Chapter 60 A shocking resignation

Seeing that Liu Guangshi's troops were about to return to Yue Fei, another accident occurred halfway. Why is this so? The problem lies with Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun has been advocating the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and regaining the lost land all his life. He is a tough main fighter.But he is a man of great success, thinks highly of himself, and takes the world as his own responsibility. He has his own views on how to recover lost land and rejuvenate the court.In his view, Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, which took the puppet Qi from the upper class of Xianghan, was a prodigious army, while his strategic thinking was to advance northward along the Jianghuai line layer by layer, and regain the lost ground in an upright manner, which belonged to the Northern Expedition of a regular army.But this alone is not enough to destroy this personnel arrangement, and at first he also agreed with Zhao Gou to hand over Liu Guangshi's army to Yue Fei.

What really made him restless was Zhao Gou's reply to Yue Fei. Zhao Gou said: "For the ZTE matter, I have appointed you, except for Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong who are not restrained, the rest will be controlled by you." Think about it, once Zhao Gou handed over all the ZTE affairs to Yue Fei, except for Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong's troops, the rest of the national army would be under Yue Fei's control.Then the troops controlled by Yue Fei not only included more than 50,000 left guards of Liu Guangshi's battalion, but also more than 70,000 right guards of Wu Jie's camp who were still deputy envoys of Xuanfu, and 30,000 soldiers of the former commander of Yang Yizhong. There are more than 10,000 people, guards, Ma Junsi, and infantry guards, totaling more than 170,000 people.

And Zhang Jun's position is the governor, and he should have supervised all the troops and horses in the country.Yue Fei "proclaimed and fussed all roads", his power expanded rapidly, and he had already replaced him as the governor. After that, what happened to Zhang Jun in the future ZTE plan? Zhang Jun can't stand this! After suffering for several days, Zhang Jun made a decision: find a way to get Zhao Gou to take back his order and prevent Yue Fei from getting involved in Liu Guangshi's army. So, he murmured in Zhao Gou's ear all day long the truth that "it is suspicious to join forces", reminding Zhao Gou not to forget the family motto and not to concentrate the command of too many troops on one person.He also hinted that one day, Yue Fei's achievements will be overwhelming, and his power will be in the hands of the government, and things will be difficult to deal with.

Zhao Gou's promise to hand over Liu Guangshi's troops to Yue Fei was a spur of the moment, and he regretted it a long time ago.On the one hand, a series of negative cases such as the Yangzhou riots and Miao-Liu mutiny left him with the impression that warriors should not be trusted, and that warriors with too much power could easily threaten his regime; Only then did Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's move of "drinking wine to release military power".Therefore, Zhao Gou's thinking was shaken when he couldn't stand Zhang Jun's sway. Indeed, how did Zhao Gou know that Yue Fei would not follow the route of Liu Yu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty?

However, if you have to change your words immediately if you utter the words and spill the water, you will not be able to lose face. How to do it? After thinking about it, he felt embarrassed to say such things to Yue Fei face to face, but it could be resolved by sending a letter. So, he fiddled with it for a long time, and wrote a short message (Zhazi) to Yue Fei, saying: "There are still twists and turns in the matter of joining forces in Huaixi. The "Handwriting" sent to Wang De and others before must be arranged by the imperial court." , you can only deliver it when it is clear that you are in control of Huaixi's army." The meaning in it was shy and hesitant to say it.After the text message was sent, Zhao Gou entrusted Zhang Jun to wipe his ass and do Yue Fei's ideological work face to face.

Zhang Jun patted his chest, this matter is on me. After meeting Yue Fei, Zhang Jun pretended to be ignorant of what had happened before, and started a conversation that would determine the fate of the Southern Song Dynasty. "Liu Guangshi retired early, and Wang De is the most popular in the Huaixi army. I plan to let him be the commander of the army, and then arrange Lu Zhi as the staff officer of the governor's mansion to assist him in commanding the army. You How do you feel?" Yue Fei was inexplicably surprised when he heard this, and kept muttering in his heart, but Zhang Jun pressed him again and again, so he had to force himself to say: "There are mixed fish and dragons in the Huaixi Army, most of them are traitors and thieves, and they don't have a good relationship with each other. Bullish and arrogant, things that undermine each other happen from time to time, if the temperance is not good, chaos will be in the palm of your hand. You nominate Wang De now, you must know that besides Wang De, there is also Li Qiong in the Huaixi Army; De and Li Qiong are on the same level. Now that Wang Deren is suddenly in charge, Li Qiong will definitely not accept it, and I am afraid that it will cause internal strife. Although Lu Shangshu is a generalist in literature, he is not trained in the military and cannot restrain the soldiers. This matter, I think it is necessary to be cautious, and someone at the general level must take over, otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous."

