During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Kou Zhun served as chancellor when he signed it, while the Shaoxing Peace Conference was completed by Qin Ju. On the surface, they all negotiated peace with the enemy, but Kou Zhun and Qin Ju were very different. The reason is very simple, their purpose is different, the starting point is different, one has a great righteousness, one does not, so the treatment is naturally very different.
Let's look at Qin Juniper first, Qin Juniper is a person we all know, saying that he is the lord and the faction are enough to give him face, he is more like a surrender faction. For a long time, he pursued the policy of negotiation and peace of land, vassalship, and tribute.
The Shaoxing Peace Agreement was what he advocated, and of course, it was indispensable to the approval of Emperor Gaozong of Song. This treaty was the result of Zhao Andu and Qin Juju's framing of Zhongliang and humiliating traitors. It should be known that the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time did not reach the point of being unmanageable, although the Jin people continued to go south, but the effect was not good, repeated failures, just when Yue Fei and others sharpened their knives and chewed the Northern Expedition, they were stopped, this collection of troops does not matter, the key is to give up the recovered land to Jin. In order to curry favor with the Jin people, Qin Ju won peace, which was a betrayal of the country.
Under the premise that the war was not defeated, an unequal treaty was signed with the Jin people. It was precisely what he did, and some people even thought that Qin Ju was a traitor of the Jin Kingdom.
Besides, after Qin Ju monopolized the government, he mutilated Zhongliang, formed parties for personal gain, and plundered the people's fat and people's anointing, even if he was the prime minister, he was also a traitorous minister.
It can be seen that Qin Juniper, since the return of the Jin Dynasty, has hardly done any good things that are beneficial to the country and the people, so it is not an exaggeration to call such a person a treacherous villain.
But when we look at Kou Zhun again, it's completely different.
The prime minister was probably the biggest similarity between them, and besides, the two did not have any similarities. Kou Zhun was a staunch warrior, and he always has been. When the Liao army marched south in a big way, Song Zhenzong was too timid to run away, but Kou Zhunli asked Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng to personally march and defeated the Liao army.
The war was won, but Song Zhenzong was timid and afraid of things, and hurriedly and panicked to negotiate peace with the Liao people, in fact, he and Kou Zhun did not agree, it can be said that he did not make any mistakes in this negotiation and negotiation, and had nothing to do with him.
To put it another way, it is precisely because of Kou Zhun that the price paid by the Northern Song Dynasty during the peace negotiation was smaller. At that time, when Song Zhenzong heard that the Liao people wanted to negotiate peace, they all jumped up happily, sent Cao Yu to negotiate, and told him that as long as they did not cut the land and could talk about peace, the Liao state would ask for millions of dollars, and they could also agree.
But Kou Zhun disagreed, and secretly called Cao Yu over and said, "Although the emperor has a million covenants, if it exceeds 300,000, I will cut off your head." ”
It can be seen that in the face of the enemy, Kou Zhun did not shrink back and advocated resolute resistance, even when negotiating peace, he did not agree to the bottomless concessions. This is of course established with a person like Qin Ju who has almost lost his bottom line and the principle of being a man in order to negotiate peace.