Even more, how did the Jin Kingdom cause the Jingkang Rebellion?
To put it bluntly, the truth exists no matter how you look at it, it just depends on how you choose.
As for Yue Pengju, it was impossible for him to think of this. He just felt helpless and absurd instinctively after experiencing many things - they were obviously comrades with almost the same experiences, and their attitudes towards the Northern Expedition and the people in the South were almost the same, but because they were civil and military officials respectively, one had to catch up with the other in a hurry to beat him up, and coupled with the previous incident of the Fuzhou prefect, how absurd was this?
But you have to admit that the other party's behavior is essentially a well-intentioned and responsible act, which is even more ridiculous.
Now that the two had talked it out and Yue Fei had endured it, they went back downstairs to continue the banquet.
However, just when he sat down again, Yue Fei suddenly realized that Liu Hongdao's last sentence "considering the emperor's reputation" might have another meaning, but it was difficult to say it out loud...that was the problem of the Two Saints. The other party was not only worried that he, Yue Pengju, would deliberately let his troops sabotage the peace talks, but also worried that he, the emperor's confidant and beloved, would use means such as killing the Two Saints to prevent the peace talks!
Not to mention that this argument was even more absurd, Yue Fei, who was no longer a timid person from Wu, quickly figured out a more serious political issue among the people present - that is, this peace negotiation was not just a simple peace negotiation, nor was it just about the court being divided again. The key was that the officials who had always been truly loyal to the Song Dynasty would probably face a real big trouble.
This trouble was precisely the issue of the two emperors' return to the south, which could not be avoided during the peace talks.
You must know that the Second Saint was the father of the entire Song Dynasty, even if he had a very bad reputation among the people, his righteousness was there. The reason why the peace talks could be so open and aboveboard was because of the Second Saint's reputation and the benefits of the five counties in Jingdong, which made it impossible for the emperor and most of the people who advocated war to refute. But at the same time, whether it was the people or the court, after the emperor had been hinting, discussing, and refuting for many years, how could everyone not know the emperor's true attitude towards the Second Saint?
To be fair, Yue Fei did not think that the return of the two saints could shake the emperor's throne... When the emperor controlled almost all the military power, such a thing was almost unimaginable; he also did not think that the emperor would use Zhang Rong or his own hands to kill the two saints on the road... It was almost unimaginable that an emperor who had been on the throne for less than five years would semi-publicly kill his father and brother; but there was no doubt that the return of the two saints would force the emperor to face an unprecedented test of political ethics!
After Yaoshan, the emperor's various actions clearly showed that he was going to start a new business. At this time, the two emperors returned to the south, and it was the Jin people who sent them back, which undoubtedly put Emperor Zhao in a dilemma of political stance... Emperor Taishang Daojun was back, so would he still do the "eliminating the accumulated evils"? If he did, would he be suspected of forcing his father and brother?
If we think about it more, the reason why some people support peace talks may not be out of the desire to recuperate, but they may also have the evil intention of using the two saints to control the government!
Of course, Yue Fei's thoughts were inevitably influenced by his military mentality, and he thought the government was a little too simple. In addition, he was not a good drinker, so after a few drinks, he inevitably had narrow-minded thoughts...
But no matter what, in Xunyang Tower, Yue Fei felt something was wrong the more he thought about it, especially when he thought about how he had been in the army, and everything had been a hurdle for him. He had been frustrated before, but things had gone smoothly since then. He had long believed that this official was the country's hero, and that he was on the right path to return home...but he had never expected to encounter such a disaster. Thinking of the dilemma, with his character, he certainly would not shed tears, let alone stamp his feet and go crazy. Instead, he turned around with a lot of thoughts in his mind:
"Shopkeeper, bring me some pen and ink!"
The shop owner had been serving for a long time personally, and upon hearing this, he almost immediately put the prepared writing brush and ink on a small table and brought it over himself, and then hurriedly unfolded the white wall on one side of the banquet that was specially used for writing poems.
Liu Hongdao felt embarrassed when he saw this… His level of humanities was a bit poor, and he knew that he was not as good as Yue Fei. If this was an inscription or a poem, what should he do?
However, Yue Fei smeared some ink on the table and wrote something movingly, neither a poem nor a lyric, just another inscription.
So-called:
"In the past, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the Jin bandits marched freely as if they were in an empty land. Their generals were incompetent, and they were not as strong as the Great Wall. Fortunately, we had a sage king who worked hard on the Huai River, established a foothold in Nanyang, restored the old capital, and won a decisive victory at Yaoshan. Although he did not travel as far as Yanyun to destroy the bandits' nest, he was still the backbone of the country and the righteousness of the world.
I, Yue Fei, started from Xiangzhou and joined the army. I fought in more than 200 battles in eight years. In the first four years, I suffered repeated defeats, including the loss of Yanyun, Taiyuan, Daming, and Jingdong. In the last four years, I led a lone army to revive Jingdong, and won the battles of Sishui, Jizhou, Yanling, and Dongping. What I regret is that I could not prevent the Jin thieves from returning after crossing the Yellow River.
I have heard that the court has proposed to rest the troops and rest the soldiers, so as to prepare for the enemy. I think this is absurd! If the court is considerate and grants weapons and armor to make them complete, I will go deep into the enemy's court, tie up the enemy leader and kill him in front of the horse, slaughter all the barbarians, welcome the two emperors back to the capital, take the old land and register it again. Why negotiate peace and ask for people and land, putting you in a dilemma? Once this intention is made, the heaven and earth know it, and those who know me know it! In the summer of the fifth year of Jianyan, Yue Fei of Hebei wrote in Xunyang Tower. "
After writing some, Yue Fei took advantage of the drunkenness to call Bi Jin, his personal editor, to come forward and fetch a standard note. He changed the format a little, copied a copy, sealed it directly, and asked Bi Jin to send it to the capital through the secret channel.
Liu Hongdao sat aside, wanting to say something several times, but he stared at the short inscription for several times and could not utter a word. In the end, he could only sit and watch the other party do it.
In this way, Yue Fei took advantage of his drunkenness to write a note. After waking up, although he felt that he was a bit rash, as the saying goes, the arrow has already left the string, so there is no need to think too much... and he will lead his troops north again the next day.
As a result, when he arrived in Jiangbei, just passed Shuzhou, transferred to Wuwei Army, entered Luzhou, and was about to go north to cross the Huai River from Bagua Mountain, he received an imperial edict sent by express horse... Not only did the edict not contain any rewards for his hard work in suppressing the rebellion in the south, but it also ordered him not to return to Nanjing or Jeju after crossing the Huai River, but to go to Xuzhou to meet Zhang Jun, the commander-in-chief of the right army of the imperial camp.
The hot summer of May passed just like that, and in early June, when Yue Fei led his troops to Xuzhou and met Zhang Jun, over in the direction of Tokyo, with the repeated arrival of messengers from the Yanjing area, the Jin Kingdom's plenipotentiary envoy Wulin Da Zanmo agreed to all the conditions of the Zhao Song court.
Although there was a messy episode in which the Jin people once wanted annual tribute, in fact, the prospect of the Jin Kingdom handing over the captives of the Jingkang Incident and the five counties in Jingdong in exchange for a formal cessation of hostilities between the two sides had already become clear.
PS: In general, last month I wrote more than 130,000 words, so I wanted to make a big chapter and round it up to fool around... but I failed...
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
