Nguyễn Xí


Nguyễn Xí or Lê Xí, was a general, politician, and public servant that served as a minister for 4 generations of rulers during the late Lê Dynasty. He is dubbed as a historical military genius of Vietnam.

Biography

Nguyễn Xí in Chinese means "Light of Light" was born in 1397. His grandfather Nguyễn Xí was Nguyễn Hợp and his father was Nguyễn Hội. Nguyen Hop moved his house to live in Thuong Xa village, Chan Phuc district, now Khanh Hop commune, Nghi Loc district, Nghe An. Here, Nguyen Hop and Nguyen Hoi declared a people to establish a hamlet and expand salt making.
Nguyen Hoi gave birth to two sons: Nguyen Bien and Nguyen Xi. Father and son Nguyen Hoi and Nguyen Bien often sold salt in Luong Giang area, Thieu Hoa district - Thanh Hoa, so very familiar with Le Loi at that time as a tutor in Lam Son.
At the age of 9, Nguyen Xi first met Le Loi. In the same year, his father was tortured to death in his home town of Thuong Xa, he followed him to become Le Loi family. Growing up, Nguyễn Xí was more courageous than anyone, loved by Lê Lợi.
Le Loi ordered him to raise more than 100 hunting dogs, he used the music as a signal, the dogs obeyed, when they came, they went like each other. Le Loi praised and believed that he was talented as a general and gave him the wrong command of the army of Thiet Đot.
In 1418, spring, January, Canh Than day, Le Loi proclaimed Binh Dinh king to launch the Lam Son uprising, Nguyen Xi and Nguyen Bien brother joined him, at that time he was 22 years old.
On January 16, the renegade Ai led the Ming army to take a shortcut, fight behind him, arrest the family of Le Loi and many of his wife and children. Depressed soldiers left, only Le Xi and Le Le, Le Nao, Le Bi and Le Bike followed Le Loi to take refuge in Chi Linh Mountain.
In August 1426, after mastering from Thanh Hoa to Thuan Hoa, Le Loi divided his troops to the generals to make three northern wings. Pham Van Xao, Do Bi, Trinh Kha, Le Trien to the Northwest, Luu Nhan Chu and Bui Be to the Northeast; Dinh Le and Nguyen Xi attacked Dong Guan.
Le Trien approached Dong Guan and met Tran Tri and defeated Tri. Hearing that the Ming army in Yunnan was about to arrive, Triet divided his troops with Pham Van Xao, Trinh Kha to intercept Yunnan troops, and Triet and Do Bi joined with Dinh Le and Nguyen Xi troops to attack Dong Quan.
Pham Van Xao destroyed Van Nam reinforcements. The Yunnan army fled to the entrenched fortress in Changjiang. King Minh again sent Vuong Thong and Ma Anh to reinforce troops. Unionized with troops in Dongguan was ten thousand, divided to Phuong Chinh and Ma Ky. Le Trien and Do Bi defeated Ma Ky in Tu Liem and defeated Chinh's army again.
Both generals lost the run and joined Vuong Thong army at Co So. Le Trien again attacked Vuong Thong, but Thong was prepared. Trien was defeated and had to retreat to Cao Bo, sent someone to ask for help from Nguyen Xi.
Nguyen Xi and Dinh Le brought troops to put soldiers in Good Dong and Chuc Dong. Nguyễn Xí captured Vương Thông's detective, who knew that he planned to divide the way and that when the cannon exploded, the front and back soldiers finally defeated Le Trien. He and Dinh Le went to plan to entice Thong into an ambush into the cave of Good Dong, then set up a fake cannon to signal the Ming army to enter. Vuong Thong army lost greatly, Tran Hiep, Ly Luong and 50,000 troops were killed, 1 million were captured alive. Thong and the generals ran to entrenched in Dongguan.

