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宋太師楚國公蔡京喜食鶉。預籠蓄而烹之。甞夢鶉數千訴於前。其一致詞曰。食君稟中粟。充君箸下肉。一羹數百命。生死猶轉轂。看君壽千春。禍福相倚伏。京甚畏焉　宋秋九月。改官名太宰少宰。曰左右僕射。

Under the Song, Grand Preceptor and Duke of the State of Chu, Cai Jing, was fond of eating quails. He had them caged and kept in advance before cooking them. Once he dreamed of several thousand quails pleading before him. One of them delivered a statement, saying: "We eat grain from your granary, and fill the place of meat beneath your chopsticks. For a single bowl of broth, several hundred lives are taken; life and death revolve like a wheel. Look upon your life of a thousand springs: misfortune and fortune lean upon one another." Jing was terrified by this. In the autumn, the ninth month, the official titles of Grand Chancellor and Lesser Chancellor were changed to Left and Right Servitors.