Dispatch making Attendant Censor Wang Qi, aide of the right, acting circuit inspector of the salt and iron commission右司馬王棨端公攝鹽鐵出使巡官
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 · 170 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.
This dispatch carries out the decision handed down. Now the monopoly office was set up from the first for the sake of war, to keep the army supplied. Since the time of a punitive campaign has come, the state truly leans on the profit of the equalized transport. To carry through a heavy charge one must choose good timber. The attendant censor's bearing rings through Weishan, and his blessings flow over the waters of the Huai. Quietly he dwells in the realm of the five constant virtues, and diligently he seeks the gate of the six principles of poetry. Always he has looked into how feeling is followed, and he knows in full what it is to keep his principle. Charge after charge that called for a man who takes on what is right has been laid on him, and each has carried on his name as a capable officer. He has already been tried through many hard things, so it may be said he is skilled in many humble tasks. Now, to help the state's spending from below and to relieve the army's stores besides, the levies are heavy just now and the checking of accounts is not easy. His office rests in that of an aide, so he is already at leisure, and his will is set on putting public duty first, so he does not refuse small and tiresome work. He is to be bound to a post in the tent and to unfold his plans at once. Though Wang Xi is seen to have set his heart forever beyond the world, what harm is there if Pei Kai wearies himself for a while among common affairs? This matter must be a request that he act as circuit inspector of the salt and iron commission and examine the money and goods of this office.