Not yet a rebel on 1 January 1200.
In Sinjong 3 (1200), about the 4th lunar month (April to May by the brief's calendar, a month out either way), the public and private slaves of Jinju rise under Jeong Bang-ui, burn the houses of the clerks and spread to Geumju (Gimhae) and Hapju (English Wikipedia's list). The next year's government answers with troops and a circuit officer. Before the rising the district is under the same load as the others: tax, clerks and the grudge of slaves after Manjeok.
A GM may use the winter to build the tension: a clerk's exaction, a missing registry, a runaway.
Who he is
- Name
- Jeong Bang-ui (鄭方義)
- Title
- A Jinju man who leads the public and private slaves in the spring of 1200
- Since
- Rises in Sinjong 3 (1200), 4th lunar month [not yet checked against the source]
- Family
- Status not pinned: leader of the Jinju slaves in the tradition; we could not confirm whether he was a clerk or a slave
- Confidence
- low
Chinese Wikipedia (Jinju slave revolt 1200); the campaign board; the month is recollection
What it holds
- Nothing yet.
How things stand that morning
A private man; the rising is in the future.
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- Sinjong 3, 4th lunar month (about April to May 1200) [not yet checked against the source]Jinju slaves rise.Depends on: A local grievance with the clerks Stopped by: A timely concession or the plot's betrayal
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Year and leader's name from Chinese Wikipedia and the campaign board; month and his status not pinned.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Appears as a point at Jinju until the rising begins.
Primary sources for Goryeo
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. Read online
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- History of Goryeo, Jeong Inji (鄭麟趾), Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (completed 1451, from the Goryeo veritable records and earlier drafts). The official history of Goryeo, compiled by the Joseon state from the lost Goryeo veritable records. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
- Description of the Foreign Peoples (Chau Ju-kua), Zhao Rukuo (趙汝适) (about 1225, while superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou). The Song customs officer's survey of the overseas world, compiled from merchants and from Zhou Qufei, a generation after 1200 but describing trade routes that were the same in 1200. Read online
- Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country (Yi Gyu-bo), Yi Gyu-bo (李奎報) (poems and prose from the 1190s to 1241; collected and printed by his son in 1241, with a supplement in 1242). The collected poems, letters, memorials and essays of a Goryeo scholar who was thirty-two and still seeking office in 1200. Read online
2 more in the sources library for Korea and Japan.
Sources and studies
- Cui Zhongxian 崔忠獻 (Chinese Wikipedia)
- Sinjong of Goryeo (English Wikipedia)
- Sheet brief KJA_BRIEF.md and the OMNIA board notes (leads, not sources)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.