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No,I'm just tired of the fairy tales that Vietnamese try to pass off as history,but I suppose thieves will be thieves.There are ugly sides of war that may not be appropriate for the conservative way of thinking of the era to be taught to children in school. However, there may be other documents for military and government use that may go into greater details of the event.
You sound bitter. Please keep an open mind as we are talking about "history", an official written recollection of accounts by an individual and not the notes or diaries of the actual person who lived through the event.
ie Chinese stole Vietnamese land in southern China,Chinese stole surnames from Vietnamese,Chinese stole architecture from Vietnamese,Chinese stole Shennong from Vietnamese,the list goes on and on.
Except that Yongzhou wasn't on the border regions and neither was it ruled by Tusi such as the Zhuang.well, I am not sure, but you can correct me if wrong. I say the Vietnamese incursions into Chinese territories are not comparable to the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor.
as far as I know, ancient China had no concept of sovereignty, neither on land nor at sea. China had not exiplicity drawn the border of China on any maps. you never mentioned in records the seas (east or south east china sea) belong to China. All ancient maps of China contain no clear marked border between China and Vietnam. so Vietnamese incursions into China, or Chinese invasions into Vietnam are not really comparable to what we see as violence of borders or aggressions as today?
Perhaps it is because you claimed "everything under the sky belongs to the son of heaven". Chinese emperors saw no need to say "this and that are mine, and this is yours".
as for history, Ly thuong kiet was the man who called for a clear demarcation between Vietnam and China in the northern front. Or the Kingdom of Champa called for clear demarcation between Dai Viet and Champa in the southern front.
You would have a better argument if it was some city where the Zhuang held nominal sovereignty however Yongzhou was already under direct Song jurisdiction.
Wang Anshi was expelled before Guo Kui began his counter invasion,quote the Chinese texts where Wang Anshi ordered the invasion of Dai Viet prior to the Vietnamese raids.Wang Anshi was invited by Song Shenzong to be Primer Minster of Song court from year 1070 . So without approval of Wang Anshi, no proposal or plant to annex Dai Viet to Song Dynasty should been approved.
Two Song guan Shen Ki (Thẩm Khởi) and Liu Ji (Lưu Di) were ordered to mobilize inhabitants (punti people), produce weapons, build many boats and warships, training soldiers...etc to conquer Dai Viet.
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