When Yue Fei was killed, why were the 100,000 Yue family troops indifferent?
For thousands of years, the death of Yue Fei, a national hero, has always made future generations sigh, and they deeply hate the grievances of Qin Hui, the first minister of the year.
At that time, the admiration and love of the people and the Yue family army for Yue Fei can be described as a surging river, and when they heard that Yue Fei died unjustly, the country was immersed in grief and indignation.
Even if it is said that ordinary people in the Southern Song Dynasty could not control national affairs, why were the 100,000 Yue family soldiers so indifferent to Yue Fei's death?
Many people are puzzled, after Yue Fei's death, what kind of fate did Yue Jiajun experience?Why didn't they seek justice for Yue Fei?
Yue Fei, whose name is Pengju, was born in the Northern Song Dynasty and is specifically located in Tangyin, Xiangzhou, which is today's Tangyin County, Henan Province.
At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty implemented a policy of "emphasizing literature over military force", but frequent border wars, such as frequent invasions by soldiers from the Liao State and Western Xia.
As a result, many ordinary people have learned Xi martial arts to defend themselves. Yue Fei began to Xi martial arts precisely because he was born in a peasant family and had the opportunity to learn Xi martial arts.
However, Yue Fei's original intention of learning martial arts was mainly to defend his homeland against foreign enemies.
He is not only familiar with historical classics, but also good at riding and archery, can skillfully shoot the bow left and right, was born with a strong physique, proficient in swords and guns, and is superior in martial arts in his hometown county.
At the age of 20, Yue Fei joined the army, led a hundred cavalry, successfully ambushed and captured the thieves Kou Taojun and Jia Jin, thus showing his edge.
In 1127 AD, the Jin army captured Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, captured Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, and then took the harem and courtiers captive.
This group of captives, like livestock, was dragged by the Jin soldiers through Bianjing, marching from the north to the south. The former noble emperor was forced to strip away his dignity, and the royal family and nobles spent painful moments in the ** and torture of the golden soldiers.
In Bianjing City, the Jin soldiers wantonly burned and plundered, and many innocent people lost their lives.
However, an even more shocking scene came when the captives arrived in the capital of the Jin Kingdom. Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were forced to put on sheepskins and were dragged as captives to the ancestral temple of the Jin Kingdom, where they were forced to kneel and kowtow, suffering great humiliation.
This ritual was known as the "Sheep Ceremony", and the courtiers and harem concubines of the Northern Song Dynasty were also forced to participate in it and experience this humiliation together.
Harem concubines and royal ladies, even princesses, were forced by the Jin soldiers to participate in the "milk ceremony" to satisfy the luxury of the Jin people. Empress Zhu has a resolute personality, and she resolutely refused to give in to such humiliation, and finally chose to commit suicide in order to maintain her dignity and innocence.
The two emperors were at the mercy of the Jin people, one was named "Duke of Dude", and the other was named "Marquis of Chongdu", such an insult is obvious.
Yue Fei was only 24 years old at the year of Jingkang's humiliation, and was deeply outraged by the Jin soldiers' enslavement and massacre of the Song people. He longed to rise up against the Jin army, but he was worried about his mother, wife and children at home. In a time of war and chaos, he feared that they would not be able to protect themselves.
Yue Fei's mother, wise and determined, encouraged him to come forward and personally tattooed "Jing Zhong to serve the country" on Yue Fei's back to teach him. By 1135 AD, Yue Fei had experienced thousands of battles on the battlefield and successfully formed a large army, numbering more than 100,000, becoming the most powerful army in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was known as the "Yuejia Army" by the people.
Yue Fei is good at managing the army, and every soldier has been carefully selected, and he is an elite who can defeat one enemy with ten, or even one enemy with one hundred on the battlefield.
The ** of the soldiers is different, some are people who voluntarily joined the army, some are transferred by the Southern Song Dynasty, and some are strong men selected by Yue Fei from the Jin army.
Yue Fei required the cavalry to wear heavy armor during training, and the daily training was extremely strict, and he personally took the time to guide the training.
