Book XI 685
20th Day (Kyŏngja)
The king ordered the Office of the Inspector-General to reinstate Ch’oe
Yŏm, returning his appointment certificate and confiscated property.^48
21st Day (Sinch’uk)
Minamoto Ryōshun, governor of Kyushu of Japan, sent a man to present
local products.
23rd Day (Kyemyo)
The king paid a visit to Inwang Monastery^49 to see Abbot Chosaeng of
Naewŏndang, [a Buddhist temple in the precincts of the royal palace].
Yu Un returned from Liaodong, China, and made a report to the king:
“After receiving your order to visit China as special envoy, I arrived in
Liaodong on the twenty- first day of the fourth month with the horses car-
rying tribute gifts for the emperor. The Regional Military Commission of
Liaodong told us that it would have to send a messenger to the Ming capital
to make a report on us, and therefore we stayed in Liaodong for forty- two
days until the messenger returned. On the third day of the sixth month, Liu
Guichi, imperial messenger, finally arrived in Liaodong carrying the
instruction from the emperor and read it in front of us. Then he cross-
checked the tribute gifts and horses with the list he had and told us to take
them back home. He also brought a letter from Zhang Bing, left vice min-
ister of rites, and gave it to me, so I have brought it with me.”
The letter reads as follows: “A messenger from the Regional Military
Commission of Liaodong has arrived and said, ‘The king of Chosŏn had
sent an envoy with tribute gifts for the emperor, and the man has now arrived
in Liaodong.’ Hence, our Ministry of Rites immediately reported it to the
Province, which has the Slasu (Ch’ŏngch’ŏn River) in which Koguryŏ annihilated the invading
Sui army in 612. “Do” attached to the name, Anju, may indicate its status as a military
circuit.
- More than a couple of weeks earlier, Ch’oe Yŏm, former assistant grand councilor, was
punished for failing to move his residence to the capital by a set date to serve the king from
close by. - It is located Mt. Inwang in Seoul. According to a source, T’aejo ordered Abbot
Chosaeng to build the monastery to offer sacrifices to the guardian deities of the state.