In August of the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Xuanhe of Song (1125 CE), the Jin soldiers attacked the Song in two ways, and their blades reached the capital of the Song Dynasty, Fenjing.
In January of the second year of Song Jingkang, the Jin army attacked the capital city, and the two emperors of The Song Huizong Zhao Tuo and the Song Qinzong Zhao Huan were abducted by the Jin people, along with the Jin people, including the relatives of the emperor, the close courtiers, and skilled craftsmen, including more than 14,000 people, including the relatives of the emperor, the close courtiers, and skilled craftsmen, and history also called the catastrophe of the Song Dynasty "the change of Jingkang".
The "Jingkang Change" is the great shame and humiliation suffered by the Song Dynasty since the founding of the Country, this incident directly led to the collapse of the Northern Song Dynasty, so that after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Generals took the "Shame of Jingkang" as their life goal! Among these generals, Yue Fei was undoubtedly the one closest to the target.
Statue of Yue Fei
In 1141 AD, just when the Yue family army was about to "directly destroy the Huanglong Mansion and make a bloody and disgraceful", Yue Fei, who was about to be completed, was transformed into a "chaotic thief" who was "deliberately plotting rebellion".
On January 27, 1142, yue Fei, a famous Song general, died unjustly in the prison of Dali Temple, and it was not until 20 years later that Emperor Xiaozong of Song succeeded to the throne, and Yue Fei's grievances were rehabilitated.
After Yue Fei's death, his body was buried in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and in order to commemorate Yue Fei, the descendants spontaneously built Yue Fei's tomb as a "Yue Wang Temple" for people to worship, and specially set up 5 kneeling statues in front of Yue Fei's tomb. The strange thing is that there are only 4 kneeling statues in front of Yue Fei's tomb now, and who is depicted in the 5th kneeling statue? Why did it disappear?
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The four kneeling statues in front of Yue Fei's tomb depict the adulterous minister Qin Ju and his wife Wang Shi, the courtier Wan Junjie, and Yue Fei's general Zhang Jun, and it was these four who colluded with each other and single-handedly contributed to the ancient injustice of Yue Fei's case.
Qin Jun, a famous courtier and adulterous minister in history, entered the priesthood in 1115 AD and served as the Taixue Xuezheng in the imperial court, and then spent more than ten years in the official arena and worshipped as a chancellor in 1131 AD.
After Qin Ju worshiped the chancellor, he appeared extremely weak in the political position of the Jin Dynasty, and he was the first Song Dynasty prime minister to advocate "cutting off the land, claiming subjects, paying tribute, and negotiating peace" against the Jin dynasty, and was a well-known "Huihe faction" and a well-known traitor.
In 1141 AD, in order to cater to the intentions of the monarch, he maimed the national hero Yue Fei on the charge of "false accusations", and was the number one mastermind of Yue Fei's unjust case. Twenty-five years after Shaoxing, Qin Juniper died of illness and was loyal at the age of sixty-six
Qin 侩 Images
Wang Shi is Qin Juniper's wife, just as the so-called "not a family, do not enter a family", Wang's personality is as sinister and vicious as Qin Juniper.
When Qin Ju was worried that there was no real evidence at hand to prove that Yue Fei "intended to rebel", Wang Shi came out and said to him: "It is easy to catch a tiger, but it is difficult to release a tiger." This means that whether there is evidence to frame Yue Fei or not, the most urgent thing is to "arrest him."
Wang's words can be described as a word to wake up the dreamer. Qin Ju really threw Yue Fei into prison on the charge of "false accusations", and the ending history books of such a sinister and vicious woman as Wang Shi were not recorded too much.
Wan Qianbi (萬俟卨), the prime minister in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, was raised in the examination in 1112 AD, and has been attached to Qin Juniper ever since. In 1114, he was the inspector of imperial history at the time, and he and Qin Huan colluded, framing Yue Fei for "falsely reporting military information and staying in Huaixi to delay the warplane", resulting in Yue Fei's father and son, Zhang Xian and others being unjustly imprisoned.
Not only that, Wan Qianbi also tried his best to suppress the imperial court officials who interceded for Yue Fei. After Yue Fei was imprisoned, Xue Renfu, Li Ruopu, He Yanyou, and others who were then the secretaries of Dali Temple, jointly wrote a letter to implore Shengshang to open up to Yue Fei, and they were impeached by Wan Qianbi shortly thereafter.