Yue's army is not only good at fighting, but also strict military discipline, along the way to the people have never violated, "freeze to death without destroying the house, starve to death without looting", this lofty standard of behavior is deeply admired by the people, good reputation in the people word of mouth, Yue's army has won widespread respect.
Therefore, Jin Bing was deeply afraid of the Yuejia army, and sighed that "it is easy to shake the mountains, and it is difficult to shake the Yuejia army".
The reason why Zhao Gou wanted to put Yue Fei to death Although folklore says that Yue Fei was killed by Qin Hui, and Zhao Gou was also misled by Qin Hui, in fact, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou also really wanted to eradicate Yue Fei. After all, he held the power of life and death, and there were several good reasons to eliminate Yue Fei.
First of all, Yue Fei is loyal to the country, and the object of loyalty is the whole country. He was not only loyal to Zhao Gou, but also showed loyalty to Song Huizong and Song Qinzong.
Secondly, Yue Fei's prestige grew, and the scholars and people were willing to belong to him, which threatened Zhao Gou's dominance to a certain extent. In addition, Yue Fei's heroic performance on the battlefield and the powerful army he formed also made Zhao Gou feel uneasy.
In the end, Zhao Gou was instigated by some powerful ministers, which caused him to misunderstand Yue Fei, believing that Yue Fei might have ambitions for the throne.
Therefore, Zhao Gouxin was suspicious and finally decided to get rid of Yue Fei.
The shame of Jingkang has not yet snowed. ”
Yue Fei once wrote "Man Jianghong", in which he led his army to fight against the Jin soldiers and regain lost territory, while at the same time longing to redeem the two emperors who were being humiliated in the Jin country.
At the time of the Jingkang Change, because Zhao Gou went out to handle official business, he was spared the fate of being captured. Through "picking up leaks", Zhao Gou was embraced as the emperor.
However, if Yue Fei really welcomed Song Huizong and Song Qinzong back, how would Zhao Gou face Song Qinzong?Even if there was no need to abdicate at that time, would Song Qinzong seek to seize the throne in the future, or even launch a coup d'état?Zhao Gou was not yet satisfied with the throne, so he was naturally unwilling to take this risk.
Secondly, Yue Fei touched Zhao Gou's taboo. He wielded military power, had great prestige, and was revered by the common people enough to make the emperor feel jealous.
In 1129 AD, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan staged a mutiny in the name of "Qing Junfang", forcing Zhao Gochan to cede to the crown prince Zhao Yang. Although Zhao Gou was forced to concede, he soon quelled the mutiny with the help of local generals.
Therefore, he has always been wary of military generals, especially Yue Fei, who has 100,000 elite soldiers under his command.
Even if Zhao Gou believed that Yue Fei had no intention of rebelling, what about the army under Yue Fei's command?Didn't Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor of Zhao Gou, be added to the yellow robe by his subordinates?
Yue Fei once wrote a letter suggesting that Zhao Gou establish a reserve, which violated the taboo of military generals meddling in government affairs, and Zhao Gou did not intend to establish a reserve at that time.
Zhao Gou had lost his fertility due to the threat of Jin Bing, and his only son, Zhao Yang, had also died, and he tried various methods to restore his fertility over the years.
Although he adopted Song Taizu's grandson as an adopted son, he was more eager to be able to inherit the throne with his own son.
Yue Fei's actions seemed to uncover Zhao Gou's scars, and when Yue Fei finished reading his recital, Zhao Gou's face immediately became gloomy.
Third, Zhao Gou and Yue Fei disagreed on whether to advocate war or peace. Zhao Gou spent a lot of money to feed the army, and the state finances fell into deficit, and he no longer wanted to continue the war, but only wanted to live a comfortable life. As an emperor who bears the hatred of the country and the family, he searched for the people's daughters everywhere when the Jin army was chasing, which shows his lack of enterprising.
Therefore, when the Southern Song Dynasty army had the advantage, Zhao Gou took the initiative to send envoys to negotiate, preferring to cede land and promise to pay 250,000 taels of tribute to the Jin people every year.
