Tamna耽羅

Tamna is a friendly country of Goryeo. After Shizu had brought Goryeo to submit as a subject, he gave his mind to Tamna as well, because it was a key point on the way to the Southern Song and to Japan. In the seventh month of the sixth year of Zhiyuan he sent Tuotuo'er, general of manifest might and chief commandant, Wang Guochang, general of martial virtue and commandant, and Liu Jie, general of martial strategy and deputy commandant, to go and look over the roads of Tamna and those parts, and by edict Wang Sik, the king of Goryeo, was to choose officers to guide and escort them. At that time Kim Tong-jeong, of the party left from Im Yeon, the rebel bandit of Goryeo, had fled into Tamna. In the ninth year the ministers of the Central Secretariat and of the Bureau of Military Affairs deliberated and said, "If we first open business with Japan and have not yet seen whether their heart is to resist or to follow, we fear there will be words about it afterward. It will do to put down Tamna first, and then to watch whether Japan follows or not and discuss that matter slowly. Moreover the king of Tamna once came to court in audience, and now a rebel bandit has driven out its master and holds its fortress in disorder. To raise troops and strike him is what righteousness would do first."

In the first month of the tenth year Xindu, commander of the frontier command, and Shi Shu and Hong Dagu and others were ordered to lead a hundred and eight warships, great and small, and strike the bandit party of Tamna. In the sixth month they put it down, and on that ground they set up the office for subduing the kingdom of Tamna and stationed seventeen hundred men of the frontier-guard army there. Its tribute (貢賦) was fixed at a hundred bolts of ramie cloth to be sent up each year. The office for subduing was afterward changed into the general administration office of the chief darughachi for troops and people, and was changed again into the pacification office for troops and people.

In the thirty-first year the king of Goryeo reported that the land of Tamna had belonged as a subject to his country ever since his ancestors' time, and that after the rebel party of Im Yeon had been put down, Yun Bang-bo, who had become deputy commissioner of the office for subduing, had contrived to have it made directly subject to the court; and he begged that it be as before. The emperor said, "This is a small matter. Let it be made to belong to Goryeo again." From this time on it belonged to Goryeo once more.