Kim Inmun金仁問
1Kim Inmun goes into Tang to serve in the guard
金仁問，字仁壽，太宗大王第二子也。幼而就學，多讀儒家之書，兼涉莊、老、浮屠之說。又善隸書射御鄕樂，行藝純熟，識量宏弘，時人推許。永徽二年，仁問年二十三歲，受王命，入大唐宿衛，高宗謂涉海來朝，忠誠可尚，特授左領軍衛將軍。四年，詔許歸國覲省，太宗大王授以押督州摠管。於是，築獐山城，以設險，太宗錄其功，授食邑三百戶。新羅屢為百濟所侵，願得唐兵為援助，以雪羞恥，擬諭宿衛仁問乞師。會，高宗，以蘇定方為神丘道大摠管，率師討百濟。帝徵仁問，問道路險易，去就便宜。仁問應對尤詳，帝悅制授神丘道副大摠管，勑赴軍中。遂與定方濟海，到德物島。王命太子，與將軍庾信、眞珠、天存等，以巨艦一百艘，載兵迎延之。至熊津口，賊瀕江屯兵，戰破之，乘勝入其都城滅之。
Kim Inmun's courtesy name was Insu, and he was the second son of King Taejong the Great. As a child he went to his studies and read many of the books of the Confucians, and he went into the sayings of Zhuangzi and Laozi and of the Buddha as well. He was also good at clerical writing, at archery and horsemanship, and at the native music. His conduct and his skills were pure and ripe, and his understanding and his measure were broad and wide, so that the men of that time praised and approved him.
In the second year of Yonghui, when Inmun was twenty-three years old, he took the king's command and went into the great Tang to serve in the guard. Gaozong said that he had crossed the sea to come to court and that his loyalty was to be honored, and he gave him, beyond the usual, the office of general of the guard of the left leading army. In the fourth year an edict allowed him to go home and visit his parents, and King Taejong the Great gave him the office of chonggwan of Apdokju. Then he built Jangsanseong to set up a strong place, and Taejong wrote down his merit and gave him a fief of three hundred households.
Silla had been invaded by Baekje many times, and it wished to have Tang soldiers for its help and so wipe away the shame. It meant to send word to Inmun, who was serving in the guard, to beg for troops. At that very time Gaozong made Su Dingfang grand commander of the marching army of the Singu route and had him lead an army to attack Baekje. The emperor called Inmun and asked him whether the roads were steep or easy and what was best in going and staying. Inmun's answers were very full, and the emperor was pleased and by his order gave him the office of vice grand commander of the marching army of the Singu route and commanded him to go to the army.
So he crossed the sea with Dingfang and came to the island of Deongmuldo. The king commanded the crown prince to go with the generals Yusin, Jinju and Cheonjon and with a hundred great ships carrying soldiers to meet them and lead them in. When they came to the mouth of the Ungjin, the enemy had camped along the river, and they fought and broke them, and rode the victory into their capital city and wiped it out.
2Pyongyang is ringed about, and they come back through the snow
定方俘王義慈及太子孝、王子泰等，廻唐。大王嘉尚仁問功業，授波珍飡，又加角干。尋，入唐宿衛如前。龍朔元年，高宗召謂曰：「朕旣滅百濟，除爾國患，今，高句麗負固，與穢貊同惡，違事大之禮，棄善隣之義，朕欲遣兵致討，爾歸告國王，出師同伐，以殲垂亡之虜。」仁問便歸國，以致帝命，國王使仁問與庾信等，練兵以待。皇帝命邢國公蘇定方，為遼東道行軍大摠管，以六軍，長驅萬里，迕麗人於浿江，擊破之，遂圍平壤，麗人固守，故不能克。士馬多死傷，糧道不繼。仁問與留鎭劉仁願，率兵兼輸米四千石、租二萬餘斛，赴之，唐人得食，以大雪，解圍還。羅人將歸，高句麗謀要擊於半塗，仁問與庾信，詭謀夜遁。麗人翌日覺而追之，仁問等，廻擊大敗之，斬首一萬餘級，獲人五千餘口而歸。
Dingfang took King Uija and the crown prince Hyo and the king's son Tae and the rest captive and went back to Tang. The great king thought well of Inmun's merit and work and gave him the rank of pajinchan, and afterward added the rank of gakgan. Before long he went into Tang to serve in the guard as before.
In the first year of Longshuo, Gaozong called him and said, "I have wiped out Baekje and taken away the trouble of your country. Now Goguryeo leans on its strong ground and joins in evil with the Yemaek, and it breaks the courtesy of serving the great and throws away the right of good neighbors. I would send troops and punish it. Go back and tell your king to send out an army and strike with us, and destroy these barbarians who are near their fall."
Inmun went home at once and delivered the emperor's command, and the king of the country had Inmun and Yusin and the rest train the troops and wait.
The emperor commanded Su Dingfang, Duke of Xingguo, to be grand commander of the marching army of the Liaodong route, and with six armies he drove ten thousand li, met the men of Goguryeo at the Paegang and broke them, and then ringed Pyongyang about. The men of Goguryeo held firm, and so he could not take it. Many of his men and horses were killed and wounded, and the road of provisions did not hold.
Inmun, with Liu Renyuan who had stayed on garrison, led troops and carried with them four thousand seom of rice and more than twenty thousand seom of grain and went forward, and the men of Tang got food. Then a great snow fell, and they broke the siege and went back.