Dongguan Prison Break

Le Loi was convinced to win the battle and marched to the north, besieging Dong Quan. Nguyen Xi was ordered with Dinh Le to bring troops to the south of the city.
In February 1427, General Minh, Phuong Chinh defeated Le Tri in Tu Liem and Triet was killed. In March Vuong Thong attacked Lam Son army camp in Tay Phu Liet. Nguyen Xi and Dinh Le brought 500 armored troops to reinforce reinforcements, driving Minh army to My Dong. Lam Son did not keep up, Vuong Thong went back to fight. Two generals rode an elephant into the swamp and were captured by the Ming army. Dinh Le refused to be killed, and Nguyen Xi took a night of rain to deceive the guards to escape. Le Loi saw him coming back and was happy, saying: "It is true that he is alive again" .
After that, he again joined forces in the battle of Xuong Giang to help Le Sat to capture Hoang Phuc, and Cui Tu was an army of survivors after Lieu Thang was slashed. It was the victory that ended Lam Son's uprising.

4-year-old princess

In 1428, Le Loi was crowned Emperor, or Le Thai To. Nguyen Xi was conferred the rank of Dragon Tiger, General Hieu, who told the righteousness of the princess and the privilege of opening the country.
In 1429, when carving the sea of courtiers, Nguyễn Xí was ranked in the fifth rank, conferred the title of Most District, and granted the King's National Committee.
In 1433, Emperor Le Thai To died. Crown Prince Le Nguyen Long ascended the throne, or Emperor Le Thai Tong. In 1437, Thái Tông appointed him as the official official of Tri and recited his words.
In 1442, the emperor Le Thai Tong died at the age of 20, he and Trinh Kha, Le Thu received the emancipation of emperor Le Nhan Tong.
In 1445, Emperor Nhan Tong was a young, Queen Nguyen Thi Anh regent, he entered the Admiral, received orders with Le Than to bring troops to fight Chiem Thanh, but if not gone, the right to denounce sins should be abolished. function.
In 1448 Nguyễn Xí was restored to the rank of Major General Military Civilian. In 1450, he was promoted to Thai Bao as an official helper.
In October 1459, he was different from Nhan Tong's mother, Lang Son, King Le Nghi Dan, as a mutiny to kill Queen Nguyen Thi Anh and Emperor Nhan Tong. Nghi Dan ascended the throne of the emperor and named Thien Hung. The ambassadors Do Bi, Le Thu, and Le Ngang who attempted to overthrow King Revealed were killed. Thai security told Nguyen Xi to discuss with Le Lang, Le Niem to make a coup again to overthrow Nghi Dan.
On June 6 of the lunar calendar in 1460, Nguyen Xi launched a mutiny, slashed at Nghi Dan's close servants, Pham Don, Phan Ban in the Street Agenda, seized the forbidden army, closed the gates tightly, and ordered Le Ninh Thuan to arrest them. besieged and deposed Emperor Thien Hung as Le Duc Hau, and took the youngest son of Thai Tong Tu Thanh to the throne, the emperor Le Thanh Tong, opening a period of prosperity lasting 38 years.
In June 1460, Nguyễn Xí was appointed as an official of the People's Committee, Entering the State's Office of the Vice Principal of the Military Medal of A County, serving as a civil servant, giving a bag of gold and silver, and a silver seal. , 5000 acres of hard soil. In October of that year, he was made a Chief of Public Relations.
In 1462, Nguyen Xi's son, Nguyen Su Hoi, did not agree with a number of high-ranking mandarins, so he wrote poems and threw them on the street to slander them but rebelled them. King Tong Tong respected his efforts and did not cure Master's sin. That year, he was promoted to the rank of Organic Import of the Nation. In 1463 he was again a Thai lieutenant.
In 1465, Nguyen Xi passed away, aged 69, and was ordained as a Thai monk.
End of mourning, in 1467, King Le Thanh Tong ordered the temple to be rebuilt according to the national and international regime and ordered the poet Nguyen Trung Truc to write the epitaph inscription: "Superior superiority and blessedness, showing the dignity of the elders. Trung Trinh Dai Vuong ".
In the 15th year of Hong Duc's reign, he was conferred the title of National Duchy, after being conferred the title of "Superior God of Blessings, Appealing for the Righteous Prayer of the Great King", erected a temple in Nghi Hop commune, Nghi Loc district, province. Nghe An.
In 1485 Lê Thánh Tông ordained Father Nguyễn Xí to become a crown prince to Duke Nguyễn Hội and his brother Phiêu cavalry Lieutenant General Nguyễn Thái.
According to Dai Viet history, he had 16 sons and 8 daughters. The descendants of Nguyễn Xí later helped Le Trung Hung's family.

