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Chan Lap
A state that some of the histories record as having plotted or allied with Mai Thuc Loan in the rising the basic annals place in 722 — a detail absent from the basic annals, and one Sima Guang read but deliberately left out of the Tongjian's main text.
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The old chronicles say
The biography of Duong Tu Huc in the Old Book of Tang records: early in the Kaiyuan era, the An Nam chieftain Mai Huyen Thanh rebelled, styled himself the Black Emperor, plotted together with the state of Lam Ap and the state of Chan Lap, and attacked and took the seat of the An Nam protectorate. The line in the basic annals of the same history says only that he attacked and besieged prefectures and districts, with no allied state. The New Book of Tang, completed in 1060, writes that he allied abroad with the states of Lam Ap, Chan Lap and Kim Lan, occupied the land of Hai Nam, his army claimed at four hundred thousand; among the Chinese histories opened for this event, the state of Kim Lan is found only here.132
Sima Guang had read the story of the plot with Lam Ap and Chan Lap before presenting his Zizhi tongjian in 1084, and his Kaoyi note shows he deliberately left it out of the main text. The An Nam chi luoc of Le Tac, compiled around 1335, keeps Lam Ap and Chan Lap but drops Kim Lan; the Complete Annals (1479) likewise record that Mai Thuc Loan allied abroad with the people of Lam Ap and Chan Lap, his army claimed at three hundred thousand. The Nguyen court historians who compiled the Cuong muc complained that the old history's record of him allying with Lam Ap and Chan Lap, with an army of three hundred thousand, was taken in outline from the Tang histories, without examining the facts.4567
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