Receiving the Royal Directive, and Sending Hong Se-gong to Anju to Hasten the Grain有。旨祇受及使洪世恭往安州催運糧餉狀
本月十一日右副承旨成貼有。旨書狀臣在定州祇受江邊土兵及各官起送精兵觀察使李元翼兵使李薲太半領率已在安州惟元帥金命元在此等候唐將。天兵今日巳時自林畔已到此處明曉欲發向嘉山矣兩江浮橋十分嚴督今已畢造惟三縣倉糓回泊安州之事尙無回報海道之事慮難及期適調度使洪世恭始於昨日來到因使洪世恭先去安州催促其餘干係軍機事則與金命元相議區處計料臣所患痔瘇數日來加重不能運身欲待少歇進去嘉山而難可預期恐誤大事不勝憂悶
On the eleventh day of this month your servant respectfully received at Jeongju (定州) the royal directive bearing the seal of the deputy royal secretary (右副承旨).
The native troops along the river and the picked soldiers raised and sent up by the several districts are already at Anju (安州), the greater part of them led by the governor Yi Wonik (李元翼) and the army commander Yi Bin (李薲). Only the commander-in-chief Kim Myeongwon (金命元) is here, waiting for the Ming generals. The Ming troops came to this place from Imban (林畔) at the hour of the serpent today, and mean to set out for Gasan (嘉山) at dawn tomorrow.
The boat bridges on the two rivers, pressed on with the utmost strictness, are now wholly made. Only of the bringing of the three districts' storehouse grain round to Anju there is as yet no reply, and, being a matter of the sea road, your servant fears it may be hard to come in time. Hong Segong (洪世恭), the provisioning commissioner, happening to arrive only yesterday, your servant sent Hong Segong on ahead to Anju to press it on. Other matters touching military affairs he plans to take counsel upon with Kim Myeongwon and dispose of.
The gum swelling from which your servant suffers has grown worse these few days, so that he cannot move his body. He means to wait for it to abate a little and then go forward to Gasan, but it is hard to fix a time beforehand; and fearing that he may spoil a great matter, he cannot master his anxiety.
Interlinear notes 1
壬辰七月十三日在定州
The thirteenth day of the seventh month of the imjin (壬辰) year. This was when he was at Jeongju.