In my opinion, Yue Fei's death can't be simply attributed to his urging to welcome Er Sheng back, which caused Zhao Gou's suspicion and dissatisfaction. There are two reasons. Northern expedition to the central plains, welcome back to the double saints? This slogan was first put forward by Zhao Gou, because at the beginning of Zhao Gou's accession to the throne, the regime of the Southern Song Dynasty was still unstable. In the north, Jin Guoli's puppet regime and the pseudo-Qi regime successively competed with the Southern Song Dynasty for the orthodox position of the throne, so Zhao Gou played this banner in order to stabilize the regime, rally the people's hearts and resist the invasion of 8 Jin Army. Therefore, when Zhao Gou put forward this slogan, the civil and military ministers inside and outside the Southern Song Dynasty supported Zhao Gou in different forms, and Yue Fei was just one of them. However, when Xu Jin intended to establish a puppet regime that posed a great threat to Zhao Gou in orthodoxy by making Song Qinzong or Song Qinzong's son emperor in Kaifeng, the slogan was abandoned by the Southern Song Dynasty and Yue Fei never mentioned it again? Welcome back to two? , even called Song Qinzong? Tian Ju? This shows that Yue Fei is a staunch supporter of Zhao Gou.
Second, after Song Huizong died in the five cities, even if Song Qinzong returned to the south, it would not shake Zhao Gou's position. First of all, Song Qinzong is the king of national subjugation. He is not an ambitious but ill-timed emperor like Chongzhen, so he can't get the support of the people. Secondly, after the shame of Jingkang, most of the civil servants and military commanders in the Northern Song Dynasty were captured and never came back. At this time, almost all the ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were hand-picked by Zhao Gou, such as the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the prime ministers Zhao Ding, Zhang Jun, Wu Jun and even Qin Gui were all promoted and reused during the reign of Zhao Gou.
Therefore, Song Qinzong's return to South will never threaten Zhao Gou's mercy, so Yue Fei's death has almost nothing to do with this slogan. On the contrary, Yue Fei is one of the most important military generals in Zhao Gou, and they had a honeymoon. Zhao Gou is very grateful to Yue Fei, so what caused Zhao Gou to kill Yue Fei?
In my opinion, Yue Fei's excessive military strength and his personality defects led to this unwarranted injustice, and both are indispensable.
As we all know, the Northern Song Dynasty was a mutiny in Chen Qiao, Zhao Kuangyin. After the Five Dynasties' Rebellion, Zhao Kuangyin knew the danger of military commanders sitting too big after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, so he lifted the military power of military commanders with a glass of wine, and set up the Privy Council and Sanya in the court to separate the military power from the military power. These measures made it almost impossible for military commanders to create a crisis in the Song Dynasty. If the military commander has too much power, then the civil servants of the imperial court will take power.
After the shame of Jingkang, Zhao Gou has arrived? Four generals of ZTE? As a representative of hawkish generals, Yue Fei made great achievements in many battles with the 8 Jin Army, and Yue Jiajun gradually became the backbone of the anti-Jin army in the Southern Song Dynasty. Perhaps at this time, Zhao Gou still trusted Yue Fei, but in the seventh year of Shaoxing (A.D. 1 137), the Huai-Xi mutiny made Zhao Gou go to Yue Fei. What happened was that Liu Guangshi, the fourth general of ZTE, wrote to the court, demanding that the relieving of the military power be lifted and that he should go home to provide for the aged. After Zhao Gou agreed, he wanted to assign Liu Guangshi's army to Yue Fei, but was opposed by Zhang Jun, the then prime minister. In fact, Zhang Jun is also a staunch hawk. Unfortunately, he made the mistake that both Song and Chen Wen would make. He told Zhao Gou that if Yue Fei commanded Liu Guangshi's army, Yue Fei would have mastered more than half of the country's army. If he works for Gao Zhen in the future,
So Zhao Gou withdrew his previous thoughts. He was embarrassed to say that he asked Zhang Jun to talk to Yue Fei. Unfortunately, Yue Fei is a strict man. Knowing Zhao Gou's decision, he wrote to ask for his resignation and handed over military affairs to Zhang Xian. In anger, he went back to Lushan to visit his mother's grave, and even left without waiting for the approval of the court. Although Zhao Gou was very angry, he had to use Yue Fei at this time, so Zhao Gou ordered Yue Fei to return to the army several times and asked Li Rexu, the minister, to go to Lushan to surrender Yue Fei VI. At this time, Yue Fei nodded and went down the mountain. It was also at this time that the former army led by Li Qiong and others launched a rebellion, threatening 10 million people to surrender to the puppet. Huaixi mutiny? The consequences of the mutiny were very serious, which directly led to the strategic situation of passive defense against gold in the Southern Song Dynasty, but the most serious thing was to begin to doubt and guard against the military commander. Yue Fei's previous behaviors made him hate his guts and had to be used.