Liu Hongdao, who had a good personal relationship with Yue Fei, was impeached by Wan Qianbi just because he cried bitterly after hearing about Yue Fei's situation, resulting in the destruction of his career and the fall of the people; Zhizong Zhengsi Xunwang used the lives of his own hundred and ten families to vouch for Yue Fei, and was impeached by Wan Qianbi shortly thereafter, and finally died in exile.
It was such a chaotic thief who eradicated dissidents and mutilated Zhongliang that he could finally become the prime minister, and in 1155 AD, Qin Ju died, and Wan Qianbi entered the capital as a minister, and died in 1157 AD, when he was fifty-seven.
Zhang Jun, one of the "Four Generals of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty, was originally a general with the same name as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Liu Guangshi, and finally joined forces with Qin Ju and others out of jealousy to his death. Zhang Jun joined the army at a young age, and at the age of sixteen, he was an outstanding archer in the army, and he accumulated a lot of battle achievements on the battlefield for many years.
In 1116, Zhang Jun was officially made a military attaché by the title of "Zhicheng Xinlang". In 1126 AD, Zhang Jun led hundreds of subordinates to defeat the enemy under the premise of the death of the commander, not only highlighting the siege but also cutting off more than 500 golden heads, after which Zhang Jun became famous and emerged in the army.
In 1141, Zhang Jun, in order to cater to the monarch's intention to regain military power, pursued a beggar policy with the traitor Qin Ju and used his relationship with Yue Fei to personally fabricate perjury to promote Yue Fei's unjust imprisonment. Zhang Jun died in 1154 at the age of sixty-nine.
Zhang Jun (right)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="22" Who is the fifth kneeling figure >? </h1>
During the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang commanded Li Longlong to come to Yue Fei's tomb to worship, probably because he was angry at the thought of a generation of national heroes who had died tragically at the hands of the thieves of the Courtiers.
So he ordered people to make four bronze figures in front of Yue Fei's tomb, depicting them as Qin Ju and his wife, Wan Qianbi, and Zhang Jun, and let the four of them kneel naked and with their hands cut back in front of General Yue Fei's tomb to repent of their sins, and also let the descendants who came to worship General Yue Spit on this traitorous villain who betrayed the country and sought glory and framed Zhongliang.
As a result of years of scorn, the four bronze statues were badly damaged and dilapidated by the time of the Wanli Dynasty. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it was not known which official added a Luo Ruji to the four bronze statues, so the bronze statue kneeling in front of Yue Fei's tomb changed from the original four to five.
Luo Ruji (stills)
So who is this Luo Ruji who joined later? What role did he play in that unjust case that year?
Luo Ruji was also an official who was attached to Qin Juniper, and this person had served as a bureaucrat Shangshu and a scholar of Longtuge, and could be said to be a real and powerful minister, and when Qin Ju intended to frame Yue Fei for rebellion, Luo Ruji was one of the culprits who contributed to this matter.
It was his advice and encouragement that made this seemingly wrongful case an ironclad case with conclusive evidence.
However, unlike Qin Ju, Wan Qianbi and others, Luo Ruji personally interrogated the "Chen Si Unjust Case" after Yue Fei's death, which made him a "Qing official" for a time, and after that, the official luck was prosperous. A lifetime goes well.
During the Reign of Qing Yongzheng, Li Wei, then the governor of Zhejiang, came to Yue Fei's tomb to pay homage.
When he saw Luo Ruji's figure in the list of bronze statues, he felt that his identity was not even qualified to kneel in front of Yue Fei and repent, so he ordered someone to remove the bronze statue of Luo Ruji, so the five bronze statues were changed back to four and have been preserved to this day.
Yue Fei's tomb
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Today, Yue Fei's tomb has become a famous tourist attraction, and today's civilized society advocates civilized tourism, so these four bronze statues have a sign with the words "Do not spit" in front of them.
However, what makes people cry is that Qin Ju and others still have clearly visible phlegm marks on their bodies, so I think this may be the most real feelings of people for traitors, but this way of emotional catharsis adopts the most convenient and direct way.