King Tran Du Tong's playfulness even the emperor of China could not match

King Tran Du Tong's playfulness even the emperor of China could not match #hnp In 1357, Emperor Minh Tong died. At that time, Du Tong was 22 years old and held the main power by himself. In the summer of April, Dinh Dau year 1357 (the seventh year of Thieu Phong), he gave his brother Tran Thien Trach the title of Cung Tin Vuong. Former gods such as Truong Han Sieu, Nguyen Trung Ngan, and Mac Dinh Chi passed away, the court began to disorder.
The false gods drew clans to join the party to disrupt the main court. Seeing the chaos of the main court, the famous Confucian Chu Van An offered to cut the seven gods, but he did not listen, and immediately left the mandarin to teach. Other officials such as Pham Su Manh, Le Quat, although capable, could not interfere with the king's enjoyment. Originally, Chu Van An loved Chi Linh mountain, so he came to live there, only when there was an important court meeting, he came to the capital. King Du Tong wanted to give Chu Van An great power, but Chu Van An refused to accept it. Seeing this, the Empress Dowager Hien Tu advised the king: "He is a man who cannot be made to be me, how can I tell him?". And, when the king gave Chu Van An a hat and a hat, this grape name only thanked him, but did not accept it.
King Du Tong loved to play, loved to sing, often sent princes and princesses to arrange parties to play tuong for fun, whoever performed well was rewarded. Although the Tran Dynasty was very strict with the crime of gambling, Tran Du Tong liked this game, recruiting the rich to the palace to gamble with the king. The old history records that someone told him that Thai lieutenant Nguyen Trac had cast a spell against him. The Emperor almost killed Nguyen Trac, but the Empress Dowager intervened.
Tran Du Tong was an alcoholic and liked to invite the mandarins to drink together. Whoever drinks wins he gets promoted. It was the governor of Vinh An palace, Bui Khoan, who used a trick to get one hundred pounds, Du Tong believed it to be true, and rewarded him with twenty-fourth to get promotion.
He ordered his husband to build many palaces, dig ponds in the garden in the harem, build rocks in the lake to make mountains, plant many strange plants and raise precious birds and animals; then he again ordered a small pond, ordered the people to go to the sea to carry salt water into the lake and release sea fish and tortoiseshells to raise. In the winter of October, dig a lake in the garden in the harem. In the lake that stacks rocks to make mountains, the four veins are all open to flow together. On the lake planted pine, bamboo and other kinds of fragrant flowers and strange grass. Raise precious birds and strange animals in it. In the west of the lake, two cinnamon trees were planted, Song Que Palace was built... Another small lake was dug. Sent people from Hai Dong to carry salt water into it, bringing in seafood such as turtles, crabs, and fish raised in the lake. He sent the people of Hoa Chau to bring crocodiles to drop them there. There is also Thanh Ngu lake to release sub-bar fish. Set up the position of guest capital to look after", recorded Dai Viet history book. In 1362, the king ordered the princes and princesses to offer various antics to see and review which games would be rewarded. Rich people in the country went to the palace to gamble for fun. "There is a silver lining that puts up to 300 francs in money, three hours is already close to a thousand francs."
The king liked to play, the nobles also responded to the king, causing the court to be in turmoil. Outside there was crop failure for many years. Tran Du Tong only had temporary remedies such as ordering the rich to give rice to the poor to fight hunger and reward them with titles to pay their wages; he did not pay attention to dyke construction and irrigation for long-term agricultural development.