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

492 MILITARY REFORM been the first to raise the issue in 1659, but nothing had come of it because the Bordcr Defense Command off ...

MILITARY FINANCE 493 vagrants. Once this happened, it set in motion the vicious cycle of transferring tax obligations from the d ...

494 MILITARY REFORM as well as men) and adopting the household cloth system. Yi Sehwa had also approved of the household cloth s ...

MIL IT A R Y FIN A NeE 495 bility for examining school students and testing military officers in archery (to their own superiors ...

496 MILITARY REFORM Suhang supported the idea of testing the household cloth system in one area. There was simply no other way t ...

MILITARY FINANCE 497 considerable body of opinion present throughout the bureaucratic hierarchy that was more progressive, at le ...

498 MILITARY REFORM The benefits of rate reduction (i.e., getting two support taxpayers to find a third to reduce their rate fro ...

MILITARY FINANCE 499 segment of the high officials were willing to take action that would cause pain to their fellow yangban. Th ...

500 MILITARY REFORM despite his occasional defense of equality - except that he would not have approved of status (let alone in ...

CHAPTER 13 Military Reorganization, Weapons, and Walls 1his chapter will cover three topics related to military affairs in Yu's ...

502 MILITARY REFORM creating a totally new system. He retained only certain elements of the new sys- tem: the Military Training ...

MILITAR Y REORGAN IZATION 503 that almost all the soldiers from Ch'ungch'ong and Kyongsang provinces assigned to the post be rep ...

504 MILITARY REFORM dynasty. This arrangement would solve two problems at once: it would prevent an excess of troops at the capi ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 505 as a group to one of the Five Guard units in the capital and would not be trans- ferred from one uni ...

506 MILITARY REFORM only T90 Forbidden Guards, but the number had grown to 600 by his own time. If you cOLlnted the troops of th ...

MILIT AR Y REORGAN lZA TION 507 ordered its abolition in his new society, nevertheless he adopted many of its administrative fea ...

508 MILITARY REFORM No Capital Guard Servicesjor Remote Provinces Another part of Yu's military reorganization plan called for t ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 509 that the capital guards wcre to be filled only by peasants living in the Kyonggi area around the cap ...

510 MILITARY REFORM Concentration of Frontier Forces Yu Hyongwon cited a number of Chinese sources to justify an argument agains ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 51 I the peasants residing: in the district, and each district walled town was still vul- nerable to att ...