42nd king of Silla, who let Jang Bogo set up the Cheonghae garrison
In 828 he granted Jang Bogo, newly returned from Tang, ten thousand men to set up the Cheonghaejin garrison on Wando. The same year, when the envoy Kim Dae-ryeom brought tea seeds back from Tang, the king had them planted on Jirisan, and tea growing spread. In 834 he issued an edict against luxury that limited clothing colours, carriages, utensils and even house sizes by bone rank.
With King Heungdeok’s leave, Jang Bogo founded the Cheonghae garrison on Wando, cleared the seas of pirates and dominated trade among Silla, Tang and Japan.
Former Tang officer who set up the Cheonghae garrison on Wando, cleared the seas of pirates and dominated trade among Silla, Tang and Japan
From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model