Yang Jing was a famous founding hero in the early Ming Dynasty, born in present-day Hefei, Anhui Province, from a young age, he had a calm personality, although he was a Confucian disciple, he did not like chapters and sentences, but loved martial arts, after Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river, as a steward of the army, he followed him to take Lishui, Jurong, Jiqing and other places, and then followed Tang He to attack Changzhou, followed Hu Dahai to attack Wuzhou, and made great achievements in this regard!
Immediately after the outbreak of the high-stakes Battle of Longwan, Zhu Yuanzhang used Kang Maocai to write a letter to surrender falsely, and lured Chen Youyu to the narrow part of the longwan river! Zhu Yuanzhang buried many ambushes here, Yang Jing was one of them, he chased after Chen Youyu, and in the decisive battle of Poyang Lake three years later, Yang Jing also played an excellent role!
After eliminating Chen Youyu in the west, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally transferred the twist to Zhang Shicheng in the east, Zhu Yuanzhang took Xu Da as the general and Chang Yuchun as the general, and the two led 200,000 elite troops to directly attack Huzhou on the south side of Taihu Lake, and at the same time let hangzhou and Hua Yunlong attack Jiaxing, with the intention of making Zhang Shicheng tired of running for his life, and looking for opportunities to directly attack the core of Suzhou.
And where is Yang Jing at this time? He was actually sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to the Hunan area to be responsible for sweeping away the barbarians there.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to the Northern Yuan Expedition, and tang he and Liao Yongzhong set out from land and sea to pacify Fang Guozhen, while Yang Jing attacked Guangxi from the direction of Hunan.
In the Battle of Guangxi, Yang Jing played well, taking seven enemy camps in a row, unstoppable! After Liao Yongzhong and Zhu Liangzu came from the direction of Guangdong to meet Yang Jing, the three famous generals successively took the important town of Jingjiang, Suiping, Guangxi!
Yang Jing, who had already proved his ability in the Battle of Guangxi, was pulled north by Zhu Yuanzhang to assist Xu Da in capturing Shanxi. In the third year of Hongwu, the hero of the Northern Expedition, the generals returned, and Yang Jing was awarded the title of Marquis of Yingyang for his merits.
The following year, Yang Jing followed Tang He to attack Ming Xia, who was entrenched in the Bashu region, but due to the surge of the river, both of them lost the first battle in Qutang Gorge, and although they eventually took Ming Xia, the two were still punished by Zhu Yuanzhang!
In the following years, Yang Jing mainly followed Deng Yu to continue to conquer the barbarians in Hunan, and followed the general Xu Da to Beiping to train troops. Immediately after that, there was no information about his activities, only that when Yang Jing reached the fifteenth year of Hongwu, he officially died and was posthumously awarded the title of Duke of Toma!
However, Yang Jing's death does not represent the end of the story, eight years later, it was found that Yang Jing had a plot of rebellion because of the defeat of Qu Tangxia, and became a friend of Hu Weiyong, but considering that the family had been dead for such a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang only symbolically punished him and stripped him of his title!
However, in the ensuing Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di, the King of Yan, marched south, and there was even one more Yang Jing in his army, with an official position of only one hundred households, who was the father of Yang Hong, a famous general in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, many people suspected that Yang Jing, the Marquis of Yingyang, did not really die, but escaped through fake death, and came to the account of Zhu Di, the King of Yan, quietly waiting for an opportunity to let him show his military ability again.
However, the opportunity waited, but in the fourth year of Jianwen, in order to save the life of Zhu Di, the King of Yan, he died at Lingbi.
In this regard, many people have vetoed it, they think that all this is just a coincidence, just happened to encounter two people with the same name and surname, one after another appeared on the stage of history.
The people who supported Marquis Yang Jing of Yingyang were the hundred households of Yang Jing, and their main logic was:
I. Yang Jing in the Battle of Jingnan was only a small hundred households, but later he was awarded the title of Duke by Zhu Di and was made the Duke of Jingguo, even if he saved Zhu Di's own life, whether such a posthumous title was too high;
Second, the Hu Weiyong case officially broke out in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, and in the following ten years, many meritorious ministers were involved, and Yang Jing officially died in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, that is, two years after the outbreak of the Hu Weiyong case. Therefore, he was most likely afraid that his involvement in the Hu Weiyong case would be found out, and he came up with the trick of fake death to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher knife!
And the person who denied Marquis Yang Jing of Yingyang was the person who hundreds of Yang Jing households, and its main logic was:
I. According to the "Ming Shi Yang Hong's biography": "Ancestral government, in the early Ming Dynasty, the merits of the hundred households in Hanzhong. Father Jing, the spirit of the dead. Hong Si took up his post and transferred Kaiping. That is to say, this Hundred Households Yang Jing only knew that he was the son of Yang Zheng of the Hundred Households in Hanzhong, and Hanzhong was under the jurisdiction of Zhu Zhu, the King of Qin, at that time, and did not care about Zhu Di, the King of Yan, at all!
Second, the history books only mention that Yang Jingzhan died in Lingbi, and do not directly point out whether he belonged to the imperial court army or the army of Zhu Di, the king of Yan!
Third, if Yang Jing, the Marquis of Yingyang, successfully deceived Zhu Yuanzhang by suspending his death, then how could he continue to use his real name Yang Jing to inherit his father Yang Zheng's hundred households. And at that time, Yang Jinggui was a marquis, to inherit a lowly white household, which felt a little strange!
In summary, the author's personal view is more inclined to Yingyang Marquis Yang Jing and Baihu Yang Jing is just a coincidence of history, and the two are not the same person.