Post by sunami chun on Aug 11, 2005 13:49:25 GMT -5
"The King has spoken.
The proper way of government must be modeled on the past. If this is true we can practice today the government of Xia, Yin, and Zhou? Are there things to emulate from the Han, Tang, or later periods?
Taejo e Taejong received the heavenly mandate and founded a new state. I have inherited this legacy and am dedicated to achieving an excellent government.
The children of past nobles all studies the "great learning", but this system was lost somehow and the children in noble families have become arrogant and lavish.
We establish schools for members of the royal family and teach them, but they do not study hard and the teachers do not teach well. Masters and disciples each have their duties. What must we do to ensure they fulfill those duties?
Many States carefully track their populations over generations. We, too, have such laws on the books but they are not followed to the letter. Families are omittd(from the census roll) and people of mean birth are hidden 80 or 90 percent of the time. The common people will complain if we seek out those lost families. What must we do to remain faithfull to the family registry and reward the common people fairly for their toil?
The identification tag (hopae) law stirred public outcry and has not been enforced. Can it, in fact, not be implemented?
The past offers good ways to reconcile military affairs with agrcultural work. For example. Tang had the prefectural soldier system. But Zhang Yueh changed this system, separating soldiering from farming. We have never been able to return to return to this system. Our state registers families and uses this system in organizing military maneuvers. It resembles the old ways. However, rapid mobilization in emergencies will result in untrained soldiers, and no one will be left to do farming if entire families are called up. What must be done so that military affairs and agriculture are both performed well and soldiers are well trained?
The slaves in our state differ from those in China. How long has benn this the case? Someone has said decorum and sense of shame depend on the slaves. Is this right or wrong? Dong Zhong Shu urged a limit in the number of slaves. Can we not accomplish this?
The right parctices were performed in former times and they are urgently needed today. I want to hear what you have to say. You have all studied well. Come up with excellent solutions and do not hold back on your answers.
-from the annals of Sejong King
I think he was indeed a not blind king and i didn´t read any other public exam elaborated by another king for the finallists, but out of the protocols he seems to have been not only wise and a highly educated person but very open minded and truly concerned about good government......It also shows that there was a profound and dense culture of scholarship that debated pragmactic philosophical ideas in a historical sequence that comes from far before....that´s why they had to study so much to debate over any subject. And we can ask why scholars were so important for Joseonese korea
of the Imjin times and military were regarded bellow them. If there were many scholars who didn´t care so much about their own lives and weren´t so arrogants all these studies (done properly for the nation and people as the above shows) would definitely make a difference in the course not of only the war but everything....But howcome all the education, rites of benevolence and chivalrism doesn´t rip the world from selfishness and creates arrogance and worst gives power for people like yun-dusu and so many others to become prime minister?
The proper way of government must be modeled on the past. If this is true we can practice today the government of Xia, Yin, and Zhou? Are there things to emulate from the Han, Tang, or later periods?
Taejo e Taejong received the heavenly mandate and founded a new state. I have inherited this legacy and am dedicated to achieving an excellent government.
The children of past nobles all studies the "great learning", but this system was lost somehow and the children in noble families have become arrogant and lavish.
We establish schools for members of the royal family and teach them, but they do not study hard and the teachers do not teach well. Masters and disciples each have their duties. What must we do to ensure they fulfill those duties?
Many States carefully track their populations over generations. We, too, have such laws on the books but they are not followed to the letter. Families are omittd(from the census roll) and people of mean birth are hidden 80 or 90 percent of the time. The common people will complain if we seek out those lost families. What must we do to remain faithfull to the family registry and reward the common people fairly for their toil?
The identification tag (hopae) law stirred public outcry and has not been enforced. Can it, in fact, not be implemented?
The past offers good ways to reconcile military affairs with agrcultural work. For example. Tang had the prefectural soldier system. But Zhang Yueh changed this system, separating soldiering from farming. We have never been able to return to return to this system. Our state registers families and uses this system in organizing military maneuvers. It resembles the old ways. However, rapid mobilization in emergencies will result in untrained soldiers, and no one will be left to do farming if entire families are called up. What must be done so that military affairs and agriculture are both performed well and soldiers are well trained?
The slaves in our state differ from those in China. How long has benn this the case? Someone has said decorum and sense of shame depend on the slaves. Is this right or wrong? Dong Zhong Shu urged a limit in the number of slaves. Can we not accomplish this?
The right parctices were performed in former times and they are urgently needed today. I want to hear what you have to say. You have all studied well. Come up with excellent solutions and do not hold back on your answers.
-from the annals of Sejong King
I think he was indeed a not blind king and i didn´t read any other public exam elaborated by another king for the finallists, but out of the protocols he seems to have been not only wise and a highly educated person but very open minded and truly concerned about good government......It also shows that there was a profound and dense culture of scholarship that debated pragmactic philosophical ideas in a historical sequence that comes from far before....that´s why they had to study so much to debate over any subject. And we can ask why scholars were so important for Joseonese korea
of the Imjin times and military were regarded bellow them. If there were many scholars who didn´t care so much about their own lives and weren´t so arrogants all these studies (done properly for the nation and people as the above shows) would definitely make a difference in the course not of only the war but everything....But howcome all the education, rites of benevolence and chivalrism doesn´t rip the world from selfishness and creates arrogance and worst gives power for people like yun-dusu and so many others to become prime minister?
