Book V 351Compendium of Secret Records (Pirok ch’alyo). The king then ordered Ha
Yun and Yi Chik to make presentations concerning it.17th Day (Chŏnghae)
The king attended the Manjusri Buddhist ceremony at Yŏnbok Monastery.
Royal Preceptor Chach’o requested that the king pardon prisoners, and he
granted his request.The king dispatched Yi Kŏi, policy advisor; Pak Sin, second inspector;
Chŏn Si, section chief of the Board of Punishments; Sŏng Po, administra-
tive commissioner of the Capital Constabulary (Sun’gun chisa); and others
to Suwŏn Prefecture to interrogate Wang Hwa, Wang Kŏ, monk Sŏngnŭng,
Kim Kahaeng, Pak Chungjil, Yi Hŭngmu, and others.
18th Day (Muja)
The king held a banquet at Such’ang Palace for the visiting Chinese envoys
and bestowed on each of them one nugget (chŏng) of silver, forty bolts of
black hemp and ramie fabric, and one saddle.
The king ordered eleven officials, including Cho Chun, left chancellor, and
Kwŏn Chunghwa, chief director of the State Finance Commission, to go
down to inspect the terrain south of Muak^23 for a site of the new capital.
They were also ordered to take an official from the Astronomical and
Meteorological Observatory and geomancy books^24 with them.
19th Day (Kichíuk)
Imperial envoys Kim Inbo and Zhang Fujie returned to China. The king
asked them to convey a memorial to the emperor and led various officials to
Sŏnŭimun Gate to see them off. The memorial to the Chinese emperor was
as follows:
“On the eighth day of the twelfth month of the twenty- sixth year (1393) of
the reign of Hongwu, imperial envoys Kim Inbo and others visited us,- It refers to Mt. Muak, located at West Gate in Seoul.
- The geomancy books mentioned here are presumed to be part of the Compendium of
Secret Records that Kwŏn Chunghwa and other officials presented to the king a couple of days
earlier.