Dispatch appointing Cao Peng, who holds the forwarding of memorials at the traveling court, adjutant of the military governor曹鵬知行在進奏補充節度押衙
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 · 159 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.
1He carries word ten thousand li, and never lets a command from the ninth heaven fall
This dispatch carries out the decision handed down. Of all the posts a provincial lord fills, the agent at the capital lodge comes first. He can carry word ten thousand li, and never lets a command from the ninth heaven fall. So, leaning on a man who gets things done, we hand him what is heavy and hard. The officer named above has the rare gifts of Cao Gui of Lu, and of a bold house like Cao Ren of Wei. Though he stands in the ranks of shield and spear, he learned early the skill of the knife and the brush. So he was sent far off to the traveling court, with sole charge of the work of forwarding. He has looked on the emperor's progress behind the six dragons, and has watched over every tour. He has carried the king's words of the nine phoenixes, and has never once been blocked or delayed. Tried in so many ways, he well deserves encouragement and requital. His grade now stands next to the censor's, and his office has risen to master of horse. His person may hurry along the imperial road, but his post does not yet match the gate of the camp. So the jade tally is lent to him, and the armored horse is shared from afar. Carry with care the will of high heaven, and set at rest the hearts of the outer lands. If you can give your whole heart, I shall not grudge the reward. This matter must be a new appointment as acting adjutant of the military governor, holding the forwarding of memorials at the traveling court as before.