• Why Should There Only Be Male Generals?
  • Baek Yohng-ahn, one of Nahm-shin’s relatives, obtained an exclusive license for producing rice wine, prohibiting hundreds of inns in Jeonju County from making any.
  • At this time, Sahng-jeh-nim stayed at Gim Ju-bo’s inn on Yohng-muh-ree Hill.
  • Ju-bo’s wife, beating her chest, complained, “We have earned our livelihood by selling rice wine and have no other means of making money. Now that it is forbidden, how can people like us make a living?
  • There is nothing left to do but die.” She cried so bitterly it seemed she might faint at any moment. Everyone who witnessed this could not help but feel compassion.
  • Sahng-jeh-nim, after hearing her cry, said to the disciples, “If there is a license that excludes others from producing rice wine, many women will have the same problem.”
  • He called Ju-bo’s wife over and consoled her, “Stop crying so sadly, I will resolve your trouble. Why should there only be male generals?”
  • Then, while giving orders to the spirits, He wrote “female general” on a piece of paper. Ju-bo’s wife suddenly felt enlivened and filled with spiritual energy.
  • She went directly to Jeonju and called together hundreds of female innkeepers to attack Baek Yohng-ahn’s house.
  • Frightened by the crowd that had gathered, Yohng-ahn apologized to them and promised to have his license canceled.

  • (JSD Dojeon 3,154)




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