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Xuan-de: Year 1, Month 12, Day 26
23 Jan 1427
23 Jan 1427
It was ordered that the Qian-guo Duke and Grand Mentor Mu Sheng take on the seal of "General for Subduing the South" and take up the post of regional commander, that the Xing-an Earl Xu Heng take up the post of deputy regional commander of the left, that the Xin-ning Earl Tan Zhong take up the post of deputy regional commander of the right and that they lead the Imperial army in proceeding to Jiao-zhi, where they would join with the An-yuan Marquis and regional commander Liu Sheng, and eliminate the man bandits.
Xuan-zong: juan 23.9b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 17, page 620
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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/xuan-de/year-1-month-12-day-26-0, accessed January 22, 2019