In people's minds, Song Gaozong Zhao, like Qin Jun, was not a good thing. A king is a gentleman, and a subject is a courtier. The reason for this impression is that because their monarchs and courtiers joined forces to kill the patriotic hero Yue Fei, the great loyal minister. Yue Fei's death, the world wept, until now, people can not lift the hatred, on the shore of The West Lake, Qin Juniper and other traitors are still kneeling in front of Yue Fei's statue. Because Emperor Gaozong of Song was emperor and was secretive to His Holiness, he did not kneel by the West Lake like Qin Juniper. However, have people ever imagined that such a "dark lord" and such a "traitorous courtier" controlled the imperial program, but after Yue Fei's death, not only did not destroy the country, but founded the Southern Song Dynasty, and confronted such powerful enemies as the Jin Dynasty and Mongolia for a long time for one hundred and fifty years.
Song Gaozong Zhao And Qin Juniper Stills
First, Song Gaozong's view of the overall situation
Zhao Zhao, Zi Deji, the tenth emperor of the Song Dynasty and the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. As the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhuo can be said to have experienced vicissitudes. He was only the ninth prince of Emperor Huizong of Song, and according to the law, he was not qualified to be emperor, and he could not take his turn. However, fortunately, the Northern Song Dynasty suffered the jing kang change of the subjugated country, hui and qin emperors were captured, other brothers and sisters were captured or died, leaving only Zhao Zhuo lucky to survive and become the only authentic Zhao family bloodline. The remnants of the Northern Song Dynasty and the patriotic elite could only support him if they wanted to rebuild the Song Dynasty. Although Zhao Zhuo cannot be said to be as wise and divine as Liu Bang and Liu Xiu, at the moment of national peril, he was able to gather heroes to reorganize the mountains and rivers, and under the persecution of the powerful Jin State, he was able to fight or negotiate with it, so that the Jin State had to give up supporting the puppet regimes pseudo-Chu (Zhang Bangchang) and pseudo-Qi (Liu Yu), and it cannot but be said that he had certain political skills. You know, he is the emperor, he is a leader. Yue Fei and the others were also courtiers who carried out orders.
The situation facing Zhao Zhuo is actually very complicated. The Jin Dynasty successively supported the pseudo-Chu Zhang Bangchang regime and the pseudo-Qi Liu Yu regime, challenging the orthodox status of the Southern Song Dynasty. Although the Southern Song Dynasty was the orthodox song dynasty, it was very possible to change dynasties, especially with the help of foreign countries, under the historical conditions at that time. In the fifth dynasty, Shi Jingyao was the son emperor of the Liao State, which was a precedent. In the folk, although it is said that in the face of the subjugation of the country, there is a complex of hatred and hatred, but the people are not very satisfied with the initial establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty regime, the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty there were Fang La, Song Jiang uprising, the early Southern Song Dynasty there was Zhong Xiang, Yang Mo uprising is proof. Within the imperial court, in fact, it was not the unity of the monarchs and subjects, and the Miao-Liu mutiny made Emperor Gaozong of Song very vigilant. In the absence of the ability to recover the lost land and reorganize the mountains and rivers, it is a rational choice to be in a safe corner and wait for the opportunity. As an emperor, Emperor Gaozong of Song first considered gaining a firm foothold, developing production, and restoring national strength, and to achieve this goal, a peaceful "international environment" was needed. Therefore, as long as Jin Guoken and Zhao Shuo are reconciled, it is a "good thing" that cannot be sought.
Song Gaozong Zhao constructed stills
The problems that need to be solved in front of Zhao Zhuo are: First, to quell the peasant revolt and not allow the people to rebel; second, to block the Jin State on the border and not allow it to go any further; third, to rectify the imperial program, not to allow the formation of feudal towns to divide and even rebel, and to form the emperor's centralization of power; fourth, to strive to develop production and quickly gather financial resources so that the country can be capable of contending with a strong enemy; and the last problem is to recover the lost land and reorganize the mountains and rivers of the Northern Song Dynasty. It can be said that Zhao Zhuo became emperor according to this line of thinking, and which courtier disagreed with him and did not act according to the unified deployment of the Central Committee of the Southern Song Dynasty, he did not hesitate to wield a butcher's knife.
Second, Yue Fei made political mistakes
Is Yue Fei a loyalist? Absolutely. Yue Fei had no remorse, he was bent on recovering the lost land, welcoming back the Second Emperor, and reorganizing the rivers and mountains. Like Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period and Zu Di in the Eastern Jin Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, he wanted to become a hero who unified the whole country. He not only thought so, but also did it, and for this reason he did not hesitate to fight against the emperor's reasoning. But Yue Fei seemed to have forgotten, who did he serve? You were a loyal subject, and under the historical conditions at that time, you were definitely loyal to the Jun, and this Jun was Emperor Gaozong of Song. Zhao Shuo even sent you into Beijing with twelve gold medals, if you listen to Zhao Shuo's words in particular, will you use the twelve gold medals? One holy decree is enough. You are just a pawn of Zhao Shuo, and if Zhao Shuo asks you to fight, you will fight fiercely; if Zhao Shuo asks you to withdraw, you should withdraw; if Zhao Shuo wants to make peace from the country's strategy, you should approve of peace. If you disagree with the emperor, what is the result? Even if you don't have a rebellious heart, you are not a traitor.
