Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions. Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty - James B. Palais

392 MILITARY REFORM After the Imjin War of 1592-98, slaves were brought into the national army for the first time on a regular b ...

PART IV INTRODUCTION 393 necessarily new or modern, was he a force for liberation from the accumulated restrictions and disabili ...

CHAPTER 10 The Royal Division Model: Rotating Duty Soldiers and Support Taxpayers To provide some background for the context of ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 395 ing Kim Chajom and his leading cohorts with anti-Manchu officials. Isolated politically, Kim turned to ...

396 MILITARY REFORM Ch'ing envoys, Hyojong had to abandon plans for rapid replacement of worn- out weapons. Recruitment and trai ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 397 chusa) had become a hereditary practice that had been incorporated into the dynastic law code. It refus ...

398 MILITARY REFORM their jurisdiction to supervise training in military skills. He guaranteed thema tour of duty of twenty-four ...

Roy A L DIVISION MODEL 399 because private and official slaves had been brought into the military service system, primarily by m ...

400 MILITARY REFORM Since the situation in the mid-seventeenth century had changed so little from the late sixteenth century, Yu ...

Roy AL DIVISION MODEL 401 empty of soldiers, but even those on duty were affected by the general corrup- tion and subjected to e ...

402 MILITARY REFORM Moreover, at the present time when a son is born to a family of the people, even berore he is weaned, he is ...

Roy A L DIVISION MODEL 403 As corrupted as the system of military finance by support taxpayers had become, the troops of new uni ...

404 MILITARY REFORM vide adequate salaries to these petty clerks and runners, and prohibit the use of soldiers as runners or sla ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 405 or freedmen would have become eligible for military service. He declined to do so not only because he w ...

406 MILITARY REFORM cern for calamity and happiness. When they were living at home, they shared he same joys, and when they were ...

Roy A L D I V I S 10 N MOD E L 407 the problem that emerged in Korea in the Choson period: the replacement of duty soldiers by p ...

408 MILITARY REFORM also the usurpations by commanders of capital guards like Wang Mang, Tung Cho, Ts'ao Ts'ao, or Ssu-ma Yen of ...

Roy A L D I V I S 10 N MOD E L 409 men in the capital, including the transport of vast amounts of grain from the Huai and Yangtz ...

410 MILITARY REFORM siastic about the fu-ping system had he known of them. Nonetheless, Yu as well as most traditional commentat ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 411 itary service was probably limited to military families, and the state granted sol- diers, along with o ...