A memorial thanking him for sending the monthly salary money again謝再送月料錢狀
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 · 169 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 min
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) Book 20 — Reports to the Throne 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.
1The eighth month's salary I sent back was sent to me again
I submit this. Yesterday the military supply store delivered the eighth month's salary money for the Inspector of the Courier Stations. Since I bear a command to go to a distant region and have already received the official dispatch, I am leaving the post lodge for a while and turning at once toward the road home. As you have already bestowed gear for the road besides, how should I be wetted again by the salary of office? It was truly hard to accept, and so I sent it straight back. I did not know that the storehouse office had drawn up a report and sent it up. Now I have respectfully received your judgment, and you have refused it and sent the money to me again. Your brush flew like a cloud phoenix and plainly showed your deep kindness. The strings of cash leaped like a heavenly dragon and looked up to your thick virtue for their ground. How much more, when my hope of going home is fulfilled, am I startled by the saying that riches enrich the house. A lowly and slight man from a far country may be shamed by the stink of copper, but my kin and friends at home will surely pay respect where money is plentiful. That money reaches the spirits is proved all the more by Lu Bao; that a man is gripped by a habit is boldly □ He Qiao. I humbly consider that the rites of high and low are a barrier and that I have no way to decline, so following your disposal I have knelt and received it. My humble heart cannot bear the fullness of its gratitude for kindness and longing for virtue, its keen feeling, its pacing about and its burning awe. And so on.