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At the beginning of this year, the explosion of a "Man Jianghong" during the Spring Festival once again became a hot topic of discussion because of the sentence "unnecessary", which was once again cast to kneel in front of Yue Fei's tomb for hundreds of years.
From the movie, we can see that Qin Hui's power is monstrous, and in the historical Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Hui can indeed be said to be under one person and above ten thousand.
We can look at his title, in the Song Dynasty, Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhang was in charge of political affairs, and the Privy Council was in charge of military affairs, and Qin Hui alone held these two positions, and the military and political affairs were grasped.
During his reign, I don't know how many ministers made suggestions to the emperor to bring him down, but without exception, they all ended in failure. Moreover, with the connivance of the emperor, Qin Hui vigorously suppressed the opponents, deposed them all, and at the same time raised unjust cases, and the party fought against differences, which can be described as covering the sky with one hand in the Southern Song Dynasty.
In addition to his official position, he was also crowned the Duke of the State in his title, and he was also added nine tins in his later years. Before Qin Hui died, Song Gaozong promoted him to the king of Jiankang County, and posthumously named the king of Shen.
This kind of status, although not the emperor, but not much worse than the emperor, but also the real vested interests of the Southern Song Dynasty regime, then according to this line of thinking, Qin Hui should desperately maintain the continuation of the Southern Song Dynasty regime, why would he repeatedly cede land and seek peace with the Jin Dynasty, and even did not hesitate to destroy the front-line war situation, so that he took on the infamy of "seeking glory" through the ages?
Sometimes we often say that history has its limitations, but from another point of view, when we look at a piece of history, we will also be influenced by our preconceived notions.
Looking at it now, Qin Hui's groveling to the emperor and the Jin State is undoubtedly an act of "seeking glory", but at that time, Qin Hui's actions could not escape one word - "loyalty".
Yes, all of Qin Hui's claims and actions are responsible to his emperor, but in the feudal period, the world or the country was dominated by the emperor with one person and one surname. Therefore, when the emperor is patriotic and worried about the people, the minister's "loyalty" will turn into "loyalty and patriotism", and when the emperor himself only wants to be in a corner of peace and survive, the minister's "loyalty" will be manifested as "loyalty".
After careful analysis, we can even assert that Qin Hui is not a powerful man who still wants to seek glory, but it is precisely he who "should" first, and he was able to ask for the "glory" of "monstrous power" from the emperor.
It may sound a bit twisting, but we can see a clear context from Qin Hui's growth trajectory.
2. Although Qin Hui was named as a "traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty", he actually went to the ** during the Northern Song Dynasty. He was born in the Song Zhezong period, although his father was a county magistrate, but the conditions of the family were not superior.
When he was young, Qin Hui once made a living by teaching, and his life was embarrassed, but fortunately, he was talented and intelligent, and he was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of twenty-five, and soon became a Taixue Xuezheng, although the power is not heavy, but the position is very "noble".
In 1126, the Jin army besieged the capital of the Song Dynasty, and Song Qinzong agreed to the request of the Jin State for land reparation, and set up a special position "land cutter".
From here, everyone can be surprised to find that at that time, Qin Hui's attitude towards Jin Guo was at least relatively tough. In fact, it is not just tough, Qin Hui belonged to the out-and-out "main battle faction" during the Northern Song Dynasty.
After he wrote the book, Song Qinzong did not adopt his suggestion, but appointed him as a member of the military department, and also took on official duties and cooperated with the work of the land cutter. Although it was a promotion, Qin Hui did not accept it, believing that this official position did not conform to his political views, and refused to take office many times.
Since then, Qin Hui has been opposed to the imperial court agreeing to the Jin State's land cession plan, although Song Qinzong has not adopted it, but Qin Hui has been promoted, from serving the imperial history to Zuo Si Zhi and then to the imperial history Zhongcheng, becoming the backbone of the main battle faction.
Until the Jin army broke through Bianjing, captured Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, and then returned to the north with a large number of ministers, including Qin Hui, he was detained for nearly three years, which temporarily ended his road to officialdom in the Song Dynasty.
Many people in later generations believe that it was in the three years of living in the Jin State that Qin Hui changed from a main battle faction to the main peace faction, and he returned to the Southern Song Dynasty, which was actually a "spy" sent back to the Southern Song Dynasty by the Jin State.
This kind of reasoning certainly has its logical merits, but we must note that there are many ministers who were captured with Qin Hui, why is Qin Hui the only one who has been "rebelled"?
In fact, Qin Hui was not the main battle faction in the Northern Song Dynasty, nor was he the main peace faction in the Southern Song Dynasty, or the sentence we said at the beginning, he was just a "loyal monarch faction".
At that time, although Song Qinzong was extremely afraid of the Jin army and did not dare to show a tough attitude, he was also unwilling to bear the infamy of "cutting the land and destroying the country", just like his father Song Huizong took the initiative to give way to Song Qinzong in order not to let the Song Dynasty die in his own hands.
