정치도감(整治都監) 운영의 제양상에 대한 재검토 (Reviewing several aspects of the Jeongchi Dogam’s reform efforts)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국역사연구회
· 수록지 정보 : 역사와 현실 / 67호 / 171 ~ 213페이지
· 저자명 : 이강한

초록

In the early 1340s, Yuan dynasty requested a series of reforms to Goryeo, based upon its decades’ old policy which chose to condemn the Muslim ministers’ economic policies, employ a gentler taxation policy, and endeavored to restore order in official appointments while maintaining the government’s size and integrity. Although such policy had indeed gone through some changes over the years, a new Yuan minister named Tokto, particularly interested in reinforcing such policies, came to power in the early 1340s and condemned the ruling of Goryeo King Chunghae-wang, whose policies concentrated upon foreign trades and therefore inflicted considerable pain upon the Goryeo population. To him, Chunghae-wang’s policies were too much reminiscent of the Muslim ministers’.
So, at the request of the Yuan emperor, the Jeongchi Dogam office was established in the mid-1340s. Despite the fact that Yuan urged them to install such office, Goryeo officials did not resent it and instead fully utilized it in their political and social reform efforts, which turned out to be quite similar to the efforts that had already been attempted by Kings Chungseon-wang and Chungsuk-wang.
Jeongchi Dogam’s main target was Jeongdong Haengseong. It was originally established as an overseer for the Japanese campaign preparations, yet later Goryeo figures(like Gi Cheol) with intimate connections to Yuan gathered together there and joined forces. They were committing all kinds of economical crimes and abusing their political power. So Jeongchi Dogam tried to eliminate those crimes and abuses. Yet its efforts were blocked, when a relative of Gi Cheol was killed during an interrogation process conducted by the Dogam officers. And with the help of Queen Gi(Gi Cheol’s sister), the Gi family succeeded in neutralizing Jeongchi Dogam. But it should be noted that during all those events Yuan emperor and the government officials maintained its official position supporting Dogam’s reform efforts, and that they remained blatantly indifferent to Haengseong’s apparent plight of being investigated by Dogam. We can see that Yuan government at that point had essentially abandoned Jeongdong Haengseong as a political, administrative entity affiliated to the Yuan government, and the Goryeo office Jeongchi Dogam was in fact ‘authorized’ by Yuan as a legitimate entity to oversee reforms in Goryeo. This progress ultimately enabled King Gongmin-wang to dismantle Haengseong’s Imun-so office, and eliminate the Gi faction once and for all, in 1356.

영어초록

In the early 1340s, Yuan dynasty requested a series of reforms to Goryeo, based upon its decades’ old policy which chose to condemn the Muslim ministers’ economic policies, employ a gentler taxation policy, and endeavored to restore order in official appointments while maintaining the government’s size and integrity. Although such policy had indeed gone through some changes over the years, a new Yuan minister named Tokto, particularly interested in reinforcing such policies, came to power in the early 1340s and condemned the ruling of Goryeo King Chunghae-wang, whose policies concentrated upon foreign trades and therefore inflicted considerable pain upon the Goryeo population. To him, Chunghae-wang’s policies were too much reminiscent of the Muslim ministers’.
So, at the request of the Yuan emperor, the Jeongchi Dogam office was established in the mid-1340s. Despite the fact that Yuan urged them to install such office, Goryeo officials did not resent it and instead fully utilized it in their political and social reform efforts, which turned out to be quite similar to the efforts that had already been attempted by Kings Chungseon-wang and Chungsuk-wang.
Jeongchi Dogam’s main target was Jeongdong Haengseong. It was originally established as an overseer for the Japanese campaign preparations, yet later Goryeo figures(like Gi Cheol) with intimate connections to Yuan gathered together there and joined forces. They were committing all kinds of economical crimes and abusing their political power. So Jeongchi Dogam tried to eliminate those crimes and abuses. Yet its efforts were blocked, when a relative of Gi Cheol was killed during an interrogation process conducted by the Dogam officers. And with the help of Queen Gi(Gi Cheol’s sister), the Gi family succeeded in neutralizing Jeongchi Dogam. But it should be noted that during all those events Yuan emperor and the government officials maintained its official position supporting Dogam’s reform efforts, and that they remained blatantly indifferent to Haengseong’s apparent plight of being investigated by Dogam. We can see that Yuan government at that point had essentially abandoned Jeongdong Haengseong as a political, administrative entity affiliated to the Yuan government, and the Goryeo office Jeongchi Dogam was in fact ‘authorized’ by Yuan as a legitimate entity to oversee reforms in Goryeo. This progress ultimately enabled King Gongmin-wang to dismantle Haengseong’s Imun-so office, and eliminate the Gi faction once and for all, in 1356.

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