(2017Translation) 崔瑩

Original Script

崔鐵城瑩少時。其父常戒之曰。見金如土[石]。瑩。常以四字書諸紳。終身服膺而勿失。雖秉國政。威行中外。而一毫不取於人家。纔足食而已。當時宰樞相邀迓。以棋局消日。爭設珍饌。以務豪侈。公獨邀客。過午不設饌。日暮糅黍稻炊飯。兼陳雜菜。諸客枵腸盡啖菜飯曰。鐵城之飯甚甘也。公笑曰。此亦用兵之謀也。 《慵齋叢話.卷三》

Translation

Student 1 : Sanghoon Na

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When Ch’oe Yŏng of Chŏlsŏng, was young, his father always admonished him, saying, "Regard gold as dirt or rocks." Yŏng always had the four characters[見金如土] written on the sashes and kept them in mind and did not forget them all his life.

• 服膺(복응): 교훈(敎訓) 같은 것을 늘 마음에 두어 잊지 아니함. 가슴속에 품어 둠

Although he assumed the reins of government and his authority was wielded in and out [of court], he did not exploit a bit from other people's houses. He was just content with food to eat. In those days ministers invited and received as guests each other to spend a day playing paduk. They competitively set a sumptuous meal with which they pursued luxury and extravagance. Mr. Ch'oe alone invited guests and did not set the [lunch] table [even] after noon. At sunset, he mixed millet and rice and cooked meals with various greens he prepared. All the guests who had empty intestines and ate up the vegetables and rice and said, [Ch'oe of] Chŏlsŏng's meal is astonishingly delicious. Mr. Ch'oe smiled and said, "This also is a strategy of maneuvering soldiers."

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