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Why didn’t Song Lizong bring Li Gang and Yue Fei into Zhaoxun Pavilion?

That's because Song Lizong believed that Li Gang and Yue Fei were not qualified.

It is undeniable that both Li Gang and Yue Fei are loyal ministers of the times and are considered capable.

But their contributions were not enough to be among the twenty-four heroes of Zhaoxun Pavilion.

Because of publicity and sympathy, they have been exaggerated a lot, especially the latter.

In fact, their contributions are not the best compared to the heroes of the entire Song Dynasty, or even their heroes of the same period.

Let’s talk about Li Gang first.

When the Jin soldiers invaded Bianjing in the first year of Jingkang, Li Gang served as the guardian of the four walls of the capital, united the soldiers and civilians, and repelled the Jin soldiers.

This is Li Gang's greatest achievement.

However, Li Gang was soon rejected by the surrendered faction.

When Zhao Gou ascended the throne, he once appointed Li Gang as prime minister. Li Gang also tried to innovate his internal affairs, but was dismissed in just 77 days.

In the second year of Shaoxing, Li Gang was re-appointed as Hunan Xuanfu Envoy and the governor of Tanzhou, and was immediately dismissed.

He has submitted memorials to complain about the anti-Jin plan many times, but none of them were adopted.

Judging from Li Gang's resume, Li Gang is indeed a tough guy and a loyal minister, but he is not the talent of the prime minister.

Some people dissatisfied and believed that it was Zhao Gou's weakness, which made Li Gang unable to fight against the surrender factions and eventually rose and fell.

To put it this way, it is actually somewhat unfair to Zhao Gou, because the throne was obtained from Zhang Bangchang rather than from the previous emperor Zhao Huan. The emperor Zhao Gou was actually not justified, so the throne was extremely unstable. In other words, Zhao Gou himself was only barely supported at that time, walking on thin ice.

As the prime minister, Li Gang not only could not help Zhao Gou stabilize the political situation, but also took the lead in fighting with Wu Min and others, causing the Southern Song Dynasty, which was already in storm, to collapse at any time.

Of course, this was not all Li Gang's fault, because the situation was like that at that time. The main battle and the main peace were in a gang. Li Gang just didn't handle these things well because he was too strong and did not know how to adapt.

Zhao Sheng, the most accomplished emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, commented on Li Gang's "a great ambition and talent," and his disciples of Zhang Jun."

This evaluation was actually a bit over and even a little unconscienced. Li Gang and Zhang Jun were both dedicated to the Southern Song Dynasty. Without them, the Southern Song Dynasty would have been gone long ago.

However, although Zhao Xing's evaluation has been made, it can also be seen that Li Gang and Zhang Jun are actually not as talented as prime ministers.

After Li Gang was dismissed from the position of prime minister, Zhao Gou replaced six prime ministers, Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, Zhu Shengfei, Lu Yihao, Du Chong and Fan Zongyin. However, none of them could be in power for a long time, and none of them achieved too much success, and even none could stabilize the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the Southern Song Dynasty was always at risk of being destroyed by the Jin Kingdom until Zhao Ding took office.

Zhao Ding is also in charge of war like Li Gang, but unlike Li Gang, Zhao Ding is not that sharp and can handle the relationship between the main battle and the main peace very well, and can select capable generals such as Yue Fei from among the Southern Song Dynasty's generals to strongly support it.

During the years when Zhao Ding was in the position of prime minister, the Southern Song Dynasty launched a large-scale counterattack. Zhao Ding assisted Zhao Gou in his personal expedition twice and achieved great victory, which made Zhao Gou finally settled in the throne and pacified Jiankang. Only then did the Southern Song Dynasty lose its safety and finally had a statue of revival.

Therefore, Zhao Ding is the real talent of the prime minister.

Unfortunately, Zhao Gou didn't want to fight again later, and Zhao Ding suggested that Zhao Gou, who had no son, stabilize the hearts of the people, and was excluded by Qin Hui and lost his position.

Here we have to explain it to Zhao Ding.

Zhao Ding was not blindly mindless in fighting, nor did he want to go directly to Huanglong Mansion like Yue Fei. In fact, Zhao Ding also realized that the Southern Song Dynasty could no longer fight.

Therefore, before this, Wang Lun went to the Jin Kingdom to follow Zhao Ding's instructions and ask about etiquette, and then he had already answered according to the division between the king and the minister; when asked about the boundary, he answered with the river as the boundary.

In other words, Zhao Ding just didn't want to negotiate blindly, but wanted to draw the Yellow River as the boundary, rather than draw the Yangtze River to govern.

