As for Yue Fei, The History of the Song Dynasty compiled by the Yuan Dynasty has a fair evaluation: since the Western Han Dynasty, if Han, Peng, Jiang and Guan were the generals, there were many replacements, and it is rare for a generation to ask him to be as versatile as Song. According to the history books, Guan Yunchang was familiar with the study of Zuo Shi in the Spring and Autumn Period, but he had never seen his articles. Flying to the Northern Expedition, the army arrived in Zhuxian Town of the Capital of Song Dynasty, and there was a letter for the troops. Advice comes from the heart, which really has the wind of Zhu Gekongming. Soldiers died at the hands of Qin Gui. Gaifei and Ji are not in harmony, so that if the princess succeeds, she can recover the revenge of gold and the shame of Song Dynasty. If you succeed, you will fly to death. Yesterday, Liu Song killed Tan Daoji and Dao Ji went to prison. He said angrily, "You are destroying the Great Wall of Wan Li!" The emperor forbeared to abandon the original, so forbeared to kill the fly, alas! Alas!
In modern times, there are two popular views on the cause of Yue Fei's tragic death, both of which were refuted by Deng Guangming. First of all, he thought that Zhang Han, Liu Yue and other generals were very bossy, and it was difficult to control them in the Southern Song Dynasty. In order to curb this situation and improve the central government's control over generals, Yue Fei's murder is an example.
This view, in fact, is tantamount to saying that Yue Fei's murder was entirely self-inflicted, and there is nothing wrong with it. This is cheering for Qin Gui and Zhao Gou's crime of killing national heroes. This is an absurd argument! Some military commanders in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty were indeed arrogant, but Yue Fei's style was not like that. If it is really to set an example for the prevention and control of military commanders, Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun should be cleaned up most, and there is no reason to kill Yue Fei. Today, I want to talk about Yue Fei. This is obviously a conspiracy and has nothing to do with sanctions against military commanders.
Secondly, it is considered that Yue Fei was killed because he often shouted the slogan "Welcome to the Two Saints" (Emperor Qin Hui), which is deeply taboo for Zhao Gou. In the Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhiming said in the poem "Man Jiang Hong", "If you are bereaved, where does this body belong?" And "What can a smile do? You can do whatever you want? " It has been quoted so far. In fact, such an explanation is not in line with historical reality.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Southern Song regime, the slogan of "Welcome the Two Saints and Return to Beijing Que" was indeed often shouted by everyone who advocated resisting gold by force, and Yue Fei was one of them. However, after 1 135, Song Huizong had died in the cities of five kingdoms of Xu Jinguo. At this time, the nobles of the country often claimed to send their sons back to Kaifeng and re-canonize them as the Song Emperor, in order to intimidate the pseudo-harmony in the Southern Song Dynasty, killing two birds with one stone. In this case, if we still emphasize the idea of welcoming Qin Zong, it would be tantamount to being the enemy's yes-man, and cooperating with the enemy through actions, which is of course absolutely unacceptable to Yue Fei. Therefore, from 1 136, Yue Fei no longer welcomes Qin Zong on any occasion. Therefore, it is nonsense to think that Yue Fei was killed by Zhao Gou because he advocated welcoming Qin Zong.
Yue Fei's death is another tragic ending of the sharp struggle between the anti-Japanese faction and the capitulators in the Southern Song Dynasty. Yue Fei's fatal disaster was provoked only because he insisted on using force against the Jin people and resolutely opposed the so-called "peace" of traitorous surrender. Qin Gui and Zhao Gou photographed him. It is precisely because Yue Fei has always insisted on regaining lost ground and revenging himself, especially resolutely opposing any form of crime of betraying the country and the nation. Although hated by the capitulationists, he did not change at all and eventually died, thus becoming one of the greatest national heroes in the history of China. Yue Fei was born for this and died for it. His death is more important than Mount Tai!