The four generals of the Southern Song Dynasty were: Yue Fei, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Liu Guangshi. The "History of Song" commented: "After the southern crossing, Jun held the army at the earliest, repeatedly made military achievements, and was a famous general with Han Shizhong, Liu Kai, and Yue Fei, and was known as Zhang, Han, Liu, and Yue. ”
There are four kneeling statues in the Yue Wang Temple, located in the northwest corner of the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in addition to Qin Jun, Wang Shi, and Wan Qianjie, Zhang Jun, one of the four generals of Zhongxing, is also among them.
On the one hand, one of the four generals of ZTE, on the other hand is a spitting kneeling portrait, why is Zhang Jun such a two-sided life?
Zhang Jun was born as a bandit, and later surrendered to the official government, leading troops to suppress bandits in the Shandong area of Heshuo, and repeatedly won, so his prestige was greatly shaken. However, Zhang Jun's ability to govern the army was often criticized by the Song people. In ancient China, army victories were maintained by plunder, and it was common for armies to defeat and loot to quell grievances. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, several major forces, when the most recorded arson was Zhang Junjun, known as the "Free Army". During the Southern Song Dynasty, it was legal for the government and the army to open a liquor store for business and profit, and for Zhang Jungong to do business and clumsily use soldiers, there was a popular satirical song:
There was no reason in Zhangjiazhai, so he spent his legs lifting stones.
The Second Saint Judas could not save himself, and he built the Taiping Building.
The "flower legs" here refer to the pawns "from the hips down, the text stabs to the feet", and the Taiping Building is a hotel opened by Zhang Junjun. Zhang Jun himself was also a better woman, and the history books record that in June of the second year of Jianyan, Wang Yuan and Zhang Jun, in order to rob a prostitute surnamed Zhou, killed Zhao Shujin, and transferred the prostitute to Han Shizhong.
After the Jing Kang Disaster, Zhang Jun led an army to fight against the Jin army, followed King Kang (Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty) to various places, gained appreciation and trust, and was repeatedly promoted, and finally the Guanbai ZhenXi Army jiedu made the Imperial Camp envoy Si Right Army under the command of the two Zhejiang East Roads.
At this time, Yue Fei was still a soldier in Zhang Jun's army, born into death, conquered the east and the west, experienced hundreds of battles, repeatedly built Qigong, and was also quite valued by Zhang Jun. The reconquest of Jiankang was accomplished by Yue Fei, the martial arts master and the Changzhou regimental trainer; the military thief Qi Fang's soldiers attacked Huzhou Anji, but they were also defeated by Yue Fei, surrendered to Zhang Jun, and handed over their soldiers and horses. Zhang Jun was overjoyed and praised the imperial court for "Yue Fei is available!" After that, because the "Yue Family Army" was brave and invincible, flexible and mobile, and informal, it successively won the great victories of Chencheng and Yingchang, defended Xianghan, rescued Huaixi, and suppressed Yang Shu, especially in the Northern Expedition, which severely damaged the main force of the Jin army led by Jin Wushu, swept through the Central Plains, and recovered a large area of lost land, Yue Fei, who ranked first in military merit, was promoted several levels, and was directly promoted from the Zhennan Army of Zhengsipin to the Envoy of the Qingyuan Army from Erpin, and finally the official at least Bao, the Privy Councillor, and the founding duke of Wuchang County
The Song Dynasty stipulated that all officials should pay homage to the envoys, and the imperial court should grant a grand and unique "Jing Festival". At that time, the only four generals who had established the festival were Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Wu Jiu. Yue Fei's situation was unique at that time, and he suddenly sat on an equal footing with his old boss Zhang Jun.
