Li Jinglong

Li Jinglong (Chinese: 李景隆) (1369–1424), nickname Jiujiang (Chinese: 九江), was a Ming dynasty general. He was the son of Duke Li Wenzhong,[1] the nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor) through Zhu's older sister.

Historical records

During the Jingnan Campaign, he supported the Jianwen Emperor against the Prince of Yan (the later Yongle Emperor). An account cited how Jinglong besieged Beiping and face the Prince of Yan's wife, who mobilized other women to assist in the city's defense.[1] The Jianwen emperor appeared to favor him, choosing to reinstate the general even after his losses to the Yongle emperor's army.[2] After a string of defeats, the emperor finally replaced him with Sheng Yong.[3][4]

Jinglong surrendered to the Prince of Yan and it was reported that he conspired with Prince Gu to betray the Jianwen emperor by opening the gates to Nanjing when the enemy's army arrived in July of 1402.[5] Jinglong, however, ran afoul with the new emperor, who imprisoned him and stripped him of his title.[2]

References
  1. Tsai, Shih-shan Henry (2001). Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 65, 66. ISBN 0-295-98109-1.
  2. Sibau, Maria Franca (2018). Reading for the Moral: Exemplarity and the Confucian Moral Imagination in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Short Fiction. New York: SUNY Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-4384-6989-8.
  3. Shi, Li. Military History of the Ming Dynasty. DeepLogic.
  4. Tsai, Shih-shan Henry (2001). Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 67. ISBN 0-295-98109-1.
  5. Lorge, Peter (2006-03-29). War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-37285-0.


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