510 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o
and Yi Chik, director of the Security Council, to go down to Kwangju [in
Kyŏnggi Province] to look for a prospective site for the royal tomb of
the king.12th Day (Kyemyo)
When Queen Hyŏn fell ill, the king served meals to the monks and let them
pray to Buddha for her recovery and also had all the prisoners across the
country released except those who were subject to capital punishment.It happened that the minor merit subjects who had already received merit
land also received the merit land granted to those who joined the retreat of
troops led by the king in the Mujin year (1388), so the Office of the Inspector-
General requested the king not to grant land to the same person twice. The
king granted the request.13th Day (Kapjin)
Mun Ch’ungbo, the son of the Prince of Cheju,^3 presented seven fine horses
[to the king].The king ordered that the Longevity Hall of Fame (Changsaengjŏn)
enshrining the portraits of merit subjects be built on the west side of the
royal palace. Many merit subjects, in accordance with their rank, contrib-
uted money and grain to save on expenditures for the construction of the
building.Xia Zhi, company commander from Liaodong, was drowned in the Yalu
River. Zhi went to Ŭiju in order to escort Yang Ch’ŏmsik, Korean tribute
horse envoy (chinmasa). On his way back home, he bought cows and crossed
the river. However, the rising floodwater became so turgid as the boat
reached the middle of the river that the cows on the boat got scared and fell
down on their sides, making the boat turned over. The people on the boat
with him were all drowned.- Cheju Island, also called T’amna or T’amnaguk, was officially annexed to Koryŏ in
1105 yet maintained its autonomy until it became completely absorbed by the Chosŏn dynasty
in 1404.