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Sending Aide Sin Gyeong-jin to Pay Respects at the Royal Camp遣從事官辛慶晉起居。行在狀

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) 懲毖錄 · Ryu Seong-ryong · 1633 (printed; written after the Imjin War) · 1 passages · 132 Chinese characters · reading time 1 min

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) Book 6 — The Record of Jinsa 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.

臣今日在安州謹具狀。啓一道幷唐官林世祿所傳遼東咨文令從事官辛慶晉馳赴。行在于寧邊同日申時慶晉還言。大駕已離寧邊道路傳說未定處所不得已還來云臣北向痛泣五內震裂卽當隨赴。行在但遼東咨文必須劃卽回答付送于唐人還去之時事甚急迫不可遲緩更令辛慶晋尋問進去前封書狀幷爲上送因以候問。起居

Your servant, being today at Anju, respectfully made ready one urgent report, and together with it gave to the aide-de-camp Sin Gyeongjin the Liaodong official letter brought by the Ming official Im Serok, and had him hasten to the royal camp at Yeongbyeon. At the hour of the monkey that same day Sin Gyeongjin came back and said: 「The royal carriage has already left Yeongbyeon, and as word along the road is that no place of stay has been fixed, I had no choice but to return.」 Your servant wept bitterly facing north, and it was as though his five organs were torn.

He ought to follow at once to the royal camp; but the Liaodong letter must without fail be answered straightway and sent along when the Ming men go back, and the matter is so pressing that it cannot be put off. He has therefore had Sin Gyeongjin ask after the camp again and go forward to find it, sending up with him the dispatch sealed earlier as well, and herewith pays his respects.

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壬辰六月十四日

The fourteenth day of the sixth month of the imjin (壬辰) year

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