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Jia-jing: Year 3, Month 4, Day 23
25 May 1524
25 May 1524
The Wei-guo Duke Xu Peng-ju, commandant of Nan-jing, and others memorialized a request to obtain the methods and artisan skills for making the Fo-lang-ji cannons which had been obtained by Guang-dong. The Ministry of War advised: "The cannons cannot be mounted on other than the centipede ships (蜈蚣船). Guang-dong should also be instructed to obtain artisans from Nan-jing to manufacture these." This was Imperially approved.
Shi-zong: juan 38.13b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 72, page 974
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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/jia-jing/year-3-month-4-day-23, accessed January 22, 2019