Roy A L DIVISION MODEL 421eunuchs, the Court of Interpreters (Say6gw6n), Directorate of Medicine
(Ch6n'lIigam), Directorate of Astronomy (Kwangsanggam), and the Office of
Benefiting the People (Hyemins6). He wanted to convert all such service per-
sonnel, whether petty officials and clerks, or specialists like scribcs, accoun-
tants, doctors, legal specialists, veterinarians, musicians of classical or popular
music, post-station clerks, and artisans, from salaries to payments from support
taxpayers,77 In short, his dcsire for a more rational and economic policy of gov-
ernment finance was more powerful in guiding his thinking about the reform of
the military service system than the wisdom he had accumulated about the Chi-
nese and Korean military systems alone.
Maintaining Accurate RecordsYu was confident that he could reestablish the integrity of a support taxpayer
system, eliminate the illicit registration of children, old men, and deceased per-
sons, and ensure that duty soldiers would be kept distinctly separate from tax-
payers by maintaining accurate records. In addition to land registers there had
to be detailed military records kept with the name, age, distinguishing marks,
and residence of all men liable for military service. Copies would be sent to the
Ministry of War, provincial governor's yamen, and local garrison. Annual
changes would be recorded by pasting stickers onto the register, and these would
be incorporated in more permanent fashion when the triennial cadastral survey
would be conducted. All soldiers, or males liable for service, would wear tallies
on their belts recording their names, type of service, military unit, and land grant
parcel, in accordance with the format in Ch'i Chi-kuang's Chi-hsiao hsin-shuJ8
Ch'i Chi-kuang's registration system was obviously no less susceptible to fal-
sification and corruption than the existing one, but Yu probably believed that
since land area was the basis for assessing service and not his proposed mili-
tary registers, there would be no incentive to falsify the registers - a question-
able deduction.One Type of Service per ManYu further specified that each man would be restricted to only one type of mil-
itary service obligation, in contrast to current practice where almost every man
had anywhere from two to as many as four types of service to perform. Some
had to pay cloth taxes and were obliged to serve as sogo troops as well, or serve
in the Special Cavalry and supply his own weapons and horse, or perform some
kind of long-term service as a runner in a magistrate's yamen,7~
Regular duty soldiers (chonggun) - but not their support taxpayers - would
be exempted from all miscellaneous service (chabyi5k) assessed at the local level,
and the civil bureaus at the capital were to be prohibited from assigning soldiers
to civilian service duties as runners and guards. The latter practice was partic-
ularly annoying because the law provided quotas of slaves to civil agencies for