The Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty in Chinese history ruled by non-Han Chinese, a product of the development of the Mongol Empire. The Mongol Empire established a vast territory through the Eastern Expedition and the Western War, and among the opponents it encountered, the Southern Song Dynasty can be said to be the most difficult to deal with, and it took more than 60 years to completely conquer the Southern Song Dynasty.
Such a country, which makes it difficult, supposedly retaliates after defeating its opponents. However, instead of harassing the Southern Song Emperor, Kublai Khan leniently treated the Southern Song Emperor and allowed the original rule of the Southern Song Dynasty to retain its original etiquette and culture. Not only that, but he also ordered the protection of the relics of famous people in the Song Dynasty, a measure that allowed many loyal martyrs to be preserved. Among them, yue fei temple received special attention from the Yuan Dynasty, not only repaired the temple, but also asked the local government to go to Yue Fei temple to sacrifice. It can be said that Yue Fei was posthumously honored during the Yuan Dynasty far exceeded the grandeur of the Southern Song Dynasty. For Yue Fei's descendants, the Yuan Dynasty government also gave preferential treatment and gave Yue Fei the official position of Houlu.
Why did such a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty resist the Jin Dynasty receive the attention of the Yuan Dynasty? The Yuan Dynasty was a regime established by conquest, and the rulers naturally attached great importance to those generals who had patriotic enthusiasm. A country that advocates force will naturally not deliberately suppress those generals who have established meritorious deeds like a dynasty that only pursues stability. The Southern Song Dynasty court did not attach importance to generals like Yue Fei, mainly because the rulers only cared about their own interests. Confrontation with Jin would obviously be accompanied by great losses, and in order to reduce the possible losses, the rulers would rather ask Jin for peace than let these generals with enthusiasm for serving the country go into battle to kill the enemy.
The character of Yue Fei is still very typical, and the Yue family army he led achieved great success in resisting Jin, but he ended up with the tragic end of being killed by the traitors, and such a general made people feel even more sorry for him. The degree to which the Yuan Dynasty attached importance to Yue Fei as a general can be reflected in the history books he compiled for Yue Fei. There are a total of 225 volumes of the History of the Song compiled during the Yuan Dynasty, and the record of Yue Fei's father and son accounts for one volume, which shows how much influence Yue Fei's father and son had on the Southern Song Dynasty in the eyes of the Yuan rulers. Such a patriotic general, even if he is an opponent who has fought against him for many years, he also sincerely admires him. It is rare in history for later dynasties to highly value a certain general of the previous dynasty.
It seems that the Song Dynasty held the Yuan Dynasty back for so long, and the Yuan Dynasty army lost more in conquering the Southern Song Dynasty, but this made the Southern Song Dynasty respected by the yuan rulers. A country that resolutely resists foreign invaders is more admirable than a country that has chosen to surrender before the war has begun. In the compiled history of the Song Dynasty, the yuan dynasty historians were full of admiration for Yue Fei's father and son, and felt unfair to Emperor Gaozong of Song and Qin Ju for killing such a general. From another point of view, the matter is also a bit ironic.
As a general of the Southern Song Dynasty against Jin, Yue Fei deeply resented foreign invasions. The Yuan Dynasty occupied the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, such a thing was obviously not something he could accept, and if Yue Fei was still alive and praised by the enemy, he naturally disdained it. However, the development of history is that new things replace old things, and the rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty ruled in a faint way, and ended up being defeated by the Yuan Dynasty. Even if the Southern Song Dynasty had more generals like Yue Fei, there was no solid support and support, and it was also impossible to resist foreign invaders. Yue Fei was not valued by the Southern Song court, but was regarded very seriously by the enemy, which seemed to be a kind of ridicule of the Southern Song Dynasty by the Yuan Dynasty.