772 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o
23rd Day (Kihae)
The newly built Military Stores Warehouse (Kunjago) collapsed in a
strong wind.The king ordered the Privy Council to return the properties and grain of late
chancellor Cho Minsu [to his family].The king had the royal palace repainted, and it took 400 tu of linseed oil.The king ordered that the Privy Council transport 1,000 sŏk of military pro-
visions from the districts and counties located north of Tanju to Kyŏnghŭng
Prefecture and also deploy ten warships on the Tumen River, newly establish-
ing a garrison named Sinik Brigade on the border of Kyŏnghŭng Prefecture.24th Day (Kyŏngja)
Sleet fell on Mt. Kyeryong.25th Day (Sinchíuk)
Because of a long drought, the king pardoned all prisoners except those
sentenced to death either by beheading or hanging and ordered the offices
concerned to repair ditches and streams and gather up skeletons and corpses
for burial.26th Day (Imin)
The number of military officers guarding the Special Capital Magistracy of
Kaesŏng was fixed at 340.The king bestowed one folding screen each on Left Chancellor Cho Chun
and Right Chancellor Kim Sahyŏng. The eight- paneled folding screens fea-
tured views in the new capital [Hansŏng]. Chŏng Tojŏn, Count of Ponghwa,
composed poems on the eight scenes and submitted them to the king.
The first was about the mountains and rivers of Kyŏnggi Province, in
which the capital is located:The fertile land of Kyŏnggi extends a thousand li,
With a hundred two mountains and rivers on it.