After Song Gaozong Zhao Gou read Yue Fei's recital, he immediately instructed: "If you have a minister like this, why worry about it." The opportunity to advance and stop, I am not in the system. However, the generals will spread wide gratitude, no or light killing, and will be relieved. "Meaning, with such a courtier, what do I have to worry about? In the battle to reclaim your homeland, I will not tie your hands and feet. It's just that you have to warn the generals not to kill innocents indiscriminately, which is the last thing I want to see. Yunyun.

The meeting and tacit understanding of the monarchs and ministers shown here is quite moving.

At this moment, Yue Fei can be said to have ushered in the golden years of his life.

Thinking about Yue Fei's mood at this time, he must have felt very good about himself. This is normal, there is nothing wrong with it. After all, all this honor, status, power, and prestige were all fought by him in the rain of guns and arrows, and he completely deserved it. However, on the other hand, all this also caused him to have an illusion about Emperor Zhao Gou, so that he applied the noble feelings and creed of "death for confidants" that were applicable to ordinary people to the emperor, and this was a big mistake, a complete mistake.

The reason is simple: under the traditional Chinese imperial culture, any act of imposing the feelings of ordinary people on the emperor would be seen as an affront to the royal authority, and thus form a great lethality to the perpetrator himself. No matter how sincere and precious this feeling is. Judging from historical records, Yue Fei made this kind of mistake in order to repay the emperor's kindness, and he was completely wrong!

One day, Yue Fei had a conversation with Emperor Zhao Gou. The two of them were very speculative. It may be that the conversation is rising, Yue Fei suddenly put forward quite recklessly, hoping that the emperor will solve the problem of the heir to the throne as soon as possible. As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere of the conversation immediately took a sharp turn for the worse. Although Yue Fei's reputation was in full swing at that time, and he was the most trusted and favored, Zhao Gou still scolded without hesitation: "Although you are loyal, but with heavy troops in hand, this kind of thing is not something you should interfere with. Yue Fei's face changed at that time, and he was very embarrassed. After he withdrew, the emperor immediately met with Yue Fei's staff officer Xue Bi, Zhao Gou told him about it, and took care of the chief of staff and said, "It seems that Yue Fei is not very happy, you can go and enlighten him." ”

A few years ago, under the pursuit of Jin Bing, Zhao Gou was unable to lift his yang due to fright, and lost his fertility; Now we are trying to do everything we can to heal. He was in his early thirties, and there was still a lot of hope. Some time ago, he encountered an even more tragic incident: his only son was frightened and convulsed to death because the palace maid accidentally kicked over a copper tripod. These two deepest hidden pains are now hooked up by Yue Fei's words, and the gloom and anger in his mood can be imagined.

The seriousness of the problem is not only that Yue Fei does not open which pot to mention. The worst thing is that Yue Fei violated the biggest taboo of the royal family: the generals with heavy troops are interested in the succession to the throne. You must know that the issue of imperial succession is an absolutely core sensitive issue in all dynasties, and the royal cannibalism caused by this abounds; For this reason, the stories of the formation of ministers or soaring prosperity or family ruins are also endless. It has always been particularly easy to associate this issue with the political ambitions of the powerful and military generals.

Who knows, later, Yue Fei talked about this issue again in a secret letter, hoping that the emperor would determine the succession of the successor prince as soon as possible. This shows that he is not the result of a happy conversation and a slippery mouth. In fact, this matter is indeed a piece of Yue Fei's heart. At that time, the Jin people held Song Huizong and Song Qinzong for quite important political reasons. After Zhao Gou became emperor, the Jin people once considered putting Song Huizong back to weaken Zhao Gou's influence. Later, there was always a possibility that the Jin people would use force to support a puppet emperor of the Song Qin dynasty, who had the innate orthodox status of the Zhao and Song empires, which would make the Southern Song regime quite embarrassed and passive, and even possibly challenge the legitimacy of its existence. At that time, in part to counter this possibility, Zhao Gou selected two royal descendants from the line of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and passed them to his own name, but it was not yet determined which one would inherit the throne. Yue Fei's proposal, proceeding from the reality of the anti-gold struggle, was obviously well-intentioned. And it is the kind of kindness that loyally treats the emperor as his own and does not see the outside. However, it is doubtful that this kindness could be happily accepted by the emperor. The German philosopher Feuerbach believed that people living in huts and people living in palaces could not think the same thing. Honestly. At that time, Zhao Gou's reprimand for Yue Fei clearly illustrated this point.

Subsequently, there was the "Huaixi Incident" that had a major impact on Yue Fei's fate - an army equivalent to at least 10% of the national army of the Southern Song Dynasty actually defected en masse and surrendered to the enemy, and its impact can be imagined. The change in Huaixi can be regarded as a significant and far-reaching turning point, before this turning point, although there are many three rebellions and four repetitions, Zhao Gou still showed the people of the world to look north to the Central Plains, the intention to recover the lost territory, but after this turning point, within a few months, in February of the eighth year of Shaoxing, Zhao Gou completely gave up the idea of recovering the lost territory of the Central Plains; He is very sober and very clear, neither confused nor cowardly, he would rather be in the southeast corner than take the risk of the generals' high achievements, the tail is too big, and the army is self-respecting. Therefore, it can explain why, eight years after Shaoxing, Zhao Gou gave up the opportunities of the Jin civil strife and Yue Fei's repeated heavy losses to the elite of the Jin soldiers and the fight to the edge of Kaifeng, and single-mindedly did only two things: to suppress the generals and to make peace with himself. Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others repeatedly suggested that while the Jin civil strife was in progress, he should immediately raise troops for the Northern Expedition. Zhao Gou's answer to this was basically to praise their loyalty while shelving their suggestions.

At this treacherous moment, in March of the eighth year of Shaoxing, Qin Hui, who had been deposed for six years, ascended to the position of prime minister again and became the right prime minister and privy envoy, and since then he has stayed in the position of prime minister for 18 years. It is said that when the appointment of the prime minister was announced, the government and the opposition were jubilant, and the ministers rushed to congratulate each other, and it was generally believed that there was hope for the country from now on. No one could have known that the next eighteen years would be much worse than they had imagined.

From this moment on, the Southern Song Dynasty was destined to return to the old road of "advocating literature and suppressing martial arts", and Yue Fei's tragic fate was almost doomed at this time.