KOREA 50 Chapter 1170 military coup: wk 3 lecture reading
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Ch"oe ch"ungh n: the ten injunctions: ch"oe ch"ungh n and ch"oe ch"ungsu submitted memorial to the throne. Promote able ones & reprimand those who aren"t: forbid ostentation & luxury; promote frugality, destroy additional temples besides those built by the dynasty (geomancy helps country, consorate & officials of chancellery should admonish the king. Resistance to the mongol invation: pak s : military commissioner of northwestern frontier district. Forced to surrender later under king"s order. Resisting establishing of provincial government in korea. Kory is a small place, so tax collected from it won"t make a difference to yuan. Late kory reforms: some suggest sharp break from yuan, who later found chos n dynasty, king kongmin instrumental in liberation from mongol influence: launched seires of reforms (criticized by contemporaries and later confucian historians, yi chenhy n and yi saek. Entered central bureaucracy thru civil service exam. Active in kory and yuan forerunners of neo-confucianism reformers of late kory : pak ch"o.
