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Setting Out for the Upper Province on the Royal Summons承。召命發向上道狀

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) 懲毖錄 · Ryu Seong-ryong · 1633 (printed; written after the Imjin War) · 1 passages · 120 Chinese characters · reading time 1 min

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) Book 13 — The Record of Jinsa A record left by Ryu Seong-ryong, Chief State Councillor, of what he saw with his own eyes after the Imjin War ended. Its title comes from the line, "I rebuke what is past, and take heed against troubles to come." He set down without excuse how the war began and what the court failed to do. His recommendation of Yi Sun-sin, the wrangling with the Ming army, and the suffering the people endured are all recorded as they were.

本月十四日臣軍官田齊安自全羅道回來持都元帥權慄謄送有。旨示臣其有。旨內都體察使已爲。召還。行在諸道軍權悉委於卿事臣受任累月略無寸効罪當萬死而反蒙。召還之寵感激惶恐不知所措臣時雖未承有。旨而已知有。召命不可仍在此處察任故卽自陜川發向上道以待召旨之下上去計料

On the fourteenth of this month my officer Jeon Jean (田齊安), returning from Jeolla Province, brought and showed me a royal directive (有旨) that Supreme Commander Gwon Yul (權慄) had copied out and sent on. The directive said that the Supreme Commissioner (都體察使) had already been called in to the travel court, and that the military authority over the several provinces was therefore entrusted entirely to me.

Having held my charge these several months with not the least merit to show, I deserve to die ten thousand deaths; yet instead I receive the favor of being summoned, and in my gratitude and awe I do not know what to do. I have not yet received the directive in my own hands, but since I know the summons has already been issued, I cannot stay on here and attend to my charge. I shall therefore set out at once from Hapcheon for the upper province, and wait there for the summoning directive to come down before going up.

Interlinear notes 1

Yuji (有旨) — a writing in which the king's command is set down and sent out.