In the battle against the Jin army, although Yue Fei broke the siege for Zhang Jun many times, Zhang Jun was jealous, his seniority was older than Yue Fei, his status was higher than Yue Fei's, but in terms of military talent, he was getting worse and worse than Yue Fei, and his battle achievements were even more incomparable with Yue Fei, seeing that his prestige was worse than Yue Fei day by day, especially his subordinates became his superiors, how did this not make people burn with jealousy, and fill his chest, so Zhang Jun began to gradually climb Qin Jun, and even went to the road of no return that framed Yue Fei.
In the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140), the fourth son of Jin Taizu destroyed the alliance and attacked the Song Dynasty, yue Fei waved his northern expedition, successively recaptured Zhengzhou, Luocheng and other places, and then defeated the Jin army at Haocheng and Yingchang, and marched into Zhuxian Town. However, Emperor Gaozong of Song was bent on seeking peace and ordered the retreat of the army with twelve golden tablets, and Yue Fei was forced to take the division in isolation. During the Shaoxing peace talks, Yue Fei was framed by Qin Ju, Zhang Jun, and others, and was arrested and imprisoned. In the twelfth year of Shaoxing (January 1142), Yue Fei was forced to commit suicide on the charge of "false accusations of treason", and his eldest son Yue Yun and his general Zhang Xian were killed a month before Yue Fei.
Yue Fei's death is one of the biggest unjust cases in history. Yue Fei was unjustly killed because of a variety of factors: for example, his position of vigorously advocating resistance to Jin and opposing surrender and peace arose sharp contradictions with the supreme ruling clique of the Southern Song Dynasty, which stubbornly adhered to the line of compromise and surrender. For example, he inadvertently became involved in a complicated struggle within the imperial court, although out of a public heart and outspoken, but it violated the vital interests of the royal family, causing Zhao Shuo to be jealous and jealous of Yue Fei, and sowing a curse; for example, he vigorously advocated the Northern Expedition, defeated the Jin soldiers, and welcomed the return of Hui and Qin, and Yue Fei also announced this proposition in public. This could not but arouse Zhao Shuo's great jealousy, and he had to kill Yue Fei.
And what role did Zhang Jun play in the wrongful killing of Yue Fei?
Judging from the historical records, Zhang Jun did play an extremely disgraceful and disgusting role in Yue Fei's unjust imprisonment.
Adhering to the will of Zhao Zhuo and Qin Ju, he deliberately dismissed himself from the military and served as a privy envoy in a false post, thus coercing Yue Fei to dismiss the military power and serve as a privy envoy without real power with the political posture of "advancing and retreating from the brigade", so that his ambition to "drink the Yellow Dragon" and recover the Central Plains was in vain.
He fabricated Yue Fei's great lie of disobeying the Holy Will and staying still in the Battle of Huaixi, so that Zhao Zhuo and Qin Ju could find an excuse and remove Yue Fei from the post of Privy Councillor.
He deliberately planned to completely destroy yue jiajun and put Yue Fei to death, but secretly found among Yue Fei's generals who could denounce Yue Fei's traitors, and brought out Wang Jun, the deputy commander Wang Jun and The Governor Wang Gui, who had a greedy conscience and recognized the thief as his father, to serve as the first accusation, to help him concoct the "Complaint of the First Complaint", falsely accusing Yue Fei's most important subordinate general Zhang Xian to lead troops to Xiangyang to plot rebellion, and involving Yue Fei in it.
Zhang Jun's framing and persecution of Yue Fei certainly has the factor of his despicable quality, but it is also the embodiment of Chinese's inferiority. In China, there is a "inferior victory and superior defeat" elimination mechanism. Your talent and achievements reflect the mediocrity and incompetence of others. As a result, they will feel uncomfortable, they will feel faceless, their psychology will be unbalanced, and they will breed great hostility towards the successful, eager to pull him back into mediocrity, and even try to strike him and destroy him. In this way, all kinds of practices of envying the ability of the virtuous and harming others and self-interest have become popular in the world, and the villains are rampant, and the heroes are in a dilemma, which has also become a normal performance, and has been passed down from generation to generation.