Yue Fei, the name of this national hero will always be remembered. His "Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing." The hatred of the courtiers, when will it be extinguished" became the regret of his life, and it was also the fuse for the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty regime.
For thousands of years, those real murderers who murdered Yue Fei bowed their heads and bowed their backs in front of Yue Fei's tomb, kneeling on the ground to accept the blame and spurning of the world.
Who is kneeling in front of Yue Fei's tomb? How did they frame Yue Fei? What has changed? At present, what we see in front of Yue Fei's tomb are only four stone statues kneeling on both sides, namely Qin Hui and his wife, Wan Qiaowei and Zhang Jun.
However, there is another person who has been scolded by the world with them, and he is Luo Ruji. During the Yongzheng period, when Li Wei was ordered to recast the bronze statue, he was removed.
According to historical records, the reason why Li Wei removed the bronze statue of Luo Ruji was because he believed that Luo Ruji, as one of Qin Hui's minions, participated in the framing of Yue Fei.
As a result, only the bronze statues of the remaining four are seen today. Although the bronze statue of Luo Ruji was removed, this does not mean that his crimes will be forgotten. In order to frame Yue Fei, Qin Hui tried his best, and many courtiers, including Luo Ruji, wrote to Zhao Gou, demanding that Yue Fei be severely punished.
Luo Ruji and He Zhu were originally Qin Hui's henchmen, but they understood Yue Fei's grievances in their hearts, but they deliberately framed Yue Fei in order to cater to Qin Hui. At that time, Yue Fei's case was handed over to Dali Temple for review, and Luo Ruji and He Zhu were the presiding judges.
However, He Zhu was moved by Yue Fei's fierce loyalty, so he betrayed Qin Hui, not only running around, trying his best to avenge Yue Fei, and even offending Qin Hui.
For the sake of his future, Luo Ruji did not hesitate to frame Yue Fei, and his degree of drilling was breathtaking. Although his bronze statue was removed, his deeds will forever be recorded in history.
In 1141 AD, the Jin ** team invaded south again and occupied Shouchun, Luzhou and other places. The famous generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, such as Shao Long, Wang De, and Guan Shigu, led the resistance and won every battle.
Then, Yang Yizhong won another major victory in Tuogao. Seeing that the Yue family army was about to expel the Jin ** team in one go, Yue Fei and the others received an order from the imperial court to withdraw their troops.
They can only return according to their will. After returning to the imperial court, Yue Fei again wrote to Zhao Gou, hoping to order the army to continue the attack, but his anti-Jin proposal was strongly opposed by the Qin Hui group.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, two completely different views emerged, the main battle faction represented by Yue Fei and the peace faction represented by Qin Hui. However, Zhao Gou finally chose Qin Hui's proposal to seek peace and sent an envoy to the Jin State to sue for peace.
This decision caused dissatisfaction among many generals in the imperial court, and Yue Fei was one of them. The fire of Yue Fei's case was ignited at this time, and as the soul of Yue Jiajun, his presence not only made Jin Ren feel threatened, but also made Zhao Gou feel uneasy.
Because since ancient times, the emperor was most taboo that the military generals had strong military power, especially Yue Fei at that time won the hearts of the people, therefore, when later historians studied the cause of Yue Fei's death, it was generally believed that although Qin Hui and others were indeed responsible for his death, the emperor's mind undoubtedly played a key role, so Yue Fei's death could be carried out so smoothly.
In October of the same year, Yue Fei was unjustly framed on charges of treason. Qin Hui used his power to first send people to fabricate charges, and then bribed the ** of the court, asking them to severely punish Yue Fei.
After He Zhu's betrayal, Qin Hui arranged for Wan Qiaowei to take over the position of the chief judge and continue to frame Yue Fei. At the same time, Qin Hui bribed Yue Fei's colleague Zhang Jun, and together they falsely accused Yue Fei and his subordinate Zhang Xian of being disobedient.
By November, Song-Kim's peace talks had finally come to fruition. However, Qin Hui was dissatisfied with Yue Fei's repeated obstruction of peace talks, so he asked the emperor to kill Yue Fei on the grounds that Yue Fei had said that "he and Taizu were both thirty years old and appointed as envoys of Jiedu", and that Yue Fei was guilty of not saving Huaixi.
Subsequently, Yue Fei and his subordinates were secretly poisoned in prison.
In 1161 AD, the Jin people treacherously waved their troops south, and the Southern Song court was forced to hastily gather troops and horses to resist. This war allowed the long-excluded generals of the main battle faction to gain the right to speak in the imperial court again.
Although Qin Hui has been dead for six years, people's resentment against him has not subsided. The loyal military generals of the court and the central government played one after another, asking Song Gaozong Zhao Gou to be able to recruit Yue Fei Zhaoxue and his descendants, so as to stimulate the morale of the loyal ministers and righteous men in the world.
Under the increasingly strong military pressure and main battle, Zhao Gou had to show the posture of Ming Jun again. On October 28 of the same year, Zhao Gou issued an edict announcing that the family members of Yue Fei and Zhang Xian, who were detained in Lingnan and Fujian, would be "lifted and banished."
Although the imperial court has not yet issued a formal rehabilitation order, people with a keen sense of politics already have a hunch that this day will not be too far away. In June of the following year, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou abdicated and was succeeded by Song Xiaozong Zhao Tuan.
Unlike Gaozong, Zhao Tuan has always had the ambition to recover the northern lands of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he has always deeply regretted Yue Fei, who advocated resistance to Jin.
