In accordance with the wishes and demands of the enemy country, the historical tragedy of mutilating Ben Tong's Loyalty, which self-destructed the Great Wall and committed suicide, has been repeated again and again in Chinese history, leaving behind a blood-stained and unforgettable historical stain. The unjust death of Yue Fei, the most outstanding national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, is one of the most tragic examples.
Yue Fei (1103-1142), also known as Pengju, was a native of Tangyin County, Xiangzhou (present-day Tangyin County, Henan), who came from a family of generations of farmers, and practiced martial arts in his early years. In the fourth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1122), Yue Fei joined the army and participated in the Anti-Jin War, and his last 20 years were basically spent in the Anti-Jin War. He not only governed the army well, but also had the courage and good fighting, repeatedly made military achievements, started from a soldier, and became an outstanding military commander who won every battle.
Yue Fei's greatest wish was the Northern Expedition and the recovery of the lost land in the Central Plains. In the third year of shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1133), Yue Fei wrote in the poem "Sending Mr. Ziyan Zhang (Jun) to the Northern Expedition": "The order of the wind and thunder, the sound of the heavens moving the north." Long drive across the river Luo, straight to Yan You. Ma Di Fu clan blood, flag owl Khan head. Return to the Lord and restore the old Divine State!" The poem is a very clear expression of his strong desire to regain lost ground. But. This desire was constrained by the compromise and surrender faction in the Southern Song Dynasty court, and qin juniper, a traitor who returned from the Jin dynasty, had already been heavily used, and he took advantage of emperor Gaozong zhao's eagerness to take a corner of the country and strongly advocated peace with the Jin dynasty and abandoned the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains. Yue Fei was resolutely opposed to this humiliating request for peace. In the spring of the ninth year (1139) of the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing, he once went to the imperial court and pointed out: "Yan yun, who is willing to take revenge and repay the country, vows to the heavens and the earth, and is the head of the order to be the head of the domain." It is said that Qin Juniper "saw the cutting teeth".
What a sad situation it was that the imperial court was in power and that loyal and ambitious people had no way to serve the country, and who could understand the grief and indignation in Yue Fei's heart? It was a summer day, after a fierce wind and rain, the rain passed through the sky, Yue Fei looked at the Ezhou Ya Office guarding his town, and looked at the fence, but when he saw the gushing Yangtze River rolling in the east, his heart was surging and his spirit was difficult to calm down, so he made a voice for his heart, leaving behind the "Man Jiang Hong" that can be called a song that has been sung for generations:
Boil over! By the railing, Xiao Xiao rain rest. Look up at the eyes, look up at the sky and scream, and be fierce. Thirty meritorious deeds of dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait idle, white teenager's head, empty and sad! Jing Kang shame, Ju Wei Xue; courtiers hate, when will it be extinguished? Drive a long car and step through the Helan Mountain. Zhuangzhi was hungry for meat and laughed about thirsting for The blood of the Huns. Stay at the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and go to the sky!
In May of the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140), the Jin state once again broke the treaty and launched an attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, commanded by the Jin marshal Yan Zongbi (Jin Wushu), and marched south in four ways. Emperor Gaozong of Song was forced to order Yue Fei to resist with the three commanders Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun. However, Emperor Gaozong's so-called resistance was limited, that is, as long as he ensured that half of jiangnan did not fall into the hands of the Jin, it was not his consideration at all to restore the Central Plains. But this time, Yue Fei decided to launch an unprecedented Northern Expedition against Emperor Gaozong's wishes. Yue Jia's army, commanded by Yue Fei, marched north from the Ezhou branch and defeated the Jin army all the way, successively recapturing Xuchang, Zhengzhou, and Luoyang, the western capital, and recovering most of the lost land in Henan.
After yan Zongbi, the commander of the Jin army, detected that Yue Fei's headquarters was garrisoned with only a small number of cavalry in Henan, he personally led 15,000 elite cavalrymen to attack the city from Kaifeng in a long-distance attack, in an attempt to eliminate Yue Fei's command center in one fell swoop, and the two sides launched a vicious battle, the Jin army used to deal with the Song army's repeatedly successful unique killing weapons "Kidnapper" (flank cavalry) and "iron float map" (iron tower soldiers, that is, heavily armored cavalry), which were not effective in front of the Yue family army, this time, the Jin army was defeated by the Yue family army and had to retreat. A detachment of the Yue family army reached the town of Zhuxian, which was only forty-five miles away from Kaifeng, the base camp of the Jin Army. This time, Yue Fei's northern expedition to the Central Plains, the Jin army suffered an unprecedented heavy blow, but also broke the myth of the invincibility of the Jin army. In the face of the brave and invincible Yue family army, the Jin army issued a lament from top to bottom that "it is difficult to regret the mountain and shake the Yue family army".