Song Gaozong Zhao And Yue Fei stills
However, Yue Fei did not listen very much to Emperor Gaozong of Song's words, and his straight temper made him commit many crimes, even picking on the pick. If you often say that "Lao Tzu is no longer dry", resign the emperor's post, and dismiss the emperor's work, what do you make the emperor think? Moreover, Yue Fei's troops were called the "Yue Family Army", and the Jin Dynasty had the saying that "it is easy to shake the mountains, and it is difficult to shake the Yue Family Army". The army should be the army of the state and should be surnamed Zhao. Your name is Yue Jiajun, and you have made a huge political mistake in itself. Treat the state's army as private, and if there is a reaction, the state will be uncontrollable. Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, became emperor with "yellow robes and bodies", so he naturally had a defensive mentality for military generals, and was afraid that they would also follow the law. Now that Yue Fei's army is called "Yue Jia Jun", how can you possibly call the emperor and not prevent criminals? Yue Fei did not have any remorse, but the twelve gold medals could only be transferred back, no matter what the reason, it was a big taboo. At first, Zhao Zhuo was very trusting of Yue Fei, but as Yue Fei's power continued to grow, this sense of trust slowly weakened, turning into fear and prevention.
Yue Fei also asked Emperor Gaozong of Song about Zhao Shuo's "family affairs" and always advised Zhao Shuo to establish a "prince" as soon as possible. Because of his long-term upheaval and displacement, Zhao Shuo was hunted down and intimidated by Jin Bing, lost his fertility, and persuaded an emperor who had lost his fertility to establish a prince early, and it was when the emperor was in his spring and autumn, and the courtier who persuaded the prince was a military general. This was another big mistake Yue Fei had made. Although Yue Fei had the words "loyal to the country" engraved on his back, in Song Gaozong's heart, this did not represent anything. Yue Fei's performance, except for the heroic killing of the enemy to the satisfaction of Emperor Gaozong, did not deliver a satisfactory answer. Even in the end, Gaozong moved the killing machine. Is Yue Fei guilty? Qin Juniper's answer was "nonsense." Although Yue Fei did not rebel, he had the strength to rebel and his suspected performance. An emperor killing a courtier sometimes doesn't take a good reason. When Emperor Gaozong of Song killed Yue Fei, he was actually a king who would nip the threat to the imperial court in the bud.
Third, Zhao Zhuo is a Ming Jun who has made mistakes
Song Gaozong Zhao Zhao stills
According to history, Zhao Shuo's killing of Yue Fei must have been unjustly killed, a bit self-destructing the Great Wall. But we can't ask too much of an emperor. Zhao Shuo was not an emperor of great talent like Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, and Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhao Shuo was definitely not a dimwitted emperor. It's just that he stands in the perspective of a king, balancing the forces of the main war faction and the main peace faction, and when he decides to make peace with Jin Guo, it is reasonable for the main war faction to kill or degrade. A military general, no matter how many great achievements he has made, when the country needs you, he will go to the battlefield, and when he does not need you, he will disarm and return to the field, which is the attitude that satisfies the king, otherwise he will seek his own death.
Zhao Zhuo was emperor for thirty-six years, and he voluntarily abdicated on the grounds that he was "tired and diligent", and we were influenced by the commentary "Yue FeiChuan" to believe that Emperor Gaozong of Song was a faint prince. In fact, Zhao Zhuo was the real leader of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his generals were not only Yue Fei, but also Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Wu Jiu, Wu Xuan, Zhang Jun, Liu Kun, Wang Yan and others, all of whom achieved considerable successes, han Shizhong's Battle of Huang Tiandang, wu brothers' battle of Shangyuan, all of which made Jin Bing feel frightened. Although the Southern Song Dynasty won and lost against Jin, it won more and lost less. Zhao Zhuo weighed the strength of the two countries, Jin could not destroy Song, and Song could not destroy Jin, so in the end the two countries agreed to negotiate peace. The Shaoxing Peace Agreement signed by Zhao Zhuo and the Jin Dynasty laid the foundation for peace for the Southern Song Dynasty for more than 150 years. We cannot arbitrarily say that peace is wrong. If Zhao Zhuo had the strength to unify the whole country, how could he choose a corner of peace? After the peace of the Song dynasty and Jin, the Southern Song Dynasty worked hard to develop production and implement the economic boundary law, which made the Southern Song Dynasty a very prosperous country in agriculture, light industry, cultural industry, foreign trade, finance, and marine economy in a short period of time. Therefore, history defines the coffin of Emperor Gaozong of Song as "the Ming Emperor of Zhongxing Shoucheng".