Personal opinion of a member of the History Club - Was King Mobon of Goguryeo a tyrant?

 Today's topic is about King Movon, the first tyrant of King Goguryeo and the first king killed by his servants. King Movon seems to have a problem from the fact that King Minjung, the son of King Daemushin, was crowned without being able to continue the throne due to the young age of King Daemushin's younger brother of King Daemushin. King Minjung was crowned from 45 AD to 48 AD, and after his death, King Movon finally ascended the throne. 1. Why couldn't King Movon succeed immediately after King Daemushin's death? The first question was that in the very year King Movon ascended, his son Ik was the prince. The story means that King Movon was at least an adult who could have a son as a prince when he ascended the throne, and I accept it as a very young child four years ago, so he was not at an age when rule was impossible. Considering that King Taejo, who was crowned after King Movon's death, was only seven years old, I think it was only an excuse to say that he was young and could not continue the throne. 2. Was King Mobon a tyrant? The second question is whether King Mobon was a tyrant enough to resent the people. King Movon's reign was from 48 AD to 53 AD, and it is difficult to conclude unless there is a preconceived notion that he was a tyrant based on the relevant records from the Three Kingdoms Fraud alone. First of all, in the spring of the second year of his reign, records that he sent troops to attack Bukpyeong and Eoyang and that he comforted the people's damage caused by natural disasters, and if you look closely, the subjects were not ordinary people, but close aides. In addition, considering that the Samguksagi, which was built from a Confucian point of view, left relatively detailed records of the ruler who tyranny, Sohae's poor judgment is that his actions were too little and fragmentary to be driven into a "tyrant." In addition, considering that Nabu's name was still mainly used at the time, I don't think we can rule out the possibility that King Movon's tyranny was carried out only within the Gyerubu. 3. Who was Duro who killed King Mobon? I don't know much about Sohae-do ^^ Those who killed or deposed the king in Goguryeo include Duro during King Mobon's reign, Myeongnimdabbu by King Yeonnabu during King Cha's reign, and Yeongaemun Gate, which killed King Guksang Changjo and King Yeongryu during King Bongsang's reign. All three later expanded their political influence and position after the king was removed, but Duro had no record of King Movon's actions after his death. This means that Duro, unlike the other three, did not have his own political foothold or was very weak, and more severely, I think King Mobon may be the political position and foothold of Duro. The story means that if there is something wrong with King Movon's personal affairs, Duro's political life could also be problematic, but nevertheless, the fact that he directly inflicted the king could have been roughly someone's fortune or that the king really threatened Duro's life. Anyway, the early royal power of Goguryeo is so unusual that some Japanese historians used all the records of kings before King Sansang as a basis for fiction and creation, and most scholars strongly argue that it is possible (of course not fiction). If you make a hasty and dangerous assumption, a dispute may have arisen between the royal family or some of the leading families in Gyerubu during this period, and Taejo Wanggye may have been the last winner. Of course, the estimates from the above article are roughly from Sohae's head and will exist as a hypothesis unless clear evidence or records are available, and I think there is a great possibility that they will be different from the facts. Next time, I will tell you about the invasion of the official sword during the reign of King Dongcheon, the first crisis of Goguryeo, but I think it will take some time. Then bye ^^