The short conflict involving Malacca and ??i Vi?t during the reign of Lê Thánh Tông (r.?1460–1497), started shortly following the 1471 Vietnamese invasion of Champa, then by now a Muslim kingdom. The Chinese federal government, without the need of realizing concerning the occasion, sent a censor Ch'en Chun to Champa in 1474 to setup the Champa