If the Huaixi mutiny made Zhao Gou doubt Yue Fei, then the subsequent Northern Expedition and Huaixi War were the fuse for Yue Fei's murder.
In 1 139, Jin Wushu tore up the contract and led the army to invade the south. Zhao Gou ordered Liu Kun to defend Shunchang, and sent Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and other departments to support him. Because Yue Fei had the only cavalry unit in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou was worried about fighting with 8 Jin Army on his way to support him, so he specially ordered that Yue Fei arrive in Shunchang quickly, but Yue Fei did not follow Zhao Gou's instructions.
Many people said that Yue Fei recovered Kaifeng and Song Qinzong was in sight. Zhao Gou was afraid of Yue Fei coming back, because his throne was in jeopardy, so he forced Yue Fei to come back. I have refuted this statement above. As for Zhao Gou's invasion of Yue Fei, I think we should support this view. At this point, 8 jin j main force in shunchang. Although Liu Kun held Shunchang, he couldn't go out of the city to fight against 8 jin j. If 8 jin j withdraws from Shunchang at this time, he will fight back against Yue Fei. Yue Fei is likely to be wiped out, even if the main force of 8 Jin Army does not return to annihilate Yue Fei, but in Shunchang, the rest of the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty has been involved. At this time, Yue Fei was alone. If Yue Fei can't get follow-up support, it is likely to suffer heavy losses. Under the circumstances at that time, it was impossible for Yue Fei to complete the great cause of the Northern Expedition with only one army.
But in any case, Shunchang held on and Yue Fei came back. Although Yue Fei was very angry at Zhao Gou's resistance to imperial edicts, he was pardoned for his resistance to imperial edicts. However, a few months later, at the end of 1 140, Jin Wushu invaded south again on a large scale. In the face of Jin Wushu's aggressive attitude, Zhao Gou did not flinch. Zhao Gou knew that the financial resources of the Southern Song Dynasty could not support the continuous war. In order to completely break the idea of 8 jin j invading the south, after 8 jin j invaded Huaixi area, Zhang Jun, Liu Yong, Yang Yizhong and other departments confronted Jin Wushu head-on, Han Shizhong attacked from the side, Yue Fei quickly occupied Luzhou, cut off the posterior approach of Jin Wushu, and finished the camp.
To tell the truth, this is a fairly perfect battle plan from Zhao Gou. If this battle plan can be implemented and adowa Jin Wu Shu, I think the history of the Southern Song Dynasty will be completely changed, but the plan must be wrong, and this mistake is actually on Yue Fei. After the Battle of Huaixi started, Yue Fei did not March into Luzhou according to Zhao Gou's wishes, so where did he go? He didn't go anywhere. It took Yue Fei more than ten days to start marching. At this time, the frontal battlefield, Song Jun has begun to defeat 8 jin j, victory is in sight. However, because Yue Fei didn't camp in Luzhou in time, Jin Wushu led the army to withdraw safely from the north, and on the way back, he eliminated the main force of pursuing and Zhang Jun. At this point, the battle of Huaixi ended.
Zhao Gou's carefully planned campaign failed, Jin Wushu escaped, and with the fall of tens of thousands of Song Jun, the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty was really unable to maintain such a huge war expense, so Song and Jin made up again. Here we can imagine, if Yue Fei arrives in Luzhou in time, if the main force of 8 Jin Army is destroyed in Huaixi, can Song Jun recover the Central Plains and take Huanglong directly? If Zhao Gou thinks so, should Yue Fei be killed for resisting many times? If the answer is yes, Yue Fei really deserved to die.
After the Huai mutiny and Huai War, Zhao Gou realized that military commanders were really unreliable, especially those armed to the teeth. They are strong enough to resist the law and do whatever they want. They are all soldiers outside, so it is not difficult to see the history of the yellow robe again. I thought Liu Miao mutiny almost died by the sword of the rebels, and now there is a Yue Fei who doesn't listen to himself everywhere. How can he feel at ease without killing him?
So armed, honest and even a little stubborn, Yue Fei died.