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Yong-le: Year 2, Month 1, Day 21
2 Mar 1404
2 Mar 1404
As envoys were to be sent to the various countries in the Western Ocean, it was ordered that Fu-jian construct five ocean-going ships.
Tai-zong: juan 27.4b-5a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 10, page 0498/99
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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/reign/yong-le/year-2-month-1-day-21, accessed January 22, 2019