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Xuan-de: Year 7, Month 2, Day 7	(8 Mar 1432)

Zhang Chang, vice minister in the Auxiliary Ministry of Rites, and others who had gone as envoys to Annam, returned. The envoy Ruan Wen-xuan and others who had been sent to present a memorial from Li Li, who was in temporary charge of the affairs of the country of Annam, accompanied Chang and the others, and came to Court to express gratitude for Imperial grace and offer tribute of gold and silver utensils and local products.

Xuan-zong: juan 87.2a

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 20, page 1999

Geoff Wade, translator, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource, Singapore: Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/entry/1481, accessed March 18, 2010.

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