On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the 11th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (January 27, 1142), although the city was full of lights and laughter, Yue Fei, a famous anti-gold general, was imprisoned in Dali Temple Prison, and what awaited him was the imminent death penalty.
Emperor Song Gaozong Zhao Gou and Prime Minister Qin Hui had already secretly reached a consensus and gave Yue Fei a cup of poisoned wine on trumped-up charges. While the people of Lin'an City were immersed in the festive atmosphere of celebrating the Spring Festival, Yue Fei was forced to drink the poisonous wine given by Zhao Gou, ending his life journey.
Yue Fei has been loyal all his life, and his belief in serving the country has long been deeply integrated into his bone marrow. He understood that a cup of poisoned wine was the will of death, but he still resolutely obeyed, resolutely drank the poisoned wine, enjoyed the last Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and then unfortunately died.
However, on the night of Yue Fei's death, a little person couldn't sleep, he was Kui Shun, the jailer of Dali Temple Prison. Although he was just an ordinary prison guard, according to modern terms, he was an ordinary civil servant.
However, in the grievances and disputes between marshals like Yue Fei, emperors like Emperor Zhao of Song Gaozong, and prime ministers like Qin Huan, he was just a bystander, and he just wanted to complete the handover as soon as possible and go home to enjoy the warmth of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
However, fate involved him in a struggle that he could not change, becoming the last light in Yue Fei's life.
On this day of Kui Shun, he went out to work as usual during the day, and before going out, his wife also told him to go home early for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner after the evening. He was bent on going home to share food with his wife after work, but when he was about to leave work, he received a special task: to prepare the last Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for Yue Fei.
For Yue Fei's heroic deeds of serving the country loyally and leading the Yue family army to resist the Jin State to regain the lost land, Kui Shun had already heard about it, and he sincerely admired Yue Fei. Although he was just a powerless little jailer, he felt that he should do something in the face of Yue Fei's grievances and being imprisoned in Dali Temple Prison.
All he could do was to take care of Yue Fei as much as possible, so that Yue Fei would suffer less in prison. Yue Fei was an upright person, and after arriving in prison, he went on a hunger strike to show his resistance, which deeply pierced Kui Shun's heart.
He immediately reported the situation to his superiors and suggested that Yue Fei's family be sent to the prison to take care of him. However, as for how to deal with Yue Fei, Zhao Gou has not yet made a decision. Although Qin Hui tried to kill Yue Fei as soon as possible, the power to decide Yue Fei's life and death was still in the hands of Emperor Zhao Gou.
Therefore, when Zhao Gou had not yet decided Yue Fei's life and death, no one could move Yue Fei's hair.
Under Kui Shun's active urging, his boss applied to his superiors for Yue Fei's family to take care of him in prison. Yue Fei's second son, Yue Lei, entered the prison, and Yue Lei's careful care allowed Yue Fei to persist in surviving.
At first, Kui Shun thought that Yue Fei would survive, but no one thought that Zhao Gou would finally decide to kill Yue Fei. In fact, the mastermind behind Yue Fei's death was Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, and Zhao Gou had the power to decide Yue Fei's life and death at that time, even if Qin Hui was the prime minister, he did not have such power.
There is a profound contradiction between Zhao Gou and Yue Fei. As early as the seventh year of Shaoxing (1137), Yue Fei received a spy report that the Jin State planned to release Zhao Chen, the crown prince of Zhao Qinzong and Zhao Huan, to return to the Southern Song Dynasty.
The Jin State planned to use Zhao Chen to create an internal struggle for the throne of the Southern Song Dynasty. At this time, Yue Fei was no longer the rude soldier who proudly threatened to welcome the "two saints" (referring to Zhao Gou's father Song Huizong Zhao Ji and brother Song Qinzong Zhao Huan who were captured by the Jin State).
He realized that Zhao Go's throne was already secure, and he didn't want his father and eldest brother to come back. However, if the Jin State released Zhao Chen back, then Zhao Go's throne may no longer be secure.
Therefore, Yue Fei reported this spy news to Zhao Gou, and suggested that Zhao Gou immediately appoint his adopted son Zhao Yan as the crown prince to stabilize his position.
Yue Fei's participation in the canonization of the crown prince made Zhao Gou feel a strong sense of crisis. You must know that Yue Fei has a heavy army, high prestige and military achievements, and has won the hearts of the people, if he is allowed to have too much power and pose a threat to the imperial power, then Zhao Gou's rule will face a huge challenge.
Therefore, Yue Fei's behavior made Zhao Gou feel deeply uneasy and disgusted. Qin Hui wanted to negotiate peace with the Jin State, but the Jin State was worried that the main battle faction within the Southern Song Dynasty, such as Yue Fei, would pose a threat to it in the future, so he suggested that Qin Hui get rid of Yue Fei in order to reach a peace agreement.
In this context, Zhao Gou's dissatisfaction and distrust of Yue Fei, as well as Qin Hui's demand for peace, eventually led to Yue Fei's tragic fate.
