When I was a child, my understanding of Yue Fei's story was actually very simple. Yue Fei is invincible, Qin Gui is evil, and Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou are incompetent. It's that simple.

Later, when I was a little older, I found that this was not the case. In fact, Qin Gui is not important. Although he knelt in front of Wang Yue's grave, it was Emperor Zhao Gou who really played a decisive role.

First, on the surface, Yue Fei wanted to welcome Er Sheng back, but the Emperor had no choice but to kill Yue Fei, but this was not the case.

A deeper reading of history books may be such an impression, because Emperor Gaozong was afraid that Yue Fei would go straight to Huanglong House to welcome the two saints back to the DPRK. The two emperors are back. What would he do? In order to keep the throne, he destroyed the Great Wall and killed Yue Fei. Actually, it's not like that at all.

Secondly, as a matter of fact, welcoming the "two saints" to North Zhao Gou was put forward by Emperor himself.

Yue Fei is not an idiot. He really wants to welcome the "double saints" back to replace the emperor. He's not that stupid. When Yue Fei sent troops, he specially wrote such a note on the play list of Emperor Zhao Gou, entitled "Welcome to the DPRK at an early date". What does this mean? That is, I just brought back the emperor's relatives. It turned out that they all said that they would welcome the "double saints". He deliberately changed the word "Tian Ju", which shows that Yue Fei has such a political mind.

Even if Qin Zong comes back, will it pose a threat to the status of Emperor Zhao Gou? You can't threaten Zhao Gou if you don't have the power to appoint or dismiss troops and courtiers. Don't Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou understand? Then why did he insist on killing Yue Fei?

Third, fighting is for logistics and food. The financial situation was difficult at that time. It is a question whether we can support Yue Fei to attack Huanglong House.

The Northern Song Dynasty was very rich and powerful. The richest time was the Song Shenzong era, with an annual income of about 60 million yuan. But when the Song Dynasty was in turmoil, the central government's tax revenue was only 6.5438+million yuan. It was not until the middle of the12nd century that the financial revenue of the Southern Song government recovered to the level of 60 million yuan. But do you know what Yue Fei's military expenditure was at that time? This army alone costs 7 million a year, so the emperor basically swept all the warehouses at home for him.

Song Gaozong was a very diligent emperor, and his palace was not as grand and luxurious as he imagined. It is said that the main hall of his palace often changes its brand and name because there are not so many palaces.

Fourthly, Yue Fei's character led to the emperor's suspicion, which was one of the reasons why he had to die.

If we know that we can't win, who is the main enemy of Emperor Zhao Gou? Not Qin Hui, nor Jin Wushu, but Yue Fei himself. Because you are good at fighting, you have mastered almost five-seventh of the country's military strength. If you win in the end, you won't be the emperor. Who will be the emperor?

Of course, we all think that Yue Fei is a loyal minister now, with words tattooed on his back. The emperor also wrote four words for him, "Loyal to the King and Yue Fei". On his deathbed, he was advised not to object. How could he be the greatest enemy of Emperor Gaozong? The emperor thinks so too. Once the emperor said that Yue Fei was still a loyal minister. Qin Gui beside said, yes, yue fei is a loyal minister. Isn't our great-grandfather Zhao Kuangyin also a loyal minister of the Zhou Dynasty?

In other words, even if you don't oppose Yue Fei, you have mastered five-sevenths of the national military strength. In the future, if you win your hometown again, you will even welcome the remains of Emperor Qin Hui back. If you are such a famous person and you don't object, your brothers will make you object.

Everyone must say that Yue Fei does not love money, is not close to women, is famous, can write some words, has a good image, and the literati class also likes him. If the emperor doesn't trust him, he can still seize military power. Why did you kill him?

Many contemporary historians often emphasize Yue Fei's character when analyzing why he died. Yue Fei's personality is really a bit bad-especially stubborn. This stubbornness is called domineering in the emperor's view. Here are a few concrete examples.

1, Yue Fei and Emperor Zhao Gou spend their honeymoon. At first, Zhao Gou thought that this young man was too capable and personally promoted Yue Fei from a very low-level military attache to our time, when Yue Fei was less than 30 years old. Yue Fei also told everyone that there were only two people under the age of 30 in Song Dynasty, one was Mao and the other was me. How can you say that, right? He just talks nonsense in private.

Yue Fei and Song Gaozong initially fell out in Shaoxing for seven years. What happened that year? Liu Guangshi, one of the four famous soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty, really didn't want to fight. He wanted to hand over his army to the imperial court and go home to support the elderly. At that time, Emperor Zhao Gou said that the army would be handed over to Yue Fei. In this way, Yue Fei has five-seventh of the troops in the world. Zhao Gou later went back on his word, fearing that Yue Fei would rebel one day and could not control it. Yue Fei enjoys it here, thinking about how to recover my homeland and return my rivers and mountains with so many troops every day.

