Report on Providing Army Grain along the Hwanghae Route黃海道一路軍糧措備狀

The supplying of army grain for the Ming troops is now being provided for in this province. South of Pyongyang, in Hwanghae and Gyeonggi, there is no district preserved whole and the people's strength too is wholly spent. If, after the enemy of this province have withdrawn, the several armies cross the Daedong River one after another and go down southward, there is no way to provide so much army grain again, and the great business will surely be spoiled; which is cause for the utmost concern. A thing must be set up beforehand if there is to be no trouble at the moment of need.

Your servant has already sent dispatches to the Governor of Hwanghae Province and to the Border Patrol Commissioner, that the army grain gathered in each district be divided and kept at the province's mountain fortresses and at the firm places of Seoheung (瑞興) and Munhwa (文化), stored and guarded there in readiness for the needs of raising troops.

Only, it is heard that the army grain at Ganghwa (江華), carried from Chungcheong Province, is more than six thousand seom, and that after Pak Chunggan (朴忠侃) was dismissed and went away, Jeong Huibeon (鄭姬藩), Inspector (掌令), stayed there and took charge of it. Now Huibeon too has come in and has already set out for the travelling court, so that there is no one to take charge of so much army grain, and your servant fears the ill of its being left loose and drifting away and lost. Let the court deal with it with particular haste; and if one man of judgement among the court officials staying at Ganghwa were made to take sole charge, to order it and to see to the moving and shipping of it, so that there be no worry of the provisioning growing straitened and spent, it would be the more fitting.