Urgent Report: Yi Gwi's Grain Levy, and Keeping Him On as Aide馳。啓宣諭官李貴募粟辭緣及姑留李貴爲從事官狀

The report of Yi Gwi (李貴), the royal proclaimer, had this in it: 「In the twelfth month of last year, following the command to proclaim and the province's official letter, I took warrants of appointment with the name left blank and went to Hwanghae, Gangwon and other provinces, and made it known among the people and gathered in doe and mal to help the military stores, and had those who offered grain made into a register and sent up.」

At the first Yi Gwi, holding that since the state's business was urgent men ought to help as their strength allowed, went in and out among the people and made it known everywhere, and gathering it in bit by bit got three hundred and sixty-six seok of miscellaneous grain. Apart from what had already been carried to Gaeseong Prefecture and made into provisions for the Ming troops, the rest was added to our own country's military grain, so that some days' trouble of starving was escaped.

Earlier, after the Ming troops had come and halted at Gaeseong, at a time when the provisions and fodder of the several places did not reach them, your servant sent Yi Gwi riding to Anhyeop (安峽), Icheon (伊川), Pyeonggang (平康), Suan (遂安) and such places, and he brought over three hundred seok and more of rice and beans, three hundred seok and more of short fodder, and five thousand six hundred bundles of long fodder, and so made up what was lacking.

After this there is no separate business of proclaiming, and the aide your servant has with him is only one man, so that when he must be divided and sent out to look into and oversee all manner of things there is always the trouble of having no men. Your servant has kept Yi Gwi for the present at the place where he himself is, calling him an aide, and has him go to and fro among the several places and look into the business of provisions and fodder and the like.