King Jangsu長壽王

King Jangsu's name was Georyeon (巨連), and he was the eldest son of King Gwanggaeto. His body and his looks were great and outstanding, and his will and his spirit were broad and free. In the eighteenth year of King Gwanggaeto he was set up as crown prince. In the twenty-second year the king died, and he ascended the throne.

In the first year, he sent Go Ik, the chief clerk, into Jin to present a memorial, and offered red and white horses. Emperor An enfeoffed the king as king of Goguryeo and duke of Nangnang Commandery.

In the second year, in autumn, the eighth month, strange birds gathered at the royal palace. In winter, the tenth month, the king hunted on the Sacheonwon plain and took a white roe deer. In the twelfth month snow fell five cheok deep in the capital.

In the seventh year, in summer, the fifth month, there was a great flood in the east of the country, and the king sent envoys to ask after the people.

In the twelfth year, in spring, the second month, Silla sent an envoy to pay a courtesy visit, and the king comforted him with special warmth. In autumn, the ninth month, the harvest was very great, and the king gave a feast for the many officials in the palace.

In the thirteenth year, he sent an envoy to Wei and offered tribute.

In the fifteenth year, he moved the capital to Pyeongyang.

In the twenty-third year, in summer, the sixth month, the king sent an envoy into Wei to offer tribute, and also asked for the tabooed names of the imperial house. Shizu thought well of his sincerity, and had the line of the emperors and their names written out and given to him. He sent Li Ao, an attendant gentleman of the outer staff, to make the king commander of all the armies of Liaohai, general who subdues the east, general of the palace gentlemen who guards the Eastern Yi, founding duke of Liaodong Commandery, and king of Goguryeo.

In autumn the king sent an envoy into Wei to give thanks for the favor.

The people of Wei attacked Yan many times, and Yan grew more endangered and more shrunken by the day. Feng Hong, the king of Yan, said. "If matters become urgent, I shall lean eastward on Goguryeo for a while, and plan there what to do next." He secretly sent Yang Yi, the master of writing, to ask Goguryeo to receive him.

In the twenty-fourth year, the king of Yan sent an envoy into Wei to offer tribute, and asked to send a son to attend the court as hostage. The lord of Wei did not allow it, and was about to send out soldiers and punish him, and he sent an envoy to tell Goguryeo of it and instruct them.

In summer, the fourth month, Wei attacked the fortress of Bailang in Yan and won it. The king sent the generals Gallo and Maenggwang with a host of tens of thousands to follow Yang Yi to Helong and receive the king of Yan. Gallo and Maenggwang came into the fortress and ordered the soldiers to strip off their worn clothes, and had the fine weapons of the armory of Yan brought out and given to them, and they plundered greatly inside the fortress.

In the fifth month the king of Yan led the households that were left in Longcheng and moved east, and he burned the palace buildings, and the fire did not go out for ten days. He had the women put on armor and go in the middle, and Yang Yi and the others led the picked soldiers on the outside, and Gallo and Maenggwang led the horsemen and took the rear. They went forward with their carts side by side, and from front to back it was more than eighty li.

The lord of Wei heard of it, and sent Feng Bo, a cavalier attendant in regular service, to order that the king of Yan be sent to him. The king sent an envoy into Wei bearing a memorial, and said that he would serve the transforming rule of the sovereign together with Feng Hong. The lord of Wei held that the king had gone against his edict, and they discussed attacking him, and he was about to send out the horsemen of Longyou, but Liu Jie, the king of Yueping, and Wang Pi and others remonstrated with him, and he then stopped.

In the twenty-fifth year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the twenty-sixth year, in spring, the third month — in the beginning, Feng Hong, the king of Yan, came to Liaodong. The king sent an envoy to comfort him, saying, "The king of Longcheng, the lord Feng, has come to camp out here in the fields. His soldiers and his horses must be weary."

Feng Hong was ashamed and angry, and rebuked him in the manner of an emperor. The king placed him at Pingguo, and soon moved him to Beifeng. Feng Hong had always made light of Goguryeo, and in government and punishment, in reward and penalty, he still went on as in his own country. So the king took away the men who attended him, and took his crown prince Wang Ren as a hostage.

Feng Hong bore a grudge for this, and sent an envoy to Song to send up a memorial and beg to be received. Taizu of Song sent the envoy Wang Baiju and others to receive him, and also ordered Goguryeo to give him supplies and send him off. The king did not want Feng Hong to go south, so he sent the generals Son Su and Go Gu and others, and they killed Feng Hong at Beifeng, and killed more than ten of his children and grandchildren with him.

Wang Baiju and the others, with the more than seven thousand men under them, fell upon Son Su and Go Gu. They killed Go Gu and took Son Su alive. The king held that Baiju and the others had killed on their own authority, and he sent envoys to seize them and send them back. Taizu, because Goguryeo was a far country, did not wish to go against its will, and he sent Baiju and the others down to prison, and soon after pardoned them.

In the twenty-seventh year, in winter, the eleventh month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In the twelfth month he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the thirty-eighth year, people of Silla fell upon a general of the border and killed him. The king was angry and was about to send out soldiers and punish them, but the king of Silla sent an envoy to apologize for the offense, and he then stopped.

