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away, but the ones he took away were actually not his.^39 If there were some
who belonged to him, they had already been carried off by battalion com-
manders such as Xu Bian and Hubadu in the sixteenth year (1383) of the
reign of Hongwu. Furthermore, even if there were people who were not
repatriated and settled down comfortably in their places, they were not
forced to stay in our small kingdom.
“When we received your latest instruction this time, we immediately sent
our men to search for Jurchens in our land. We found 25 households, made
up of 116 people, including a Jurchen named Chouyitu, and handed them
over to Chiliarch Wang, sent by the Right Army of the Chief Military
Commission (Youjun dudufu), along with Kim Wan’gwi, the chiliarch who
was in charge of Tuohuan Buhua’s jurisdiction and the plain of Pyŏktun and
Kuja.”^409th Month
1st Day (Kyemyo)
The king dispatched Pak Yŏngch’ung, associate commissioner of the Secu-
rity Council, to China to congratulate them on the birthday of the Chinese
heir apparent. The king performed a rite of bowing down to the memorial
of congratulation at Such’ang Palace and returned to his temporary royal
quarters.The Chinese government paid for tribute horses, and our government
divided the money and distributed it to those who sold them.2nd Day (Kapchin)
Envoy Nam Chae, who had visited the Chinese capital, returned and
reported to the king: “The emperor treated me generously and also said,
“Since it costs a great deal for the envoys of your country to travel a long
distance to pay tribute, send your envoys only once every three years from
now on.”- Tuohuan Buhua, originally a resident of the Northeast Region in Korea, made his visit
on the third day of the fourth month of 1393. - It seems to be the name of a strategic district somewhere on the Yalu River Area
because the word “p’ajŏl” prefixed to the chiliarch suggests defending a strategic point of
military importance.