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Yong-le: Year 5, Month 11, Day 1
30 Nov 1407
30 Nov 1407
Imperial orders were sent to the Xin-cheng Marquis Zhang Fu, regional commander of Jiao-zhi. The orders read: "The officers and troops have long labored abroad. Now, the criminals have been pacified. When all is secure, the army should be withdrawn in a timely way."
Tai-zong: juan 73.1a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 11, page 1013
Preferred form of citation for this entry:
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-5-month-11-day-1, accessed January 22, 2019