When the men of Silla were about to go home, Goguryeo planned to strike them on the road midway. Inmun and Yusin, by a ruse, slipped away in the night. The men of Goguryeo saw it the next day and pursued them, and Inmun and the rest turned and struck them and beat them badly. They cut off more than ten thousand heads and took more than five thousand people and came home.
3Pyongyang falls, and he is made Duke of Imhae Commandery
仁問又入唐，以乾封元年，扈駕登封泰山，加授右驍衛大將軍，食邑四百戶。摠章元年戊辰，高宗皇帝遣英國公李勣，帥師伐高句麗，又遣仁問徵兵於我。文武大王與仁問，出兵二十萬，行至北漢山城，王住此，先遣仁問等，領兵會唐兵，擊平壤月餘，執王臧，仁問使王跪於英公前，數其罪，王再拜，英公禮答之，卽以王及男産、男建、男生等還。文武大王，以仁問英略勇功，特異常倫，賜故大琢角干朴紐食邑五百戶。高宗亦聞仁問屢有戰功，制曰：「爪牙良將，文武英材，制爵疏封，尤宜嘉命。」仍加爵秩，食邑二千戶。自後，侍衛宮禁，多歷年所。上元元年，文武王納高句麗叛衆，又據百濟故地。唐皇帝大怒，以劉仁軌為雞林道大摠管，發兵來討，詔削王官爵。時，仁問為右驍衛員外大將軍臨海郡公，在京師，立以為王，令歸國，以代其兄，仍策為雞林州大都督開府儀同三司，仁問懇辭不得命，遂上道。
Inmun went into Tang again, and in the first year of Qianfeng he attended the imperial carriage and went up Mount Tai for the feng and shan rites, and he was given besides the office of great general of the brave guard of the right and a fief of four hundred households.
In the first year of Zongzhang, the year mujin, the emperor Gaozong sent Li Ji, Duke of Ying, to lead an army and attack Goguryeo, and he sent Inmun as well to call up troops from Silla. King Munmu the Great and Inmun sent out two hundred thousand soldiers and marched to Bukhansanseong, and the king stayed there. He first sent Inmun and the rest to lead the troops and meet with the Tang army, and they attacked Pyongyang for a month and more and took King Jang.
Inmun made the king kneel before the Duke of Ying and counted out his crimes. The king bowed twice, and the Duke of Ying answered him with courtesy. Then he took the king and Namsan and Namgeon and Namsaeng and the rest and went back.
King Munmu the Great held that Inmun's fine strategy and brave merit were far beyond the common sort, and he gave him the fief of five hundred households of the late Bak Yu, the daetak gakgan. Gaozong too heard that Inmun had merit in many battles, and he sent down an edict: "A good general who is claw and tooth, a fine timber of learning and arms — in fixing his rank and portioning out his fief, a gracious command is all the more fitting." So he added to his rank and grade and gave him a fief of two thousand households.
After this he attended and guarded within the palace for many years.
In the first year of Shangyuan, King Munmu took in the rebel host of Goguryeo and held the old land of Baekje as well. The emperor of Tang was greatly angered. He made Liu Rengui grand commander of the marching army of the Gyerim route and sent out troops to attack, and by edict he stripped the king of his office and rank. At that time Inmun was in the capital as supernumerary great general of the brave guard of the right and Duke of Imhae Commandery, and he was set up as king and ordered to go home and take his elder brother's place, and he was invested besides as daedodok of Gyerimju and minister with honors equal to the three offices. Inmun begged earnestly to be excused but did not get the command, and so he set out on the road.
4Kim Inmun dies in the capital of Tang
會，王遣使，入貢且謝罪，皇帝赦之，復王官爵，仁問中路而還，亦復前銜。調露元年，轉鎭軍大將軍行右武威衛大將軍，載初元年，授輔國大將軍上柱國臨海郡開國公左羽林軍將軍。延載元年四月二十九日，寢疾薨於帝都，享年六十六。訃聞，上震悼，贈襚加等，命朝散大夫行司禮寺大醫署令陸元景、判官朝散郞直司禮寺某等，押送靈樞。孝照大王追贈太大角干，命有司，以延載二年十月二十七日，窆于京西原。仁問七入大唐，在朝宿衛，計月日，凡二十二年。時，亦有良圖海飡，六入唐，死千于西京，失其行事始末。
At that time the king sent an envoy to bring tribute and also to ask pardon for his fault, and the emperor forgave him and gave back the king's office and rank. Inmun turned back in the middle of the road and took again the title he had held before.
In the first year of Tiaolu he was moved to be great general who guards the army and acting great general of the militant awesome guard of the right, and in the first year of Zaichu he was given the offices of great general who supports the state, supreme pillar of state, founding duke of Imhae Commandery, and general of the Feather Forest army of the left.
In the first year of Yanzai, on the twenty-ninth day of the fourth month, he fell ill and took to his bed and died in the emperor's capital, at the age of sixty-six. When word of his death was heard, the emperor was shaken with grief and sent gifts for the funeral beyond the usual grade, and he commanded Lu Yuanjing, grand master of court audience and acting director of the great medical office of the court of rites, and the panggwan, a court gentleman for audience on duty in the court of rites, whose name is not given, and others to escort the coffin home.
King Hyojo the Great gave him after his death the rank of taedaegakgan, and he commanded the office in charge to bury him on the plain west of the capital on the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month in the second year of Yanzai.
Inmun went into the great Tang seven times and served in the guard at that court, and when the months and days are reckoned they come to twenty-two years in all. At that time there was also Yangdo the haechan, who went into Tang six times and died in the Western Capital; the beginning and the end of his doings are lost.