Dispatch appointing Su Yu provost of the headquarters staff蘇聿補衙前虞候
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 · 100 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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.
This dispatch carries out the decision handed down. There is an old saying, that the small may serve to explain the great. When Qi Xi asked leave to retire in his old age and was then asked who should succeed him, he was able to put forward his own kin. His feeling did not stray into favoring his own, and what harm was there in employing the man? The officer named above followed the duties of a clerk early and long practiced the martial arts. His father is in his late years and already thinks of resting from office, and the son's stout spirit is fit to take over that diligent toil. For now let his office lie in being early at his post, and let the merit come to him through trial after trial. Do not fall short of the teaching that one must carry on and cultivate. Strive to fulfill the rule of shouldering the load. This matter must be an appointment as provost of the headquarters staff.