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A dispatch granting the post of Cavalier Attendant by ink rescript行墨勑授散騎常侍

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 · 227 Chinese characters · reading time 0.9 min

Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) Book 13 — Notices 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.

1Granting the post of Acting Cavalier Attendant of the Right in accordance with the decree

勑淮南節度鹽鐵轉運等使。東面都統兼指揮京西京北神策諸道節度兵馬制置等使牒。某官乞右可檢校右散騎常侍餘如故。如將軍須言員外置同正員牒。准今年二月九日詔。應諸州有功刺史及大將軍等如要勸奬者。從監察御史至常侍。便可墨勑授訖。分析聞奏者。大君降命。元帥從權。但云能立勤勞。特許先申奬勸。漢祖則手無刓印。不阻論功。武侯則心若懸衡。必能擧職。用示軍中之賞。式資闕下之恩。前件官夙蘊壯圖。久從戎事。將救焚沈之患。固憑擒縱之能。桓榮祖之馳名。不唯馬矟。周盤龍之受爵。允稱貂冠。事須准詔。授檢校右散騎常侍。仍具申奏。竝牒知者。故牒云云。

By rescript. The Military Commissioner of Huainan and Salt and Iron Transport Commissioner, Supreme Commander of the Eastern Front and concurrently Commissioner for the Direction and Disposition of the Shence troops and of the military governors of the circuits of Jingxi and Jingbei, issues this dispatch. Such-and-such an officer asks for the post of Acting Cavalier Attendant of the Right, the rest to stand as before. If he is a general, it must say that the post is supernumerary with the standing of a regular member. So this dispatch. In accordance with the decree of the ninth day of the second month of this year: "Wherever there are prefects of merit in the several prefectures, or grand generals and the like who ought to be encouraged and rewarded, from Investigating Censor up to Cavalier Attendant they may be granted the post at once by ink rescript, and the matter then set out and reported." The great ruler has sent down his command, and the commander in chief follows the expedient course. Only let a man be able to set up diligent toil, and leave is given to unfold encouragement and reward for him first. Gaozu of Han did not wear the corners off the seal in his hand, and so did not block the reckoning of merit. The Martial Marquis had a heart like a hanging balance, and so could always raise men to their offices. By this I show the rewards of the army, and I lean upon the kindness that comes from below the palace steps. The officer named above stored up a valiant design early and has long followed the business of arms. He would save men from the distress of burning and drowning, and I lean firmly upon his skill in taking captive and in letting go. Huan Rongzu made his name run far, and not by horse and lance alone. Zhou Panlong received his rank, and truly he was worthy of the sable cap. The matter must follow the decree. He is granted the post of Acting Cavalier Attendant of the Right, and it is to be set out in full and reported. This is dispatched to make it known. Therefore this dispatch, and so on.

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