In the eleventh year of Shaoxing (1141), the Jin State was unable to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty and prepared to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty again. Song Ting took the opportunity to suppress the generals with heavy troops, especially Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, who firmly advocated resistance to the Jin Dynasty. Wanyan Wushu said in a letter to Qin Hui, "Yue Fei must be killed, and then peace can be achieved."
In April, three generals, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei, were transferred from the army and served in the Lin'an Privy Council.
In May, when Zhang Jun and Yue Fei inspected Han Shizhong's army in Chuzhou, they secretly instigated Yue Fei and wanted to break up the army together, but Fei seriously refused. Qin Hui wanted to frame Han Shizhong again, but Yue Fei saved Han Shizhong again. After Yue Fei returned to the court, he was impeached by Qin Hui's party members Wan Qixi and Luo Ruji. They slandered Fei for aiding Huaixi and advocated "abandoning the defense of Shanyang (Chuzhou)", and demanded that Yue Fei be removed from the post of deputy privy envoy. On August 9, Yue Fei was dismissed as Deputy Privy Envoy and assumed the idle post of "Wanshou Guan Envoy". Yue Fei asked himself to return to his old residence in Lushan, Jiangzhou to rest.
Yue Fei had no troops and no power at this time, but the persecution against him was still pressing step by step. Under Qin Hui's instruction, Zhang Jun took advantage of the internal contradictions in the Yue family's army, coerced and induced Wang Gui, the commander-in-chief, and Wang Jun, the deputy commander-in-chief, to first accuse Zhang Xian of "rebellion", and then implicated Yue Fei.
Zhang Jun set up a private court and tortured Zhang Xian to extract a confession. With no results, he actually fabricated Zhang Xian's confession "in order to collect Yue Fei's writings to conspire against him." Yue Fei's stay in Jiangzhou was only a short time, and he received an order from the Song Dynasty to call him back to Lin'an Prefecture. On October 13, Yue Fei was thrown into prison at Dali Temple (originally located near today's Xiaoche Bridge in Hangzhou). His eldest son Yue Yun had also been imprisoned before.
Yue Fei faced the interrogation righteously and sternly, and revealed the old tattoo on his back with the four characters "Serve the country with all his loyalty". The presiding judge He Zhu was moved when he saw this. He Zhu found out about Yue's injustice and reported it to Qin Hui truthfully. But Qin Hui said: "This is what Zhao Gou wants!" He changed his order to Wan Qixi to be the chief judge of the case. Wan Qixi tried his best, but couldn't make Yue Fei and the others submit a single move. Yue Fei would rather die than falsely accuse himself, and even went on a hunger strike to protest. With the care of his son Yue Lei, he could barely survive.
On the seventh day of November, the "Shaoxing Peace Agreement" between the Song and Jin Dynasties was reached: the Song Dynasty would become a minister to the Jin Dynasty, all the land north of the Huaihe River would be assigned to the Jin Kingdom, and an annual tribute of 250,000 silver and silk would be paid to the Jin Dynasty. Two horses. Although the peace agreement was reached, Yue Fei was never released. Wan Qixi et al. failed to coerce a confession. In order to ensure that he was unjustly imprisoned, he searched for Yue Fei and Luo Zhi on several charges such as "criticizing Cheng Yu" and "sitting aside to watch the outcome", in an attempt to convict Fei Yishu of a capital crime.
Li Ruopu and He Yanyou, the prime ministers of Dali Temple, argued that Fei was not guilty and tried their best to dispute with Wan Qixi, so they were both dismissed from office. Liu Yunsheng, a commoner, wrote a letter to redress Fei's grievances and was executed in Dali Temple. Han Shizhong, who was out of work, questioned Qin Hui about Yue Fei's imprisonment. Qin Hui replied: "Although Fei Ziyun and Zhang Xianshu are unknown, the details of their affairs are unnecessary." Han Shizhong said angrily: "My lord, how can you serve the world with the words 'no need to have'?"
On December 29, the eleventh year of Shaoxing (January 27, 1142), Song Gaozong Zhao Gou issued an order: "Yue Fei is specially granted death. Zhang Xian and Yue Yun also implemented the order in accordance with military law. Yang Yizhong was beheaded, but many soldiers were still sent to protect him. "
Yue Fei was killed in Dali Temple Prison (there is no record of "Fengbo Pavilion" in Song Dynasty historical materials) at the age of 39; Yue Yunhe was 39 years old. Zhang Xian was beheaded. There were only eight final words left in Yue Fei's confession: "The sky is clear, the sky is clear!"
When the news of Yue Fei's death came out, the people cried for it; the news spread to the Kingdom of Jin, and the Kingdom of Jin The ministers drank wine to celebrate this and said: "The peace agreement has been solidified from now on!"
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Yue Fei (March 24, 1103 - January 27, 1142) ), courtesy name Pengju, was born in Tangyin County, Xiangzhou during the Song Dynasty (now Tangyin County, Henan Province). He was a famous general in the fight against the Jin Dynasty. He was a famous military strategist, strategist, calligrapher, poet, anti- Jin Dynasty hero and national hero in Chinese history. He ranked among the Zhongxing soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty The first of the four generals.
Yue Fei joined the army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. From the second year of Jianyan (1128) when he met Zongze to the eleventh year of Shaoxing (1141), he led his Yue Family Army to fight against the Jin Army. Hundreds of battles, big and small. In the first year of Jingkang (1126), Yue Fei was recruited to join Zhao Gou's army in Xiangzhou as the generalissimo. When the Jin army marched south to the south of the Yangtze River, Yue Fei stood out and persisted in resisting the Jin army and regaining Jiankang.
In the third year of Shaoxing (1133), he was appointed as the envoy along the river. He never forgot to recover the Central Plains. In the spring of the following year, Yue Fei regained the six counties of Xiangyang.
In the sixth year of Shaoxing (1136), he led the Northern Expedition and successfully captured Yi, Luo, Shang, Guo and other prefectures. People in the two rivers rushed to tell each other, and rebels from all over the country responded.
In the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140), Wanyan Wushu destroyed the alliance and attacked the Song Dynasty. Yue Fei sent his troops to the northern expedition and recovered Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places. He also defeated the Jin army in Yancheng and Yingchang and marched into Zhu. Fairy town. However, Zhao Gou and Qin Hui insisted on seeking peace and ordered Yue Fei to lead his troops with twelve "gold-character plaques".
He was framed by Qin Hui, Zhang Jun and others and imprisoned. In January 1142, Yue Fei was killed along with his eldest son Yue Yun and general Zhang Xian on trumped-up charges. During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei was rehabilitated and reburied in Qixialing by the West Lake. He was given the posthumous title of Wu Mu, and later he was given the posthumous title of Zhong Wu and was granted the title of King of E.
Yue Fei attached great importance to the people's strength to resist the Jin Dynasty and created the "Linking Heshuo" strategy, advocating that the civilian anti-Jin Dynasty rebels north of the Yellow River and the Song army cooperate with each other to attack the Jin army to regain lost ground. Yue Fei managed the army with clear rewards and punishments, strict discipline, and he was also considerate of his subordinates and led by example. There is a popular saying among the Jin people: "It is easy to shake a mountain, but it is difficult to shake Yue's army."
Yue Fei's representative poem "Man Jiang Hong·Writing Feelings" is a famous patriotic poem that has been passed down through the ages. Later generations compiled another collection and handed it down.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yue Fei