In the eleventh year of Shaoxing (1141 AD), Yue Fei was imprisoned in Dali Temple, and at the same time, Qin Hui and others were intensively planning how to convict Yue Fei.
The charges are ready-made, nothing more than supporting the army and self-respecting, intending to rebel, etc., but to confirm Yue Fei's charges has become a headache for Qin Hui.
For this reason, Qin Hui used various means, or coercion and inducement, or dividing them, to find nine people who were "willing" to commit perjury from the Yue family's army, and these people were originally brothers who were born and died with Yue Fei.
These nine people are: Wang Jun, the commander of the former army, Wang Gui, the commander of the Chinese army, Yao Yue, the commander of the Youyi Army, Pang Rong, the commander of the Right Army, Fu Xuan, the commander of the Beiwei Army, Dong Xian, the commander of the Tabai Army, Xu Qing, the defense envoy, Li Xing, the commander of the Left Army, and Li Dao, the commander of the Xuanfeng Army.
It was the joint exposure and evidence of these nine people, pointing out Yue Fei's intention to rebel and other crimes, which not only made Yue Fei in prison speechless, but also allowed Qin Hui to finally succeed and successfully convict Yue Fei, and under the instruction of Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, Yue Fei was given death in prison, and a generation of national heroes finally died unjustly, which is sad and lamentable.
So, why did these nine people betray Coach Yue Fei?
At the beginning of the eleventh year of Shaoxing, due to the successive victories of the Yuejia army in the early stage, the Jin State encountered great resistance in the matter of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, so the high-level leaders of the Jin State had the idea of negotiating peace with the Southern Song Dynasty.
For the negotiation of peace, the Southern Song Dynasty government naturally raised its hands and feet in favor, and Zhao Gou of Song Gaozong did not want to fight for a long time, and he tried his best to maintain the status quo, and he wanted to stop all wars.
Not only Song Gaozong had this idea, but also many civil servants in the court, including Qin Hui, and so was that being content with the status quo was their common goal, and those who blocked the realization of this goal were all stumbling blocks that needed to be eradicated.
Therefore, after hearing the rumor that the Jin State wanted to negotiate peace, the Southern Song Dynasty court began to suppress the military generals with heavy troops.
Han Shizhong and Yue Fei, the two generals who strongly advocated resistance to Jin, became the target of the public at that time, and after some operation, the two were transferred out of the army and returned to Lin'an to serve.
At the same time, the general Wanyan Wushu of the Jin Kingdom sent people to the Southern Song Dynasty to clearly express his willingness to negotiate peace, and Song Gaozong was overjoyed by this, and a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.
However, a condition put forward by Jin Guo made Song Gaozong a little difficult.
Wanyan Wushu specifically mentioned in the letter that there is no problem in negotiating peace, but there is a premise, that is, Yue Fei must be killed to relieve the hatred in his heart, if it doesn't work, then there is no need to talk about peace.
"Kill Yue Fei, and then make peace with Ke Chengye. --- "Jin Tuozhi Ed."
Why did Wanyan Wushu insist on killing Yue Fei? This had to start with a war between him and Yue Fei three years ago.
In July of the ninth year of Shaoxing, Wanyan Wushu personally led 100,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry to attack Yingchang, just a few days ago, Wanyan Wushu wanted to sneak attack the Yuejia army guarding here, but did not want to encounter the fierce general Yang Zaixing, after the bloody battle between the two sides, Wanyan Wushu was defeated, losing more than 2,000 people.
After going back, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he was very unwilling to this defeat, so after rectifying the soldiers and horses, he personally led the army to attack Yingchang on the 14th of that month, vowing to recover the field that was lost a few days ago.
Yue Fei's eldest son Yue Yun personally led eight hundred back-to-back cavalry to charge head-on, and the other Yuejia soldiers were very heroic.
It was also because of this battle that Wanyan Wushu was extremely jealous of Yue Fei, not only because he was defeated, but also because in this battle, Wanyan Wushu's son-in-law Xia Jinwu died in the chaos.
The shame of failure, coupled with the fact that he died at the hands of the Yue family army for his son-in-law, added the article that Yue Fei must be eliminated in the conditions for peace negotiation.
Of course, this is only a superficial reason, and the deeper is that Wanyan Wushu knows that Yue Fei is the backbone of the anti-Jin resistance, as long as he dies, then the Southern Song Dynasty will be destroyed by himself sooner or later, which is the main reason why he wants to kill Yue Fei.
When the conditions for Wanyan Wushu were transmitted to the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou and Qin Hui discussed, and the monarch reached a consensus that if he wanted to negotiate peace, he would definitely kill Yue Fei.
At this point, all kinds of conspiracies and tricks against Yue Fei began to "debut".
As the saying goes, a teacher must be famous, even if he is determined to frame Yue Fei, then he naturally has to find some charges that can put him to death.
Qin Hui first instructed his henchmen Wan Qiwei and Luo Ruji to impeach Yue Fei, accusing Yue Fei of "staying and not advancing" when the imperial court asked him to reinforce Huaixi, and advocating "abandoning Shanyang (Chuzhou)", and on this ground, he wrote to Song Gaozong to remove Yue Fei from his official position.
Of course, these so-called charges are all fabricated, and none of them are conclusive, but after Song Gaozong received the twist, he understood it and immediately agreed to remove Yue Fei from the post of privy deputy envoy and reappointed him as an idle envoy of "longevity".
