Dispatch granting Zhang Xiong, prefect of Chuzhou, the rank of general授楚州刺史張雄將軍
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 · 119 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 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.
1Transferred to general of the Right Militant Guard
This dispatch follows the edict, and so forth. To reward every merit he saw was the special grace of Emperor Gaozu of Han. To act on imperial authority without hesitation was the precedent of Deng, the minister of works. The officer named above is timber that stands tall, and his bearing rings clear. Since he was lent the commissioner's tally he has already made his good government known. He governs a famous commandery that is like an arm and a leg to the state, and he has risen to a high office that is like its ears and eyes. Good faith and his deeds go together, and his fame rings out the more. He will soon hold a charge in the outer censorate, so he should rise to the standing of the General of the Great Tree. Press on the harder in the rule of loyalty, and receive this settled command with reverence. Be worthy of Liu Hong's good recommendation, and do not sigh that, like Li Guang, you are left without a fief. This matter must follow the edict. An ink rescript is issued transferring him to general of the Right Militant Guard, supernumerary with equal standing.