Zhao Gou repented and told him: Liu Guangshi's army is no longer yours, it is directly under the central government. Yue Fei is very unhappy. Whether she wants to come or not, she will quit. Why are you going? Go straight back to Lushan, because his old mother was buried in Lushan. Stay in Lushan and do nothing. No matter what your court calls me, I won't go back. Zhao Gou wrote him countless passionate letters, one by one floating to Lushan Mountain, but Yue Fei ignored them anyway. Later, when Zhao Gou stopped talking, he called two old subordinates of Yue Fei, one named Li Rexu and the other named Wang Gui, and said that you two were going to Lushan Mountain to invite him, but if you couldn't come down, you would both be killed. The two old people will run to Lushan Mountain to meet Yue Fei. Yue Fei was still tough at first, and Li finally said something to him: Do you really think you can turn against the court? Say that finish this sentence, yue fei sweating, immediately down the mountain.

After going down the mountain, admit your mistake to Emperor Gaozong, write an apology letter and say that the emperor should not be angry. Gaozong said I'm not angry. Why am I angry? If I am really angry, I will touch you. Do you know how I moved you? Emperor Mao has a saying that "the only thing that confuses our laws is the sword". I'm not angry. If I am really angry with you, I will kill you. This is the first time that two people have turned against each other.

3. Yue Fei was worried about the prince and made a big taboo for his supporters!

Falling out again is also a matter of Yue Fei's personality. He is always worried about setting up a prince for the emperor. When Zhao Gou escaped from the Nomads, it was said that he was frightened and left behind a disease similar to impotence, so he had no offspring. Later, he raised two grandchildren of Song Taizu, one named Zhao Bocong and the other named Zhao Bojiu, as alternate heirs, but he did not establish a crown prince for a long time.

Yue Fei said that you should make that Zhao Bocong a prince. Yue Fei still has some brains and won't let others participate in this matter of establishing a prince. I hid in the cabin and wrote a paper, and then I ran there to read it to the emperor. As a result, the emperor looked at him coldly when reading the letter. Suddenly, a cold wind blew the letter to the ground, and Yue Fei trembled and sweated. He also thinks it's too much. Finally, Emperor Gaozong told him that this kind of thing is the responsibility of a military commander in charge of the army like you. If you are a civil servant, you may still love your country. What do you mean by saying this as a military commander?

You know, it's a big deal to establish a prince in the feudal dynasty. To put it bluntly, this is called futures speculation. At this time, do you think Zhao Bocong is a prince? When he becomes emperor, you will have the right to establish yourself. Therefore, in the past, the question of who should be a prince was the most serious and untouchable topic in the palace.

There is something wrong with Yue Fei's personality, but can it really lead to his being killed again? Not yet! Because the Song Dynasty was, after all, a good regime for the literati, why kill it? Why not simply deprive the army of its power? This brings us to the politics of the Song Dynasty.

Fifth, the rigid politics of the Song Dynasty-this is the fundamental reason why Yue Fei must die.

The politics of the Song Dynasty completed the awakening of the scholar-bureaucrat class in the Northern Song Dynasty. When Song Taizong, like Emperor Taizong, saw so many candidates, he felt that all the heroes in the world had fallen into my trap and been used by me. But then there was a clear concept, called "emperors and literati rule the world".

At this time, the power of the scholar-officials began to become the dominant force of the imperial court, but at the same time, it also exposed a defect of China people, that is, the scholar-officials were based on their own desires, and they insisted on fighting for the party. The most typical example is Wang Anshi's political reform. The two schools of scholars really have you and me. Let's talk about factions instead of right and wrong. As long as you are not on my side, you are wrong about everything. After the failure of Wang Anshi's political reform, Sima Guang abolished all new laws on his first day in office. At that time, Wang Anshi said in Nanjing that some laws are obviously effective, why should they be abolished? This is no longer a specific policy debate.

After Wang Anshi's political reform, the Song Dynasty reversed itself to engage in party struggle. When one faction comes to power, it will be completely trampled down, and when it comes to power, it will be completely trampled down. Therefore, the politics of the whole Song Dynasty is a politics that has lost its flexibility.

In the period of Zhao Gou and Yue Fei, this elasticity became very fragile. At that time, there were only two factions in the imperial court, one advocated peace and the other advocated the main battle. Are pacifists necessarily traitors? Not necessarily, just a group of scholar-officials around the Qin Gui route. As for hawks, are they all anti-gold stars and officials who seek the country? Not necessarily.

In the ancient politics of China, those who really dare to say "My Lord is safe" should not only have political wisdom, but also have moral responsibility. This responsibility is often not the emperor himself. You are like Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, you finally want to negotiate with Hou Jin. You just sent someone to talk in private, and word got out, so he had to kill this man. The emperor also dare not advocate and factions.

Go back to Yue Fei. Now that the country's big plan has been decided, we must live in peace with Xu Jin, and there is no third way, so let the hawks shut up. Only by killing Yue Fei can others be honest. At that time, Han Shizhong had begun to think behind closed doors, and it was useless to kill him. Peace still cannot be the main policy of this country. "Fighting for the country" became the final result of the lack of political flexibility in the Song Dynasty. So Yue Fei must die.