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1, reducing the amount by 5 pu to each lower rank. So an official of rank 6
received 10 pu, and a commoner 2 pu.^119th Day (Kabin)
Bo Suo, brigade commander of Wulangha, as well as Zhao Yiguai and Li
Dujie, battalion commanders, and others presented their local products. The
king bestowed dresses on them.^2People from Liaodong, China, crossed the frontier to Korea, and the king
had them arrested and ordered Commandant Chŏng Anji to take them back
to their homes under escort.22nd Day (Chŏngsa)
Venus appeared in daylight, starting from the southeast.23rd Day (Muo)
Cho Ki, Lord of Ŭnch’ŏn, became critically ill from boils on his back,
prompting the king to have monks gather at the private palace precint to
offer prayers for his recovery.Pyŏn Ongnan, director- without- portfolio of the Security Council, died.
Ongnan was a native of Miryang. He was the son of Wŏn, posthumous
assistant chancellor, and a descendant of Royal Inspector (kamch’al ŏsa)
Hyŏnin. Before he became of age, he observed the mourning rite for his
grandmother on behalf of his father, who had passed away earlier. After
finishing the mourning, he said to his mother, “I will go to the capital
[Kaesŏng] to become an official and continue the legacy of my ancestors.”
Though his mother tried to dissuade him from leaving home because he
was still too young, he persisted in his request for her permission.
In the Pyŏngsul year (1346) of the previous dynasty, he passed the civil
service examination and became palace attendant of the Women’s Quarters
(aekchŏng naesi). Then he got promoted to the rank of assistant director- Pu is a hundredth of a kyŏl. A kyŏl varied from 2.2 to 9.0 acres depending, on the pro-
ductivity of the land. - The people mentioned here are presumed to be the chiefs of Jurchen tribes in the
north.