392 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o
25th Day (Kabo)
Three imperial envoys, including Hwang Yŏnggi, came to visit with an offi-
cial letter from the Chief Military Commission of the Left Army, with an
imperial message enclosed in it. Setting up a colorful tent and having a
ritual dance performance for welcoming the honored guests, the king led all
the officials out to Sŏnŭimun Gate to welcome the Chinese envoys and then
returned to Such’ang Palace.
The official letter brought by the Chinese envoys read as follows: “On the
twentieth day of the third month of the twenty- seventh year of the reign of
Hongwu [1394], Li Zengzhi, assistant commander- in- chief of our Commis-
sion and other members received a sacred imperial message at Fengtianmen
Gate: ‘In recent days, our security forces defending Ganpu and nearby regions
have captured five bandits in succession, including one named Ho Tŏk. Those
who were arrested made depositions, saying that they were all Koreans sent
by Koryŏ officials guarding the border region to plunder the coastal dis-
tricts [of China] and gather information. I want you to send a list of the
individuals in the recent investigations of your Left Army, along with the
list made in previous investigations, to Koryŏ, after making an official doc-
ument, and let the eldest or the second- eldest son of the Korean king person-
ally bring back to China those who committed the incursion of our borders.’
This was the order from His Imperial Majesty.
“Our Chief Military Commission of the Left Army should naturally
carry out the imperial order, and therefore we send a list of individuals who
are to be repatriated by your government. The number of people who are to
be sent back totals forty- two, and it includes twenty- five people from the
previous investigations and seventeen people discovered in the recent inves-
tigations.
“Regional Commander Yun, Myriarch Yuan Cheng, and three Jurchens
seized in Dongning, who are now residing in Pyŏktun and Kuja, earthen
fortifications in the Northwest Region, as well as Captain Jin Cheng, Official
Lin Julun, Officer Li Junbi, and Chiliarch Kim Wan’gwi, with his thirteen
family members, ought to be sent back.”
The three Chinese envoys aforementioned are all eunuchs that our gov-
ernment sent to China.26th Day (Ŭlmi)
The people with the family name Wang who received their name from the
Koryŏ dynasty were all commanded to use their original family names, and