Chang Jori倉助利
1Chang Jori deposes the king
倉助利，高勾麗人也。烽上王時，為國相。時慕容廆為邉患，王謂羣臣曰：「慕容氏兵強，屢犯我疆埸，為之奈何？」倉助利對曰：「北部大兄高奴子賢且勇，大王若欲禦寇安民，非高奴子無可用者。」王以為新城太守，慕容廆不復來。九年秋八月，王發國內丁男年十五已上，修理宮室。民乏於食，困於役，因之以流亡。倉助利諫曰：「天災荐至，年穀不登，黎民失所，壯者流離四方，老幼轉乎溝壑，此誠畏天憂民，恐懼修省之時也。大王曾是不思，驅飢餓之人，困木石之役，甚乖為民父母之意。而況比隣有強梗之敵，若乗吾弊以來，其如社稷生民何？願大王熟計之。」王慍曰：「君者，百姓之所瞻望也。宮室不壯麗，無以示威重。今相國蓋欲謗寡人，以干百姓之譽也。」助利曰：「君不恤民，非仁也；臣不諫君，非忠也。臣既承乏國相，不敢不言，豈敢干譽乎？」王笑曰：「國相欲為百姓死耶？冀無後言。」助利知王之不悛，退與羣臣謀廢之。王知不免，自縊。
Chang Jori was a man of Goguryeo. In the time of King Bongsang he became prime minister.
At that time Murong Hui was a trouble on the border, and the king said to his officers, "The Murong are strong in soldiers, and they have broken into our land many times. What are we to do?"
Chang Jori answered, "Go Noja, the daehyeong of the northern division, is worthy and brave as well. If the great king wishes to hold off the robbers and give the people peace, there is no one to use but Go Noja." The king made him prefect of Sinseong, and Murong Hui did not come again.
In the ninth year, in autumn, the eighth month, the king called up the able men within the country who were fifteen years and older and had them repair the palace buildings. The people lacked food and were worn out by the labor, and because of it they wandered away and scattered.
Chang Jori remonstrated, "The calamities of heaven come one upon another, and the grain of the year has not ripened, and the people have lost their place. The strong wander off to the four quarters, and the old and the young roll down into the ditches. This is truly a time to fear heaven and grieve for the people, to be afraid and to look into oneself. The great king has never thought of this, and he drives starving men and wearies them with the labor of wood and stone, and this goes utterly against the mind of one who is father and mother to the people. And there is besides a hard and fierce enemy next door. If they come upon us while we are worn out, what will become of the altars of the state and of the living people? I beg the great king to think this over well."
The king was angry and said, "The lord is the one the people look up to. If the palace is not grand and fair, there is no way to show his majesty and his weight. Now the prime minister means, it seems, to speak ill of me and so seek the praise of the people."
Jori said, "If the lord does not care for the people, that is not kindness. If the officer does not remonstrate with his lord, that is not loyalty. Your servant has taken up the empty seat of prime minister, and he does not dare to keep silent. How would he dare to seek praise?"
The king laughed and said, "Does the prime minister mean to die for the people? I hope to hear no more of it."
Jori knew that the king would not mend his ways, and he withdrew and plotted together with the officers and deposed him. The king knew that he could not escape, and he hanged himself.