Yue Fei and Qin Hui

Author: Gao Guang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: "Listen to the turbid waves outside the golden sand, it is this sound that washes away heroes." When we mention Yue Fei, a wave of horse hooves and beacons of war immediately surge before our eyes, followed by a vast expanse of blood, spreading across the sky like the heavens. "Yue Fei and Qin Hui" is Gao Guang's fourth historical novel. In the passionate and resentful words of the author, the hero is reborn from the flames and returns to the world in radiance. The Yue Fei depicted by the writer is a voice of great resonance, singing with passion, blameless and unwavering, ready to risk his life at any moment for the sake of the nation and its people. When he bears the weight of humiliation and retires to the countryside, he willingly lives in poverty with empty sleeves. This immense personal strength not only moves loyal ministers and scholars like Liang Hongyu and Han Shizhong to wholeheartedly serve the country but also makes treacherous officials sigh in envy and shed tears in secret, even feeling lifelong shame for their own petty and stubborn nature. The man who sent Yue Fei to the executioner's block was Qin Hui, the greatest traitor of the Southern Song Dynasty. This court minister was exceptionally clever and cunning, silent in his killings, treating the Great Song Dynasty as a chess piece, constantly manipulating and playing with it. What is chilling is that his slyness and treachery made every action of his seem so rational, so effortlessly smooth, that even before executing Yue Fei, he had already thought of how to exonerate him. The death of Yue Fei was a disgrace to the Southern Song Dynasty and also a disgrace to Chinese history. Yet the blood he shed for this cause is enough to illuminate history, the nation, and the soul of a people.