Dispatch asking that Minister Yu Tao of Sizhou be made chief commander請泗州于濤尙書充都指揮使
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 · 165 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 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.
1Command the supporting units and the three garrisons
A dispatch to the minister. He has searched the Confucian classics to their depths and explored the warp and weft of war besides. He has pointed out a clear road for ten thousand miles and governed a distant people for three years. On his banner one sees the falcon in flight, and at his carriage shaft he waits for the deer to be caught. He comforts worn people with humane government and wards off bandits and robbers with wise plans. He brought back the pearls of Hepu, and long ago he scattered the crowd at Qudi. Now the last embers of the Xu rebels dare to run free and trample on others, and with the keen blades of the soldiers of Chu he looks to sweep them away. In the end the weeping of Bao Xu will be spared, and how much more, since this is no seizing of Jin Bi's army. Only, when hawk and hound offer their service and the valiant take their places in the ranks, they must wait for the order of a commander before they show their skill at striking and biting. So authority is truly entrusted to him, and a far-reaching command is hoped for, that all may look to his horse's head and know when to advance and when to fall back, that the owl's cry may be stilled for good and the law of good and bad be weighed with care. This matter must be that he is made chief commander, and the officers and men of all the supporting units and of the three garrisons of Ninghuai, Xuyi and Huaiyin shall all take his command.