Lê Quang Định and Geography Book of the Unified Hoàng Việt (continue)

Abstract

ABSTRACT
LÊ QUANG ĐỊNH AND GEOGRAPHY BOOK OF UNIFIED HOÀNG VIỆT
Finished compiling the book, he presented it which the King had seen. The beginning of the second volume recorded: 兵部尚書敏政侯臣黎光定奉敕纂修 - 兵部右參知靜遠侯臣吳仁静校政 - 翰林制誥慎徽侯臣黎良慎參攷 Minister of Infantry marquis Mẫn Chính Lê Quang Định obeid the imperial order, and compiled and edited it. Vice-Minister of Infantry marquis Tịnh Viễn Ngô Nhân Tịnh corrected it and Hailin Drafter of Proclamations marquis Thận Huy Lê Lương Thận noted its references. His preface and the one of Nguyễn Gia Cát were dated October 20 of the 5th Gia Long year [December 29, 1806]. The content of book was clearly recorded the roads and river way in the whole country, including national road and the internal roads of the towns, according to method of geographer Lịch Đạo Nguyên used in the Work Thủy kinh chú (A great work on ancient Chinese geography). The book expresses the ideology and will to unify the country of the Nguyễn Dynasty king and mandarins