In the forty-second year, in autumn, the seventh month, he sent soldiers and raided the northern border of Silla.

In the forty-third year, he sent an envoy into Song and offered tribute.

In the fiftieth year, in spring, the third month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the fifty-first year, Emperor Xiaowu, Shizu of Song, invested the king as grand general of chariots and cavalry, with an office of his own opening and ceremonies equal to the three highest ministers.

In the fifty-third year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the fifty-fourth year, in spring, the third month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

Empress Dowager Wenming of Wei held that the six palaces of Xianzu were not yet filled, and she told the king to put forward his daughter. The king sent up a memorial saying, "My daughter is already married," and asked to answer the order with his younger brother's daughter, and this was allowed. So Wei sent Zhen, the king of Anle, and Li Fu, the master of writing, and others, who came to the border and sent in the betrothal gifts.

Someone urged the king, "Wei once made a marriage tie with Yan, and soon after attacked it, because the messengers had come to know all its steep places and its level places. The mirror of Yin is not far off. You should find a way to decline."

So the king sent up a letter saying that his daughter had died. Wei suspected the lie, and sent Cheng Jun, an acting cavalier attendant in regular service, to rebuke him sharply, saying, "If the daughter is truly dead, we allow you to choose another good woman of your house and send her."

The king said. "If the Son of Heaven forgives my earlier fault, I shall respectfully obey the edict." As it happened, Xianzu died, and the matter then stopped.

In the fifty-fifth year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the fifty-sixth year, in spring, the second month, the king attacked and took the fortress of Siljikju in Silla with ten thousand Malgal soldiers. In summer, the fourth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the fifty-seventh year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the eighth month, soldiers of Baekje came raiding into the southern border.

In the fifty-eighth year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the fifty-ninth year, in autumn, the ninth month, Nogu and others of the people fled and surrendered to Wei, and each was given fields and a house. This was the first year of Yanxing of Gaozu of Wei.

In the sixtieth year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the seventh month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. After this, what he offered was twice what it had been before, and what was given back in return also grew little by little.

In the sixty-first year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the eighth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the sixty-second year, in spring, the third month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the seventh month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. He sent an envoy into Song and offered tribute.

In the sixty-third year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the eighth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the ninth month the king led thirty thousand soldiers and raided Baekje. He took Hanseong, where their king had his capital, and killed their king Buyeo Gyeong, and came back with eight thousand men and women taken captive.

In the sixty-fourth year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the seventh month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In the ninth month he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the sixty-fifth year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the ninth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the sixty-sixth year, he sent an envoy into Song and offered tribute. Yeonsin of Baekje came over and gave himself up.

In the sixty-seventh year, in spring, the third month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the ninth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the sixty-eighth year, in summer, the fourth month, Xiao Daocheng, Taizu of Southern Qi, invested the king as grand general of the fleet cavalry. The king sent the envoy Yeono and others to pay a courtesy visit to Southern Qi, but people of Guangzhou in Wei seized Yeono and the others at sea and sent them to the palace.

Gaozu of Wei rebuked the king by edict, saying, "Daocheng with his own hand murdered his lord and stole the title of king in Jiangzuo. I am even now about to raise up a fallen state in its old land, and to carry on a broken line for the Liu family, and yet you cross the border and deal outside it, and reach far off to a usurping robber. How is that the duty of a vassal keeping faith? Now I shall not let one fault hide your old sincerity, and I send them straight back to your land. Be moved by this favor and think on your fault, obey the bright law with reverence, gather and settle what is under your rule, and report what moves and what rests."

In the sixty-ninth year, he sent an envoy and offered tribute to Southern Qi.

In the seventy-second year, in winter, the tenth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. At that time the people of Wei held that Goguryeo was strong just then, and when they set the lodgings for the envoys of the many countries, they made the envoy of Qi first and the envoy of Goguryeo next after him.

In the seventy-third year, in summer, the fifth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In winter, the tenth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the seventy-fourth year, in summer, the fourth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the seventy-fifth year, in summer, the fifth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the seventy-sixth year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In summer, the fourth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the intercalary eighth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the seventy-seventh year, in spring, the second month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In summer, the sixth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the ninth month, he sent soldiers and raided the northern border of Silla, and took the fortress of Hosan. In winter, the tenth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the seventy-eighth year, in autumn, the seventh month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In the ninth month he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In the seventy-ninth year, in summer, the fifth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute. In autumn, the ninth month, he sent an envoy into Wei and offered tribute.

In winter, the twelfth month, the king died. He was ninety-eight years old, and he was called King Jangsu (長壽王). Emperor Xiaowen of Wei heard of it, and had a plain white cap and a deep robe of hemp cloth made, and he put them on and performed the rite of mourning in the eastern outskirts. He sent Li Anshang, the supervisor of the receptionists, to grant him after death the titles of grand general of chariots and cavalry, grand tutor, founding duke of Liaodong Commandery, and king of Goguryeo, and the name given him after death was Gang (康).

Samguk sagi, book eighteen.