Yetgeul › Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) › Book 5 — The Geunpok Collection

Report on Arrangements at Yongjin措置龍津事。啓

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) 懲毖錄 · Ryu Seong-ryong · 1633 (printed; written after the Imjin War) · 1 passages · 196 Chinese characters · reading time 1.5 min

Jingbirok (A Record of Rebuke and Admonition) Book 5 — The Geunpok Collection A record left by Ryu Seong-ryong, Chief State Councillor, of what he saw with his own eyes after the Imjin War ended. Its title comes from the line, "I rebuke what is past, and take heed against troubles to come." He set down without excuse how the war began and what the court failed to do. His recommendation of Yi Sun-sin, the wrangling with the Ming army, and the suffering the people endured are all recorded as they were.

訓鍊都監所屬平安黃海江原等道僧軍移送龍津令防禦使邊應星領率敎鍊料米依都監軍人例受食于京倉至今數年矣今則別將許售代守龍津方築城壘以爲後日設鎭根基築城旣畢之後當以此軍定爲土兵折給鎭傍閒曠之地資其衣食之路而分番入守以爲可久之規第其所食料米當此經費匱急之日不可每受於京倉欲自鎭中措置饋餉來十一月爲始該曹散料勿爲題給宜當且鎭軍士今年耕作屯田所出雜穀幷二百七十餘石方在本鎭請以此穀因留本鎭以助餉軍之費何如

It is now some years since the monk-soldiers of Pyeongan, Hwanghae, Gangwon and other provinces attached to the Military Training Agency were moved and sent to Yongjin (龍津), to be led and drilled by the defense commander Byeon Eungseong (邊應星), and since their wage rice has been drawn and eaten from the capital storehouses after the manner of the Agency's soldiers.

Now the special commander Heo Su (許售) holds Yongjin in his stead, raising walls and ramparts and making of them the ground on which a fort is to be set in days to come. Once the walling is finished, these soldiers should be made native troops, with the empty land beside the fort parcelled out to them for their clothing and food, and should be divided into turns and sent in to stand guard: this should be made the lasting rule.

Only, the wage rice they eat cannot always be drawn from the capital storehouses at a time when the state's household is straitened and pressed; your servant would therefore have them provide for themselves within the fort. It is fitting that from the coming eleventh month the ministry concerned no longer issue the wages. Moreover some two hundred and seventy sacks (섬) of mixed grain, reaped this year from the garrison fields ploughed by the fort's soldiers, are now at that fort; how would it be to leave this grain at the fort as it is and let it go toward the cost of feeding the soldiers?