Yue Fei, a famous anti-Gold general who was loyal to the country, eventually died unjustly in the trap of a miserly villain, which was really a strange injustice for thousands of years.
After Yue Fei's death, he framed his traitors Qin Ju and Emperor Gaozong of Song, making the Yue family angry. Since then, the Yue family and the Zhao and Qin families have made a vow never to marry and intermarry.
Yue Fei
Under the influence of Qin Juniper Zhao, they did not even spare the relatives and heirs left by Yue Fei, and they had to follow the net. Fortunately, Yue Fei's former friend helped to save the life of Yue Fei's son. And the Yue family, in gratitude, even made two ancestral precepts for the friend's family that never intermarried, what is the matter?
Friends help each other
In 1141, Yue Fei and his eldest son Yue Yun were framed to death, and the entire Yue family was exiled. After the news came out, many soldiers and generals who followed him were indignant, and the people even hid their faces and wept, feeling sorry for the unjust death of this national hero.
Yue Fei was killed
Yue Fei's wives and children were all exiled to the miasma-filled, hot and humid Lingnan, where conditions were harsh, and adults endured and passed, but the delicate and weak children really could not stay. As a result, Yue Fei's wife covered for yue lin, the third son of only twelve years old, to escape from Lingnan.
After the matter was revealed, the traitor Qin Ju was furious, and in order to kill yue fei to prevent Yue Fei's descendants from taking revenge, he hurriedly ordered all places to use sea fishing documents and vowed to capture Yue Lin. Before Yue Fei died, he had a friend named Gong Zuwen, who was also wanted by the imperial court, and when Yue Fei was killed, he cried a lot, slept and ate, and after learning that Yue Lin was being hunted, he was anxious, afraid that Yue Lin would be arrested by Qin Juniper's people.
Statue of Gongzu
Therefore, he immediately dispatched his henchmen, and after unremitting searching, he finally found Yue Lin, who was in a coma with a high fever, in a reed bush under his seal. Gong Zuwen quickly retrieved Yue Lin, and only then did he find a note in Yue Lin's hand that he was holding tightly: "Brother Zu Wen saw the words as he was, Lin'er entrusted the evidence, and should be reported in the next life." ”
When Gong Zuwen saw this note, he immediately understood that this was Yue Fei's family's unreserved trust in him, so he let Yue Lin run to his fiefdom, thinking of this, Gong Zuwen could not help but think of his old friend Yue Fei who had died in vain, and he burst into tears. He made up his mind that he would not fail to live up to the instructions of the Yue family and swear to die to protect this bloodline for the Yue family.
Yue Fei
Therefore, Gong Zuwen quietly hid Yue Lin in the army to recuperate. However, he was also worried that many people in the army would leak secrets, so he took the initiative to return to her hometown in old age and tell the old. Originally, Emperor Gaozong of Song remembered Gong Zuwen's talents and wanted to keep him again, but Qin Ju had long been unaccustomed to Gong Zuwen and wished he had left early, so he repeatedly forbade rumors and incited the wind and ignition around Song Gaozong, and finally went along with Gong Zuwen's wishes by mistake, allowing him to successfully return to his hometown.
Qin Juniper
However, Gong Zuwen, who returned to his hometown, always felt a little unsteady in his heart, and he was afraid of exposure, so he moved his family to Liutang in Qu'a County, almost catching up with the posture of "Mengmu's three migrations", which is enough to show the importance that Gong Zuwen attaches to Yue Lin, which can be described as his own, carefully teaching and cultivating, hoping that Yue Lin can become a talent.
Yue Fei
Not only that, after Yue Lin became an adult, Gong Zuwen also personally selected a woman who knew Dali and Xiuwai Huizhong for him to marry, and the couple loved and harmonized, and also gave birth to four sons and a daughter to continue the bloodline for Yue Fei. At the same time, Gong Zuwen also had an unfinished wish, that is, to see Yue Feiping unjust zhaoxue. Fortunately, this wish finally came true in his lifetime.
Yue Fei was rehabilitated
In 1155, Qin Ju fell ill and died, and Zhang Xiaoxiang, Gong Zuwen, and others immediately wrote to Yue Fei Zhaoxue for an unjust case, but Wan Qianbi relied on the power of the chancellor to slander Zhao Gaozong Zhao and abandon Yue Fei Zhaoxue on the grounds of maintaining the dignity of the imperial court. In 1161, the Jin king completed Yan Liang's large-scale invasion of the south, which made the southern Song Dynasty's anti-Jin sentiment soar, and people once again remembered Yue Fei, a famous anti-Jin general, who was loyal to the country.
