rushing upon the western road. Zhou Ji, the Military Commissioner of his own circuit, summoned and admonished him again and again, yet in the end he did not come over. How should he raise a wind that breaks the waves? He only makes fiercer the fire that burns the plain. Now the rebel party swallows a flourishing prefecture as a whale swallows, while the commander has crept away like a rat on a perilous road. The claws are already grown, and the root is hard to cut out. If the fault of throwing the constant order into disorder is not forgiven, and a separate army is raised to strike the rebels, then it is to be feared that in the end another Qin will be made, and that would truly not be to the good of Sanshu. Moreover the tribute of the many frontier commands and the memorials of the several circuits reach Daozhou all by way of the Sword Road. How much more so now, when the Phoenix City has been recovered and the imperial carriage is about to return. Even if the eagle and the osprey are in the sky and can break the cunning den, should the jackal and the wolf block the road again they will surely hinder the travelling palace. The Gorge road is open, but the water route gives much cause for worry. It is not only steep and hard but truly far, and once the upper river is reached it is all rebel country. The one fear is that what is presented as tribute may find no way through. Your servant has long stolen the light of your favor and holds deep alarm and indignation. Having looked closely from afar into the meaning of the matter, he sets it out and states it. I humbly beg that your sagely kindness clear away the force of the thunder and turn back the bounty of rain and dew, that you swiftly send down a generous edict and commit to him, by special order, the power to soothe and settle. Then Lu Yanhong will be spared the fright of a startled roe deer, and he will change at once as the leopard changes. He will surely master himself and work for ever at giving the people peace. Since a sagely ruler is broad and forbearing and has already pardoned his going to excess in extremity, a treacherous subject will be startled into understanding and will also be spared from taking a fault as his model. I respectfully set this down and report it. I humbly await the imperial command.