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

412 MILITARY REFORM tary service). Modem scholars have pointed out, however, that the seventeen- kyci/ ch6kch6ng could not have ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 413 was not necessary to go into too much detail in describing inadequate military systems. As in so many o ...

414 MILITARY REFORM into the landscape with a border of ridges to provide a firm and unchanging basis for land grants to the pea ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 415 service. It would be impossible, for example, to establish a system of truly uni- versal service in whi ...

416 MILITARY REFORM tified without it. Thus, he provided that "Once the land system is carried out, organize all soldiers - regu ...

Roy AL DIVISION MODEL 417 destroyed. This will be an inevitable result of the situation. and the pros and cons can clearly be se ...

418 MILITARY REFORM tia model over what followed it. Judging, however, from the regulations adopted in King H yojong's reign in ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 419 tation that this separation of funds would preserve the fiction of the self-sup- porting nature of the ...

420 MILITARY REFORM be applied to any provincial army or navy commander or local garrison com- mander who extorted funds from an ...

Roy A L DIVISION MODEL 421 eunuchs, the Court of Interpreters (Say6gw6n), Directorate of Medicine (Ch6n'lIigam), Directorate of ...

422 MILITARY REFORM these functions. The bureaus had recr'uited soldiers to perform slave service func- tions because a shortage ...

Roy AL DIVISION MODEL 423 the rice were to be converted to cloth, clerks would be designated to supervise the collection. Likewi ...

424 MILITA R Y RE FORM provided with support taxpayers. The net result was that "for the last four or five ycars there has been ...

Roy AL DIVISION MODEL 425 be excused from military service at the age of sixty. Yu himself had discovered that cunently men past ...

426 MILITARY REFORM it might be easier for the regular soldiers if they were left alone for the rest of the year after serving t ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 427 provide adequately for infantry, particularly when the evidence of comlption in its operation in his ow ...

428 MILITARY REFORM one shift, with hi,gher quotas for the northern and northwestern provinces accord- ing to the need.^94 Discr ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 429 legally or illegally, for lower-rate service. Although Yu's plan is to be admired for its intent, his r ...

430 MILITARY REFORM ruption if only the proper administrative arrangements were found. In fact, in 1750, his opposition to the l ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 431 and his rule excluding the use of the land tax for overall support of the military was nothing but the ...