If Zhao Zhuo trusted Yue Fei and trusted the patriotic generals represented by Yue Fei, the Song Dynasty would succeed in the Northern Expedition and return the capital to Beijing.
Maybe it will also destroy the Golden Kingdom.
But to destroy the Jurchens? That's not easy.
The Golden Kingdom originated in the northeast region, between the White Mountains and the Black Water. The destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty forced the Song Dynasty to move south, and the Central Plains formed a situation of split confrontation, which was the highlight moment of the Jin Dynasty.
However, it is undeniable that the Jin Dynasty is a newly established minority regime, which is still very backward in culture and technology, and has no ability to rule the Central Plains. Therefore, soon after the destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty, they hurriedly found a puppet to establish a puppet government, and withdrew their troops and returned to the northeast.
This practice of "changing places with one shot" instead of staying behind to occupy the land and rule the people is like bandits who do not have lofty ideals: it is difficult for them to achieve great achievements, but it is not so easy to completely annihilate them.
That's the way it is. We don't memorize the Three Character Classic now, so we are not very familiar with "Liao and Jin, the emperor is different." Annihilation of the Liao, Song still exists" said. In fact, not only the Liao, but also the fall of the Jin Dynasty was earlier than the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, but unfortunately it was not the Song Dynasty that defeated it.
The Jin Dynasty was established after the completion of yan ah bone to unify the Jurchen ministries. In 1234, 119 years after the reign of Emperor Chuan, Emperor Aizong of Jin committed suicide, the last emperor died in the rebellion, and the Jin Dynasty collapsed. But the Jin people were not all dead, and they returned to the White Mountains and black waters, resuming their fishing and hunting careers, until another Jurchen hero, Nurhaci, appeared.
Just as after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu moved far away, but still maintained the existence of the tribe; just as Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and established the Han regime, while the Mongols still existed as a nation for a long time. The rise and fall of a dynasty, a regime, a country is easy.
And a nation, a culture, a group of people, no matter how difficult, there are still survivors.
History is the history of the people, not the history of individual heroes. That's what our textbooks say.