Vietnamese rebellion (1420)

The Vietnamese rebellion of 1420, also known as Lê Ngạ's Uprising,[1] was a Vietnamese anti-Chinese rebellion led by a former slave named Lê Ngạ, during the Ming colonial rule in northern Vietnam.

Vietnamese rebellion (1420)
Date1420
Location
Bắc Giang, Jiaozhi Province, today Northern Vietnam
Result Chinese victory
Belligerents
Vietnamese anti-Chinese rebels Ming dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Lê Ngạ[n 1] Li Bin
Strength
unknown unknown

In 1407, around 9,000 Vietnamese elitists, including scholars, craftmen, physicians, medicine experts were shipped to China, where these people were retrained in Chinese and could be sent back to Ming-occupying Dai Viet as bureaucrats.[2] In addition, 7,700 Vietnamese tradesmen, artisans and workers were sent to Peking, the second capital of Ming Empire to built the Forbidden City,[3] while the Ming state took direct control over Dai Viet's metal mines, precious aromatics and pearls.[4]

In 1420, Lê Ngạ rallied people to the woods of Lạng Sơn and subsequently declared king. He said to his followers, "If you want to be rich, follow me!" The rebels marched down the Red River Delta, seized Xương Giang. Lê Ngạ's former slave owner saw Ngạ and attacked him. The Chinese military commander of Jiaozhi–Marquis Li Bin, arrived and forced Lê Ngạ's rebels to flee into the mountains.[1] After hearing the news, Emperor Zhu Di felt angry and demanded that Lê Ngạ be captured and transported to the Ming capital. Unable to immediately have the emperor's demand succeed, Li Bin seized and sent an innocent man instead, claiming that it was Lê Ngạ.

Lê Ngạ would not surrender until Huang Fu–the surveillance and prosecution commissioner of Jiaozhi, intervened.[5]

Notes
Footnote
  1. In Chinese records, he was called Li Hung (黎餓).
Citations
  1. Taylor (2013), p. 181.
  2. Ki Che (2019), pp. 126.
  3. Wade (2016), pp. 18.
  4. Wade (2016), pp. 19.
  5. Taylor (2013), p. 182.

References
  • Ki Che, Leung Angela (2019), "A "South" Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things, Experts, and Identities in Premodern East Asia's South", in Tagliacozzo, Eric (ed.), Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People, Harvard University Press, pp. 122–145, ISBN 978-0-67498-763-0
  • Taylor, K. W. (2013). A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87586-8.
  • Wade, Geoff (2016), "Domination in Four Kets: Ming China and its Southern Neighbours 1400 1450", in Clunas, Craig (ed.), Ming China: Court and contact 1400 1450, British Museum, pp. 15–25, ISBN 978-0-86159-205-0
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