Book VIII 559*
Chŏng Sŏn, former vice minister of the Royal Stable Court, captured a run-
away female servant and had her confined to his house. Then, a man named
Yongsŏk, who had had an adulterous relationship with the female servant,
killed Sŏn and ran away with the female servant. They were captured at
Ansan and put to death. The dead body of the man was dismembered and
displayed publicly, and the woman was strangulated to death.
Min Yuŭi, magistrate of Ikchu,^70 submitted a memorial to the king requesting
that unauthorized shrines be abolished and the shrines for ancestors be
established in each family, and also that chickens and pigs be raised so that
they could be used for the old and sick as well as for ancestral rites. He also
requested that female servants in the Buddhist temples be prohibited from
preparing meals and that entertainers and performers be prohibited from
wandering around and, rather, be registered on the household records and
provided with land to cultivate.
The king said, “There are already ordinances that address all these mat-
ters, but the problem is that they have not been properly enforced until
now.” Then he ordered the Privy Council to transmit his decree to local
provinces.
28th Day (Chŏngsa)
The king moved into the new royal palace.29th Day (Muo)
The king ordered the Board of personnel to appoint Mt. Paegak as Count
Chin’guk and Mt. Namsan as King Mongmyŏk the Great and prohibited
high- ranking officials as well as scholars and common people from per-
forming ancestral rites on those mountains.
- Modern Iksan City.