Dispatch making Chen Jilian, garrison commander of Huaiyin, deputy commissioner for support along the Huai淮陰鎭將陳季連充沿淮應接副使
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 · 155 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 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.
1In the land of Han Xin's crawl beneath the crotch, win a rare merit
A dispatch to the officer named above. He is brave against the bandits and glad to follow the army. When he takes up the halberd he waits only to pound the throat. When he looses an arrow he has never yet left the eye empty. Since he took his post in a far garrison he has long drilled a bold soldiery. Time and again the toil of shielding the line has been heard of him, and he has been able to still the fear of a sudden charge. Now the spawn of Peng are not yet wiped out, and the troops of Chu are still under arms. The power of head and tail is to be drawn on to form the snake array, and surely the sharpness of claw and fang is relied on, to unfold the arts of war together. Do you, whose steps have passed beyond the five-man roster and whose person now holds the second post, block the dangerous roads with all your care, and wait to still the long Huai. Though it is called a river that winds and circles about, it is no ground for winding and hesitating. Sit and think on the worthies of old, for the traces of the crawl beneath the crotch are still handed down there. Stand and take a rare merit, and clear the breath within your breast. Strive and hold to the promise of full devotion. Truly this may be called meeting one's time. This matter must be sent as an appointment to the post of deputy chief commissioner for support along the Huai. Then take the measure of it, send out the soldiers, and put down the bandit host.