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

552 MILITARY REFORM land and reduce both acreage under cultivation and tax revenue, forcing the gov- ernment to increase the tax ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 553 along the coast, and silver and iron mining in the interior, and (2) the capital fund of the goverme ...

554 MILITARY REFORM grain loan funds to fund state-tenancy one could convert a source of one evil into a cure for another. Of th ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 555 ual reform of the situation could be achieved, but not evidently by abolishing the units themselves. ...

556 MILITARY REFORM required (military) expenditures by selling it off for cash. He referred to this as "doing injury to those o ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 557 adapted to eighteenth-century circumstances. Kwon brought one new and orig- inal idea to the debate ...

558 MILITARY REFORM It may he somewhat disconcerting, however, that Yu's intellectual disciple, Kwon, should have argued against ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 559 wan). To salve their feelings, he proposed calling them cloth taxpaying military officers (sup '0 ku ...

560 MILITARY REFORM that it would constitute a new form of oppression on taxpayers. Conversely, if it were set so low as to guar ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 561 that "His policies have a lot of mistakes, but in this matter I value each man expressing his own vi ...

562 MILITARY REFORM who imposed an additional tax burden not only on the people, but on their descen- dants in perpetuity, so so ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 563 he noted, a special messenger had to be sent to order them to report to the cap- ital for fear that ...

564 MILITARY REFORM dent on peasants], but in the later age [husel, soldiers and agriculture [or soldiers and peasants] were div ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 565 The fifth measure was referred to as allocations (punjang) that provincial gov- ernors, and provinci ...

566 MILITARY REFORM bly dissipated any good will the king had earned from the yangban class by pass- ing over the household tax. ...

MILITAR y SERVICE SYSTEM 567 Chongjo's reign in the late I 77os, men were still evading service by registering with government s ...

568 MILITARY REFORM for that purpose, or paying the village's quota collectively. These measures were taken as a defensive react ...

PART IV Military Reform: Conclusion Kang Man'gil has written recently that there were two types of reform plans advocated by sch ...

570 MILITARY REFORM When Yu wrote that he abhorred the idea of long-term, professional soldiers on permanent salary like those o ...

PART IV CONCLUSION 571 exemption from tax payments. Yu's solution to this problem was to advocate the recreation of early Chason ...