A letter to the chief minister congratulating him on the inner banquet and on the salary money given to the hundred officials賀內宴仍給百官料錢狀
1A thrifty ruler's banquet
右得進奏院狀報。七月一日。於內殿宴百官。仍令度支各給三箇月料錢。並奉勑旨。廻駕之日。應沿路州縣切不得輒進歌樂及屠殺者。伏以聖上繼周匡業。避狄興憂。自幸成都。彌資儉德。守玄元之三寶。達舜帝之四聰。徹彼珍肴。掛其素服。言唯罪己。事不勞人。今者已復上京。將廻大駕。致柏梁之高宴。盡醉千鍾。鄙鍊布之乏財。均頒九府。然後繼飛綸翰。仍命繡衣。制郡邑之嚴科。節道途之浮費。旣施令於好生惡殺。亦停歡於八列九成。王化斯行。物情皆泰。此皆相公手携多士。躬賀聖君。鴛行賦在鎬之章。鳳藻詠濟汾之樂。一時盛事。萬代美談。某限守藩條。阻攀仙仗。心馳蜀棧。目斷堯樽。下情無任抃躍之至。謹奉狀陳賀。謹錄狀上。
For the above: a report has come from the Memorial Office, saying that on the first day of the seventh month a banquet was given to the hundred officials in the inner hall, and the Bureau of Revenue was further ordered to give each of them three months' salary money; and that an edict was received besides, that on the day the carriage returns the prefectures and counties along the road may on no account offer up songs and music, or slaughter animals. I humbly consider that the sagely ruler, carrying on Zhou and setting his work to rights, took his care upon himself in avoiding the barbarians, and that since he came to Chengdu he has leaned all the more on the virtue of thrift. He keeps the three treasures of the Mysterious Primordial and has reached the four hearings of the Emperor Shun. He has put away those rare delicacies and has hung plain clothes upon himself. His words only blame himself, and his affairs do not put men to toil. Now that the upper capital is recovered and the great carriage is about to turn back, he holds the lofty banquet of Boliang and lets all grow drunk on a thousand cups; and ashamed that bleached cloth is a poor kind of wealth, he has shared out evenly from the nine treasuries. After that he sent writings flying one after another, and charged the envoys in embroidered robes to lay down strict articles for the prefectures and towns and to cut back the idle costs of the road. He has given his command for sparing life and hating slaughter, and he has also stopped the pleasure of the eight rows and the nine movements. Thus the kingly teaching goes forward and the temper of all things is at peace. All this is Your Excellency leading many worthy men by the hand and congratulating the sagely ruler in person, so that the ranks drawn up like mandarin ducks chanted the poem "At Hao" and the phoenix writing sang the joy of "Crossing the Fen." It is a splendid matter of one time and a fair tale for ten thousand ages. Held to the duties of a frontier command and kept from attending the immortal escort, my heart races to the plank roads of Shu, and my eyes are cut off from the wine jar of Yao. A lowly servant cannot contain his clapping and leaping. With respect I present this statement of congratulation. I respectfully set it down and send it up.