대한제국기 홍순형의 가계와 충주지역 토지소유

Abstract

This study aims to examines Hong Sunhyeong's genealogy and landed property in Chungju area. Hong Sunhyeong's genealogy was a maternal relative one. He entered main government services at early age. At that time, the government post was an efficient tool to accumulate and store assets and Hong Sunhyeong also accumulated a lot of properties by using his post. He owned the third largest lands in Chungju area. He owned rice paddies more than fields. The largest parts of his lands were grade 3, followed by grade 2, which might be high in fertility. Most of lands were borrowed by tenants. At that time, landownership and tenants with borrowed lands were preferred for the stability of productivity, and such a tendency was also found for Hong Sunhyeong. There were a lot of lands along the courses of Namhan river, so grounds rent were easily commercialized due to convenient movements through water traffics and proximity to Seoul. Therefore, lords of broad acres in Chungju integrated their lands around Namhan river and conducted landlord farm managements by using the distribution network in Namhan river, as in the case of Hong Sunhyeong. He owned 3Sok, 95Bu, 66Gyeol of lands probably based on the power derived from his main government posts. He secured and gradually extended good lands to neighboring areas by using his political power, and integrated lands were concentrated on one or two areas.