Chapter 86 legends on the rivers and lakes

Gong Zizhen's "Guo Shen Lun on Ancient History" said: "If you want to destroy a country, you must first destroy its history." For the treacherous Qin Hui, executing Yue Fei is far from enough, he must be completely blackened and discredited, so that he will never stand up again. But people at the time called Yue Fei "loyal, brave and heroic, a pillar of the dynasty, a man of virtue and prestige, full of barbarians and summers", he not only enjoyed a high reputation in the court and the opposition, but also won the love of the people. If you want to discredit Yue Fei, it is still a bit difficult.However, the traitor of Qin was not afraid, and tried to fool the people by taking the post of prime minister and taking charge of "supervising the compilation of national history" and "specializing in the position of prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty and cutting the handle of Dong pen".

In fact, Qin Hui has already started the great cause of falsifying historical facts.According to a historian in the Southern Song Dynasty: "Since the winter of the eighth year, juniper has supervised the compilation of national history, and every time Yue Fei has a victory, juniper wants to lose its reality, so that it looks like a color. It’s almost impossible to count by one or two.” Just imagine, Yue Fei was in a high position at that time and held a heavy army, and Qin Hui was so bold as to hide Yue Fei’s military exploits and achievements. ? ! He directly appointed his adopted son Qin Xi to edit the calendar and actual records of the Southern Song Dynasty's chronological style, and he did a great job of falsifying historical facts.He also vigorously placed cronies in the history museum. It is said in history that those who take the job of recording events are "either their children or their party members", and "everyone who talks about people and chapters, he teaches them by himself. Those who know him say: 'This old Qin Pen too.'”

In the national history archives of the Southern Song Dynasty, all memorials and edicts and other documents that are unfavorable to Qin Hui should be burned; all documents and files that are beneficial to Yue Fei should be burned! Of course, burning can't solve all the problems. If everything is burned up, don't you just have three hundred taels of silver here, and tell the world clearly that there is something tricky in it?As a last resort, Qin Hui just retained some falsified and deleted historical materials and reversed the facts in order to belittle and slander Yue Fei. So that in the fifth year of Chunxi (1178), Song Xiaozong prepared to rehabilitate Yue Fei and bestowed Yue Fei with a posthumous title according to the usual practice. "), but when discussing the posthumous title of "Wu Mu", the official history books of the Southern Song Dynasty could not find any military exploits related to Yue Fei ("Because the prestige of Bo Xun's fair life is related to safety, it is the fact that he has done meritorious service with his husband. , it is very gratifying that it is too brief, although it is well-known, but in the secrets of national history, there is no examination.")

No way, Song Xiaozong had no choice but to summon courtiers to collectively recall, analyze according to the rumors of the court and the public, and send people to visit the deceased generals of the Yue family army. Many of the materials about Yue Fei that I see now are "uniquely obtained from those who have been in the ranks". This is the sorrow of a hero, but also the sorrow of an era! In the so-called "thirteen military exploits since ZTE" appraised by the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, none of the famous battles commanded by Yue Fei were selected! Yue Fei's injustice case was vindicated, and Yue Fei's third son, Yue Lin, began to collect and sort out various documents related to his father. He went to the Shu and asked for the return of the royal letter, hand edict and Yue Fei's memorial that Song Gaozong had bestowed on Yue Fei in the past, and prepared to compile it into a collection. He died without success.His son, Yue Ke, inherited his father's business, collected Yue Fei's performances, battle reports, past events of poems and essays, the whole story of being framed, and Gaozong's imperial letter and edict to Yue Fei, together with textual research on Yue Fei's injustice. There are also some biographies of Yue Fei written based on the old news written by the people of the time, which were finally compiled into "E State Jin Tuo Xiaobian" and "E State Jin Tuo Continuation", which preserved a lot of original historical materials about Yue Fei.

However, a cruel fact is before us. Yue Fei was unjustly killed in the first month of the eleventh year of Shaoxing (January 1142), his home was confiscated, and all his memorials during his lifetime were confiscated by Qin Hui's followers.It is not difficult to imagine that the imperial letters, edicts and memorials given by Song Gaozong to Yue Fei that Yue Lin asked for back from Zuozang Nankujia Pavilion of the Southern Song Dynasty government were just leftovers after Qin Hui and his ilk deleted, tampered with, and destroyed them. , at best less than one or two out of ten. In addition to "Jin Tuo of E State" and "Sequel of Jin Tuo of E State", "Records of Years Since Jianyan" and "Three Dynasties and Beimenghui" are also important historical materials for the study of Yue Fei, but it is also regrettable that these two The materials on which the book is based are also affected by Qin Hui's wanton tampering of official histories and the strict prohibition of private histories.Take "Records of Years Since Jianyan" as an example. Although it has a wide range of materials, it is mainly based on the thousand-volume "Gaozong Calendar". On the basis of "Gaozong Calendar", it refers to other materials, deletes and become.

