廣弘明集 28.103

28.103

門下風樹弗靜隙影如流。空切欲報之心。徒有終身之慕。伏惟太祖武元皇帝。窮神盡性。感穹昊之靈。膺籙合圖。開炎德之紀。魏氏將謝躬事經綸。周室勃興同心匡贊。間關二代造我帝基。猶夏禹之事唐虞。晉宣之輔漢魏。往者梁氏將滅。親尋構禍蕭察稱兵。擁眾據有襄陽。將入魏朝。狐疑未決。先帝出師樊鄧飲馬漢濱。彼感威懷連城頓顙。隋郡安陸未即從風。敵人騁輔車之援。重城固金湯之守。乃復練卒簡徒。一舉而剋。始於是日遂啟漢東。蕭繹往在江陵。後梁稱制。外通表奏陰有異圖。心迹之間未盡臣節。王師薄伐帝旅推鋒。誅厥放命繼其絕祀。有齊未亡凶徒孔熾。連山巨防艱危萬重。晉水之陽是其心腹。於是鳴[蒠-心+(冗-几+(止*(ㄇ/又)))]執鉞假道北隣。皮服欽風煙隨霧集。懸兵萬里直指參墟。左縈右拂麻積草靡。雖事未既功。而英威大振。齊人因以挫衂。周武賴以成功。尚想王業之勤。遠惟風化之始。率夷狄而制東夏。用偏師而取南國。豈徒湯征葛伯周伐崇侯而已哉。積德累功福流後嗣。俾朕虛薄君臨區有。追仰神猷。事冥真寂。降生下土權變不常。用輪王之兵。伸至人之意。百戰百勝為行十善。故以干戈之器已類香華。玄黃之野久同淨國。思欲崇樹寶剎經始伽藍。增長福因微副幽旨。昔夏因導水尚且銘山。周曰巡遊有聞勒石。帝王紀事。由來尚矣。其襄陽隨州江陵晉陽。並宜立寺一所。建碑頌德。庶使莊嚴寶坊比虛空而不壞。導揚茂實同天地而長久。

From the Chancellery: The wind through the trees does not calm; the shadow through the crack passes like a torrent. The desire to repay [Our parents] is painfully felt in vain, and lifelong longing is held to no avail. Reverently We consider Our Grand Ancestor, Emperor Wuyuan, who exhausted the spiritual and realized his nature, responding to the spirits of the vast heavens. Receiving the mandates and matching the charts, he initiated the era of fiery virtue. As the House of Wei was about to decline, he personally managed the state affairs; as the House of Zhou vigorously arose, he assisted and supported it with one mind. Moving through two dynasties, he founded Our imperial basis, just as Yu of Xia served Tang and Yu, and Sima Yi of Jin assisted Han and Wei. In the past, when the House of Liang was about to perish, Xiao Cha personally brought about calamity and raised troops. Gathering his multitudes, he occupied Xiangyang; about to enter the Wei court, he was hesitant and undecided. The late Emperor dispatched his army to Fan and Deng and watered his horses on the banks of the Han River. Awed by his authority and cherishing his benevolence, linked cities knocked their foreheads to the ground. Sui Commandery and Anlu did not immediately submit; the enemy made full use of mutual assistance, and the fortified cities held fast with defenses like metal and boiling water. Thereupon, he again trained the troops and selected soldiers, overcoming them in a single strike. Beginning on that day, he opened up the east of the Han. When Xiao Yi formerly resided in Jiangling, he established the Later Liang regime. Externally, he submitted memorials, but secretly he harbored divergent intentions; between his mind and deeds, he did not fulfill the duties of a subject. The royal army launched a punitive expedition, and the imperial troops advanced their spearheads; punishing the one who rebelled against orders, he continued their broken ancestral line. Before the Qi fell, the fierce rebels were extremely fierce; continuous mountains and great defenses presented myriad layers of peril and danger. The sunny side of the Jin River was their very heartland. Thereupon, sounding the drums and holding the battleaxes, he borrowed a passage through the northern neighbors. The leather-clad barbarians admired his prestige, gathering like smoke and mist. Suspending his troops across ten thousand leagues, he pointed directly at Shenxu. Circling to the left and sweeping to the right, they fell like harvested hemp and flattened grass. Although the matter did not fully accomplish its goal, his heroic prestige was greatly shaken. The people of Qi were thereby thwarted and defeated, and Emperor Wu of Zhou relied upon this to achieve success. Still reflecting on the diligence of the royal enterprise, We ponder from afar the origin of his transforming influence. Leading the barbarians to control the eastern realm, and employing a detachment to seize the southern state: was this merely like Tang's expedition against the Earl of Ge, or King Wu of Zhou's punishment of the Marquis of Chong? Accumulating virtue and gathering merit, his blessings flowed down to his later descendants, allowing Us, deficient and unworthy, to rule over the realm. Looking back reverently upon his spiritual plan, his affairs merge with true quiescence. Descending to be born in the lower world, his expedient changes were without constant form. Using the troops of a wheel-turning king, he carried out the intention of the supreme man. Winning a hundred battles in a hundred engagements, he practiced the ten good deeds. Therefore, the weapons of shield and spear have already come to resemble fragrant flowers, and the yellow and dark wilderness has long been identical to a pure land. We desire to venerate and erect precious monasteries and begin the construction of saṅghārāmas, to increase the causes of blessing and slightly fulfill his hidden intentions. In ancient times, because Xia dredged the waters, mountains were inscribed; when Zhou carried out inspection tours, steles were carved. For emperors and kings to record affairs has a long-standing tradition. In Xiangyang, Suizhou, Jiangling, and Jinyang, a monastery should be erected in each place, and a stele established to praise his virtue. May the adorned precious temples be like empty space, never decaying, and may the proclaimed flourishing deeds equal Heaven and Earth, lasting forever.