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Book VIII
Fourth Year of Reign (1395)
7th Month
1st Day (Imjin)
The censorial offices impeached Kim Un’gwi, former magistrate of Kaesŏng,
for excessively acquiring rank land and being unfilial to his parents. The
king sent him into exile only on charges of acquiring more rank land than
he was entitled to.
Then the king summoned Yi Ko, policy advisor, and other officials and
said, “At the end of the previous dynasty, it often happened that censors
impeached innocent people based on the rumors they heard and sometimes
had them killed. I feel sorry for those people. Since I ascended the throne, I
have given orders that the censorial officials should not impeach people
based on rumors. Nevertheless, you still request me to punish people for the
rumors that you have heard, and what is the reason?” Yi Ko replied,
“Everyone in the country knows that Un’gwi is guilty of unfiliality. Serving
in the Censorate, how can we not impeach such a person?” Then the king
told Yi Ko to stay off his current job.
Minamoto Ryōshun, governor of Kyushu of Japan presented local products
by sending his men, including a monk named Hara Syousen.
The king prohibited the local government of Cheju Island from annually
presenting dried horsemeat to the king as tribute goods. It was the custom
of Cheju Island that the islanders slaughtered female horses in the twelfth
month every year and made dried meat, which they presented as local tribute