Rao is Li Xinchuan's self-discipline with straight writing, but he has to say, "Press: This "(Gaozong) Calendar" was revised by Qin Hui when he was the secretary of the Academy of History. Believe me, I will attach this, and I will refer to the cloud." Fortunately, it is difficult to check the historical materials about Yue Fei in the official history books, but Yue Fei's reputation will always remain in the hearts of the world. Zhongxuan Honggong is Hong Hao, who is upright and upright. He was ordered to go to the Kingdom of Jin and was detained by the Jin people for a full fifteen years. During the Jin period, he was mighty and unyielding. It was not until the thirteenth year of Shaoxing (1143) that it returned to the Song Dynasty.On the day he returned to the Song Dynasty, he heard that Yue Fei had been killed. Although he had never met Yue Fei, he couldn't control his grief and cried bitterly in the court hall.

Zhu Xi, a Confucianist in the Southern Song Dynasty who was a little later than Yue Fei, discussed Yue Fei with his disciples. The disciples asked: "If Yuehou is doing things, how can he be like Zhang and Han?" He asked again: "Who was there at the time above the Marquis of Yue?" Zhu Xi replied firmly: "There is no one next." In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing (1161), Wan Yanliang, King Hailing of the Kingdom of Jin, invaded southward on a massive scale. In order to resist the Jin army, Wang Che, the censor Zhongcheng, "declared an order to Jing and Xiang." Crying like thunder", people shouted in unison: "To fight for my father-in-law, to die!" The scene was touching.

Decades after Yue Fei's death, Yue Fei's third son, Yue Lin, passed through Ganzhou (formerly known as Qianzhou) in Jiangxi Province, and there were "fathers, elders and handsome children coming to welcome him", all of them burst into tears and said, "I don't want to see my son again today." Afterwards, He went to Jinghu North Road to serve as an official, and the soldiers and civilians in Ezhou "set up incense cases, set up wine prisons, and greeted him with tears" to show their memory of Yue Fei.Among them was an old woman whose husband, son, and son-in-law were all beheaded by Yue Fei for violating military laws, but she was grateful for Yue Fei's kindness.

Jin Zhangzong actually said in the imperial edict to recruit Wu Xi, the general of the Southern Song Dynasty: "And you think that Yi Zan's merits are better than Yue Fei's? Fei's famous military exploits are fierce in the north and south. Once he sees taboo, he will be punished by the three barbarians. Don't be afraid! "He praised Yue Fei's prestige and military exploits. When the Southern Song Dynasty was about to perish, an imperial student named Xu Yingbiao in Lin’an led his two sons and one daughter to set themselves on fire in front of Yue Fei’s tomb. In his opinion, Yue Fei was the protector of the Southern Song Dynasty. Maybe the self-immolation of his whole family could wake up the sleeping Yue Fei. In this way, The Southern Song Dynasty could have been spared the destruction of the country, or, he had already determined that the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty was inevitable, and his whole family used self-immolation to follow Yue Fei, who had been loyal all his life.

Yue Fei's great-grandson, Yue Zhi, once served as the captain of Qingyuan County in Chuzhou (now Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province), and later died in the battle against the invasion of Mongolian soldiers.Wen Tianxiang had a relationship with Wen Tianxiang, and Wen Tianxiang wrote a letter to praise Yue Fei, saying: "At the beginning of Zhongxing, King Mu of Xianwu supported the sky, his loyalty and the sun and the moon won glory. Although it can be known for a hundred generations. The county lieutenant was born in the Longhu family in Beiping, and he was established in a majestic way. No one knows how to respect him. Fortunately, he came out of the school and learned it. Lin Yan, that's too polite."

Tuotuo, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, respected Yue Fei very much in the "History of the Song Dynasty", which he majored in. He said that "from the Western Han Dynasty, if Han, Peng, Jiang, and Guan were generals, there would be many people on behalf of him, and he would seek his civil and military weapons, benevolence and wisdom." It is not uncommon to see people like Song Yuefei in one generation. It is known in history as Guan Yun Changtong's "Spring and Autumn Zuo Shi", but I have never seen his articles. Flying to the Northern Expedition, the army arrived at Zhuxian Town in Bianliang, and there was an imperial edict, and Fei himself was a model Answering the imperial edict, the words of loyalty and righteousness flow out of the heart, which really has the style of Zhuge Kongming." At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Shun also titled Yue Fei "Yue Fei Baoyi" to express his praise for the heroes of the previous dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the commemoration and worship of Yue Fei reached an unprecedented peak.Zhu Yuanzhang himself admired Yue Fei so much that he personally wrote a plaque saying "pure without music". Qing Taizu Nurhachi directly ordered his two descendants to change their surname to Yue because of his admiration for Yue Fei.Qianlong even called Yue Fei: "The posterity of the world will look up to the wind, and it will really compete with the sun and the moon." It can be seen that the name of Yue Fei has been passed down through the ages, and the essence of Yue Fei will never be forgotten!