A Treacherous Imperial Court Official Condemned by History (1/2)
 
Qin Hui (1090-1155 AD) is the most hated person in Chinese history on all accounts. He betrayed his own country and framed the faithful and upright people to achieve his selfish ends.
 
The Jin Dynasty was situated north of the Song Dynasty and constantly looked to invade. When the Jin successfully conquered the Song Dynasty capital Bianjing in 1127 AD, Emperors Huizong and Qinzong of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127 AD) were taken fugitive. Qin Hui and his wife were arrested too. Qin Hui, an insidious two-faced person, allowed himself to be a slave servant to Emperor Taizong of the Jin Dynasty, and offered to do anything to help Jin Wuzhu, the Jin emperor's fourth son. Qin's wife, Wang, who was no less eager to please the enemy, even slept with Jin Wuzhu. The couple convinced the Jin royal court that if they were returned to their homeland, when they succeeded in gaining power, they would turn the Song territory over to the Jin Dynasty. Convinced that Qin and his wife had become allies, the royal court sent them back to the central plains.
 
After Qin Hui returned to Song and grasped military and political powers under his control, he wanted to negotiate peace with Jin. Yue Fei (1103-1142 AD), who was determined to defend and recover the central plains from the Jin troops, became his number one enemy. In a secret letter to Qin Hui, Jin Wuzhu said, "You ask us, the great Jin Dynasty, for peace day in and day out, and yet Yue Fei is bent on taking the central plains away from us. You have to have Yue Fei killed before we can agree to talk peace." Qin Hui was fearful that his scheme would be thwarted and that he would eventually meet a bad end because of Yue Fei, so he decided that Yue Fei had to be killed.
 
At the time in 1140 AD, Yue Fei was on his way to victory in fighting the invading Jin troops in the north. Yue Fei's army had a slogan: "Do not take people's house even if the soldiers are freezing; do not loot even if the soldiers are starving." The people respected them for this.
 
The jealous and sly Qin Hui did not hesitate to resort to tricks to discredit Yue Fei, and sent fake imperial edicts, ordering Yue Fei to stop pursuing the Jin troops. Emperor Gaozong, the muddleheaded emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 – 1279 AD), listened to Qin Hui and issued 12 edicts in one day ordering Yue Fei to stop advancing his troops. Sad and angry, Yue Fei exclaimed, "Ten years of effort all destroyed in one day! The mountains and rivers of the state are hard to revitalize! The world of heaven and earth has no more chance to be recovered! "
 
Qin Hui urged Mo Qixie, another treacherous imperial court official, to fabricate charges against Yue Fei to the imperial court and abetted Zhang Jun, a general, to accuse Yue Fei's subordinate, Zhang Xian, of planning a mutiny. Emperor Gaozong was furious when he heard the false accusations. Qin Hui took advantage of the emperor's muddle-headedness and had Yue Fei, his son Yuan Yun, and his general Zhang Xian, arrested.


On Qin Hui's orders, He Zhu, an imperial investigator, interrogated Yue Fei, but he was unable to find any evidence against him. Mo Qixie couldn't find any proof against Yue Fei either, so what he did was to smear Yue Fei with fabrications.

一代权奸　千古罪人 (上)
 
在历史上没有谁比秦桧更遭人愤恨了。他卖国求荣、陷害忠良，是历史的千古罪人。
 
徽、钦二帝被金兵抓到北方时，秦桧和他的妻子王氏也一起被俘。秦桧为人阴险，善于见风使舵，先向金太宗奴颜屈膝。又阿谀逢迎四太子金兀术，王氏又与金兀术私通。金朝就派秦桧夫妻回中原为内应，二人表示得手后要把宋室江山相送。
 
因此秦桧回宋掌握了军政大权以后，便一心要同金人议和，把坚决抗金、收复中原、保国卫民的岳飞看成心腹大患。金兀术派人送密信给秦桧，说：「你朝夕向我大金求和，但岳飞却天天想夺我中原。你一定要杀掉岳飞，我们才会同意议和。」秦桧也怕岳飞活着，自己最终没有好下场，于是就下决心要杀害岳飞。
 
当时岳飞北伐即将成功，岳家军「冻死不拆屋，饿死不掳掠」，深得百姓拥护和爱戴。秦桧便大耍阴谋，百般破坏，假传圣旨命令岳飞停止追歼金兵。昏庸的高宗听信秦桧，一天之内竟向岳飞连续发出十二道金牌。岳飞悲愤的叹息：「十年努力，毁于一旦！社稷江山，难以中兴！乾坤世界，无由再复！」
 
秦桧让奸臣万俟卨向朝廷诬告岳飞，罗织了岳飞许多罪名。煽动张俊诬告岳飞的部将张宪阴谋兵变，高宗一听岳飞有兵变的危险，十分震怒。秦桧乘机将岳飞和他的儿子岳云、部将张宪抓进监狱。
 
秦桧先命御史中丞何铸审讯。但何铸并未查出岳飞的罪证。万俟卨也找不到岳飞的任何罪证，便捏造事实，诬陷岳飞。