Zooi-tan Fe-de

Zui-tan fe de was the son of the emperor Thanh thai fe de . Due to the disagreement of Thanh thai with the French colonial authorities and promiscuous depraved actions (many think they were a cover to hide their disagreement with the French), Thanh thai was declared insane and exiled to Cape Saint-Jacques in 1907. The French decided to transfer the throne to his son, Nguyen Fook Vinh Shan, who was only eight years old, in connection with which the French believed that such a young emperor could easily fall under their influence and control and would pursue a pro-French policy.

This was a big mistake on the part of the French. Fook Vinh Shang was enthroned under the motto Zui-tan, which means "ally of reform," but over time, as it turned out, did not want to live with that name. When he became older, he noticed that, although he is formally an emperor, in fact he is completely subordinate to the colonial authorities. When he became a teenager, Zooi-tan fell under the influence of Mandarin Chiang Kao Wang, who was strongly protesting against the colonial authorities. Emperor Zooi Tan began secretly planning an uprising with Chiang Kao Wang with the goal of overthrowing the French.

In 1916, while France was weighed down by World War I, the emperor Zui-tan Fé-de illegally left the Forbidden City in Hue with Chiang Kao Wang to call on the people to rebel against the French. Nevertheless, the conspiracy became known, France sent troops to Vietnam, and a few days later the conspirators were betrayed and captured by the French colonial troops. Due to his age and the fact that it was no longer fit to aggravate the situation, Emperor Zooi Tan was overthrown and expelled from the country, instead of being executed. Chao Kang Wai and the other rebels were beheaded. Zooey Tan and his father were exiled to the Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

Zooi-tan Fe-de continued to support the Vietnamese national movement in exile. During World War II, he resisted the Vichy regime during the liberation of Reunion , after which he joined Free France and became a lower-ranking naval officer on the French destroyer Leopard, acting as a radio operator. Then he joined the army of Free France with the rank of second lieutenant in December 1942, successively receiving the rank of lieutenant (1943), captain (1944), major (July 1945) and lieutenant colonel (September 1945).

Later, when France was defeated by the forces of Vietnam and the Bao Dai regime lost any public support, the French leader Charles de Gaulle negotiated with Emperor Zooey Tan, who was still very popular among the Vietnamese public, to return to Vietnam as emperor. However, Zooey Tang died in a plane crash in Central Africa on his way home to Vietnam, and high hopes died with him - Ho Chi Minh now had no patriotic rival. For his military service, he was posthumously awarded the French with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor, an officer Medal of Resistance, and became a holder of the Order of Liberation.