Wuzhu left a letter to Hui saying, "You have been asking for peace day and night, but Yue Fei is planning to take over Hebei. Only by killing Fei can we have peace." Hui also believed that if Fei was not killed, he would eventually hinder the peace talks and he would be in trouble, so he tried his best to kill him."
1. Analysis of the letter Jin Wushu left to Qin Hui:
Analysis 1: Wushu's letter to Qin Hui reads: This is a private letter left by Jin Wushu to Qin Hui, not an official letter from the Song court. It also shows the process of Qin Hui secretly receiving instructions from the enemy.
Analysis 2: You were constantly urging peace, while Yue Fei was plotting to conquer Hebei. The context for Qin Hui's "constant peace" was the intense fighting between Song and Jin! The enemy commander said one thing: "Kill Yue Fei!" And you actually interpreted that as a condition for peace?
Analysis 3: Yue Fei must be killed before peace can be negotiated - Yue Fei must be killed first before peace talks can begin. But in fact, peace talks had already begun before Yue Fei was imprisoned.
Analysis 4: Hui also thought that if Fei was not killed, he would eventually obstruct the peace talks and he would be in trouble, so he tried his best to murder him - this was Qin Hui's motive for murdering Yue Fei. Qin Hui [tried his best to murder] Yue Fei!
2. No one in the Jin Dynasty knew about Yue Fei's murder, but all the treaties of the peace agreement had been implemented.
Let’s take a look. Yue Fei was killed on December 29th (Guisi), the eleventh year of Shaoxing.
In November of the 11th year of Shaoxing, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou had already discussed the peace treaty with Jin Shi Xiao Yi. Jin Shi Xiao Yi left the Southern Song Dynasty at the end of November - Jin Shi Xiao Yi did not know about Yue Fei's death.
Zhao Gou then sent He Zhu and Cao Xun to represent the Song court in the Jin capital to present the peace letter. He Zhu and Cao Xun met with Jin Wushu and went to the Jin capital together - Jin Wushu, He Zhu and Cao Xun were all unaware of Yue Fei's death!
In February of the following year (the second month of the 12th year of Shaoxing), Jin Wushu, He Zhu, and Cao Xun arrived in the Jin capital. After meeting the Jin ruler and completing a series of formalities, Cao Xun requested the return of Empress Dowager Wei. The Jin ruler initially stated that this was a rule that had been upheld throughout the dynasties and no exceptions could be made. However, after Cao Xun's repeated requests, the Jin ruler finally agreed to return Empress Dowager Wei to the Southern Song. He Zhu then presented the Southern Song's letter of credence to the Jin ruler, and the entire peace agreement was implemented. The Jin ruler also sent a special envoy to return Empress Dowager Wei, the imperial family, and the coffin of Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji, along with other items. However, Emperor Qinzong of Song, Zhao Huan, was the only person he would not return to the Southern Song.
In April of the twelfth year of the Shaoxing reign, Empress Dowager Wei stopped at Yanshan, sailed from Dongping, and traveled via Qinghe to Chuzhou. In August, she arrived in Lin'an and took up residence in the Cining Palace. The general process described above is recorded in the History of the Song Dynasty.
You see, the Jin Dynasty did not know about Yue Fei's death, but still implemented the various treaties of the peace talks. It can be seen that Yue Fei's death had nothing to do with the peace talks!
3. The "Oath" of the Song-Jin Peace Agreement did not include the killing of Yue Fei as a condition for peace.
The "Oath" of the Shaoxing Peace Agreement did not include killing Yue Fei as a condition for peace, and this can be verified in the "History of Song" and "History of Jin".
No matter how you look at it, the peace negotiations between Song and Jin would never have included killing someone as a condition. It would have been a lowly and despicable request, and it would have indirectly indicated that they were afraid of this person. Such a condition would have been absolutely impossible. Therefore, there were no written clauses, no verbal instructions, no verbal hints.
4. Yue Fei’s death was caused by Qin Hui’s forged imperial edict - this was done secretly by the spies.
Look at what a lot of historical records have confirmed—
Volume 143 of "Annals of the Years Since Jianyan" records: "At first... Hui put Fei in prison with a letter, and (Wanqi) finally put Fei to death."
Volume 207 of Sanchao Beimeng Huibian records: "Hui gave a letter to Xi, which led to Fei's death."
Volume 220 of the "Compilation of the Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances" records: "Qin Hui was jealous of Yue Fei's loyalty and bravery, and also disagreed with Zhang Jun, so he dismissed him from office. He also falsely accused him of treason and had him executed in the Dali Temple. The whole country resented him, and the three armies disbanded."
The History of the Song Dynasty records: "Fei was imprisoned for two months, but no one could prove his guilt... At the end of the year, the trial was unsuccessful. Hui wrote a small note to the prison, announcing Fei's death at the age of 39..."
"Records of the Southern Migration" records: "Hui secretly had Xie trap Fei and kill him."
This is a handwritten note from Qin Hui ordering his subordinates to kill Yue Fei, but Qin Hui's handwritten note is not the emperor's imperial edict to sentence Yue Fei to death. It is also Qin Hui's murder of Yue Fei, or it can be understood as Qin Hui forging an imperial edict to murder Yue Fei.
5. Was Yue Fei's death a condition for obtaining Empress Dowager Wei? This is a hypothetical process!
There's also an online "explanation" claiming that after killing Yue Fei, Zhao Gou immediately sent someone to notify the Jin Dynasty, which is why the Jin Dynasty agreed to send Empress Dowager Wei back to the Southern Song. This is clearly unfounded nonsense, as the timing is incorrect. Calculating the time, it would have taken at least four months to travel from Lin'an, the Southern Song, to the Jin capital in Heilongjiang. Furthermore, it was snowy season in the north, making it impossible to travel any faster. This would have meant reaching the Jin capital in Heilongjiang by May at the earliest. But Empress Dowager Wei had already traveled for nearly two months, reaching the Second Yanshan Mountains in April, then transferring to a boat from Dongping and traveling via Qinghe to Chuzhou... All of this is recorded in the History of the Song Dynasty.
Comprehensive analysis of all the data reveals that the theory of killing Yue Fei and then sending someone to notify the Jin Dynasty is patently false! The timing doesn't fit in any way. It's a completely wild, conjectural hypothesis! However, no matter how we try to deduce it, it can't escape the limitations of time—the limitations imposed by natural science. It was a time limit that no one, by any means, could overcome at the time.
Compare this to the Second Opium War in the late Qing Dynasty. This war should have concluded with the Treaty of Tianjin, but the Qing court, particularly Emperor Xianfeng, unilaterally reneged on the treaty, leading to a resurgence of the war. The fighting raged all the way to the Old Summer Palace, and indemnities owed to Britain and France doubled, nearly tripling. We must also remember that the Russian Empire, observing the turmoil between the Qing and Britain and France, seized the opportunity to exploit the situation and annex vast swathes of northern China without a single soldier.
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