Zhang Jun pretended to be enlightened, nodded, and said, "Oh—so, Zhang Jun will take over, what do you think?" Yue Fei stared at Zhang Jun, and replied calmly: "Zhang Xuanfu is indeed a well-known veteran. Speaking of which, he used to be my boss. But now that I am planning a major event for the country, I will be blunt As far as the matter is concerned, let me say that Zhang Xuanfu is violent and resourceful, and has always been dissatisfied by Li Qiong and others, so I am afraid he is not the best candidate." "Well——" Zhang Jun was a little eccentric, and he said, "According to what you say, then Yang Yizhong can only be arranged."

Yue Fei's eyes were like lightning, and he retorted: "Yang Yizhong is the same type of person as Wang De and Li Qiong, and they have the same position and prestige now, how can he control Wang Li and others!" Zhang Jun couldn't hold back any longer, stood up angrily, and said with a sneer, "After all, what you mean is that no one can take over this army except you!" Yue Fei was born upright and upright, he would take the soft but not the hard, and he couldn't get used to Zhang Jun's hypocrisy just now, so he stood up "Huo" and replied seriously: "Just now the governor asked Fei about the military and politics, Fei was just discussing the matter, how could he do it for his own control?" Military power!" After saying that, he walked away in a huff.

At the moment when he left the banquet, Yue Fei was very clear that his expectation of taking over Liu Guangshi's army had come to nothing. Sure enough, in a few days, Zhao Gou issued an imperial edict urging Yue Fei to return to the Ezhou military camp as soon as possible. It is under direct jurisdiction, and Wang De, who was formerly in command of the former army of the Left Guard Army of the camp, was responsible for promoting and training the troops. As soon as the decree came out, Yue Fei lost all thoughts. The next day, Yue Fei submitted a resignation application to Zhao Gou on the grounds of keeping his mother filial piety.Without waiting for a reply, Qingche Jian went back to Jiangxi from Zijiankang, and went straight to Lushan Mountain Temple in Jiangzhou.Because Yue Fei was angry for a while, he made such an uncool decision, which shocked the ruling and opposition parties.

He himself didn't know that this move had serious consequences, and he planted a time bomb for himself.Also because of this action, he was quite condemned and attacked by scholars and experts of later generations, who said that he had a flirtatious temperament, acted sloppily, did not understand politics, did not know how to keep a low profile, was small-minded, shallow and narrow-minded, irritable and explosive, and only looked at the immediate interests... … These criticisms point out Yue Fei's weakness to a certain extent. But from a common sense point of view, if Yue Fei did not perform like this, it would not be Yue Fei.

