Dispatch making Li Zhi, garrison commander of Huaikou, commissioner for support along the Huai淮口鎭將李質充沿淮應接使
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 · 167 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 min
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) Book 14 — 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.
1A chief commissioner for support along the Huai, to block the bandits of Xu
This dispatch carries out the decision handed down. The hard thing in using troops is to weigh the advantage before moving. Far or near is not the question. What one must rely on is the grip on the leg and the hold on the horn. In quiet times think of danger. Where there is preparation there is no grief. The officer named above has a name that surpasses Guangli, and a courage that carries on the soaring flight. Since he took up the command of the outer garrisons, he has studied at every turn the heart of the central command. Those bandits of Xu keep raiding our borders, and they will not sheathe their blades. Press them and they scurry like rats into the ruins of Peng. Slacken and they charge like boars on the banks of Chu. So the whole host is called up, to cut down the swarm of the wicked. Is this only to follow the expedient of pulling out a drowning man? It will also help the force of fire running through dry grass. Do you answer the call at a word, seize and release, and bring the work to completion. In the end let the waves that run into the sea carry off the evil, and let the moon on the Huai look early on the washing of weapons. Rich reward hangs high. The good season slips quickly by. Strive to be worthy of the charge laid on you, and do not fail the advantage at the last. This matter must be sent as an appointment to the post of chief commissioner for support along the Huai. Then take the measure of it, send out the soldiers, and put down the bandit host.