After Yue Fei was thrown into prison, Han Shizhong demanded to know what evidence Qin Hui had.
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秦桧 answered him with 莫须有 "perhaps there was", and Han replied that those three words could never convince the world. The phrase still means a trumped-up charge. Han soon gave up his command and lived out his life quietly in Hangzhou.
culture
In 1130 his fleet trapped the Jin army at 黄天荡 on the Yangtze for 48 days while his wife 梁红玉 beat the war drums, a scene retold in Peking opera.
