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3 unusual facts about Lê Thánh Tông


Lê Thánh Tông

Twelve of them were enslaved to work as agricultural laborers, while the youngest, Wu Rui (吳瑞) was selected for castration since he was the only young man and he became a eunuch attendant at the Vietnamese imperial palace in Thang Long.

The local chief planned to sell him back to the Vietnamese, but Wu was rescued by the Pingxiang magistrate and then was sent to Beijing to work as a eunuch in the palace.

A soldier told him of an escape route back to China and Wu Rui escaped to Longzhou.



see also

Le Hien Tong

Lê Hiến Tông (黎憲宗 1461–1504), reforming ruler who implemented the legal code of his father Lê Thánh Tông