Book VIII 5459th Day (Kisa)
The king, for the first time, ordered the Privy Council that a bailiff of the
Office of the Inspector-General join the special patrolling commissioner
(pyŏlsun chŏlchesa) on an inspection tour.10th Day (Kyŏngo)
The Office of the Inspector-General submitted a memorial to the king
regarding the evaluation of the job performance of provincial governors and
district magistrates, and the criteria it proposed were as follows: promotion
of learning (hŭnghak), looking after the people (mumin), administering pun -
ishments with care and caution (hyulhyŏng), training the troops (ch’ibyong),
preparation of salt and iron, efforts to repair fortifications, saving materials
and provisions, reducing the burden of taxes and corvée service, prohibiting
hunting, taking action against the tyranny of powerful local families, col-
lecting taxes by allowing the people to personally measure the amount of
grain for taxes, planting mulberry trees and hemp, and growing flat sedge
and paper mulberry.
Having heard that the sacrifice offered at the ritual ceremony held on the
first day of the month was not enough, the king ordered the Office of the
Inspector-General to look into the matter to learn the truth. As a result,
the Office of the Inspector-General impeached and dismissed Min Che,
supervisor of the Office for Oversight and Review (Sangjŏnggwan) and
right director of the State Finance Commission; Yun Sayŏng, section chief
of the Board of Rites who was responsible for the ritual ceremony; and
Kang Ch’ŏnju, court gentleman for sacrifices (Chehyangsa).
11th Day (Sinmi)
The Privy Council sent out a royal decree to all provinces, which said: “A
comprehensive survey of the hallyang class of military junior officers who
are above rank 6 and under seventy years of age, except instructors of the
local Confucian school (hundo) and maritime officers (kisŏn kun’gwan),
shall be conducted and reported to us.”The government dispatched Chŏng Ch’ong, grand academician of the Office
of Royal Decrees and State Records, to the Ming capital with the petitions