Dispatch transferring Cao Wei to the post of military commandant at large曹威轉補散兵馬使
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 · 98 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.
A dispatch to the officer named above. He is brave and yet loves propriety, and he follows the army with diligence. Of late he set out the words of Chen Zhong and carried the inquiries of Guo Wei, and indeed he drove through dangerous waves and came through them all with a fair wind. Then came the barbarians of Pei, raiding the soil of Chu. He was the first to mount the crane array and broke deep into the jackal's fangs. Pressing hard against the enemy ramparts, he could always take the lead. With his chariot wheels dark with blood, he would not speak of being hurt. He spurs himself on with loyalty, and his stout constancy startles other men. Now the commandery governor assesses the merits and the martial officer receives his reward. Let him be raised to a high grade, in requital of the merit that went before. This matter must be a transfer to the post of military commandant at large.