Wan Qianjie in the "Yue Biography" comic strip
Unfortunately, the hero has passed away, and the door is full of halls, and there can no longer be a hero who can resist the Jin people and wash away the shame of Jing Kang like Yue Fei. As a result, many court officials wrote letters demanding that Yue Fei be rehabilitated, and even the generals jointly filed a petition to file a petition for Yue Fei. For a time, the scene of the grievance was crying like thunder, and Wang Che's persuasion to them for a long time was still fruitless, until he promised to report the matter to the imperial court, and the people still sobbed.
In 1162, Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended the throne and directly demoted Yue Fei to restore his original official position and title, and buried him according to the proper specifications. This year, Yue Lin was already 32 years old, and after learning the news of his father's rehabilitation, he couldn't help but be grateful. Yue Lin was also able to return to the imperial court, and with his superior ability, he gradually sat in important positions such as the military attendant and the Guangdong Jingluo appeasement envoy.
Bust of Song Xiaozong
Because the historical materials about Yue Fei and the Yue family army had long been destroyed and tampered with by Qin Juniper, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the historical books, Yue Lin collected his father's testament from many sources and finally sorted out a first draft of Yue Fei's biography. After Yue Lin's death, this family mission of writing a biography for Yue Fei was left to his son Yue Ke, and was eventually perfected in the hands of Yue Ke, restoring part of the historical truth.
In order to remember his grandfather Yue Fei and commemorate his father's refuge, and to thank Gong Zuwen for protecting the kindness of Zhongliang's descendants, Yue Ke built a special ancestral hall in Liuru Village, which was later the Gong Ancestral Hall.
Yue Ke
Why can't the two Yuegong families intermarry?
Of course, Yue Lin had already regarded Gong Zuwen as his other biological father. If there was no Gong Zuwen's sacrifice to save him, there would be no yue Lin alive. Therefore, for Yue Lin, he had already regarded Gong Zuwen as his own relative.
After seeing the heavens again, he also told many people about What Gong Zuwen had done, and for a while, Gong Zuwen's act of raising the descendants of heroic martyrs was regarded as a beautiful talk. In 1182, Gong Zuwen died, and Emperor Xiaozong of Song posthumously honored him as the "Duke of Wenxian" in recognition of his meritorious military exploits and the merits of protecting the descendants of Zhongliang.
In order to repay Gong Zuwen's nurturing grace, Yue Lin decided that the Gong family and the Yue family would henceforth be a family of the same lineage, and the descendants of the Gong family could enjoy the same treatment as the descendants of the Yue family. Therefore, the descendants of the Gong and Yue families have become a family, so there is an ancestral training that a family cannot intermarry, and for this ancestral training, the descendants of the two families have always strictly adhered to it and have never broken it.
Until now, in the Yue Clan Ancestral Hall, there is still a divine seat of Gong Zuwen to express the gratitude of Yue Lin's descendants to Gong Zuwen. Later, when the descendants of the Yue family revised the "Yue Family Genealogy", Gong Zuwen's descendant Gong Shoukang also came to the scene to help revise it despite his old age and infirmity, which was enough to show the depth of the feelings of the two families.
Genealogy of the Yue Clan
Why did Gong Zuwen do his best to help the Yue family?
Then, why did Gong Zuwen do his best to help the Yue family? To speak of Gong Zuwen, but the descendant of Confucius's disciple Zigong, whose ancestors lived in seclusion in the State of Qi to avoid the burning of books by Qin Shi Huang, and later lived in Changyuan, Henan, which has always been known as the "Hometown of Chinese Chefs", and was very close to Tangyin County, Yue Fei's hometown.
A traditional ancient village in Changyuan County
Gong Zuwen was brilliant from an early age, familiar with ancient and modern poetry, when he was nineteen years old, when he saw the Jin soldiers invading the south, he gave up his pen and congrong without hesitation, and gathered a group of heroic people to rescue and intercept Hui and qin emperors who were captured by the Jin soldiers. Later, he joined the volunteer army under King Kang and became a comrade-in-arms with Yue Fei who was born and died together.
During this period, Gong Zuwen and Yue Fei formed a pair of confidants who did not rebel against each other, and the two people who had the same ambition to serve the country were often drinking and writing poems together, talking about the past and the present, and at the same time, they also encouraged each other with loyalty and righteousness, vowing to live and die together, share hardships, and be as close as a pair of brothers.
Yue Fei
Because of this, when Yue Fei died, he was devastated and cried, as if he had lost his loved one. After finding Yue Lin, he disregarded his own life, abandoned his glory and wealth, and was willing to eat rough clothes and food to raise Yue Lin and cultivate him into a talent. When he learned that Yue Fei was rehabilitated, Gong Zuwen was even more ecstatic, and specially set up a wine sacrifice to the heavens to pour out his heartfelt heart to his deceased heartfelt friends.
Nowadays, whether it is Yue Fei's fine loyalty to the country or the friendship between Yue Fei and Gong Zuwen, it reflects the eternity of the core of the spirit of loyalty and righteousness, and is a precious wealth of Chinese culture.