The Chungju Garrison Farms, on Choe Eon-bang's Memorial因崔彥邦上疏措置忠州屯田。啓
忠州居幼學崔彥邦等上疏據司。啓目帖連。啓下云云忠州居國上游列邑之中惟此邑最重今當蕩敗之際撫輯蘇復之策所當十分講究其要先自愼擇守令始故往日銓曹別以金𫏶差遣今見民情則金𫏶已著居官之效似爲可嘉當久任責成以慰一邑民心移粟賑救之事不可不急急朝廷亦無善處之䇿監司所當通融一道錢糓之數以其所餘彼此推移庶幾趁此農作之節使之耕種無失其時而往日所陳移右道鹽石千餘從水路輸到可興等事亦係救民之急務亦在監司盡力擧行江原道耳麰唐黍若自原州等處移轉忠州則道里相近但原州亦是蕩敗之邑自救不暇恐無以更捄他邑之民然江原監司勿視彼此雖少若可移轉則使之從便分給爲當忠州達川之野土地沃饒得粟倍多若有願爲屯田者使之聚會一處勸課耕墾而近邑未甚焚蕩處如有富民願納種子及牛隻於忠州者則別爲破格論賞除授實職此意亦令監司十分登時曉諭抄名。啓聞事幷行移于忠淸監司何如
On the memorial of Choe Eon-bang (崔彥邦) and others, Confucian students living at Chungju, the Border Defense Council drew up a memorandum, attaching that memorial, and it was handed down as it stood.
Chungju is set at the upper reaches of the country, and among the several counties this one alone is the weightiest. Now, meeting a time of ruin, the plan for soothing and gathering and bringing it back to life ought to be sought out to the full, and the crux of it begins with choosing the magistrate carefully. It was for this that the Ministry of Personnel (銓曹) sent Kim Je (金𫏶) there in particular. Looking now at the people's feeling, Kim Je seems already to have shown the fruit of his service and to be commendable, so he ought to be entrusted with it for long and held responsible for its accomplishment, to comfort the hearts of the people of that one county.
The moving of grain for relief cannot but be done quickly, yet the court too has no plan for handling it well. We hope the governor will reckon up the whole sum of the one province's money and grain and move what is left over from place to place, so that while this farming season lasts the plowing and sowing may not lose its time. The matter reported before, of carrying the thousand-odd piculs of salt from the right-hand province by water as far as Gaheung (可興), also hangs upon the urgent business of saving the people, and that too rests with the governor's carrying it out with all his strength.
If the oats and sorghum of Gangwon are moved from Wonju and those parts to Chungju, the roads are near to each other. Only, Wonju too is a ruined county with no leisure even to save itself, so we fear there may be no way for it to save the people of another county besides. Still, it is fitting that the Gangwon governor should not pick between this side and that, and that where any amount can be moved, however small, it be shared out as is convenient.
The field of Dalcheon (達川) at Chungju has rich soil and yields double the grain. If there are any who wish to make garrison farms, let them be gathered in one place and urged and overseen in plowing and breaking the ground; and if in a nearby county not greatly burnt there are any well-off people willing to offer seed grain and oxen to Chungju, let a reward be weighed out for them beyond the usual rule and real office (實職) be granted them. May this intent too, that the governor should admonish them in good time to the full and submit their names, be sent by dispatch to the Chungcheong governor along with the rest?