There are ten camps of the new soldiery (Peipuchin) near the city The old militia is to be disbanded, the Luchun still to remain.
Soldiers are on their way to quell disturbance at Lushan. People in the village are saying that if the officials at Peking are going to do nothing but talk the country will be ruined as robbery is so rife.
Rain is much needed and some of the autumn crops have already suffered severely.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.