Comment

"Nguyen Xi King, King Wang, King Wang Wu calculated deep heroic capital.
Help Cao Hoang when opening the country hundreds of arduous battles.
Help the anecdote at a goalkeeper. In addition to all the titles of general and martial; Before and after, I kept studying as a child and a child. Keeping yourself religious, innocent as a pearl does not show light. Stunning face at the court, as fierce as a new sword. The mandarins all revealed their demeanor; all four seas see prestige."
” - Essay written by Lê Thánh Tông given to Nguyễn Xí
In his Vietnamese History poem, President Ho Chi Minh praised him:
“Nguyen Xi is an extraordinary person
Several times, the Chinese and Chiem soldiers were chased.
He has even high conspiracy,
Our people know together one heart.
So even though Tau hung hung,
Our people still keep our home country. ”- Ho Chi Minh
In his Vietnamese History poem, Historian Le Quy Don praised him:
“Nguyen Xi Doi King of Thai To and Thai Tong.
I carry, I carry, I carry, I carry...
During the reign of King Thai To, Thai Tong and the paddy fields were full of buffaloes, they did not eat.”- Le Quy Don
In his poem History of our country Patriotic Phan Boi Chau praised him.
" Nguyễn Xí, a patriotic loyalist in the blind old-time patriotism In the eyes of the old man Tien Founding the founder of a satisfactory literary regime, expanding the land and fairly wide shore, was a king of strategic heroes, though The Emperor Wu Emperor and the Tang Dynasty Emperor Tai were no better.
”- Phan Boi Chau
In his Vietnamese History poem, Poinsettia Nguyen Truc praised him:
“Principality of Nguyen Xi
Forever shining with the openness of the Nation,
Thousand years glorious Chi Binh Ngo. ”- Nguyen Truc
In the poem "History of our country", "Receiving the posterity" and praising the descendants:
“THE WONDERFUL
Celebrating the four radiant realms, Ha proud descendants of our ancestors Chase and invade the robbers The peaceful rebellion of the evil "Binh Ngo Khai Quoc" compliments "Tinh Ngan Trung Hung" praises "Cuong Quoc Cong" The word "save posterity. His instructions echoed far away!
”- The folk tradition passed down
In countless words and poems praising him, there were words of the first intelligent army Le Thanh Tong, Poinsettia Nguyen Truc, scientist Le Qui Don, scientist Phan Huy Chu, King Tu Duc, and great love. Phan Bội Châu all praised his merit.

Posterity

On the 30th of the first lunar month every year, at the temple of Nguyen Xi, in Nghi Hop commune, Nghi Loc district, Nghe An province, organized the Nguyen Xi Temple Festival. In the ancient capital of Hue, Nguyễn Xí was appointed by the Nguyễn emperors as the "Show of Greatness of the Kingdom of Great Prince of the Great King".
His name was given to a street in Hanoi, Nguyen Xi Street connecting Dinh Le Street to Trang Tien Street. His name is also given to a street in Ward 13, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City.
Grand Master Cuong Quoc Cong Nguyen Xi is the ancestor of the Nguyen Dinh family. The Nguyen Dinh family has a total of 15 large genera, the main church of their family is the Temple of Grand Master Cuong Quoc Nguyen Xi in Nghi Hop, Nghi Loc and Nghe An communes. Up to now, the Nguyen Dinh family has expanded widely throughout the country, including abroad, but the most concentrated is in Nghi Loc district, Nghe An province. The Nguyen Dinh family is one of the glorious families in the feudal regime of Vietnam, especially prosperous in the field of martial arts.
In the ancient capital of Hue, he was worshiped in the Temple of Emperor Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty, considered to be the nation's first patriarch, the illustrious General was registered by the historical dynasties.
Rarely has any god like Nguyen Xi been granted the title of national god twice.
In 2011, Nghe An Publishing House and the Council of Great Families Nguyen Dinh republished a second edition of "Cuong duong Nguyen Xi clan". On the occasion of the Nguyễn Xí Temple Festival 2012, the tomb area of the father, mother, and the tomb of Grand Master Cuong, the princess Nguyen Xi, has been upgraded to be bigger and more beautiful with funding of over 2 billion dongs from descendants and tourists from near and far. virtue.