However, the main battle faction, such as Yue Fei and others, resolutely opposed the peace talks, advocated driving out the Jin people through strength, demonstrating the majesty of our country, and was absolutely unwilling to give in to the whole.
Therefore, Zhao Gou decided to take action against Yue Fei.
Yue Fei led the Yue family army to defeat Jin Wushu, the commander of the Jin State, many times, and the Jin army was deeply afraid of Yue Fei. When Jin Guo learned that Zhao Gou wanted to talk about reconciliation, he put forward the condition of "killing Yue Fei".
Qin Hui and Jin Guo had an exchange of interests, and in order to seek personal honor and interests, he began to assist Zhao Gou in planning the framing of Yue Fei. After all, Yue Fei is quite loved among the people, and the Yue family army has strong cohesion, and killing Yue Fei at will may cause trouble.
In 1140, Yue Fei was ordered to carry out the Fourth Northern Expedition, but just as he defeated the Jin army and the Jin generals were about to abandon Kaifeng Mansion and flee the Yellow River, Yue Fei received twelve golden plates from Zhao Gou himself.
Zhao Gou ordered Yue Fei to return to the dynasty immediately, Yue Fei had no choice but to obey, and sighed in his heart that ten years of hard work had been burned. After Yue Fei and Yue's army returned, Qin Hui bribed Yue Fei's subordinates Wang Jun and Wang Gui through **, and asked them to fabricate Yue Fei's crime of rebellion.
Then, Qin Hui set up a private court, forged a holy decree, and arrested Yue Fei's father and son in prison. During the interrogation, Yue Fei endured torture and remained true to his faith. He took off his clothes and revealed the handwriting on his back that read "Serve the country with loyalty", which made those present awe-inspired. However, Qin Hui still fabricated Yue Fei's charges and presented them to the emperor.
The loyal ministers defended Yue Fei, but Zhao Gou wanted to put Yue Fei to death at this time in order to seek reconciliation. Some of the courtiers who interceded for Yue Fei were dismissed, and some were executed. The rest, who would dare to confront the emperor?
Due to the lack of evidence of rebellion, Yue Fei has been detained. Many people once complained for Yue Fei and wrote complaints one after another, but once these complaints were sent to Qin Hui, he just sneered.
In 1142 AD, Yue Fei was executed.
The reasons why the Yue family army stood by and watched are:
First of all, the generals in the Yue family's army who had followed Yue Fei for many years and were loyal to him had been replaced by the emperor with loyal people before Yue Fei was imprisoned.
Although Yue Fei knew that the emperor did not trust him, he never planned to raise an army and rebel, but only silently endured the emperor's gradual weakening of his power and deprivation of his military power.
After Yue Fei was imprisoned, Yue Fei's staff was disbanded and assigned, and even if ordinary soldiers wanted to stand up for Yue Fei, they were deterred by their lack of strategy and fear of being punished by military law. Coupled with the fact that there were many obstacles on the way to the emperor, they could only be helpless.
Secondly, the internal composition of Yue's army was complex, including the core troops personally cultivated by Yue Fei, as well as some captured Youkou. After Yue Fei's death, these people lost their unified command and became fragmented.
In fact, only the thousands of core troops who were really willing to live and die for Yue Fei were Yue Fei. Before Yue Fei was killed, these troops had been dispersed by Qin Hui, making it difficult for them to assemble. In order to prevent Yue Fei's general Niu Gao from retaliating, Qin Hui even deliberately poisoned him with poisonous wine.
Third, the Yue family army was essentially an army belonging to the Song Dynasty, not Yue Fei's private army. Deeply influenced by Yue Fei's patriotic thoughts, they obeyed the emperor's orders. Even when they learned that Yue Fei had been wrongfully killed, they did not consider raising troops to resist.
In this way, Qin Hui and Song Gaozong succeeded in disintegrating the Yue family army through various conspiracies.
For personal gain, Qin Hui betrayed Zhongliang, leaving him with a stigma for the ages. And Song Gaozong's actions not only reduced the strength of the country, but also disappointed many generals, and won him the reputation of a faint king, which can be described as self-destruction of the Great Wall.