Which Le prince beat the eunuch to death for daring to distinguish regions?

The distant son of the king

At the beginning of the year of the New Year (1471), King Le Thanh Tong directly sent out the Southern army to attack Champa with the determination to make Tra Toan submit. The Southern Conquest was successful when it defeated Cha Ban citadel, captured King Chiem, and collected land. But before entering the land of Champa, Dai Viet history book The king said that the king ordered his army to stop at Thuan Hoa (the present land of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue) to practice naval warfare.

And in this place, even though the body is wearing armor, the bright king of the Le Dynasty is still drunk with love, but he is still with a pink shadow. That thing, is it recorded? Dai Viet’s history. In the Post-Normal section of the book Dai Viet’s history It was said that the lucky beauty who was noticed and charged by the king was a girl surnamed Nguyen, born in Hoa Thuoc commune, Kim Tra district, ie Huong Tra district, in present-day Thua Thien Hue province.

When King Le Thanh Tong stopped his army to let his soldiers practice, one day Nguyen Thi went to draw water, the king suddenly saw her, looked at her posture, her face, saw her beautiful beauty, the king rose in his heart. Falling in love with the beautiful woman, falling in love, decided to bring the maiden into the palace.

When fighting Chiem the song of triumph, returning with the victorious army, King Le Thanh Tong had another girl carrying the country Kim Tra with him. Since then, the girl surnamed Nguyen was loved and cared for by the king. After living together, she was promoted to the rank of concubine, ie Nguyen Quy consort. Sub-continental wuzhou then said her name is Nguyen Hoa Duan (or Quan). Serving in the tents of the golden ruler, the incense of the fire was warm, and then Nguyen Quy Phi also gave birth to the king and was met by a handsome prince. That person is Trieu King Le Thoan.

The prince fell

Book Sub-continental wuzhou According to genealogy, Trieu Vuong Thoan was the thirteenth son of King Le Thanh Tong. According to this book, “from a young age, Le Thoan was smart and brave”. Therefore, Prince Thoan was deeply loved by Le Thanh Tong. Not only that, but he has a very high self-esteem.

Once, someone from the same hometown of Thuan Hoa as the mother of Trieu Vuong Thoan had an army job that had to go to the imperial capital of Thang Long to pay respects and present to the court. When going to the gate of Dai Hung, from afar came a small prince (a rank of eunuch).

The capital from Thuan Hoa turned out to be the capital, the roads were far away, the horses and carriages were in a hurry, so the other person’s clothes were somewhat ragged, not neat and tidy. The little prince saw that the man was dressed in blue clothes and fought for the way ahead. He was very angry, uttering wild words that cursed the other person. This, in Dai Viet’s history and Sub-continental wuzhou mentioned. Follow Sub-continental wuzhouIn the Prince’s section, when writing about Trieu Vuong Thoan, he recounted that, seeing the other man fighting for the road, the eunuch was very upset, so he asked:

– Where are you from?

The other replied:

– I’m from Thuan Hoa.

The little prince scolded:

– You fish poop who dare to be disrespectful.

Unfortunately for him, being from the same country, with only different regions, he dares to discriminate against people from the distant South. That bad distinction, in the past, was reflected in the division of sutras and camps under the Tran dynasty.

Returning to the story he was telling, at that time Trieu Vuong Thoan had just entered the palace to visit his parents and came back, suddenly witnessing the scandalous incident. Listen to the curse words of the servants in the palace with people who are compatriots. Self-esteem emerged, he became angry, took a stick to aim at the little prince and hit him consecutively, killing him instantly. After killing him, knowing his own crime, King Zhao went back to the palace to meet his father and said:

– My mother is also from Thuan Hoa, but that little prince dares to offend. God couldn’t help but feel a bit petty and had to commit murder. Now I ask for money to make atonement for killing it.

Trieu Vuong Thoan “please pay the ransom” because according to the provisions in The Kingdom of Penal Law In the Chapter of Honor (Name of the Law), besides defining the Ten crimes in Article 2 as 10 crimes that cannot be forgiven by the law, in Article 3 of this chapter, “Eight things are proposed to be considered for reduction of crimes”. “(Eighth), referring to the subjects who are considered for reduced crime.

Trieu Vuong Thong Duong is the king’s biological son, enjoys the Eighth Law, certainly is not subject to execution or exile, beaten with a staff for murder, but will be “recommended to reduce crime”, only having to pay a fine. just kill people.

After knowing the end of the story, King Le Thanh Tong felt sorry for the heart of his distant son, because he was unintentionally offended by his hometown, but immediately became angry and took the life of the bossy, disrespectful person. other. Zhao Vuong Thoan did not have to pay a ransom for murder, but like Dai Viet’s history recorded, king “Also, he thought he was righteous, and in the end he was not arrested”.

The death of the little prince, not because his words deserved to die a hundred times, but because his number was exhausted, the curse was met when Prince Thoan passed by and heard it. It is also a lesson for those who still carry in themselves the thought of regional discrimination, looking down on people from far away, minorities but forgetting the meaning of “compatriots”.