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Chapter 1966: Yue Fei was deceived
Therefore, for more than half a year after the Twelve Golden Medals, Yue Fei was actually in a state of complacency in the eyes of outsiders. Although Yue Fei himself was not very happy, and was even very desperate, he only felt that the Northern Expedition was hopeless, and never thought that his life would be at risk.

Moreover, Zhao Gou and Qin Hui were very ruthless. In order to prevent Yue Fei from getting suspicious and thinking that they were targeting him, not only Yue Fei, but also the other two of the Four Generals of the Restoration, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun, were promoted to Privy Councilors and received all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry and status, but they were also forced to leave their own army.

If only Yue Fei was promoted, he might have become suspicious. But if other generals like Yue Fei were treated the same, Yue Fei would think that everyone was being treated the same way. How could Yue Fei have imagined that this was actually a huge plot targeting him?

But what Yue Fei didn't know was that a huge net was secretly covering him.

When Yue Fei was promoted to Deputy Privy Councilor, Qin Hui and Zhao Gou began to split up the entire Yue Family Army, dividing it into more than a dozen different troops. Some troops were inserted into the armies of other generals, and some troops became independent armies. The entire Yue Family Army was completely dismantled within three months and scattered in more than a dozen different regions. It was simply impossible to bring this powerful army together in a short period of time.

Of course, this is also a normal operation. Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun's troops were also split up, and it was Yue Fei who was responsible for splitting up Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun's troops... That's right, these three troops were respectively responsible for splitting up each other's armies by Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun.

As a result, the Four Generals of the Restoration, who originally had a bad relationship, finally broke up. However, this was still a normal operation. Everyone thought that Zhao Gou wanted his generals to check each other so that no one would dare to rebel. These were old tricks of the Song Dynasty. Before this, the Song Dynasty had never killed a general who had made great contributions and was willing to hand over his military power.

It was only after the troops were split up that Qin Hui began to take thorough action against Yue Fei's subordinates, who had become a loose sand. First, he concentrated all the families of these generals in Lin'an for resettlement, then investigated the stains of each of these generals, and finally, he gave them various gifts and promotions, using carrots in one hand and sticks in the other, to beat these generals into obedience, and make them afraid of Qin Hui.

After everything was ready, Qin Hui's cronies Wanqi Xie, Luo Ruji and others began to impeach and slander Yue Fei for "staying and not advancing" to aid Huaixi and advocating "abandoning Shanyang", and demanded that Yue Fei be removed from his post as deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

In the Song Dynasty, it was normal for generals to be impeached. For example, after Di Qing became the Privy Councilor, he was impeached by 36 memorials in one day. Even the affair between Di Qing's servant and the maid of a civil servant was the reason for his impeachment.

The civil officials used this method to teach the military officers a lesson so that they would be obedient and dare not rebel. However, based on past experience, no matter how the military officers were impeached, the emperor would always comfort them with kind words and not take any punishment. As a result, the military officers became more cautious and did not dare to overstep the line.

But just two days later, something different happened than usual. Yue Fei was impeached and dismissed from his post as Deputy Privy Envoy, and was given the sinecure of "Wanshou Temple Envoy".

This was definitely something that had never happened before in the Song Dynasty. A military general with outstanding military achievements was directly removed from his high position as Deputy Privy Envoy just because of an impeachment. This was simply a slap in Yue Fei's face.

At this time, Yue Fei was completely disheartened, and he asked to return to his old residence in Lushan, Jiangzhou, to be idle. But at this time, Yue Fei always thought that the court wanted to completely deprive him of his military power, not giving him any opportunity to continue to make achievements in the military, making him a country bumpkin, or letting him live in idleness for a few years, and then re-open the grace of heaven and give him an insignificant official position. Yue Fei had never thought about his death at this time, and the court, as well as Yue Fei's old generals, had never thought that Yue Fei would really die. In fact, according to many historical materials analyzed later by Liu Xu, Zhao Gou was indeed a little hesitant in dealing with Yue Fei at that time. It was not that Zhao Gou had a change of heart at this time, but Yue Fei's merits were too great, and the morale of his subordinates was still there. If Yue Fei was really killed, it would still cause a big mess.

Moreover, Yue Fei had lost his military power at that time, and it was impossible for him to rebel against the Song Dynasty again. Killing Yue Fei would only bring disadvantages, not advantages. Besides, among the Four Generals of the Restoration, except Zhang Jun, the other two actually had a good relationship with Yue Fei, especially Han Shizhong, who was the same kind of person as Yue Fei. What if the other two were to suffer the same fate?
So Zhao Gou was hesitant at that time, but what made Zhao Gou finally decide to kill Yue Fei was Qin Hui's ongoing peace talks with the Jin Kingdom.

At that time, the necessary and sufficient condition for the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty to sign the contract was that the Southern Song Dynasty must kill Yue Fei. The reason was not that they were afraid of Yue Fei, at least they would never say so.

The official reason was that Yue Fei was always clamoring for a northern expedition to restore the Northern Song Dynasty. As long as Yue Fei was alive, the Southern Song Dynasty would always have the possibility of sending troops to the north again. As long as the Southern Song Dynasty killed Yue Fei, no one in the entire Southern Song Dynasty would dare to mention the northern expedition. The Jin Kingdom would believe in the sincerity of the Southern Song Dynasty and be willing to sign a contract with it.

In addition to ideological reasons and reasons deep in their hearts, there was another important reason why the Jin Kingdom had to kill Yue Fei, which was that Jiangbei was too chaotic.

Because in order to launch the Northern Expedition, Yue Fei fostered a large number of heroes and volunteers not only in the north of the Yangtze River, but also in the north of the Yellow River. These heroes and volunteers rose up in various ways to fight against the Jin army and refused to submit to the rule of the Jin Dynasty, causing great trouble to the Jin Dynasty.

Because of the large number and the scattered distribution, and the loss of a large number of elite troops, it was very difficult for the Jin Dynasty to suppress them. Moreover, many of the rebels were very tenacious and refused to surrender. This is because they believed that Yue Fei would lead the army to the north again in the future. At that time, they could respond to the call of Grandpa Yue and retake the Han people's country!
As long as Yue Fei died, these rebel armies would completely lose their backbone and persistence, and it would be much easier to quell the rebellion.

This is indeed the case. After Yue Fei's death, except for a very small number of rebels, most of the rebels were completely disappointed with the Southern Song Dynasty and accepted the official positions and titles bestowed by the Jin Dynasty. The entire area north of the Yangtze River and north of the Yellow River was quickly pacified, and the rule of the Jin Dynasty was greatly consolidated.

Killing Yue Fei alone is equivalent to killing 30 troops.

However, there were exceptions among the rebel army, and there were also those who insisted on resisting, such as Xin Qiji, a super general second only to Yue Fei and also a super poet.

Under the constant threat of the Jin Kingdom using Yue Fei as the only condition for peace talks, and under the repeated persuasion and intimidation of the super traitor Qin Hui, Zhao Gou completely lost his courage. In order to sign a contract with the Jin Kingdom, he made up his mind to kill Yue Fei.

(End of this chapter)