It was then that your Majesty, our founder, arose in your wrath from obscurity, and destroyed those monsters of iniquity, so that the ancient glory was won again.

In twelve years you consolidated the Imperial sway, and the dominions of the Great Yue were purged of pollution and cleansed from the noisome Tartar.

Often in history has our noble Chinese race been enslaved by petty frontier barbarians from the north.

Never have such glorious triumphs been won over them as your Majesty achieved.

But your descendants were degenerate, and failed to carry on your glorious heritage; they entrusted the reins of government to bad men, and pursued a short-sighted policy.