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moral instruction overall (t’onghun taebu). Rank 3b: grand master of forth-
rightness for the court (chungjik taebu) and grand master of moral instruc-
tion for the court (chunghun taebu). Rank 4a: grand master for governance
service (pongjŏng taebu) and grand master for government ranks (pongnyŏl
taebu). Rank 4b: grand master for closing court (chosan taebu) and grand
master for court service (chobong taebu). Rank 5a: gentleman for transmit-
ting virtue (t’ongdŏngnang) and gentleman for transmitting goodness
(t’ongsŏllang). Rank 5b: gentleman for rendering forthright service
(pongjingnang) and gentleman for rendering moral instruction (ponghul-
lang). Rank 6a: gentleman for counsel (sŭngŭirang) and gentleman for moral
instruction (sŭnghullang). Rank 6b: gentleman for proclaiming edicts
(sŏn’gyorang) and gentleman for proclaiming responsibilities (sŏnmurang).
Ran k 7a: gentleman for car r ying out mer itor ious works (mugongrang). Ran k
7b: gentleman for guiding meritorious works (kyegongrang). Rank 8a: gen-
tleman for transmitting instructions (t’ongsarang). Rank 8b: gentleman for
receiving instructions (sŭngsarang). Rank 9a: gentleman for escort service
(chongsarang). Rank 9b: gentleman for ceremonial service (changsarang).
The Privy Council (Top’yŏngŭisa sa)^105 will have 2 directors (p’ansa).
They will be the chief ministers to the throne. It also will have 11 associate
directors (tong p’ansa) who are above rank 2a and concurrently serve in the
Chancellery and Finance Commission. There will be 1 commissioner (sa),
and he will be the chief of the Security Council (p’an chungch’uwŏn sa). He
will be assisted by 15 associate commissioners (pusa) whose ranks will be
between that of the commissioners and that of the academicians (haksa) in
the Security Council.
The Administrative Office (Kyŏngnyŏksa), run concurrently by officials
who belong to other departments, will be staffed by 1 chief administrator
(kyŏngnyŏk), 1 inspector (tosa), 6 chief clerks of the Six Bureaus (Yukbang- Originally established in early Koryŏ under the title of Topyŏngmasa, it started as a
temporary council mainly for dealing with the military affairs of the two circuits in the northern
region of the country. Its members consisted of the commissioners of the Secretariat-Chancellery
and the directors of the Security Council. Later, approximately after mid-Koryŏ, the council
expanded its function to include not only military matters but also other affairs of state,
including providing relief to the people, and changed its name to Todang. In 1279, in the fifth
year of King Ch’ungnyŏl’s reign, Todang was named To p’yŏngŭisa, and its function as well as
its membership were further expanded. The directors of the State Finance Commission were
allowed to join the council, and its members increased to between seventy and eighty. The
newly established Chosŏn inherited the system with little change. It continued to exist until it
was replaced by the State Council (Uijŏngbu) in 1400, during the reign of King Chŏngjong.