Chapter 30: If I Were Yue Fei
The sound of the piano stopped, Gong E dispersed, and Zhang Mengjie returned to her seat under everyone's different eyes.
Su Yan asked, "This is the lyrics written by Niangniang herself?" ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "What does my father-in-law think? ”
Su Yan said: "No, it looks like a general who has been fighting for a long time on the battlefield." ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "My father-in-law is amazing, this lyric is indeed not written by this palace, it is ......"
"I know, you are expressing your dissatisfaction with the emperor and the court through poems written by people with bad intentions!" Zhang Mengjie didn't finish speaking, Zhao Meiren said.
Zhang Mengjie said: "Where did Zhao Meiren hear that the palace is dissatisfied with the emperor and the court?" "Why do people keep robbing her?
Zhao Meidao: "You are going to clean up the old mountains and rivers from the beginning, and the court is desperate, doesn't it mean that you obviously want to destroy the court and exterminate the court?" ”
It may be that when he was singing, this que sang a little similar to Jueyin, Zhang Mengjie said: "Zhao Meiren's out-of-context is not good, this poem is from the hands of a general who deliberately asked his mother to engrave the words of loyalty to the country on his back in order not to forget to be loyal to the court, how can such a person have the intention of rebelling against the court?" His poems clearly express his indifference to fame and the resentment of the enemy army at what he did to his court to harm ordinary people. The imperial court is the meaning of bowing to the imperial court, but it is not the meaning of exterminating the imperial court. ”
Zhao Ziheng said: "Why hasn't Weichen, such a talented and virtuous general, heard of it?" Mother, is there really such a person in history? ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "There is indeed this person, and the Jingkang mentioned in this poem is the dynasty in which he lives." His name is Yue Fei, and he lives in a war-torn dynasty. His imperial court has been invaded by foreign enemies, especially one called the Jurchens, and many Chicheng in the imperial court have been occupied by the Jurchens for ten years. Therefore, he was determined to serve the imperial court since he was a child, to drive out the Tartars for the imperial court, and in the second year of Jingkang, the two emperors of the imperial court where he was were were captured by the Jurchen tribe, which is the Jingkang shame in his poems. It was precisely this that strengthened his determination to drive out the Tartars and recapture the old mountains and rivers, and he also personally trained a Yuejia army. ”
Zhao Ziheng said: "It's impossible for such a hot-blooded general Weichen not to know!"
Zhang Mengjie said: "Why doesn't General Zhao know if he doesn't know about this palace, General Zhao wants to know the life of this General Yue Fei?" ”
Zhao Ziheng said: "Of course. ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "After the second emperor was captured, in order to stabilize the court, the younger brother of the first emperor was selected as the new monarch. Yue Fei had the intention of recovering the old mountains and rivers, but the new monarch had no intention. The new monarch just wants to live a life of song and dance. While using Yue Fei and others to resist the invasion of the Jurchens, he signed a peace treaty with the Jurchens. The new monarch was so pleased with the peace treaty that he even wanted to reward all his ministers. Yue Fei was unmoved by this, and even told the new monarch that the Jurchen clan could not be trusted, and they would take the initiative to recapture the occupied Chicheng. The new monarch feared that this would anger the Jurchens and that they would be plundered by them again. Therefore, Yue Fei's move not only made the new monarch unhappy, but also dissatisfied with him. As Yue Fei expected, the Jurchens quickly tore up the peace treaty and launched another invasion, and Yue Fei used this opportunity to kill the Jurchens all the way to a place only forty or fifty miles away from the Jurchen capital. What's more, there was a soldier in the Yuejia army who broke alone in order to capture the leader of the Jurchen tribe, and killed hundreds of enemies while suffering dozens of wounds. In the Jurchen military camp, it was even rumored that the words of shaking the mountains and shaking the Yue family's army were in trouble, and the army's morale was shaken, and even many soldiers had the will to surrender. At this time, the new monarch was afraid that Yue Fei would save his father and brother, and his position would not be guaranteed, so he conspired with the Jurchen leader with his henchmen to retreat, ordered the other troops with Yue Fei to evacuate, and then used twelve gold medals to fight alone, and ordered Yue Fei to move his division back to the court. While Yue Fei lamented that ten years of hard work had been ruined, he also knew that there was no hope of recovering the old mountains and rivers in his lifetime, so he wrote this poem. ”
Zhao Ziheng said: "What happened to Yue Fei later?" ”
Zhang Mengjie continued: "As soon as Yue Fei returned to the imperial court, the new monarch and his henchmen arrested him for the crime of treason and confiscated his military power. He was then tortured to death by the new monarch, along with his family. Yue Fei was only thirty-nine years old when he died, and before he died, he wrote eight characters on his confession. Yue Fei's death, ordinary people and the soldiers who resisted the Jurchen tribe with him were very sad, and in the face of doubts, the new monarch gave the charge: Mo is false. ”
Hearing that Yue Fei was dedicated to the imperial court but ended up like this, Murong Xue regretted: "A false charge will give a rare general to death, and this imperial court is hopeless!" ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "What the queen mother said is that the times create heroes, but it's a pity that Yue Fei is unladylike. ”
Su Yan said: "Then after Yue Fei's death, was the imperial court destroyed by the Jurchen clan?" ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "That's not true, it's just that the imperial court has to pay tribute to the Jurchen clan when it comes back." ”
Su Yan said: "If Niangniang is General Yue Fei, what will Niangniang do?" ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "The harem does not interfere in politics, this question should be asked to all the ministers here." ”
Su Yan said: "The slave wants to hear what the mother will do, didn't the emperor say just now, let everyone put aside the world tonight, can the mother satisfy the curiosity of the slave?" ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "This, if this palace is Yue Fei, it will be a little disrespectful, so don't say it." ”
Long Tingxiao said: "Oh, I am also curious when Concubine Ai says this, and I also want to know what Concubine Ai will do if Concubine Ai is Yue Fei?" ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "Then the emperor forgave the concubine bluntly, the situation at that time, Yue Fei may have expected what the result would be after he returned to the court. Concubines are very sorry for their lives, and concubines will not easily hand over their lives to others unless they have to. The so-called generals are not subject to military orders. If the concubine is Yue Fei, there are two choices. First, even if you receive the twelve gold medals, the concubines should not have them. It is the court that abandons the courtiers and concubines, not the concubines who abandon the court, and the concubines will not be more loyal, and simply set themselves up as kings. With Yue Fei's prestige and ability, his soldiers will not betray him, and the people will not ignore his Yue family's army. It is better to find an opportunity to win over people with lofty ideals to save the court first, and then clean up the Jurchen people and take back the old mountains and rivers. ”
Long Tingxiao said: "Yue Fei has the ability to march and fight, yes, he is a good general, but he may not have the ability to govern the court, he is a good emperor." ”
Zhang Mengjie said: "What the emperor said is right, this is the second choice that this palace wants to say, that is, to take the Yue family army to live in seclusion first, and if you meet someone who can really think about the people and have the ability to rule, you will take refuge in him." Neither option will cause Yue Fei and his family to die for no reason. ”
Zhang Mengjie's words made the ministers present admire her courage a little, although Long Tingxiao said that they should put aside the world tonight, but in this dynasty where the monarch called the ministers to die and the ministers had to die, if the monarch was incompetent to overthrow the court, who would really dare to say it in front of Long Tingxiao.