Book XII 701*
The king ordered Chŏng Chŏm, former director, to capture Japanese
marauders by leading out a battalion of stone throwers along with new
recruits on boats. The king personally paid a visit to the Yongsan River to
watch [the military operation].
Nineteen Korean men and women carried away captive to Japan, and three
Japanese and two Chinese, arrived from Japan.
The king ordered all provincial governors to investigate and report on the
personal achievements of every local official of any rank who carries out
civil and military affairs, as well as the Confucian scholars not in pub-
lic service (yuhak), instructors of medicine, and post- station supervisors
(yŏksŭng).
24th Day (Kyemyo)
The Board of Punishments requested that Supreme General Yi Pu^11 be
punished for taking the slaves offered by Pak Sahu.^12 Considering his
merit subject status, the king only ordered that Pu be suspended from his
office.
25th Day (Kapchin)
There was a torrential rain.A Japanese monk named Genkai came to Korea with his family. He was
somewhat skilled in medicine. The king made him grow his hair and work
in the Palace Medical Office as a medical practitioner, bestowing on him
the family name P’yŏng.Taxes were reduced for the counties and districts in Kyŏngsang Province
that had suffered damage from a flood.Pak Yongsu, myriarch of Ch’angp’o, was imprisoned.- He was one of those who joined Cho Yŏnggyu, who killed Chŏng Mongju.
- Unknown.