Treaty of Shaoxing

November 11, 1141

Song China formally accepted the Huai River as its border with the Jurchen Jin and agreed to annual tribute in silver and silk. The deal turned the loyalist general Yue Fei into an obstacle; he was executed by the court on trumped-up charges weeks later. The treaty secured peace at the price of national humiliation, and Yue Fei's death became the defining martyrdom of Chinese patriotic tradition.