In order to consolidate the imperial power and military power, Zhao Gou decided to get rid of Yue Fei in order to set an example and deter other generals such as Han Shizhong. In order to negotiate peace with the Jin people, Qin Hui must also get rid of Yue Fei.
Driven by the interests of the two, Yue Fei was given death at that time. Although the cause of Yue Fei's death was the result of the game of the superiors, for ordinary little people such as Kui Shun, he only cared about Yue Fei's quality of loyalty to the country and his innocent death.
The movie "Man Jianghong" is named after Yue Fei's poems, which reminds people of Yue Fei's heroic deeds. According to historical records, before his death, Yue Fei inscribed the words "Zhaozhao every day" in prison to express his loyalty and courage and the spirit of serving the country with loyalty.
These four words shocked a person present at the time - Kui Shun, who found the tattoo "Serve the country with loyalty" on Yue Fei's back after Yue Fei's death, which deeply moved him.
Although Song Gaozong Zhao Gou did not understand Yue Fei, the little man Kui Shun decided to do something for Yue Fei, which made people deeply feel his righteousness.
Knowing that he would risk his life, and even even his wife and children, Kui Shun still chose to preserve Yue Fei's body after his death. Faced with Qin Hui's threat, he decided to take this risk alone and prevent Yue Fei's body from being destroyed.
After cleaning Yue Fei's body, he chose to continue the vigil and let **'s colleagues go home for the New Year first. At midnight, he packed Yue Fei's body in a sack and put it on his body, hiding the jade pendant that Yue Fei wore before his death.
Although his actions are small, they are full of admiration for Yue Fei and his persistent pursuit of justice.
Kui Shun carefully calculated the patrol time of his colleagues in prison, and in order to escape from Dali Temple Prison with Yue Fei's body on his back, he secretly avoided the patrolmen, and finally succeeded in escaping from the prison with Yue Fei's body.
He carried the body all the way, did not dare to stop, and rushed to the outside of Lin'an City after only taking a few breaths. Since Yue Fei could not be buried in Lin'an City, he thought of the Jiuqu Cong Temple on the North Mountain outside Lin'an City, so he buried Yue Fei there.
In order to identify it in the future, he also deliberately tied the jade pendant that Yue Fei wore before his death to the body and buried it. Kui Shun, who was tired all night, dragged his tired body back to Dali Temple Prison and waited for his colleague **.
* Later, despite his fatigue, he found some orange tree seeds, and under the pretext of taking his son on an outing outside the city, he came to Yue Fei's burial place again. "
It turned out that in order to ensure that Yue Fei's body could be properly buried, Kui Shun specially brought his son here to plant two orange trees. Every time he was free, he would bring his son to water, and every year on Yue Fei's death day, they would come together to sweep the grave.
Day after day, year after year, spring, summer, autumn and winter, they swept Yue Fei's tomb for more than ten years. Until the last moment of his life, he knew that his time was short, and on his deathbed, he called his son to the bedside, told his son who the person he worshiped every year was, and told him in detail how to preserve Yue Fei's body.
He said to his son: "Now that the traitor is in charge, Marshal Yue's grievances cannot be appealed, but Marshal Yue is loyal to the country, and one day his grievances will be revealed." At that time, you must tell the world that Marshal Yue's remains are buried here. ”
After explaining all this, Kui Shun finally breathed a sigh of relief and passed away peacefully. And his son has been bearing this secret until the day when Yue Fei was wronged.
After Song Gaozong Zhao Gou gave way to his adopted son Zhao Yan, that is, Song Xiaozong, 20 years have passed since Yue Fei's death. After Zhao Yan succeeded to the throne, he was determined to go on a northern expedition, and decided to aggrieved Yue Fei Zhaoxue in the name of Zhao Gou, restore his reputation during his lifetime, and named him "Wu Mu".
At the same time, Zhao Yan ordered Yue Fei to be buried and offered a reward of 500 taels of silver to find his body. During this period, Kui Shun's son saw the bounty list and knew that Yue Fei's grievances had finally been revealed, so he reported to Lin'an Mansion that his father had taken the risk of burying Yue Fei's body, and led the government personnel to find Yue Fei's burial place, but he refused the reward issued by the imperial court.
In the end, Yue Fei's body was successfully found, and the Southern Song Dynasty court reburied it in Qixialing in West Lake, and was posthumously named the king of E, so the tombstone of the current Yue Fei's tomb is called the tomb of the king of Song Yue.
Small people, big stories. Yue Fei's spirit of serving the country with loyalty, and Kui Shun's bravery and loyalty, are all shining moments in their lives. Qingshan was fortunate to bury Yue Fei's loyal bones; Bai Tie was innocent, and he forged the crime of the minister.
And Kui Shun, an ordinary little jailer, used his actions to preserve the last dignity for Yue Fei. Yue Fei's life, although he was loyal to the country, finally ended up with death.
His body was also almost destroyed, but it was only thanks to Kui Shun's bravery and loyalty that it was preserved. is the so-called: since ancient times, loyal ministers and emperors are suspicious, and all loyalty and righteousness are not complete corpses. Thousands of willows outside the Wuchang Gate, no poplars flying.
Everyone has the potential to be a small person who changes history.