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The so-called ghost talent refers to the intelligence quotient who has an absurdly high IQ and has talents that are difficult for ordinary people to look back on, and there are only a few people in Chinese history who can be called ghost talents. Guo Jia during the Three Kingdoms period, the history books call him "a brilliant strategist, a strange soldier of the world", dedicated the doctrine of ten victories and ten defeats, helped Cao Cao build confidence, and then offered a plan to kill Lü Bu, defeat Liu Bei, and alienate the two brothers yuan shao, known as the first ghost talent of the Three Kingdoms. Coincidentally, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was also a ghost talent, who was talented but did bad things, and the ending was gratifying.
He was none other than Yan Song's son, Yan Shifan. In terms of talent, Yan Song is also an uncompromising talent, a twenty-five-year-old scholar and the first, with deep calligraphy attainments, and is good at writing words, and is an official to the first assistant of the cabinet. However, Yan Song's character was inferior, he had to pat himself on the back, he framed loyal subjects for his own selfish interests, and he did not do less to eliminate dissidents, and Xia Yan, Zeng Milling, Yang Jisheng, and others were successively belittled or wrongfully killed because of Yan Song's frames.
The "History of Ming" lists six major traitors, Yan Song is famous on the list, and his bad deeds are enough to be compared with Wei Zhongxian and others: "Yan Song and Wei Zhongxian rose up one after another, poisoned and good, and died in the country." The ancients said, "Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the son of a mouse will punch holes." As the only son of Yan Song, Yan Shifan not only inherited his father's intelligence, but also inherited all his sinister and cunning character, and was even more excessive than his old son.
Yan Shifan's appearance was bumpy, and the history books described it like this: "Short fat body, squinting at a glance." "He is not tall, and he is blind in one eye, if he is born in an ordinary family, he can't even find a wife, and he will end up alone." However, Yan Shifan's life was too good, and with the relationship of his father Yan Song, he did not need to take the imperial examination, directly entered the court as an official, and easily became the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, which was an official position that was difficult for others to get in their lifetime.
The arrogant and frivolous Yan Shifan did not know what a low-key was, and he was very arrogant in his behavior, believing that there were only two people in the world at that time who could match him, namely, Lu Bing, who commanded The Jinyi Guard, and Yang Bo, who was both literate and martial, in addition to these two, Yan Shifan was dismissive of others. Objectively speaking, Yan Shifan is indeed very clever, he has read many books, and his greatest skill is to guess what the Jiajing Emperor has in mind, and he can guess the emperor's intentions every time and formulate a perfect countermeasure.
Jiajing did not like to go to the court step by step, and it seemed that refining Dan and seeking immortals was his greatest interest, but he was proficient in the art of imperial power and controlled all the major affairs of the imperial court. However, Jiajing never directly told the ministers what he thought, but let the ministers speculate, like a dumb puzzle. Once, Jiajing ordered Yan Song and Xu Jie to submit opinions overnight in response to something, and then handed it over to him for review.
Yan Song and Xu Jie did not dare to delay, racking their brains to think about the problem, and did not submit the plan to the emperor until more than two o'clock in the morning. I thought I could pass the pass, but the plan was quickly sent back, and Jiajing circled a number of contents on it, implying that he was very dissatisfied with the plan they gave and had to be revised. Xu Jie had no idea, and Yan Song was also very troubled, so he quickly let his extremely clever son help.
Yan Shifan smiled slightly, almost without any hesitation, picked up the pen and ink and began to write, Bian Zhengbo quoted in one breath, Yan Song presented this plan, Jiajing expressed quite satisfied. Since then, as long as Yan Song encountered difficulties, he let his son Yan Shifan write an answer on behalf of him, and even every time it was in line with the emperor's wishes, it can be seen that Yan Shifan worked hard and had a good grasp of Jiajing's psychology, and even his father Yan Song could not reach it.
Unfortunately, he did not use his talent on the right path, and with the power of his father Yan Song and the favor of the emperor, he did too many corrupt things, controlled the appointment and dismissal of officials in the dprk, used various means to amass wealth, and the gold and silver jewelry he obtained filled the cellar. What was even more excessive was that even the crown prince had to look at Yan Shifan's face, and Zhu Zaiyuan, the king of Yu, that is, the later Ming Muzong, did not get the silver two issued by the household for three years.
There was really no way, so he had to send someone to give Gifts to Yan Shifan, and soon the Yu King's Mansion received a replacement gift. Although many ministers complained about the impeachment of Yan Song and Yan Shifan, Jiajing did not take it seriously and still favored their father and son. As the saying goes, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by Lin Feng, and in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Yushi Linrun arrested Yan Shifan and put him in prison, and Yan Shifan actually uttered a wild word: "No fear, the prison will be solved." ”
The reason why he was so confident was because he heard the reason why Lin Run arrested him was to avenge Yang Jisheng and Shen Lian, and Yang Jisheng and Shen Lian were ordered by Jiajing to be executed. Yan Shifan knew too much about the character of the Jiajing Emperor, he was self-absorbed and loved face, if the emperor asked Yan Shifan, it was equivalent to punching himself in the face, so Yan Shifan had no fear. There is a strong hand in the strong, a mountain is still higher than a mountain, and the arrogant Yan Shifan miscalculated this time.
When Lin Run was preparing to hand over Yan Shifan's charges to the emperor, Xu Jie decisively intervened to stop it, and took out a new indictment, pointing out Yan Shifan's three crimes, Jiajing was furious after reading it, and ordered Yan Shifan to be cut down. Which three crimes are they? First, collude with pirates. Luo Longwen had close contact with the pirate leaders, and Luo Longwen served as an aide in Yan Shifan's mansion, and the two had a very strong relationship. Second, fornication and misdeeds. Shi Shuyun: "Long Wen also recruited five hundred members of the Zhiyu Party to defect to Japan for the sake of the world." ”
The third crime was even more vicious, Yan Shifan occupied a piece of land with royal spirit, and built a mansion on it. The "History of Ming" records: "Shi Fan used Peng Kong's words to take the king's qi in Nanchang Cangdi, take the rule of the first, and make a king." Xu Jie made a move, the move was fatal, the above three crimes, all touched Jiajing's bottom line, and any one of them could make Yan Shifan die. Yan Shifan was beheaded, Yan Song was deposed and raided, the courtiers celebrated each other, and the people rushed to tell each other, which was really a great pleasure.
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