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Hong-wu: Year 29, Month 2, Day 6
15 Mar 1396
15 Mar 1396
The Minister of Rites Ren Heng-tai, who had been commissioned to go as an envoy to Annam, returned. He was demoted to an investigating censor. Heng-tai had, while in Annam, privately purchased man as slaves and it was for this reason that he was demoted.
Tai-zu: juan 244.4b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 8, page 3544
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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/hong-wu/year-29-month-2-day-6, accessed January 22, 2019