1098 NOTES TO CHAPTER I IPrince Sohyon and bypassed his sons who would normally have succeeded their father,
the legitimacy of Hyojong was by no means merely a legal or technical question. And if
Sohyon had dicd a natural death, there would have been no reason to set aside his heirs.
Ibid., pp. 49-50. See also idem, A Heritage of Kings: One Man '.I' Monarchy in the Con-
fucian World (Ncw York: Columbia University Press, 1988), pp. 23-25.
- Yi T'aejin, Han 'guk kunjesa (1977), pp. 136-39: Choson hugi, pp. 177-78,181-84:
see also chap. IO, ahove. Thc point of view that Southerners H6 Chok and Yu Hyogyon
supported the creation of the special unit only to control it and continued to fill vacan-
cies in the Military Training Agency instead of allowing it to shrink by attrition as Song
had requested, is that of the historian and compiler of this section of the Sillok. Although
the statement appears prejudicial to the interest of the Southerner faction, the compila-
tion of the Hyonjong sillok was begun in I675 and completed in 1677, in a period when
Southerners were in a dominant position at court. The director of the Sillok compilation
(Ch'ongjaegwan) was H6 ChOk, and one of the members of the second section (Ibang
tangsang) was Mok Naes6n, a man later instrumental in the purge of Westerners in 1689.
Hyonjong sillok 16: 1 4b-I 5a cited by Yi T'aejin, Choson hURi. p. 178 n.8. For informa-
tion on compilation, sec Sin S6kho, ed., Choson wangjo sillok 36 (Seoul: Kuksa
p'yonch'an wiw6nhoe, I957):I-3, - Hahoush, "A Heritage of Kings," pp. 55-61.
- These two men also had important relatives and family connections. Kim Man'gi
was the father-in-law of King Sukchong, Kim Sokchu was the nephew of the father-in-
law of King Hyonjong, son of a minister of war, and grandson of Kim Yuk, of the
Ch'ongp'ung Kim clan. Yi T'aejin, Han'Ruk kunjesa (1977), p. 143 n.36, and Choson
hugi, pp. 189-90. - Yi T'aejin, Choson hugi, pp. I 84-87: idem, Han 'guk kunjesa (1977), pp, 139-41.
For the figure of 6,250 Crack Select Soldiers see p. 142 n.33. - Yi T'aejin, Hall 'guk klllljesa (1977), p. 146 n.51, explains that the animosity of
Kim Sokchu for Song Siy6l and many Westerner literati began because of Kim Chip's
opposition to the plan of his grandfather, Kim Yuk, for the taedong system, and impeach-
ment of his father's conduct of the funeral for Kim Yuk. See also Yi T'aejin, Chosi5n hugi,
pp.186- 8 9· - Yi T'aejin, Han 'guk kunjesa (1977), pp. 143-45. Yun Hyu's motives derive from
the remarks of the Sillok historian, see n-42, and Sukchong sillok 4:46b; Yi T'aejin, Chosrln
hURi. pp. 190-92. - Yi T'aejin, Han'guk kunjesa (1977), p. 145: idem, Choson hugi, p. 191-93; Yu
Hongnyol, "Mankwa solhaeng iii chOngch'aeksaj6k ch'uui: Chason chunggiriil
chungsim'uro" [Trends in policy behind the establishment of the mankwa examination
in the mid-Choson periodl Sahak yon 'gu r8 (September 1964):207-46. - Yi T'aejin, Han 'Ruk kUlljesa (1977), pp. 145-46 n-48, Chosc!n izugi, pp. 192-93.
- Yi T'aejin, Han 'guk kunjesa (r977), pp. 141-42, 145-47; Chosiin hugi. pp. 193-96.
- Han'gllk kUJljesa (1977), pp. 142-43 n.57, pp. 147-48; Sukchong sillok 9:IOb-
1 ra (r680). - Yi T'aejin. Han 'guk kUlljesa (1977), pp. 148-49, see esp. p. 148 n.58; idem, Choson