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Zheng-tong: Year 14, Month 9, Day 1
17 Sep 1449
17 Sep 1449
Ruan Zong-qi, an interpreter and usher in the Court of State Ceremonial, advised: "I am a Jiao-zhi person. It is requested that the Ministry of War be instructed to issue a notice calling up the native officials and people from Jiao-zhi who came to allegiance. I will organize them into a military unit and train them and then, with spears and crossbows, we can proceed to kill the bandits." This was approved.
Ying-zong: juan 182.1b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 30, page 3538
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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-14-month-9-day-1, accessed January 22, 2019