The quick conflict between Malacca and ??i Vi?t in the course of the reign of Lê Thánh Tông (r.?1460–1497), started shortly once the 1471 Vietnamese invasion of Champa, then presently a Muslim kingdom. The Chinese governing administration, with no understanding about the function, despatched a censor Ch'en Chun to Champa in 1474 to put in the