Qiming 1158

Chapter 1168 Zhao Gou's Spiritual Victory Method
On November 29th of the fifth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin issued an edict to the Jiangnan Kingdom, ordering the Jiangnan Kingdom to move Yue Fei's tomb back to his hometown in Tangyin County, Xiangzhou, and to return to the ancestral grave together with the tombs of his sons Yue Yun and Yue Lei.

After Yue Fei's unjust death that year, his body was taken away by a jailer at the risk of being buried. When Zhao Tan succeeded to the throne and rehabilitated Yue Fei, the jailer's son told the court about it, so the Southern Song court reburied Yue Fei at the foot of Qixia Mountain.

Su Yonglin believes that returning leaves to their roots is the best comfort for heroes.

In addition, Yue Fei's surviving family members, his wife Li Wa and their three sons, should also return to Tangyin County, Xiangzhou to live and resettle, and the fallen leaves will return to their roots.

The edict also required Jiangnan to destroy the tombs of the traitor Qin Hui, Qin Hui's wife Wang Shi, Wan Chengyu, Luo Ruji, Zhang Jun, etc.

The five families of Qin, Wang, Wan, Luo, and Zhang are all listed as war criminals. They will be arrested and sent to Zhongdu for trial. Those who commit the most crimes will be sentenced to death, and the rest will be put into hard labor for three generations People have to do hard labor, and it is not until the fourth generation that they can regain their freedom.

Tangyin County was funded by the Ministry of Finance to supervise the construction of General Yue Memorial Temple, in order to commemorate Yue Fei, promote righteousness and courage.

The Jiangnan Kingdom needs to hand over all the records of Yue Fei and the Yue family’s fighting against the Jin people at the same time to the Ming Kingdom, which will be further sorted out by the officials of the Ming Kingdom, and finally placed in the Memorial Temple of General Yue, publicized to the world, so that the people of the world will always remember the Yue family. The army used to be brave and tenacious.

They searched and rewarded the family of general Zhang Xian who was killed with Yue Fei, moved Zhang Xian's tomb back to his original home, and ordered Zhang Xian's native Langzhou government to build a tombstone and a cemetery for Zhang Xian, and send someone to take good care of him.

Awards were given to officials Xue Renfu, Li Ruopu, He Yanyou, He Zhu and others who made complaints about Yue Fei's injustice.

He rewarded the aide Zhiji, who had no power but still dared to speak out against Yue Fei, and the three civilians Liu Yunsheng and Fan Chengzhi, ordered Jiangnan to find their bodies and moved them back to their hometowns for burial, ordered the hometown government to build tombstones and cemeteries for them, and take good care of them. And look for their family, and give the reward to their family.

Compliment the late Zhao Shi of the Zhao Song clan, and his family has already received leniency, so no additional rewards will be given.

So far, the whole Yue Fei injustice is basically over.

In the end, there is still a little finishing work left, which is when Zhao Gou comes in handy.

Su Yonglin decided to build a majestic statue of Yue Fei in military uniform in the Memorial Temple of General Yue, and built it in front of the main entrance of the Memorial Temple. , Zhang Jun and other six kneeling statues.

The six kneeling statues will be cast in steel, painted, guarded from time to time, and will be visited from time to time.

As the only one alive among the six, Zhao Gou was the only one who knew the appearance of the five people who had died, so he needed to draw the appearance of the five people in his impression.

Su Yonglin knew that Zhao Gou had a good artistic level. It is said that he did not forget to practice calligraphy assiduously even when he was chased by Jin Wushu. Presumably, this work should not be a problem.

So Su Yonglin specially ordered him to take charge of this work.

"I heard that you are very good at calligraphy and painting. It's not difficult to draw these five traitorous portraits, right?"

Zhao Gou's face at that time was very exciting, but he didn't dare to resist, so he took over the job, and then drew the appearance of the five people according to his own memory.

In the end, the Ming court hired Zhou Changan, a well-known portrait painter in Zhongdu, to paint Zhao Gou on the spot, and painted Zhao Gou's face.

The kneeling statues of these six people will also be made by well-known statue artisans, so as to be durable and long-lasting.

And Zhao Gou got an appointment that was different from any of the sons of the Zhao Song clan after that.

His next life's work is to work in the General Yue Memorial Temple to ensure that the six kneeling statues do not corrode. He needs to pay attention to these six kneeling statues all the time, and is responsible for keeping these six kneeling statues in their best condition. .

If the visiting people couldn't help their emotions and do something to these kneeling statues, he also needed to restore the six kneeling statues to their original shape afterwards.

then.

Every morning and every afternoon for the rest of his life, he would kneel in front of the statue of Yue Fei for half an hour at a fixed time, rain or shine.

Whether people come and go, or no one comes, unless the sick can't get out of bed, they have to kneel for an hour every day. There will be a special person in charge in the memorial temple to supervise and record, so Zhao Gou doesn't even want to escape for a day. .

This was Su Yonglin's earliest idea, but Su Yonglin thought about it later and felt that when Zhao Gou was alive, he would let Zhao Gou kneel with the five statues, personally participate in it, and express his repentance to Yue Fei with his own actions. meaning.

When he is dead, the statue will be moved out to replace him.

It might be better that way.

Well, just do it.

So Su Yonglin officially notified Zhao Gou and let him know his plans for his later years.

After hearing Su Yonglin's arrangement for him, Zhao Gou didn't know whether to be happy or to cry.

Fortunately, he doesn't have to be put into the hard labor system like other royal children, and he has to spend his whole life in hard physical labor.

What made him cry bitterly was how he could be considered a king, the Son of Heaven, and Yue Fei was his minister. Since ancient times, how could there be a reason for the Son of Heaven to kneel to his ministers?
He carefully stated his pain to Su Yonglin, hoping that Su Yonglin could avoid such humiliation for the sake of being a king.

"I don't have the emperor here, only the emperor, and the ministers are also human beings. It is a matter of course for a wronged king to kneel down and admit his wrong to a wronged hero, not to mention that you are no longer an emperor, but a sinner, and Yue Fei has always been a general. , your status is not as good as him, kneeling to him is justified."

The reply given by Su Yonglin made Zhao Gou feel desperate.

Every day from now on, he will kneel to Yue Fei, and even kneel to Yue Fei under the gaze of people, listening to people's various comments and ridicules about him, until his death.

Isn't it worse than dying?
Zhao Gou felt very uncomfortable.

But when he thought of death, he suddenly felt that it was not too hard.

Although it is very shameless, but at least you can live, it is relatively easy, you don't have to bear more painful labor, you don't have to go all the way to do hard labor with the group of Zhao Tan, and do the things they once hated and impossible to do.

Although I have to kneel for an hour every day, I can sit at other times and do some cleaning work. Three meals a day are guaranteed, and accommodation is guaranteed.

As for physical needs...

Anyway, there is no way to look up there, so I have to keep my head down and live, after all, it is not a difficult thing.

Thinking about it this way, Zhao Gou's mood improved a little bit, and he felt that it might not be a hard thing to live in peace, at least compared to those who have died, he is really a lucky person.

Zhao Tan died, Yu Yunwen died, and many people he knew died.

Some of them were hanged, some were beheaded, some were tortured and then died of terror, all of them died.

But he is still alive.

So, I won.

I'm a winner among losers, I'm a loser who wins, and no one knows how to win in defeat better than I do.

Zhao Gou felt extremely happy, extremely fortunate, and full of expectations for the future life.

His only advantage is probably this perverted Ah Q spirit of submissiveness.

(End of this chapter)