"The true character of a hero can only be shown when the sea is flowing across the sea" comes from Guo Moruo's "Man Jiang Hong", which means "Only when the rivers and seas are flowing across can the true courage of a hero be shown." In Chinese history, this is what "Yue Fei" was like. The best expression of the sentence.
Yue Fei (March 24, 1103 - January 27, 1142), courtesy name Pengju, was born in Tangyin, Xiangzhou (now Tangyin County, Henan Province). During the Southern Song Dynasty, he was a famous anti-Jin general, militarist, strategist, national hero, calligrapher, and poet, ranking first among the "Four Generals of the ZTE" in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Yue Fei can "draw a bow of three hundred kilograms, a crossbow of eight stones, and can shoot left and right." Later, when Yue Fei was fighting the enemy, he killed the enemy general King Black Wind. Later, the thieves Wang Shan and Cao Cheng gathered troops and horses claiming to be 500,000. Yue Fei's men only had 800, and their soldiers were very scared. At this time, Yue Fei was very calm and said, "I'll break it for everyone." Then he held the bow in his left hand and the spear in his right hand, and charged at the enemy's formation. As a result, Wang Shan's tribe was in chaos, and Yue Fei took advantage of the situation to defeat the enemy.
Since the 1220s, a vigorous national war against the Jin Dynasty has been launched in the north and south of the Yellow River and between the two Huaihe Rivers. Yue Fei, together with Zong Ze and Han Shizhong, the famous anti-Jin generals, stood at the forefront of the anti-Jin struggle.
However, the corrupt ruling group of the Northern Song Dynasty adopted a policy of compromise and surrender. In 1127 (the second year of Jingkang), after Huizong Zhao Ji and Qinzong Zhao Huan were kidnapped, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty took over. The leader, Zhao Gou, is also a capitulator.
He preferred to settle in the south of the Yangtze River, indulging in singing and dancing, and had no real determination and intention to organize the anti-Jin national war and carry it through to the end. The difference was that on the one hand, he trusted Qin Hui and other capitulationists and passed the They came forward to carry out a series of peace talks and surrender activities;
On the one hand, they used anti-war factions such as Zongze, Yue Fei, and Han Shizhong to resist the Jin army's fierce offensive in order to retain his throne as emperor and accumulate the capital to kneel down and sue for peace. In the mid-1220s, after the formation of a military demarcation line between the Song and Jin Dynasties that stretched from Jianghuai in the east to Shaanxi in the west, Zhao Gou and Qin Hui ruled the group.
In fact, it became the biggest stumbling block in the Southern Song Dynasty’s struggle against the Jin Dynasty; in turn, the anti-war factions such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong became the biggest obstacle to the activities of the surrender factions of Zhao Gou and Qin Hui.
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Yue Fei's life was simple
1. Clothing - the whole family wore coarse cloth clothes. His wife Li once wore a silk dress. Yue Fei said: "The queen and the princesses live a hard life in the north. Since you share the joys and sorrows with me, don't wear such fine clothes." From then on, the Li family never wore silk silk for the rest of her life. ?[221]?
2. Food - Once, Hao Gu, the retainer, had a meal, but it happened that there was not a single meat dish. She Gujin brought sour stuffing, and after Yue Fei tasted it, he regarded the rest as "dinner food".
3. Live in a hut and military tent, sharing the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. Emperor Gaozong once wanted to build a mansion for Yue Fei in Hangzhou. Yue Fei declined and said, "The Northern Barbarians are still alive, so why should I take care of my family?"
4. Property - In addition, Yue Fei was not only good at charity, but also often turned his personal interests into public affairs. , using their private property to subsidize the military. Historical records record: "(Yue Fei) was willing to give away wealth, not to cultivate assets, and not to worry about trouble. The earned tin was used to reward the soldiers. If the soldiers were not given food, the food was used in private houses [223]?"
On one occasion, Yue Fei ordered his subordinates to sell off all the items in his "house storehouse", except for the gold items "declared as gifts" by the emperor, and deliver them to military craftsmen to make 2,000 good bows. For military use, "except for the gold vessels that were given to the emperor for preservation, the remaining items were shipped out to pay the military craftsmen to make two thousand bows." When Huang Zong, one of Yue Fei's staff saw it, he reminded Yue Fei not to spend money on official matters.
Huang Zong said: "This weapon is worth the official money." Yue Fei replied calmly: "A few Zhazi begged, and a certain If you want to use it quickly, you can do it yourself. "
5. Rewards - During the war, the Southern Song Dynasty rewarded the army very generously. Yue Fei never took a penny and gave it all to the soldiers. One time, a general was executed for embezzling a reward of silver.
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