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Secret History of the Song Dynasty: This suicide note left by Qin Ju before his death explains the real cause of Yue Fei's death

What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo

Speaking of Qin Juniper, the first word that comes to everyone's mind is a traitor, especially yue Fei, the hero who killed the loyal and righteous hero, and everyone is cursed. Qin Ju is a controversial figure in history, and when he is proud, he acts arbitrarily, excludes others, slanders Zhongliang, and secretly communicates with the Jin Kingdom, all of which seems to have become ironclad evidence of his treachery and evil.

Secret History of the Song Dynasty: This suicide note left by Qin Ju before his death explains the real cause of Yue Fei's death

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Battle of Jingkang broke out, Hui Qin Erzong was taken captive, and the Great Song naturally could not be leaderless, so they supported the song Gaozong Zhao Shuo to take the throne, and once he sat on the throne of power, it would not be easy for others to save. In order to avoid the offensive of the Jin army, he took the initiative to retreat south to Lin'an, but was forced by the situation to appoint Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other generals of the main war faction to resist Jin.

Secret History of the Song Dynasty: This suicide note left by Qin Ju before his death explains the real cause of Yue Fei's death

Due to the victory of the anti-Jin resistance, many ministers wrote letters recommending that Emperor Gaozong take back Hui Qin's second emperor. Emperor Gaozong appointed Qin Ju, who had a complicated relationship with the Jin state, as his chancellor and agreed to his peace proposal, so Emperor Gaozong recalled Yue Fei and the others, and secretly instructed Qin Ju to kill Yue Fei, but he turned a blind eye, in fact, he had already agreed. After Qin Jun's death, he left a suicide note to his descendants, in which Qin Ju showed his remorse for killing Yue Fei, and also advised his descendants not to covet power and wealth, even if they were scolded by others as their ancestors and accused by others, and did not defend themselves for this reason.

Secret History of the Song Dynasty: This suicide note left by Qin Ju before his death explains the real cause of Yue Fei's death

From this, we can see that Qin Juniper is very clear about what he has done, secretly colluding with Jin Xiang, and using sinister schemes to murder the loyal hero Yue Fei, which is enough to make posterity spit on Qin Juniper I and leave a stink for thousands of years. In fact, the reason why Qin Ju warned his descendants to repent of himself, and the court failed him to make him cold, he always thought that he was strategizing, in fact, he was just a pawn in the hands of Emperor Gaozong Zhao, whether he really had a repentant heart or not, in the eyes of posterity he was a traitor.

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