towards the end of the 14th century, a great crisis shook the country. the ming court, then reigning in china, took advantage of this to invade dai viet and to impose a form of direct rule which was to last for twenty years (1407-1427). however, the invaders encountered stiff resistance from the beginning, and national independence was eventually wrested back in 1427 by le loi, the founder of the le dynasty.
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