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Zheng-tong: Year 13, Month 8, Day 24
21 Sep 1448
21 Sep 1448
The Qian-guo Duke Mu Bin, regional commander of Yun-nan, and others sent the gold and silver utensils, trained elephants and the yi persons (夷口) which had been given as presents by Si Ji-fa, as well as the chieftains he had sent as envoys, to the capital. The Emperor ordered that the chieftains be attached to the Embroidered-Uniform Guard as elephant attendants.
Ying-zong: juan 169.6a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 29, page 3267
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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-tong/year-13-month-8-day-24, accessed January 22, 2019