After Zhao Tuan succeeded to the throne, for the great cause of the Northern Expedition and in order to give Yue Fei and others who had been wronged for 20 years an explanation, he immediately ordered Yue Fei's official position to be restored and buried with ceremonies. This move marks the rehabilitation of Yue Fei's case.
After that, the imperial court took a series of actions, such as restoring Yue Fei's official title and the title of Li, restoring the official position of Yue Fei's deceased son, and restoring the official position of Yue Fei's surviving son.
In the period of Song Ningzong, Yue Fei was posthumously named the king of Hubei, and the prince of Qin Hui was also posthumously taken away and changed to a fallacious ugly. With the efforts of the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei's case was almost completely rehabilitated.
Qin Hui and the others were also nailed to the pillar of shame of the ministers forever.
Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, was framed to death, which became a pain in the hearts of loyal and righteous people. As a result, Qin Hui and others became the public enemies of people with lofty ideals, and they were deeply hated.
During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, Li Long, the commander of Zhejiang, admired Yue Fei and was full of resentment towards Qin Hui and others who framed Yue Fei.
In order to warn future generations, Li Longji had the bronze statues of Qin Hui and Wan Qiao, and made them kneel with their heads bowed, and their hands and feet were tied behind their backs as punishment. These three people were hated by the people, and everyone who came to Yue Fei's tomb to worship would spit and kick the bronze statue, and by the Wanli period, the bronze statue had been dilapidated.
Therefore, Fan Lai, as the deputy envoy of Zhejiang, decided to recast and add a bronze statue of Zhang Jun. Although Zhang Jun's official position is not high, as Yue Fei's colleague, he betrayed his promise, took refuge in Qin Hui, and gave perjury to frame Yue Fei, which directly led to Yue Fei's unjust death.
He should have knelt in front of Yue Fei's tomb and accepted the scolding of the world.
The five bronze statues in front of Yue Fei's tomb have witnessed the changes of history and the ups and downs of people's feelings. The changes in the bronze statue include both war and destruction, as well as people's pursuit of justice and fairness.
In the end, only the bronze statues of Qin Hui and his wife, Wan Qiaowei and Zhang Jun have survived to this day, because they were direct participants in framing Yue Fei, and their crimes cannot be ignored. Qin Hui was the mastermind of Yue Fei's unjust case, and his wife Wang also played a role in fueling the troubles.
Their crimes made the world spurned, and they could only kneel in front of Yue Fei's tomb to accept the condemnation. And the other three, although they were also one of the promoters of framing Yue Fei, their crimes were relatively light, and they were not tried harshly like Qin Hui and his wife.
So, in the long river of history, what is the final fate of these five figures?First of all, Qin Hui and his wife. Although Qin Hui was praised by history as a minister, he flourished during his lifetime until 1155 AD, the fourth year after Yue Fei was wronged, Qin Hui died of illness.
At that time, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou was still in power, and his trust in Qin Hui never wavered, even after Yue Fei's death. Until Song Xiaozong succeeded to the throne, in order to calm the dispute between the DPRK and China and stabilize the morale of the army, Song Xiaozong rehabilitated Yue Fei, but Qin Hui was not affected in any way.
After Song Ningzong succeeded to the throne, he deprived Qin Hui of his title and changed him to a very ironic nickname, which was ugly. As one of the "Four Generals of Zhongxing" on the same level as Yue Fei, Zhang Jun was a famous archer in the army at the age of 16, participated in many battles, and finally supported Zhao Gou to be the emperor in Nanjing, he can be said to be one of Zhao Gou's henchmen.
Zhang Jun was the main battle faction in the court, and like Yue Fei, he advocated fighting for the country, but when Yue Fei was wronged, he took refuge in Qin Hui and provided false testimony for framing Yue Fei.
Historians speculate that he may have done so to cling to Qin Hui, or he may have been hinted at by the emperor. However, these are only speculations, and there are no specific historical sources as evidence.
When Yue Fei's case was rehabilitated, although Zhang Jun had framed Yue Fei, he was not dealt with because he was still an indispensable general in the court. After Song Xiaozong succeeded to the throne, he ordered Zhang Jun to be the chief general of the Northern Expedition.
Unfortunately, in this Northern Expedition, Zhang Jun failed to recover the lost territory, but returned defeated. Despite this, he was still favored by Song Gaozong in his later years.
Zhang Jun died of illness in 1154 and was posthumously named King Xun, nicknamed "Zhonglie", which indicates that he was not punished for framing Yue Fei during his lifetime, but lived a smooth life.
After Yue Fei's death, he was promoted to the governor of the government and was reused by the imperial court. However, with the rise of his official position, the contradiction between him and Qin Hui deepened, and he was finally demoted to Guizhou because he angered Qin Hui.
After Qin Hui's death, Wan Qiao's was once again enabled by the imperial court and served as the right servant of Shangshu. After his death, he was posthumously given the title of "Zhongjing", which is undoubtedly a highly ironic title.
Although Yue Fei passed away, Luo Ruji was promoted all the way, and finally even promoted to the secretary of the ministry, and finally died as an old man. It can be said that after Yue Fei's death, almost no one was punished, and even promoted one by one, perhaps this is why the descendants set up the bronze statues of these people in front of Yue Fei's tomb.
The sins they could not pay for during their lifetime will continue to be paid after they die. The grievances of loyal ministers will be cleared up, and the notoriety of traitors will be recorded in history forever.