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Dinh Kien
According to the Old and New Books of Tang, a confederate of Ly Tu Tien who led troops to besiege the seat of Annam; the Complete Annals alone records that he killed the Protector Luu Dien Huu, while the Old Book of Tang records the killer as Ly Tu Than and the New Book of Tang does not say by whom.
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The Old Book of Tang records that in the third year of Chuigong, Tu Tien's confederates, Dinh Kien, Ly Tu Than and others, led their forces to besiege the seat of Annam. The New Book of Tang tells it more briefly and without Ly Tu Than: the rest of his band, Dinh Kien and others, rebelled and gathered their forces to besiege the seat. In this New Book of Tang version, the man beheaded by Tao Huyen Tinh is Dinh Kien himself. The Viet su luoc and the Tu tri thong giam do not name him: the Viet su luoc only says the rest of the band besieged the seat and killed Dien Huu without naming Dinh Kien, while the Tongjian speaks only of Ly Tu Than and his men.1245
The Complete Annals records Ly Tu Tien as the one who laid the plans, killed by Dien Huu; the rest of his band, Dinh Kien, gathered their forces and besieged the seat, and here the account differs from all three other versions: Kien himself killed Dien Huu. The label pairing Ly Tu Tien with Dinh Kien matches exactly the cast in this version of the Complete Annals, Tu Tien laying the plans, Kien leading the troops and killing the Protector, but not the Old Book of Tang, where the man recorded as Dien Huu's killer is Ly Tu Than.3
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