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Yong-le: Year 5, Month 9, Day 5
5 Oct 1407
5 Oct 1407
The Regional Commissioner Wang Hao was ordered to renovate or build 249 ocean-going transport ships and to prepare them for a mission to the various countries in the Western Ocean.
Tai-zong: juan 71.1b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 11, page 988
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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-5-month-9-day-5-0, accessed January 22, 2019