When it comes to Qin Juniper, most people's first impression of him is "traitorous courtiers", and there have been many traitors in the Song Dynasty, such as Cai Jing, Gao Li, etc., but the first must be Qin Juniper. The most directly related event about this image is that he once framed the famous general Yue Fei for "false accusations" and caused him to die unjustly, and the "History of Song" once commented on Qin Juniper: "Those who have two positions of juniper, who have been robbing the monarch for nineteen years, harboring evil intentions, advocating peace and misleading the country, and forgetting revenge and revenge." For a while, loyal ministers and good generals, the hoe was slightly exhausted...", it can be seen that Qin Juniper was also burdened with a lot of insults in the official evaluation, which was denied by the official.
So, how did Qin Ju live after Yue Fei's death?
First of all, let's first understand Qin Juniper. Qin Juniper (秦桧), zihuizhi, was born in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1090) in an ordinary family in Huangzhou, Hubei (present-day Huanggang, Hubei), brilliant at an early age, quite talented in his studies, before becoming an official, Qin Juniper had made a living as a gentleman in a private school, and then because he was not satisfied with such a bland and tedious living situation, he decided to take the meritorious examination. In the fifth year of Emperor Huizong of Song (1115), Qin Ju really passed the Jinshi examination with his ability, and was made a professor in Mizhou, and then he was admitted to the Middle School of Lexicography and Maoke, Ren Taixue Xuezheng, and began his career as an official, and this time he was ten years old, perhaps because the official position had not yet grown, during which Time Qin Ju did not do any demon.
In the second year of Jing Kang (1127), under the fierce attack of the Jin Dynasty, Beijing was completely lost, and Qin Juniper was also captured by the Jin army to the Jin State and became a prisoner of the Jin State, during which Time Qin Ju reached an agreement with the Marshal of the Jin Army to propose peace, and then became the leader of the lord and faction within the Song court, Jianyan Four Years (1130), the younger brother of Jin Taizong Yan Sheng
After leaving the Jin camp, Qin Juniper officially returned to Song, and as to why he was able to return, Qin Juniper of course also thought of a foolproof reason, and he was convinced that he had killed the Jin soldiers who were watching him and stole a boat to escape. However, as a person who had been captured by the Jin Dynasty and could now return unscathed, coupled with the tension between the Jin and Song Dynasties, many people in the Southern Song Court at this time had doubts about this, but the officials of Qin Juniper for so many years before were not in vain, and the reigning prime minister Fan Zongyin was his good friend, under the protection of his friends, Qin Juniper was also recommended to Emperor Gaozong of Song, and soon received the appreciation of Emperor Gaozong, and the monarchs and ministers protected each other, and the two junchens began a twenty-year cooperation in a state of mischief.
Just as stated in the "History of Song", during this period, Qin Ju, as the main peace faction, betrayed the country and sought glory, decisively surrendered on behalf of the Southern Song Dynasty, signed the "Shaoxing Peace Agreement" to suspend the contradictions with the Jin State, and obtained temporary peace, and he also framed Zhongliang, allowing Zhao To strengthen the organization of the central army, strengthen the control of military power and political power to stabilize the throne, of which the most repugnant thing is that Qin Ju framed the famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei at that time, and killed him in the Dali Temple, at the age of thirty-nine.
After Yue Fei's death, Qin Juniper's official position in the court became bigger and bigger, and his style of conduct could be said to have not been restrained at all, mainly reflected in two aspects. One aspect is the usual use of power to frame others. In the twelfth year of Shaoxing (1142), Qin Ju was enfeoffed as the Duke of Wei, and later the Duke of Qin and Wei, and he was even more tolerant of those who dared to oppose him, especially against courtiers who had different positions from him, no matter who the other party was, he did not let go. At that time, a diplomat named Hong Hao was finally released back to Lin'an after fifteen years of being detained by Jin Guo, and when he met Song Gaozong about Yue Fei, Hong Hao couldn't help himself for a moment and cried out in pain. But I didn't expect that this cry would cause disaster to the upper body, Qin Ju knew that after that, he was greatly angered, so he began to target Hong Hao everywhere, and finally Hong Hao was tragically exiled to Lingnan, in addition to Hong Hao, as well as Hu Shunzhi, Zhang Jiucheng, Zhang Shao and others, who were only degraded because they had verbally offended Qin Juniper, and were directly stripped of the opportunity to approach the center of power.
Another aspect is the practice of "literal hell". At that time, there was still the idea of the main battle above the court, so Qin Ju, as the main peace faction, had always regarded the discussion of peace as his own political achievements and credits, and in order to make his ideas become the leading and fully implemented, so as to stabilize his position of power, he came up with a way to implement the literal prison, one of the most important of which was to prohibit all words from involving the taboo of discussion and content, and all those who violated the law were immediately arrested and punished. It was also because of the implementation of the literal prison that the cultural development at that time showed a dismal scene, and many remarks and words about smearing Yue Fei were made at this time.
And in such a powerful Qin Juniper also suffered retribution because of his bad deeds, there would be oppression and resistance, and the number of people who wanted to kill Qin Juniper was innumerable, which also made Qin Juniper more and more suspicious, and after a disaster, he did not dare to go out again for a long time, hiding in his own secret room, not letting anyone get close.
In the twenty-fifth year of Shaoxing (1155), the sixty-six-year-old Qin Ju finally died of a serious illness in his hospital bed, and Emperor Gaozong of Song posthumously gave him the title of King of Shen, with the posthumous title of "Zhongxian", and in the second year of the Kaixi (1206), during the reign of Emperor Ningzong of Song, the title was changed to "False Ugly", and he was listed as the culprit of the humiliating peace with the Jin State, which has been spurned by posterity to this day.