Yue Fei is an ordinary person, just like us, cannibalism, love and hatred, joys and sorrows, even, because he is a farm boy, he is more simple and simple than many of us; because he was born in the army, he His personality is strong and upright, and his judgment of right and wrong is easy to be absolute; It is said in history that he is "reticent on weekdays and never speaks lightly". If you want to speak, you will not avoid misfortunes and blessings", do not compromise, do not yield. Because he couldn't understand Zhao Gou's retreat from Yingtian to Yangzhou and Yangzhou to Hangzhou, he wrote a letter beyond his post; Du Chong abandoned Tokyo and shouted that "the size of the Central Plains cannot be abandoned"; because he could not tolerate Du Chong's retreat in Jiankang Mansion, he forcibly broke into Du Chong's bedroom and yelled: "If Jinling is lost, my husband can rest assured that he can rest in peace." That's it!"; even for the military formation method taught by Enshuai Zongzeyi, because he had a different view from his own, he didn't give any face at all, and used the reason that "the formation is followed by the battle, the art of war is regular, the use is wonderful, and it is all in one mind" Put the book away. Because it was contrary to his ambition to regain his homeland, he wrote a letter "begging to take Fei's mother, wife and two sons as hostages, so that he will be exempted from the Taizhou Town Fushi", which almost prevented Zhao Gou from coming to Taiwan. Shaoxing will return to Xianghan in the spring of the fourth year. Prime Minister Zhu Shengfei kindly reminded him that as long as the flag is victorious, the imperial court will grant the title of Jiedushi.As a result, Zhu Shengfei was extremely embarrassed when he said, "The prime minister treats me so poorly." Yue Fei is both civil and military, with both the romantic feelings of a poet and the arrogance of a hero. Zhao Gou's change of mind, in Yue Fei's view, was simply a joke. This is something Yue Fei cannot tolerate. Zhu Xi said: "If you talk about the talents of generals, Yue Fei will win, but flying will also be inferior." He also said: "Today's people rate their talents and rely on heroes, so that they hold their spirits arrogantly, and they cannot be cautious, and they are only defeated." For a long time, under the influence of many people, many people think that Yue Fei's unswerving determination and the thought of serving the country with loyalty is a kind of "foolish loyalty", and patriotism in Chinese history is always associated with loyalty to the monarch. The country, dynasty and monarch are trinity. To be loyal to the emperor is to love the country, and to be patriotic is to be loyal to the emperor. Not so with Yue Fei. From the disgrace of Jingkang to the southward transfer of power, he experienced the most painful and darkest period of the Song Dynasty. He watched the country's mountains and rivers shattered and the bones filled the wild. His hatred of Jurchen and his determination to regain his homeland grew day by day.His patriotic spirit is to stand up in the face of national crisis and swear to repay his death. Although his attitude towards the emperor is bound by the morality of loyalty to the emperor, once the emperor shows that he does not match his own ideals, Yue Fei chooses to be loyal to his ideals. And the goal, do not yield, do not follow blindly. Yue Fei's tragedy is actually the incompatibility of loyalty and patriotism in the feudal era. Similar to Yue Fei, at the end of Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan achieved the brilliant results of "Ningyuan Great Victory" and "Ningjin Great Victory" successively, but angrily resigned because he was dissatisfied with the emperor's reward and the court officials complained.After careful comparison, it is not difficult to find that the ideological realm of the two is not at the same level. Yue Fei resigned because he saw clearly that the authorities had no intention of regaining the Central Plains, his ideals were shattered, his ambitions were empty, and he left sadly full of grief and desolation.The more urgent the desire, the heavier the disappointment will be.If this kind of thing is put on people like Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun, it will not be a big deal at all-Liu Guangshi is now very calm to use his army to make political transactions with Zhao Gou. Yue Fei's aloof, upright and idealistic character made it impossible for him to accept Zhao Gou's teasing calmly. His resignation was a silent protest against feudal dictatorship and feudal power. Zhang Jun was furious when he heard that Yue Fei had dropped the pick, who do you think you are?Don't think that I can't make a cake without you as a rotten egg!He directly appointed his confidant Zhang Zongyuan as the magistrate of Hubei and Jingxi Road, and went to Ezhou to take charge of the Yue family army. The behavior of the court accused Yue Fei of being ambitious. After hearing Zhang Jun's words, Zhao Gou was about to explode and was furious. The ministers were trembling and kept silent. After a while, Zuo Sijian Chen Gongfu said weakly: "Yue Fei is just a rough man, he doesn't think about things. Although his performance was a bit extreme, but before he wanted to use 100,000 soldiers to cross the golden border and isolate the puppet Qi. It also fully demonstrates his loyalty." Zhao Gou forced himself to calm down, and felt deeply that Yue Fei could not be separated now, so he refuted Zhang Jun's plan to take back Yue Fei's military power, and ordered Li Ruoxu, the councilor, and Wang Gui, the commander, to rush to Jiangzhou, and urged Yue Fei to return to Ezhou. Wang Gui and Li Ruoxu went to Lushan Mountain Forest Temple and tried to persuade them for five days, but to no avail. On the sixth day, Li Ruoxu changed his strategy, no longer persuading, but cutting responsibility instead.He straightened his face and said to Yue Fei solemnly: "Xuanfu was originally just a flat-headed farmer in Hebei. If the land invites you to come out of the mountain, it is good for you, but if you insist on not obeying, you will be rebellious?!" "Are you going to rebel?" The five words were like a slap in the face, shaking Yue Fei's eardrums, and his face changed drastically. Knowing that things had turned around, Li Ruoxu continued, "Even if you didn't intend to rebel, but you confronted the imperial court with this attitude, how could the imperial court not doubt your motives?" Yue Fei waved his hand to stop Li Ruoxu from continuing, his face was pale, and he said dejectedly: "Don't say anything, I just follow the arrangement." When Zhang Zongyuan arrived in Ezhou, he saw the lieutenant generals of the Yue family army like tigers and horses like dragons, each of them was full of energy. He couldn't help but admire Yue Fei's ability to govern the army. His ability to command troops is called Yue's army "the generals are harmonious, the army is elite, the people are loyal and filial, the people are harmonious and brave, all of which are the result of flying training." A few days later, Yue Fei, dressed in plain clothes, went straight to plead guilty to Zhao Gou, and said in the form: "I have committed a serious crime of asking for retirement without authorization. Please Your Majesty specify the official punishment to show the world." Zhao Gou warned: "Your performance this time is too reckless, but I don't blame you. If I really want to blame you, I won't let you return to your original post and continue to control the military power. Go back to your jurisdiction. In the future, you must remember that the Taizu of this dynasty said, 'The only one who breaks my law is the sword ear'." Although the matter was considered a successful conclusion, the rift between the monarch and his ministers had already arisen, which laid the seeds of disaster for the subsequent tragedy.