Today, in front of the tomb of Yue Fei in Hangzhou's West Lake, there are four iron-cast kneeling statues kneeling there, they are Qin Juniper and his wife Wang Shi, and Wan Qianbi and Zhang Jun.
It can be said that Yue Fei's unjust death came from the hands of the four of them, and it was they who created the ancient unjust case of killing Yue Fei for adultery, and now their kneeling statues are placed there and are scolded by tourists day by day.
Although the administrators of Yue Fei's tomb tried everything to remind tourists of civilized visits, they still could not prevent tourists from expressing their inner contempt to them in various ways: spitting, slapping, smearing...
In fact, at the beginning, only Qin Juniper and his wife knelt in front of Yue Fei's tomb, and later gradually increased to 5 people. So, when did these people kneel in front of Yue Fei's tomb? Who is the 5th person, and when did he not kneel for what reason?
Yue Fei
Yue Fei was a national hero, patriotic general, and outstanding military figure at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
When Yue Fei was born, the Southern Song Dynasty was already in a period of turmoil, when foreign invasions and mountains and rivers fell, resulting in the destruction of the country and the death of the family and the destruction of life.
Yue Fei had witnessed all this since he was a child, so he set up the ambition of being loyal to the country at a young age.
After joining the army, his outstanding military ability was displayed, and he repeatedly defeated the Jin army and recovered a large area of lost land. Coupled with its indomitable determination and courage, for a time for the Southern Song Dynasty to forge an indestructible great wall of steel, even the Jin people lamented: it is easy to shake the mountains, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family army.
Just as Yue Fei was marching all the way, Emperor Gaozong of Song and Chancellor Qin Ju were bent on seeking peace, and used twelve "golden cards" to urge Yue Fei's class to return to the dynasty.
Subsequently, in the process of Song Jin's peace negotiations, Yue Fei was falsely accused by Qin Ju, Zhang Jun, and others and imprisoned.
In January 1142, at the age of 39, Yue Fei was falsely accused of being killed along with his eldest son Yue Yun and his general Zhang Xian.
After Yue Fei was killed, the people all burst into tears and sighed, and Yue Fei's body was taken out of the city by the jailer Kui and buried in the Jiuqu Cong Ancestral Hall. Until 1162, Yue Fei's unjust case was rehabilitated by Song Xiaozong, and Yue Fei was also buried in Qixialing, West Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Qin Juniper
In fact, at the beginning, there was no kneeling statue in front of Yue Fei's tomb, and this situation lasted until the eleventh year of Ming Xianzong Chenghua. At that time, Zhou Mu came to Hangzhou to serve as an envoy to Zhejiang, and he rebuilt Yue Fei's tomb out of admiration for the national hero Yue Fei.
At the same time, he felt that the people hated Qin Juniper, so he cast the kneeling statue of Qin Juniper and his wife with pig iron and placed it in front of Yue Fei's tomb, in order to provide the people with a pen.
Wan Qianbi
The kneeling figure of Wan Qianbi was added in the eighth year of Emperor Mingwu's reign by Li Long, the commander of Zhejiang. At that time, the kneeling statue of Qin Ju and his wife had long been in tatters, so Li Long reforged the kneeling statue of Qin Ju and his wife with bronze, and added the kneeling statue of Wan Qianbi.
Wan Qianbi played the role of Qin Juniper's minions in the matter of Yue Fei's unjust death, and he wantonly fabricated evidence to frame Yue Fei, but he was the one who helped Qin Ju collect Yue Fei's "evidence of conspiracy against the crime", and many of the "false" evidence of the crime was written by him.
Zhang Jun
Zhang Jun's kneeling statue was added in the twenty-second year of the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Calendar, when the kneeling statues of Qin Ju and Wan Qianbi were destroyed by the angry people, and Fan Lai, the deputy envoy of Zhejiang Province, recast the kneeling statues of Qin Jun and Wan Junbi and added Zhang Jun's kneeling statues.
In fact, Zhang Jun, a person who has also had unlimited scenery in history, has also fought bravely to kill the enemy on the front line of the anti-Gold Front.
But Zhang Jun has one biggest drawback, that is, jealousy. He was jealous of Yue Fei, why was Yue Fei able to report success frequently, but he was repeatedly frustrated? This became a hurdle in his heart that he could not pass, and after a long time, he had a grudge against Yue Fei and wanted to get rid of it quickly.
Later, after Zhang Jun defected to Qin Jun, he even tried to attack Yue Fei by all means, and finally conspired to kill him.
Luo Rukai
Luo Ruyi's kneeling statue should have been added in the early Qing Dynasty, because people at that time were deeply influenced by the "Complete Biography of Yue Yue", so some people cast such a kneeling statue out of their own pockets.
Luo Ruyi and Wan Qianbi did similar things, and they also personally woven many yue fei's crimes, and once triumphantly said that "the tip of the tongue does not need a knife to kill people."
However, during the Yongzheng period, when Li Wei was serving as the governor of Zhejiang, he felt that Luo Ruyi was not qualified to kneel in front of Yue Fei's tomb, so he ordered that his kneeling statue be removed.
Since then, there have only been four kneeling statues left in front of Yue Fei's tomb, and to this day!