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Thorn In The Heart

Dung, and he stopped the mission with the hope of furthering in
full success.

King Quang Trung's dream did not come true, but his heart
preserved the life for the country, given it for the country in the
crisis times and the most anxious moment of the Chinese
invasion.

It was the second time after Ngo-Quyen period. Vietnam
was facing directly with China in the time of King Quang Trung,
but Vietnamese had lost their chance to regain the lost land until
now....!

November 28, 1787. King Louis XVI of French and the
Plenipotentiary of Nguyen-Anh, the Bishop of Adran. They
signed the treaty of agreement upon ten clauses, which Nguyen-
Anh used this agreement as the foreign affairs to defeat the Tay-
Son House.

After the last battle, Nguyen-Anh claimed the victory in
Thang-Long in June 1802. He proclaimed himself as Emperor of
Vietnam under the name of Gia-Long, setting up his Court at
Phu-Xuan, Hue.

King Gia-Long was the end of thirty years of bloodbath war
by the foreign aid and his total force of 139800 troops to win the
Tay-Son House.

Nguyen understood that the roots of Vietnam’s civilization
were agriculture and handicraft. Also Vietnamese used the rules
of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism to build up the society
in love and sharing. The moral consciousness nonviolence
traditions of meta psychics were the rules to shape the
Vietnamese’s character for the special on the human life of
practical more than sinking in the deep of meditation.

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