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7 Seeing Off Case Reviewer Wei (16) to Temporarily Fill the Post of�Defense Administrative Assistant in Tonggu In the past, when I had fallen among the rebels, I went roaming with you incognito.
Now we have come to the temporary capital, 4 in the king?
s service some stay and some go.
Hard-pressed among troops and horses, the ruler worries about the urgent need for good counsel.
Although your stature is small, 8 your mature energy stretches across the nine regions.
You roused yourself on occasion of the troubles, opened your eyes wide and took a look at the enemy.
The court thought your principles vigorous, 12 receiving a summons, you were ordered to take part in planning.
The phoenix-belled palanquin halts at Fengxiang,1 Tonggu serves as its throat.
It holds the road west to the Ruo River, 16 it guards the borders of Fuhan Commandery to the south. In the age of peace, this land was the shame of its officers because of banditry. Even more now, when the Hu are not yet destroyed,2 20 the scope of its reach goes far into the wilderness. 1 That is, the Emperor has set up his temporary capital there. 2 The rebels. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 294 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
It holds the road west to the Ruo River, 16 it guards the borders of Fuhan Commandery to the south. In the age of peace, this land was the shame of its officers because of banditry. Even more now, when the Hu are not yet destroyed,2 20 the scope of its reach goes far into the wilderness. 1 That is, the Emperor has set up his temporary capital there. 2 The rebels. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 294 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
