In 1140, the Jin army saw that the Southern Song Dynasty had a tendency to gain a foothold in the south under the leadership of Zhao Shuo, so it invaded the south again with the idea of cutting grass and rooting out roots. However, this time the Jin army will encounter the tenacious resistance of the southern Song dynasty soldiers and civilians, and successive defeats on various battlefields.
Yue Fei won successive victories against Jin at Haocheng and Yingchang, and the "Eight-Character Army" and other rebels also launched wave after wave of offensives behind the Jin army, which can be said that the whole situation is very good. Yue Fei even happily thought that he could "directly pound the Yellow Dragon and welcome back the Second Sage", but it was at this time that Emperor Gaozong of Song issued twelve gold medals to Yue Fei in a row to make Yue Fei withdraw his army. Later, in order to show jin guo his sincerity in negotiating peace, Zhao Zhuo not only relieved Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Yue Fei of their military powers, but even worked with Qin Ju to create Yue Fei's unjust case and killEd Yue Fei's father and son at the Fengbo Pavilion.
And Zhao Zhuo did all this in order to exchange for the Jin State to recognize his throne, and the content of the Shaoxing Peace Agreement included Song to Jin as a vassal, ceding a large piece of land that had been recovered to the Jin State, and giving Jin Guoyin and silk 250,000 yuan each year, it can be said that this contract was not only full of humiliation, but even gave a large piece of land to the Jin State, in Yue Fei's words, "ten years of achievements were destroyed in one fell swoop.".
It can be said that the content of the "Shaoxing Peace Conference" is completely an unequal treaty, and it was signed under the circumstance that the Southern Song Dynasty had the advantage in military terms, which makes people puzzled, after all, no one is willing to bear the insult of traitor, even if this person is an emperor, but Zhao Zhuo has done it. The reasons for personal analysis are nothing more than the following:
First, Zhao Shuo's mentality changed: when Zhao Shuo was still a prince, he was famous for his bravery, and even in the Jing Kang Change, he was not humble and unassuming, but after Zhao Shuo became emperor, he suddenly changed like a person. In the face of the invasion of the Jin Army, his first reaction was often to go far away to the sea, and later after the situation stabilized, he was more spared than before. Perhaps, as Emperor Liang said in "Langya List": anyone who sits in that position will change. Now that Zhao Zhuo was sitting, he had become the emperor above ten thousand people, but he was even more afraid of losing, afraid that if the battlefield was lost, he would have to go to the sea to float.
Second, the legitimacy of the Zhao Emperor's throne was insufficient: after Emperor Hui Qin was abducted by the Jin army, the Jin state successively supported the pseudo-Chu and pseudo-Qi regimes in the north. Zhao Zhuo strictly established himself as emperor, and in the "Miao Liu Mutiny", the rebels even directly stated that "Your Majesty's throne is not correct, and what if the Second Emperor returns in the future" should be done." Moreover, the soldiers led by Miao Liu were still the original zhao cuo's protectors, which directly caused Zhao Cuo's distrust of all military generals.
Third, the military generals in various places are becoming more and more powerful, and there is a trend that they cannot be lost: with the development of the anti-Jin War, Zhao Zhuo had no choice but to delegate power to military generals, and even military generals already had the right to recruit troops, such as Yue Fei. And these soldiers will be more loyal to their commanders than Zhao Shuo, such as Zhao Shuo issued twelve gold medals in a row, and eventually Yue Fei needed to order the withdrawal of troops, and the Yue family army would withdraw, which was unimaginable during the Northern Song Dynasty.
The most representative event was the "Huaixi Mutiny" in 1137, when the Song court planned to relieve Li Qiong of his military power, but the news was leaked, and Li Qiong surrendered to pseudo-Qi with the entire Huaixi army as a whole. This has fully shown that the various heavy army groups at that time already had a great deal of independence, and the Song court's restrictions on these heavy army groups were limited to the Taoist command or logistics, and it was difficult to directly interfere in the personnel and command affairs within these armies.
Fourth, Zhao Shuo was sterile and childless under his knees: People now may not understand how serious this is, but if you think about the suffering of Zhu Qiyu in the later Ming Dynasty, you can understand that an emperor does not have a stable heir, which means that the imperial power is not solid, if Yue Fei and Han Shizhong continue to fight and really welcome back the Second Emperor Hui Qin, then how will Zhao Chu treat himself? Moreover, if he had no heirs behind him, the emperor would definitely return to the Qinzong lineage, and at that time, Zhao Shuo, who was already self-reliant, would probably not have a better ending, after all, the imperial throne had always been bloody.
It can be said that Emperor Gaozong of Song's insistence on making peace with Jin Guo was a realistic consideration, but no matter what the reason, the ultimate purpose of Zhao Shuo's discussion was still to safeguard his personal rights, and it can be said that for Zhao Zhao's own selfish desires, he betrayed a large area of land that had been recovered, and also unjustly killed Yue Fei and abandoned the overall situation of resisting Jin. In fact, in front of Yue Fei's tomb, so far there has been one less person kneeling there, that is, Zhao Shuo.
However, even if Zhao Chou sold a lot of interests and dignity in exchange for this humiliating contract, the Jin side did not abide by it for too long, and only twenty years later, the Jin state tore up the agreement and invaded the south again, it can be said that the "Shaoxing Peace Agreement" not only did not play a role like the alliance of the Yuanyuan, but even self-destructed the Great Wall, making the relatives and enemies happy.