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Requesting to Provide the Army Grain Myself請自行措置粮餉。啓

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) 懲毖錄 · Ryu Seong-ryong · 1633 (printed; written after the Imjin War) · 1 passages · 141 Chinese characters · reading time 1.2 min

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) Book 3 — The Geunpok Collection A record left by Ryu Seong-ryong, Chief State Councillor, of what he saw with his own eyes after the Imjin War ended. Its title comes from the line, "I rebuke what is past, and take heed against troubles to come." He set down without excuse how the war began and what the court failed to do. His recommendation of Yi Sun-sin, the wrangling with the Ming army, and the suffering the people endured are all recorded as they were.

臣伏覩。傳敎以唐兵粻餉支待事急緣臣有病欲令左相尹斗壽出去措置而沿道粮料臣自前次知爲之且龜城及諸處輸運之事皆已移文知委別遣從事官等整理必無不及之理且臣雖有病未死之前自當限力驅馳而。行在所駐凡接應緊關之事不但粮料一事三公之中只有左相一人豈可出外臣今日先遣辛慶晋明曉力疾隨行不至遲緩故惶恐敢。啓

Your servant has respectfully seen the royal instruction: that since supplying the Ming troops with army grain is urgent, and your servant is ill, Your Majesty would send out Yun Dusu (尹斗壽), the Left State Councillor (左議政), to provide it. But the army grain along the road your servant has had charge of from the first, and for the carrying of it from Guseong and the several places dispatches have all been sent already and an aide has been sent separately to see to it, so there can be no reason that it will not be in time. And though your servant is ill, while he is not yet dead he will run about to the utmost of his strength.

At the place where Your Majesty stays, the pressing matters to be answered are not the one matter of army grain alone, and of the three state councillors there is only the Left State Councillor — how then can he go out? Your servant will today first send Sin Gyeongjin (辛慶晉), and tomorrow at dawn will follow after, ill as he is, and it will not be too late. Therefore, in fear and awe, he ventures to report.

Interlinear notes 1

壬辰七月六日

The sixth day of the seventh month of the Imjin year.

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