Instructions to the Hwanghae Inspector諭黃海道巡察使文
屬得跟隨使黃愼馳。啓賊渝。天朝講和之約册使狼狽而還數年羈縻之計盡歸虛地賊情叵測事機方急在我今日之䇿惟在治兵繕甲以决一戰而朝廷根本之計亦在二西今方遣使告急于。天朝更請大兵措置䇿應亦係緊急凡干事機務在周密預爲籌畫毋緩毋急十分善處應行事宜當追後連續知會相考施行
Of late I have received the dispatch of the accompanying envoy Hwang Sin (黃愼). The enemy has thrown over the terms of peace made with Ming, and the envoys who were to invest their king have come back in disarray; the plan of several years, to bind them and hold them fast, has all come to nothing. The enemy's heart cannot be measured, and the turn of affairs is now pressing.
For us, today's plan lies only in ordering the troops and furbishing the armour and settling the matter in one battle, and the court's root plan too lies in the two western provinces. Now an envoy is being sent to Ming to tell of our straits and to ask once more for a great army, and so the taking of measures and the making of answer are likewise bound to what is urgent.
In all things let the turn of affairs be handled with close care. Plan ahead, neither slackening nor hurrying, and manage it well in full measure. What ought to be done will be made known one after another in what follows; examine it and put it in hand.
Interlinear notes 1
The two western provinces (二西) means Hwanghae and Pyeongan.