Future descendants

Entrepreneur of the World Culture, The 11th-Generation Grandchildren Nguyen Xi Door belongs to the 10th branch
Do Muoi La Nguyen Cua succession Chi 5 Nguyen Dinh family.
Nguyen Manh Cam - Deputy Prime Minister
Nguyen Duy Trinh - Minister of Foreign Affairs - Deputy Prime Minister
Nguyen Phong Sac General Secretary of the Indochinese Communist Party.
Nguyen Manh Dau, Lieutenant General, Vietnamese Army.
Nguyen Dinh Khoa Hero of the People's Armed Forces.
Nguyen Dinh Loc Minister of Justice.
Nguyễn Đình Tứ Minister of Professional University.
Nguyễn Đình Hương
Nguyen Xuan Thang
Nguyen Xuan Duong
Nguyen Dinh Phach Formerly a Vietnamese politician. He used to be a Member of Executive Committee of Central Committee of Vietnamese Communist Party, course X, course XI, Secretary of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee, Hung Yen.
Nguyen Dinh Uoc
Nguyen Dinh Khang, Secretary of Ha Nam Province, Participated in the preparation for the UN Vesak celebration in 2019.
Nguyễn Đình Chu with author authored a draft of Văn Thơ about Phan Bội Châu.

Legend

But the story most often circulated is the story of Mr. Hoang Muoi's birth into Nguyen Xi, a good general under King Le Thai To, who helped the king to defeat the Minh invaders. Static.
The Holy Father is an important figure in the system of the sacred beliefs to worship Mother Tam Phu and Tu Phu of Vietnamese people.
Another legend is handed down as follows: Mr. Muoi was born to Nguyen Xi, a good general under King Le Thai To, who helped the king to defeat the Minh invaders. He was later assigned to defend Nghe An, Ha Tinh. is the home town). Here, he always took care of people's lives, telling the story that once a typhoon broke down houses, he sent his army to the forest to cut wood to build houses for the people, then opened a payroll. help. In a boat trip on the river, to the foot of Hong Linh mountain, there was a third storm surging, engulfing his boat and he turned right on the junction of the la, Minh Giang and Lam rivers where the spirit from the mine Flamingoes. While everyone was mourning the funeral, the sky was clear, glowing with yellow clouds, suddenly his body floated on the surface of the water lightly like no, his face still rosy as bright as the person who was sleeping, When he got to the shore, suddenly the surrounding soil was swamped, covering his relics. At that time, there were clouds of five colors in the sky, forming a chain and natural soldiers and generals came to take him to heaven. Later on, he was assigned to defend Nghe Tinh, residing in Nghe An. People worship him as Mr. Hoang Muoi.
The main festival takes place on the 10th of the 10th lunar month every year. There is also the opening festival on the full moon day of March. The festival has activities such as picking up a boat from the Nguyen family to the temple, singing chau van, cockfighting, playing chess. The festival has attractive activities such as picking up a boat by boat from the Nguyen family to the temple, singing adoration, cockfighting, playing chess... Mr. Ong Muoi Temple is also one of the places where the Great Requiem ceremony takes place. the heroic martyrs died in the resistance war against the invaders. The main festival on the full moon in January and the July sacrificial ritual at the temple, then procession to the communal house in the government, opening the funny festival 3 the day, there is a competition to play chess, tug of war, wrestling and singing opera, cheo ward, chau van, sharp charm, dragon boat adoration, etc. to the fourth day of the procession to the temple. This is a big festival of the whole region.