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Wan-li: Year 27, Month 2, Day 18
14 Mar 1599
14 Mar 1599
A Maritime Trade Supervisorate was established in Fu-jian. The Eunuch Gao Cai was sent there [to head the supervisorate] and to concurrently administer mining matters.
Shen-zong: juan 331.7a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 111, page 6125
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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/wan-li/year-27-month-2-day-18, accessed January 22, 2019