On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the eleventh year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1141), just when the people of Lin'an City were reunited with their families and were happily guarding the old age, Yue Fei and Yue Yun's father and son died unjustly in the Fengbo Pavilion. Yue Fei vigorously advocated resisting Jin, always fighting on the front line of the war against Jin, even if he knew that he did not have a ma ge shroud, not to sacrifice his life for the country, but to die in unjust prison, the news came out shocking the government and the opposition.
Although people were all holding their backs for Yue Fei, except for Han Shizhongwu who injured yue Fei and was understated by Qin Ju with the three words "nonsense", no one dared to jump out and question this matter.
After Yue Fei's death, how did the Song court treat his wife and children?
Yue Fei's first wife, surnamed Liu, remarried after her husband left the army. It was not shameful nor common for women to remarry during the Song Dynasty, but later generations were influenced by the concept of chastity in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it was customary to refer to Yue Fei's wife Li Wa as his wife. Li Wa is two years older than Yue Fei, and when she got married, she was close to the age of establishment, far exceeding the normal age of marriage, and the specific reasons remain to be examined.
Yue Fei had a total of five sons, according to age calculations, Yue Yun and Yue Lei should have been born of Liu Shi, when Yue Fei was killed, Yue Yun was 23 years old, Yue Lei was 16 years old, both were married, and had four children. The third son, Yue Lin, was 12 years old, the fourth son, Yue Zhen, was 7 years old, and the fifth son, Yue Xia (later named Yue Ting by Emperor Xiaozong of Song), was 3 years old. Yue Ting was instead one year younger than Yue Fei's eldest grandson, Yue Fu, and the same age as Yue Fei's eldest granddaughter, Yue Da niang.
When Yue Fei was killed, Yue Yun, who had followed his father from birth to death and charged into battle, was killed together, and his wife and children were all sent to Lingnan. After Yue Fei was imprisoned, the second son, Yue Lei, first ruled out the suspicion of being involved in the case, and was also thrown into prison to take care of his father according to Song Law. Yue Lei accompanied his father through the last wind and moon of his life, witnessed his father's unjust death, was devastated and exhausted, and could not wait for the day when his father was rehabilitated, and died in exile. Li Wa and her son waded through the mountains and waters to the land of smoke, Yue Lin and Yue Zhen were exiled in Huizhou, and local officials placed them in a temple. The brothers lost their freedom and lived in an earthen house that was "enough to fit themselves" for years.
Twenty years later, Emperor Gaozong of Song found out that yue fei's wife and children were released from detention. In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing (1162), Emperor Gaozong was rehabilitated soon after Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended the throne.
This year, Li Wa was 62 years old, Yue Lin was 33 years old, Yue Zhen was 28 years old, and Yue Xia was 24 years old. Emperor Xiaozong of Song issued the decree: Yue Linfu Right Chengshilang (正九品, 文職), Yue Zhen (岳振, 岳霭補保義郎) (正九品, 武職); Yue Fu, Yue Shen, Yue Jing, Yue Wei, Yue Gang, and Yue Ji were supplemented as Chengxin Lang (從九品, 武職).
Although Emperor Xiaozong rehabilitated Yue Fei unjustly, everything was done according to the system, but only for Yue Fei's descendants to arrange a low-status military post, Yue Lin's post of undertaking lang was Yue Fei's former enyin, and the word "right" represented non-imperial examination and yin supplementation.
According to the records of the magistrate of Tanzhou (潭州, in present-day Changsha, Hunan), after Yue Yun's death, his wife Gong's daughter and uncle Yue Lei's family moved to Tanzhou to live in the Ju clan. Yue Yun had two sons in Tanzhou, Yue Fu was 25 years old, Yue Shen was 22 years old, and his daughter was 24 years old; Yue Lei had four sons and two daughters: the eldest son Yue Jing was 21 years old, the second son Yue Wei was 20 years old, the third son Yue Gang was 14 years old, and the fourth son Yue Ji was 12 years old. The eldest daughter, Yue Erniang, is 23 years old, and the second daughter, Yue Sanniang, is 17 years old.
According to the legal age of marriage in the two Song Dynasties, the male was fifteen and the female was thirteen, because of the loss of freedom in long-term detention, Yue Yun and Yue Lei's three daughters all passed the marriage age and became older unmarried women.
Yue Lin's eldest son Yue Chen and Yue Fei's son-in-law Gao Zuo (高祚) and chengxinlang (信郎). Yue Fei's daughter was named An Niang, and it is said that when she petitioned and ran for her father's unjust case, she obstructed the patrolling soldiers and "fell into the well with a silver bottle and died" in anger, so the people called the silver bottle lady.
Although Yue Fei's wife and children had been displaced and suffered a lot of suffering for more than twenty years, after regaining their new life, they still had to thank the Lord Long En on the ground, Yue Lin, Yue Zhen, Yue Xia's brothers, Yue Lin, Yue Zhen, yue Fei's eldest grandson Yue Fu was sad and indignant in Xie Table, and poured bitter water: "The shape of the skeleton gully, the pain is endless, the wife is barbaric, the ghost does not eat, and the words are happy, and the drools are like this."
Among Yue Fei's several sons, Yue Lin's highest official position was only from Liu Pin's court to ask for a doctor. Originally, it was a general, but Yue Fei's descendants all abandoned martial arts to learn literature, and his grandson Yue Ke wrote a lot of works, including works such as the "History of Yue". The reason for this is not only related to the Song Dynasty's Chongwen suppression of martial arts, but also related to the tragic lesson that Yue Fei and Yue Yun's father and son were killed at the same time. If you inherit the aspirations of your father and ancestors, you will inevitably repeat the mistakes of your predecessors.