In short, Zhao Ding is worthy of being the name of "the leader of the revival of wise ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty."

Let me talk about Yue Fei.

Yue Fei is a loyal minister.

This does not need to be argued, otherwise he would not have ended up in that tragic end, otherwise Zhao Xing would not have been able to rehabilitate him after he ascended the throne. You must know that Zhao Gou was not dead at that time. If he was not a loyal minister, Zhao Gou would not have admitted this mistake.

However, although Yue Fei was a loyal minister, he committed several taboos of being a minister.

One, twelve gold medals summon Yue Fei.

This itself has a big problem. It took twelve gold medals to recall Yue Fei, who commanded 30 to 40% of the country's troops. What do you think about Zhao Gou? How can you not think of Yue Fei as a soldier and independent?

Moreover, in the Five Dynasties before the Song Dynasty, military generals often had their own troops and resigned. This was how the Zhao family's own world came about. Could Zhao Gou be afraid of such a thing?

2. The slogan shouted by Yue Fei, "Welcome the two saints to the court."

I really couldn't help but say that Yue Fei was as stupid as a pig to shout such a slogan.

Zhao Gou is the son that Zhao Ji doesn't like very much. Zhao Ji even sent Zhao Gou to the Jin camp as a hostage, so the father-son relationship between the two is already indifferent.

Even though both the father and son are so indifferent, the relationship between Zhao Gou and his brother Zhao Huan is even more conceivable.

In fact, this is no big deal. If it were just like this, Yue Fei would not violate Zhao Gou's rebellious scales if he wanted to bring Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan back. The key is, if Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan were brought back, who would be the emperor? Don't forget that Zhao Gou's throne was passed down by Zhang Bangchang, which was unreasonable and legal. The so-called "nature has no two days, and there are no two kings in the country, let alone three. Moreover, the defeated people can be said to be very, very miserable.

Let me ask, can Zhao Gou let Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan come back? Can Yue Fei, who yells to "welcome the two saints and return to the court" every day have good fruits?

Third, Yue Fei and Zhao Ding made the same mistake and persuaded Zhao Gouli, who had no son, to be the crown prince.

Zhao Gou was only in his thirties at that time. How could he not want to have his own son? How could he not want to pass his throne to his own son? Can he willingly give the throne to an outsider?

Yue Fei wrote a letter to Tiantiantian to suggest that Zhao Gou make this the crown prince and that the crown prince. Why? You, a general in charge of the army, are in a hurry to make the support? Or do you conclude that I, who is only in my thirties, will definitely not have a son?

Yue Fei made so many mistakes, coupled with the serious injuries of Qin Hui and others, especially Qin Hui's words, "Taizu didn't think about having troops to stand up and become independent (wasn't he also being worn by the yellow robe).", could Zhao Gou not kill Yue Fei?

In addition, although Yue Fei is one of the few good commanders and is very talented in commanding troops, when he opens his resume and takes a closer look, his contributions are actually not that great, and he is not invincible. He has suffered many defeats in his life.

Therefore, Yue Fei is actually not qualified to be among the twenty-four heroes of Zhaoxun Pavilion.

Compared with Li Gang and Yue Fei, Zhao Ding, who entered Zhaoxun Pavilion without any controversy and won the title of "the leader of the revival of the wise ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty", is even more precious.

Therefore, Li Yan said enthusiastically to Zhao Ding, "If Yuanzhen can join my Andong Hudu Mansion, why worry about not being able to prosper in Andong Hudu Mansion!"

Zhao Ding was a little embarrassed!

He did not intend to join the Anton Gudu Mansion. In fact, he was tied back by Zhu Fu and was also surrounded by Wen Huanzhang.

But Li Yan seemed to not know these things and said, "Now my Andong Hudu Prefecture is about to open, and I hope that Yuan Town will not refuse."

The director of the military officer is the chief of the general and the general of Cao Wenbooks, and the good and evil are the sixth position of the guardian, the deputy guardian, the deputy guardian, the chief guardian, and the chief guardian, and the military and political officer. It is definitely a powerful high position. If the guardian governor is compared to a state in later generations, the guardian governor has already become a regular officer and has great room for development.

"this……"

Faced with Li Yan's full sincerity, Zhao Ding didn't know what to do for a moment.

At this time, Li Yan no longer cared about Zhao Ding, but instead turned his attention to the remaining two literati and asked Wen Huanzhang, "What are these two?"

Seeing that Li Yan, the governor, made things ambiguous with childlike means, Zhao Ding smiled bitterly and said to himself, "This governor is really... not to force me to tie him up, but to force me to be in the position of the military. This... is also sincere... what should I do?"

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