Yue Fei recruited troops and horses in Zhuxian Town, contacted the Hebei rebels, and actively prepared to cross the Yellow River to regain the lost land, and he excitedly said to the generals: "Directly pound the Yellow Dragon, and drink with the kings!" However, Song Gaozong, who had already "made Hangzhou a prefecture", and the traitors Qin Juniper could not see Yue Fei's victory, so Qin Juniper, under the guise of Emperor Gaozong's name, issued 12 urgent gold medals in a single day and ordered Yue Fei to retire. Faced with such a scene, Yue Fei, who was bent on serving the country, was already burning within five years, wanting to cry into tears, he could not suppress the grief and indignation in his heart, and looked up at the sky and sighed: "Ten years of strength, destroyed in one fell swoop!" "On the day of the class, the soldiers and civilians wept together, and the cries shook the wilderness.
The virtuous and loyal servants of the country are the enemies of the enemy country. The Jin Dynasty realized that Yue Fei was the greatest enemy of the Jin Kingdom, and that Yue Fei's existence was the greatest threat to the Jin Kingdom. Therefore, killing Yue Fei through the hands of Emperor Gaozong of Song and Qin Ju became the number one target of Jinguo diplomacy. Marshal Yan Zongbi of the Jin Army wrote to Qin Ju and clearly told him: "Yue Fei will be killed, and then he and Ke Chengye will be killed." ”
For the instructions issued by the master, Qin Ju naturally did not dare to be sloppy. Thus, a terrifying conspiracy of evil people was revealed. Qin Jun's henchmen instructed Yue Fei's subordinates to accuse Wang Jun of the capital Wang Gui that "the deputy governor Zhang Xian plotted to change Xiangyang... Wang Gui immediately reported to the Privy Councillor Zhang Jun, who was immediately arrested and later framed zhang Xian for "plotting rebellion after receiving Yue Fei's writings". Yue Fei and his eldest son Yue Yun were immediately arrested and interrogated in Dali Temple Prison. Qin Ju decided to kill Yue Fei to warn all those who dared to oppose the peacemaker. In the history of Chu, He Zhu was ordered to interrogate Yue Fei, and Yue Fei stripped off his clothes to reveal the words "loyal to the country" tattooed on his back by his mother, Lady Yao, when he was a teenager. He Zhu was a man of conscience, and when he sensed that Yue Fei had been wronged, he complained to Qin Ju. Qin Ju was very unhappy, and said with a calm face, "This is what the emperor meant." ”
Qin Ju immediately reassigned Wan Qiangao, a close henchman who was always at odds with Yue Fei, to preside over the interrogation. Adhering to Qin Jun's will, Wan Qiangao convicted Yue Fei of false treason by means of severe torture and beating him into confession, framed Yue Fei for falsely reporting military information and staying in Huaixi, and insisted that Yue Yun had written a letter to Zhang Xian and arranged plans to seize the army and plot rebellion. Han Shizhong, who had been stripped of his military powers and retired to an idle post, was indignant about this and personally went to the door to interrogate Qin Juniper, who replied: "Although Fei Ziyun and Zhang Xianshu are unknown, their bodies are unwarranted. Han Shizhong protested angrily on the spot: "Xiang Gong, why should you obey the world with three words?"
In December of the same year, Yue Fei was raped and killed at the age of 39 at the Age of 39 in the Dali Temple Prison in Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou). His eldest son Yue Yun and his general Zhang Xian were beheaded in Lin'an City, the family property was confiscated, and the family was assigned to live in Guangnan and Fujian Road.
After Emperor Xiaozong, the lord of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, ascended the throne, in the first year of Longxing (1163), he declared Yue Fei rehabilitated, opened a reinstated official, buried his remains under the Qixia Ridge in Hangzhou, and built a temple in Ezhou (present-day Wuchang, Hubei). In the fourth year (1211) of Emperor Jiading of Ningning, he was posthumously enfeoffed as the King of E. In the fourteenth year of Jiading (1221), the temple of Yue Ewang was built near Yue Fei's burial place for later mourning. In front of Yue Fei's tomb, there are still four iron-cast figures, cutting their hands backwards, kneeling in front of Yue's tomb, and they are framing Yue Fei's four major traitors - Qin Jun, Wang Shi (Qin's wife), Zhang Jun, and Wan Hougang. On the back of the kneeling statue there is a couplet on the tomb door: "Qingshan has the honor of burying loyal bones, and the white iron innocently casts the courtiers." ”
"The heart of the ancients is only heavenly, and the hero can hate and pity." If the Duke is slightly slower to die, can Beiyu Ann be eighty years? "The grass on the tomb of the King of E is far away, and the desolate stone beast in autumn is in danger." Nandu Junchen Light Sheji, Zhongyuan Father Lao Wangjing Banner. The hero is dead, and the world is divided. Mo Xiang west lake sang this song, the water and light and mountains are not sad. "The generals of Zhongxing will think of calming down the enemy, and the traitors of the negative country will discuss peace." ...... How to say goodbye to Zhu Xian Town and not see the general playing a triumphant song? "Over the past hundred years, when hanging the temple of King Yue and the tomb of King Yue, literati have chanted poems one after another, expressing sympathy and remembrance of the tragic deaths of a generation of national heroes, feeling sorry for the interruption of the Northern Expedition, and severely condemning Qin Juniper and other traitors and mutilating Zhongliang...
Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has suffered many disasters and difficulties, and how to avoid the recurrence of historical tragedies is the heaviest issue left by history to future generations.