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Requesting That Hwanghae's Sogo Troops Be Called to Guard the Capital請徵黃海道束伍軍入衛京師。啓

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) 懲毖錄 · Ryu Seong-ryong · 1633 (printed; written after the Imjin War) · 1 passages · 99 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 min

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) Book 5 — 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.

觀此賊勢漸似鴟張黃海道武士延安白川海州近處三四百名上送事已爲行移而本道列邑留在武士及延安海州白川束伍軍不可不多數調發入衛京師以備不虞事機頗緊不分晝夜定將上送監司亦來白川近處以聽。朝廷分付事急速。下諭何如

Looking at the posture of these brigands, they seem little by little to be spreading their wings. As for sending up three or four hundred men from among the military men of Hwanghae Province near Yeonan, Baecheon and Haeju, the dispatch has already gone out. Yet we cannot but levy in great number the military men still left in the several districts of that province, and the Sogo troops (束伍軍) of Yeonan, Haeju and Baecheon as well, and send them up to guard the capital, so as to be ready against the unlooked-for.

The pivot of the matter is pressing indeed; let commanders be appointed and the men sent up without regard for day or night, and let the provincial governor also come out to a place near Baecheon and there await the court's instructions. The matter being urgent, how would it be to issue the royal command with haste?

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