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the land, and family members filed lawsuits in feuds with each other.
Consequently, both the government and the people became impoverished.
Therefore, around the Kisa year (1389), a general land survey was carried
out in Kyŏnggi as well as five other provinces, numbering the land using
Chinese characters. However, inexperienced in calculation and pressed by
the deadline, the light and heavy were not properly balanced, things hap-
pened to be left out, and the land near the seas even failed to be surveyed.
“We request that officials in the court be dispatched to various districts
and inspect the land together with local magistrates, and provincial gover-
nors supervise their activities and collect taxes after numbering the land
with the characters of the Thousand Character Classic. In the case of the
Northeast and Northwest Regions, we request that the chief patrolling
inspector survey the land based on the amount of the land that can culti-
vated in a day with an ox.
“If the magistrates and officials responsible for the tasks hesitate to make
sufficient field trips, they should be punished in accordance with the regula-
tions of the Board of Taxation. They should be dismissed from office and
never employed again. When the governor or chief patrolling inspector fails
to supervise the surveying activities, they should also be reported to the
king and punished.” The king granted the request.27th Day (Kyŏngja)
There was a windstorm and hail.Genkei, governor of Hizen Province and Shunshu [Suruga] Province,^33 sent
a man to present gifts.The king paid a visit to Hŭngch’ŏn Monastery and saw the Hall of Sacred
Buddhist Relics.Kim Ch’ŏnik, senior officer of the Capital Constabulary, was dispatched to
each garrison in Chŏlla and Kyŏngsang Provinces with orders that he phys-
ically punish those among the garrison commanders who failed to master
the Diagram of Troop Dispositions.- An old province of Japan that bordered on Chikuzen and Chikugo. Today the area is
split into Saga and Nagasaki Prefectures.