Qin Hui just saw this entanglement of Song Qinzong, there were enough lords and factions in the court, and he took the initiative to become a minority of the main battle faction, which was to find out the emperor's mind, although Song Qinzong didn't dare to really harden up, but he still looked at him differently. In fact, it can be seen from Qin Hui's various suggestions that his main battle point is not to "fight back", but to "drag it down".
After Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were captured, the Northern Song Dynasty was declared extinct, and Song Gaozong succeeded to the throne in Yingtianfu and established the Southern Song regime. At this time, Huizong and Qinzong also completely surrendered to the Jin State, and in order to survive, they promised that their children and grandchildren would serve the Jin State as the main one, and Qin Hui became the liaison between the two emperors and the Jin State.
Relying on the relationship with the Jin people, Qin Hui had the opportunity to return to the south, and he soon put forward his first political proposition in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was this proposition that represented him on the road of "seeking glory".
Qin Hui's proposition was simple: the division of the north and the south was to give up the sovereignty of the Song Dynasty in the north and recognize the occupation of the north by the Jin state. Of course, this also required the Jin State to recognize the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty in the south and no longer raise troops to invade the south.
In fact, although the Southern Song Dynasty had been fighting against the Jin soldiers, Song Gaozong, as emperor, had been constantly "touring south", retreating from Yingtianfu (Henan) to Hangzhou. It can be said that although before Qin Hui returned to the south, the most vocal in the court was the "main battle faction", but Zhao Gou, as the supreme leader, was a firm "main peace faction" in his heart.
Qin Hui had a very accurate grasp of Zhao Gou's thoughts, and his first political proposition provided Zhao Gou with the direction of efforts to create a safe ruling environment, so Qin Hui was directly appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, responsible for foreign peace talks, and the next year he was quickly promoted to the same Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, becoming the first person in the Southern Song Dynasty.
At this point, Qin Hui has become a complete "lord and faction", in the more than 20 years of his reign, he has negotiated with Jin many times, betrayed the interests of the Southern Song Dynasty step by step, and even accepted the canonization of the Jin State on behalf of Zhao Gou.
During this period, one of the things that Qin Hui criticized most was that he instigated the emperor to send twelve gold medals in a row to summon Yue Fei on the front line to return to the division, so that the good situation of resisting Jin was ruined, and then he killed Marshal Yue Fei on "trumped-up" charges.
Therefore, some people say that Qin Hui is the spy of the Jin people who put back the Song Dynasty, and after the Jin people could not resist Yue Fei's soldiers, they ordered Qin Hui to make a move and destroy this pillar of the Southern Song Dynasty.
But in fact, Qin Hui did not follow the instructions of the Jin people, but the meaning of Song Gaozong. At that time, although the Jin people repeatedly invaded the south, the actual effect was not as good as before, but was defeated by the Southern Song generals many times, and many lost territories in the Song Dynasty were recovered.
But correspondingly, the strength and influence of the front-line military commanders have also risen sharply, which makes Zhao Gou in the rear feel threatened, especially since the Song Dynasty established the country, there is a sense of distrust of military generals, and the policy of "emphasizing literature over military force" has lasted for hundreds of years. In the emperor's opinion, a corner of peace is acceptable, but the threat of military generals has to be guarded against.
Third, according to historical records, at that time, Yue Fei and other generals also expressed suggestions on the selection of the crown prince, which made the sensitive emperor more and more scruples.
The recall of the front-line generals is not limited to Yue Fei alone, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun and other generals who command the army also recalled the capital in the name of "** Xing Reward", and they rose and descended secretly.
It is clearly recorded in the history books that Yue Fei was framed and killed by the conspiracy of "Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and Zhang Jun" and others, which was a political struggle, not Qin Hui's attempt to comply with the instructions of the Jin people.
It can only be said that in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, the "main peace faction" led by Zhao Gou occupied an absolute advantage, and even if they fought against Jin, it was only to keep the survival of the regime, not the grand goal of "returning the old capital to the north".
Therefore, Qin Hui's actions were actually to curry favor with Zhao Gou and satisfy his idea of continuing to be peaceful in the prosperous south. And because of the relationship with the Jin people, Qin Hui happens to have the ability and channels to reach peace talks with the Jin people, which is the reason why Qin Hui can be powerful.
Our descendants jumped out of the long river of history, and then looked back on the cowardice of the Southern Song Dynasty, and naturally hated Qin Hui's behavior of "seeking glory", and felt sympathy and regret for the heroes who were framed, suppressed and even killed by Qin Hui like Yue Fei.
But what needs to be recognized is that the most worthy of criticism is not Qin Hui as the emperor's "white glove", but Zhao Gou, Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, who really dominated the Southern Song Dynasty court step by step.
Of course, this does not mean that Qin Hui is "whitewashed", in fact, on the road of seeking glory, the two are more like a pair of partners. Song Gaozong expressed his willingness to exchange for stability, while Qin Hui went to the specific operation, and even made Zhao Gou's idea more firm through ***.
Therefore, whether it is Zhao Gou or Qin Hui, their ** are all for their own glory and wealth and temporary stability, perhaps because of this, they were able to live a comfortable life, but let hundreds of people struggle to survive under the ravages of the Jin people, and even ruined the good situation of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the Song Dynasty will always bear the humiliating title of "weak Song".