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Zheng-de: Year 4, Month 7, Day 13
29 Jul 1509
29 Jul 1509
The retired Nan-jing Minister of Works Li Meng-yang died. Meng-yang ( zi Shi-yong) had his origins in Sui Subprefecture, He-nan..... In the ren-chen year of the Cheng-hua reign (1472/73), he passed the metropolitan examination and was appointed as a supervising secretary. He was then sent as an envoy to Champa to enfeoff Gu-lai as king. He also memorialized on border affairs and the Court approved his proposals....
Wu-zong: juan 52.6b-7a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 64, page 1194/95
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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/zheng-de/year-4-month-7-day-13, accessed January 22, 2019