756 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o
13th Day (Kyŏngsin)
The king arrived at the hot springs.14th Day (Sinyu)
Water froze.15th Day (Imsul)
By sending an official, the king offered wild herbs and vegetables (sanch’ae)
to the Royal Ancestral Shrine.17th Day (Kapcha)
Kim Kyeran, special director for horse- raising (ch’ungma pyŏlgam) of
Cheju Island arrived to present eight fine horses. The king bestowed one of
them on Right Chancellor Kim Sahyŏng.The king appointed Ko Yŏch’ung, a resident of Cheju, as special director for
horse- raising and bestowed two bolts of silk and two hundred bottles of
wine upon Kim Ch’ŏnsin, myriarch of Cheju, and 30 sŏk of rice and beans
on Yŏch’ung’s mother.The king ordered that Cheju annually present one hundred horses and one
hundred oxen as tribute.19th Day (Pyŏngin)
Ch’oe Yŏngji, provincial military commissioner of the Northwest Region,
arrived to have an audience with the king [to pay his respects].The casting of the new bell in Kwangju was finished, and so sacrifices were
offered at both Mt. Paegak and Mt. Mongmyŏk.20th Day (Chŏngmyo)
Jupiter approached the Ghoul Star and Heap of Corpses and stayed until the
Imsin day [the 26th day?].