In other words, at this time, Yue Fei has completely become an idler, and the so-called "Longevity Ambassador" is just an honorary title, but even so, the persecution of him has not stopped.
Immediately afterwards, at the behest of Qin Hui, Zhang Jun, one of the former "Four Generals of Zhongxing", accused Yue Fei of rebelling against Zhang Xian, the general of his subordinates, and threw Yue Fei into the prison of Dali Temple on the grounds that he needed to be investigated and interrogated.
After arriving in prison, Qin Hui and others accelerated the steps to frame Yue Fei, after all, the "big patron" was still waiting, and at the same time, Qin Hui replaced the originally upright chief judge He Zhu with his own henchman Wan Qiao, and began to torture Yue Fei to extract a confession.
And the charges and testimony have been prepared in advance, and for this testimony, Qin Hui has put a lot of thought into it.
In order to completely confirm Yue Fei's "crime", Qin Hui found nine generals in the Yue family's army, and asked them to testify against Yue Fei through coercion and inducement, and these nine people are the core figures of the Yue family's army.
So, how did these nine people come into line? The most brazen of them was Wang Jun, the former commander of the army.
Before Wang Jun defected to the Yue family's army, he was originally just a pawn in Dongping Mansion, and he made a living by exposing other people's mistakes and receiving rewards for his merits, but because he could speak well, in just a few years, he actually got mixed up in the position of the head of the capital.
Later, after joining Yue's army, Zhang Xian, who followed Yue Fei's beloved general, went to the east and the west to fight, but because he often cheated and played tricks and did not work hard when fighting, he was scolded by Zhang Xian a lot, and he never got the opportunity to be promoted.
After a long time, Wang Jun complained a lot about Zhang Xian, and even had no good impression of Yue Jiajun.
After Yue Fei was arrested, Qin Hui sent someone to find Wang Jun and instructed him to falsely accuse Yue Fei and promise him a high-ranking official, and Wang Jun was looking forward to this "good thing", so he joined Qin Hui's camp and spared no effort in falsely accusing Yue Fei.
He first falsely accused Zhang Xian of rebellion, and used this matter to implicate Yue Fei, as for the pleading, Qin Hui had already sent someone to write it, and what Wang Jun did was to sign it.
Wang Jun's false accusation is the first step, Qin Hui successfully put Yue Fei's love Zhang Xian in prison through this action, which means that Yue Fei has lost his right-hand man.
In addition to Wang Jun, there is another general who took the initiative to "surrender" to Qin Hui, and this person is Yao Yue, the commander of the Youyi Army.
Yao Zheng was born poor, in the Jingkang Change, fled his hometown due to the war, and then met Yue Fei by chance, Yue Fei thought of his mother's surname Yao, and his father's surname Yue, so he thought that Yao Yue was very close to him, so he left him to serve in the army.
Originally, Yao Yue was a staff officer, he was born as a jinshi, and he had a slight success in strategy, so he helped Yue Fei a lot, and because of this, Yue Fei respected him very much, and promoted him continuously, and finally became the commander of the Youyi army.
But after Yue Fei was arrested, Yao Yue did not choose to repay Yue Fei for his kindness, but remained silent and signed Wang Jun's false accusation testimony, acquiescing to Yue Fei's so-called crime.
After Yue Fei was killed, Yao Yue's true face was completely revealed, and he took the initiative to hand Qin Hui a "letter of nomination", saying conclusively that he wanted Yue Fei to draw a clear line, and wrote to Song Gaozong, all the place names with the word "Yue" were changed all over the country.
As a result, Song Gaozong also agreed to this absurd decision, and issued an edict throughout the country, and acted accordingly, and for a time, the word "Yue" became taboo.
In addition, there is another person worth mentioning, that is, Wang Gui, the commander of the Chinese army.
Wang Gui is also one of Yue Fei's favorite generals, and he has participated in several important battles of the Yue family's army, and has also made great contributions and become the mainstay of the Yue's army.
And the reason why Qin Hui found him was because he was more familiar with the affairs of the army, but at the beginning, when Qin Hui first expressed to Wang Gui that he wanted to frame Yue Fei, Wang Gui refused with righteous words.
But Qin Hui was obviously unwilling to give up, he found Wang Gui's family, in order to threaten Wang Gui to comply, and in the end, the helpless Wang Gui agreed to cooperate with Qin Hui and signed the testimony.
After Yue Fei was killed, Wang Gui felt deeply guilty, so he resigned and stayed at home until he died of illness.
The reason for these three people's compliance represents the majority of the nine people, either because they are the kind of people who fall into the ground, such as Wang Jun, or because they have nothing to do with themselves, such as Yao Yue, or they are similar to Wang Gui, because they are afraid of Qin Hui's revenge, they have to be forced to agree and make "perjury" to frame Yue Fei.
But no matter what the reason, it was their joint signature on the testimony that led to Yue Fei's final murder, which is an unchangeable fact, and they have also borne the infamy of the ages because of this move.
After Yue Fei was imprisoned, nine of the generals of the Twelve Military Headquarters under his command participated in framing Yue Fei to varying degrees, and the reason for their participation was nothing more than Qin Hui's coercion and temptation, or promising to be a high-ranking official, or threatening the lives of their families, in short, in order to achieve their goals, Qin Hui and others did everything they could, and finally made these brothers who had lived and died with Yue Fei rebel and became accomplices in Yue Fei's death.