This man’s forces invested, then killed, a legitimate ruler whose alleged descendant claimed to be an incarnation of Indra and sparked a 70-year civil war with his dynasty. This ruler declared victory over a “domain of manifest civility” in a “great proclamation” written by an official who was supposedly executed for poisoning this man’s son at his lychee garden. This ruler’s grandson expanded his agrarian law code and Confucian exams and compiled “complete annals” starting with the Hùng kings. This so-called “Prince of Pacification” captured cannons during Jiāozhǐ’s (“jee-ow-jurr’s”) brief fourth period of domination by “the north,” which he resisted from Lam Sơn (“lahm sun”) after the surrender of the Hồ and Later Trần dynasties. A golden turtle in Hoàn Kiếm (“hwan kee-um”) Lake mythically reclaimed this man’s sword Heaven’s Will. For 10 points, what rebel expelled the Míng from Vietnam? ■END■
ANSWER: Lê Lợi (“lay luh-ee”) [or Lê Thái Tổ; accept Bình Định vương; prompt on Lê or Lợi or Thái Tổ; prompt on Lê Code] (Clues include Trần Cao and the Lê–Mạc War, Nguyễn Trãi’s Bình Ngô đại cáo, and Lê Thánh Tông compiling the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư.)
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