COREENNES_KORTRIG STACK008

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"Thus after crossing our borders they took or accepted as many beef cattle or chickens as they
wished, and were questioned in polite terms. They were offered gifts, without being disturbed in
any way. Consequently you show a lack of gratitude toward us, whereas I do not toward you.
This does not satisfy you; we had to force you away, your return is unseemly. This time you
pillage my cities, you kill my people, you destroy my goods and my flocks. Never have we seen
a more serious violation of the Heavens and the laws. What is more, it is said that you wish to
spread your religion in my kingdom. In this you do wrong. The different books have particular
sentences in which they present the true and the false. What harm is it that I follow my religion,
and you, yours? If it is blameworthy to renounce one's ancestors, why then do you come to
teach us to abandon ours and to take others foreign to us? If men with such teachings may not
be put to death, we shall do better to renounce Heaven itself! "

" I treat you as Yu and Tan treated the impious Kopey, and you take umbrage like Nysean-yean
toward Tcheu-uen. Though I do not dare compare myself to these famous kings, still one
cannot pass over one's own magnanimity in silence.

"You now appear here again with a large army, as though you were the instrument of celestial
justice. Come to my court: let us have an interview and decide if it will be necessary to bring the
troops together or to send them back, to chance victory or defeat. Do not flee: bow down and
obey

"The fifth year of the reign of Tung-Tehy, the ninth moon, the eleventh day."

This text, in which Zuber recognized "a certain good sense," received "an unfavorable response."