{{Short description|Ming general (1369–1424)}} thumb|Portrait of Li Jinglong {{family name hatnote|Li|lang=Chinese}} '''Li Jinglong''' ({{zh|李景隆}}) (1369–1424), small name '''Jiujiang''' ({{zh|labels=no|九江}}), formally the '''Duke of Cao''' (曹國公) was a Ming dynasty general. He was the son of Duke Li Wenzhong,<ref name=":1" /> the nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor) through his older sister. During the Jingnan campaign, Li Jinglong initially supported the Jianwen Emperor. However, he lost several battles and was replaced. Li plotted to betray the Jianwen Emperor and later switched sides to support Zhu Di (later the Yongle Emperor). However, Li was then convicted of corruption and treason and thrown in prison by the Yongle Emperor. Li's family members were also arrested.<ref name=":0" />
== Historical records == thumb|left|Back of a tomb guardian statue at the tomb of Li Wenzhong 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Tsai|first=Shih-shan Henry|title=Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle|date=2001|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=0-295-98109-1|location=Seattle|pages=65, 66}}</ref> The Jianwen Emperor appeared to favor him, choosing to reinstate the general even after his losses to the Yongle Emperor's army.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Sibau|first=Maria Franca|title=Reading for the Moral: Exemplarity and the Confucian Moral Imagination in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Short Fiction|date=2018|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-6989-8|location=New York|pages=186}}</ref> After a string of defeats, the emperor finally replaced him with Sheng Yong (盛庸).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shi|first=Li|title=Military History of the Ming Dynasty|publisher=DeepLogic|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tsai|first=Shih-shan Henry|title=Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle|date=2001|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=0-295-98109-1|location=Seattle|pages=67}}</ref>
Li 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 1402.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lorge|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQB_AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Li+Jinglong%22+ming+dynasty&pg=PT190|title=War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795|date=2006|page=190|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-37285-0|language=en}}</ref>
However, during the Yongle Emperor's reign, Li Jinglong was convicted of corruption and treason. Zhu Su, Prince of Zhou, exposed that Li had accepted bribes, and Zheng Ci (鄭賜), minister of punishment, accused Li of treason. Later, Zhu Neng (朱能) showed further evidence to impeach Li Jinglong and his brother Li Zengzhi (李增枝) of treason. The Yongle Emperor then imprisoned Li Jinglong and stripped him of his title. Furthermore, the emperor put Li Jinglong's brother Li Zengzhi, his wife and children, and dozens of his other family members under house arrest and their homes were searched with their property confiscated. Li Jinglong then died in the last years of the Yongle Emperor's reign.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |editor = Zhang Tingyu | editor-link = Zhang Tingyu | title= History of Ming | script-title=zh:明史 | place= Beijing | year= 1974 | orig-year=1739 |publisher=Zhonghua Shuju |chapter=Volume 126, biography of Li Wenzhong |oclc=633140044}}</ref>
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