Report on Receiving the Royal Directive and, After Dividing and Disposing of the Army Grain, Setting Out to Return有。旨祗受糧穀分付處置後發還狀
今月初九日右承旨成貼有。旨書狀十一日都承旨成貼有。旨書狀臣在安州祗受臣來此已近一月糧餉一事檢擧輸轉之外別無句當緊關之務自前月唐兵退去之後卽欲還赴。行在而或慮人心騷動且諸處輸來米豆數千餘石不敢輸入官庫皆留泊江中萬一有意外倉卒之虞欲爲臨時處置遲留至今安州以北各邑則臣所親往檢勅諸事粗各整辦而惟他處輸來之米或久陳或麤惡不敢支給唐兵從事官洪宗祿時方往來看點使之吹正精舂肅川順安則初以近賊所之故不欲預聚糧糓至今未得多運全聞唐兵出來之後始令於三和龍岡等邑急輸米豆一千六百石分置于肅川順安但此等之邑民丁盡在行陣老弱多竄山谷許多之穀恐未得及時齊到而從事官辛慶晉自十餘日來重得疸疾專未運身奔走檢勅無人可使不得已遣臣軍官往督且以大將從事官金信元時在三縣故使之檢察各邑及時輸運可無稽緩不及之弊臣更爲移文諸處措授後明日發還計料
On the ninth day of this month your servant humbly received at Anju (安州) the royal directive sealed with the official seal by the Right Royal Secretary, and on the eleventh the royal directive sealed with the official seal by the Chief Royal Secretary.
It is already near a month since your servant came to this place, and apart from the one business of overseeing the army grain and shipping it in, there is no other essential business in his particular charge. Since the Ming troops withdrew last month he meant to return at once to the royal travelling court, but he feared the hearts of the people might grow unquiet, and further, the several thousand seok of rice and beans shipped in from various places could not be ventured into the government granaries and have all been kept in the ships out on the river; so, meaning to dispose of matters as they arose should there be any sudden unlooked-for trouble, he has remained here until now.
In the several districts north of Anju your servant went in person and oversaw the various matters, so that they are each roughly provided for. Only, the rice shipped in from elsewhere is in part stale and in part coarse and poor, so it cannot be ventured out to the Ming troops; his aide Hong Jongnok (洪宗祿) is therefore now going back and forth having it inspected item by item, winnowed and sorted, and finely hulled.
At Sukcheon (肅川) and Sunan (順安) there was at first no wish to gather army grain beforehand, as they were said to be near where the enemy are, so not much has been carried there until now. Only upon hearing that the Ming troops would come out did we at last order the districts of Samhwa (三和), Yonggang (龍岡), and the like to ship in one thousand six hundred seok of rice and beans with urgency and divide them between Sukcheon and Sunan. Only, in districts such as these the able-bodied men are all away in the camps and the old and weak have largely hidden in the mountain valleys, so it is feared that such a quantity of grain may not all arrive in time.
Yet his aide Sin Gyeongjin (辛慶晉) has for ten days and more been badly taken with jaundice and cannot move his body at all, so there is no one to employ in the business of running about and overseeing, and your servant has had no choice but to send his own officer to press it forward. Also, since the Grand Commander's aide Kim Sinwon (金信元) happens to be in the three districts, your servant has had him look to the several districts and have the shipping done in time, so there should be no fault of lateness and failing to arrive.
Your servant plans to send dispatches to the various places once more, dispose of matters and entrust them, and then set out to return tomorrow.
Interlinear notes 1
壬辰八月
The eighth month of the Imjin year