me time prohibiting them from the use of cloth as money.... Up to this time, there had always been a party opposed to the use of coin that took every opportunity to suppress its use and replace it with rice and cloth. Now this party was fast disappearing and though they once more succeeded, five years later, in causing the rescission of the order to use coin, the people by that time had become so accustomed to its use that they began to coin for themselves. ... In 1678 ... rice and cloth were deprived forever of their monetary function" (M. Ichihars, Coinage of old Korea, Transactions Korea Branch R.A.S. IV part 2, 1913, bl. 61).
[315] "The Coreans had a third of their tribute remitted in 1643 ... and in the following year, when sending home the king's son, who had gone to Peking to have his title to the crown confirmed, a half was remitted ... Kanghi, Yoongjung, and Kienloong, frequently remitted the tribute, demanding only a tithe, treating the Coreans like Chinese" (Ross, History Corea, bl. 288).
"Since the Tang dynasty overwhelmed Corea, it has had only glimpses of absolute self-government; but, at the same time, it has had only brief intervals when it had not virtual self-government. Its vassalage to the Manchu government, secured at a sacrifice of a few years' dispeace and slaughter, and of some further years of somewhat severe taxation, has mainly been virtually nominal....a yearly or half-yearly tribute is sent in to Peking, accompanied by a host of merchants, who bring back profits much greater than the amount of the tribute" (Ross, a. v., bl. 365).
[316] = Zuidland, of Land der zuidelijke barbaren?
[317] "Hy [Eibokken] heeft Goud en Zilver mynen aldaer gezien; ook die van Kooper, Tin en Yzer. Zilver is daer in groote menigte, 't geen aen byzondere luiden werd toegestaen te delven, daer dan de Koning zijn recht van trekt, 't Kooper is daer zeer blank, en van heldere klank. Goud aderen had hy in Mynen gezien. Hij zegt dat zelfs eenig Zandgoud van de grond eeniger rivieren op ge