Sogot Station: Shipping the Army Grain, and Commending Choe Chung-guk of Hamjong所串驛陳運糧便宜及請咸從校生崔忠國等褒賞聳勸狀
臣昨日病甚不能遠行艱到所串今日待病勢少歇將向良策道路應行之事已爲移文再三知委且令從事官辛慶晉先去料理臣隨後點視計料大扺自義州至定州糧料雖百計措置僅可支給四五千兵馬之食萬一。天兵多數越江而盡出此路則支待之事極爲可慮臣路中因下人聞由義州至朔州徑龜城泰川出於博川亦通行大路而朔州龜城軍糧最優如唐將必欲分路則此一路可以指導但山谷之民猝聞唐兵至不無驚懼逃散之弊。朝廷各別詳審利害處置爲宜也臣路逢成從校生崔忠國鄭彥龍郭基崔繼漢等以本處民情願聚軍討賊爲此欲陳疏進。行在其意可嘉聞三縣等處已合之兵數過萬餘云人心如此賊滅可期但大衆已集而節制無人則恐難成功甚爲可惜亦須急急區處忠國等亦當略施褒賞以聳動人心云云
Yesterday your servant's illness was severe, so that he could not go far and barely reached Sogot (所串). Today he means to wait until the illness abates a little and then set out for Yangchaek (良策). As for what ought to be done along the road, he has already sent dispatches making it known two or three times, and has besides set the aide-de-camp Sin Gyeongjin (辛慶晉) to go ahead and see to it, while he himself plans to follow after and look it over.
On the whole the army grain from Uiju (義州) to Jeongju (定州), provided for by every device, will barely suffice to feed four or five thousand horse and foot. If the Ming troops should cross the river in great number and all come out along this road, the furnishing of them is a great worry. Your servant heard from an underling on the road that the road which runs from Uiju to Sakju (朔州) and cuts across Guseong (龜城) and Taecheon (泰川) to come out at Bakcheon (博川) is also passable as a main road, and that Sakju and Guseong have the most ample army grain. If the Ming generals should wish to divide their routes, this road is worth telling them of. Only, if the people of the mountain valleys hear suddenly that Ming troops are coming, there will not be wanting the evil of their taking fright and fleeing and scattering; so it is fitting that the court look particularly closely into the gains and losses of it and so dispose.
On the road your servant met Choe Chungguk (崔忠國), Jeong Eonnyong (鄭彥龍), Gwak Gi (郭基), Choe Gyehan (崔繼漢) and others, school students of Hamjong (咸從). They said that the hearts of the people there desire to gather troops and strike the enemy, and that for this reason they meant to submit a memorial and go forward to the royal camp; their purpose is praiseworthy. He hears that the troops already gathered in three districts and thereabouts number more than ten thousand. The hearts of men being thus, the destroying of the enemy may be looked for. Only, a great multitude having already gathered, your servant fears that with no one to command them it will be hard to accomplish anything, and he regrets it greatly; this too must be dealt with urgently. It would be right that upon Choe Chungguk and the others too some small commendation be bestowed, to hearten the people.
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七月八日
The eighth day of the seventh month