Dispatch appointing Zhu Yong commissioner for punitive attacks朱鄘補討擊使
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 · 115 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 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.
1Like Bu Shi, the shepherd boy who became chief censor
This dispatch carries out the decision handed down. In the Han there was one Bu Shi, who gave up the wealth of his house to help meet the costs of the army. He came out of the ranks of shepherd boys, and in the end he became chief censor. Where loyalty is given, the good it does is very wide. The officer named above is no rough and common stone. He is iron that truly rings. He knows that duty is heavy and property light, and he has asked to forget his house and requite the state. Heaven's dragons and earth's horses he does not hide away in his private rooms. With the foot-long register and the squad tallies, he may well be ranked below the army gate. Let him be raised to a high grade, as a lesson to the stubborn commoners. Since the help has come from his having much gold, let him not be startled at the smell of copper on himself. This matter must be an appointment as commissioner for punitive attacks.
Interlinear notes 2
納助軍錢。遂加職賞
He paid in money to help the army, and so an office and a reward were added to him.
The base text has 五符, "five tallies," but it is taken as an error for 伍符, the tally that a squad of five men matched together. — translator