There is a very interesting record in the historical materials. After the death of the master of Qin, Emperor Gaozong said: From now on, I will never have to hide a dagger in my boots. Qin Gui is obviously just a small minister. As a monarch and emperor, how can you be so afraid?
In fact, Qin Gui had already entered the official career as early as the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, Qin Gui was not a pacifist, but a very bloody hawk. Qin Gui was very pessimistic about the way of reparations in the Northern Song Dynasty, so he ascended the throne with the emperor at that time for many times. At first, Qin Gui was an ambitious and ambitious young man.
When did Qin Gui start to change? Mainly out of the shame of Jingkang, they were also abducted by the Jin people and went north together. But after a while, he and his wife Wang returned to the Southern Song Dynasty. How did he get back? Qin Gui's own explanation is that he killed the nomads from the guard, found his family and robbed a boat, so he rowed all the way back.
But Qin Gui's statement is obviously a little unreasonable. After all, it's hard to beat four hands. How did Qin Gui attack the nomads from here? Let's put it aside. We can say how this kind of escape can not attract nomads from here, and how can we successfully find our families without causing riots? According to records, when Qin Gui returned to the Southern Song Dynasty, he brought a lot of money with him. If Qin Gui really thinks he is a simple prisoner, how can he have so much money? So in a word, Qin Gui must have been put back on purpose, and Xu Jinguo didn't detain Qin Gui's family and gave Qin Gui a lot of money, which shows Xu Jinguo's trust in Qin Gui.
Later, after Qin Gui returned to the Southern Song Dynasty, he began to continue his career. At this time, Qin Gui has completely become the spokesman of Xu Jinguo in the Southern Song Dynasty, a person who completely played for Xu Jinguo, instead of thinking about the members of the hawk faction in the Southern Song Dynasty. Don't just rely on Qin Gui's statement that he came back from Xu Jinguo that Qin Gui was a spy sent back from Xu Jinguo? In fact, Qin Gui's return from Xu Jin is not just a simple question.
In the third year of Shaoxing, after the Song-Jin War, the Southern Song Dynasty dealt a great blow to the Jin Army. At this time, the State of Jin asked the Southern Song Dynasty to send ministers to the State of Jin to make peace. At that time, the condition put forward by the state of Jin was to ask the Southern Song Dynasty to return the prisoners of the Puppet Qi and those who migrated from the northwest to the Southern Song Dynasty. From then on, Jin and Song Dynasties took the Yangtze River as the boundary, the north of the Yangtze River was decided by the Jin State, and the south of the Yangtze River was the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty.
In fact, this condition was put forward before Xu Jinguo proposed making peace. The man was none other than Qin Gui and Qin Taishi who came back from Xu Jinguo not far from Wan Li. The surname Qin once suggested that the north belongs to the north and the south belongs to the south. At that time, Zhao Gou was very angry. At that time, he reprimanded Qin Gui and said, What about me or a northerner? where am I going?
Obviously, harmony is the same meaning, and the most interesting thing is that after this negotiation, the Jin people told the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty that if there was anything they didn't understand, it wouldn't be troublesome to run back and forth in an uncertain period. Just talk to Qin Gui directly. Qin Gui knows what we think. It is obvious that Qin Gui is from Xu Jinguo, Qin Gui is the representative of Xu Jinguo in the Southern Song Dynasty, and what Qin Gui said can represent Xu Jinguo. This not only directly pointed out Qin Gui's status as the spokesman of Xu Jinguo, but also established a certain position for Qin Gui in the Southern Song Dynasty, which made Zhao Gou afraid of three points.
Since then, Qin Gui has even gained a foothold in the Southern Song Dynasty. After eight years in Shaoxing, Zhao Gou appointed Qin Gui as prime minister, who was in charge of peace talks. At this time, not to mention the governors, even the people in the Southern Song Dynasty began to protest, saying that Qin Gui was a masterpiece. How can Zhao Gou not know what ordinary people know? Zhao Gou just has no choice.
This is why Qin Gui can kill Yue Fei, and why even Zhao Gou is afraid of Qin Gui.
Later, when Xu Jinguo was in Shaoxing for ten years, he wanted to send troops to attack the Southern Song Dynasty. This time, Zhao Gou sent Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and Yue Fei to attack Xu Jinguo. At this time, Song Jun was already very strong. With the blessing of several generals, the Southern Song Dynasty was not the Southern Song Dynasty that was once trampled upon. And 8 jin j is no longer the brave 8 jin j at the beginning, so in this battle of Jinsong, 8 jin j was beaten out of the water by Song Jun. At this time, Xu Jinjun finally began to face the reality and gradually realized that he really couldn't beat the Southern Song Dynasty, so Xu Jin took the initiative to make peace.
This time, the peace talks have new conditions for the state of Jin. The first is to severely punish military commanders. "You must kill flies before you can make peace"; The second is that you can't go to the prime minister without guilt. The first point is actually aimed at the military commanders in the Southern Song Dynasty. In fact, you can kill any military commander at that time, not necessarily Yue Fei. The second point was made by Qin Gui, a quasi-team, which means that the Southern Song Dynasty court could not deprive Qin Gui of his power without guilt. This has greatly contributed to Qin Gui's superiority, and Qin Gui's position in North Korea has reached the point where even Zhao Gou dare not touch him.
How can Qin Gui, who has come to this, take the blame for Zhao Gou? Then why on earth did Qin Gui kill Yue Fei? In fact, it is also very simple, because Yue Fei touched the interests of Xu Jin. As long as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others were around, Xu Jin would feel very dangerous, so Xu Jin asked the Southern Song Dynasty to dispose of the military commanders in the Southern Song Dynasty.
That this military commander is certainly not Yue Fei, but someone else's line. In fact, the first choice is not Yue Fei at all, but Han Shizhong. But on the way to Zhao Gou to send Yue Fei to Han Shizhong, Yue Fei first told Han Shizhong and tipped off Han Shizhong, so in the end Han Shizhong had a countermeasure. He took the initiative to show weakness to the emperor and cried, saying that I didn't want to quit. Finally, Zhao Gou relented at the last minute and defected, so he didn't kill Han Shizhong.
Since Han Shizhong can't kill, but Qin Gui must also give Xu Jinguo an account, who else can he kill? It can only be Yue Fei. However, due to Han Shizhong's warning, Qin Gui was very afraid that Zhao Gou would rebel again at the last minute, so he simply killed Yue Fei in prison. Qin Gui was worried about Yue Fei's death, but he didn't follow this process at all. If he had followed the procedure, Dali Temple would not have sentenced Yue Fei to death.
Most importantly, in the Song Dynasty, whether in the Southern Song Dynasty or the Northern Song Dynasty, the death penalty was rare. Exile at best. Yue Fei is only exiled at most, not a capital crime. Therefore, in order to avoid being late, Qin Gui simply struck first and killed Yue Fei.
Generally speaking, Qin Gui won't be a backpacker, because Qin Gui's power is enough to make Zhao Gou fear, Qin Gui's practice is not to obey Zhao Gou's will at all, and Yue Fei is not a mortal to Zhao Gou, but Yue Fei really must die here in Qin Gui, otherwise he can't explain to Xu Jinguo.
Whether Qin Gui is a spy or not is not clearly recorded, but it can be confirmed from historical data that Qin Gui is definitely on the United front with Xu Jinguo, and their interests are bound to each other. Qin Gui definitely got what he deserved.