As the first wise emperor in the Ming Dynasty from Hubei Zhongxiang, Jiajing became yan song who looked like he had been calling the wind and rain for fourteen years in the imperial court, although above his character was a villain who took revenge for personal gain, but from the perspective of political ability and human feelings, Yan Song was an extremely intelligent old fox. He can always observe the crab with a cold eye and observe every move in the official field and the wind and grass of the imperial court, and can properly grasp the psychological contradictions between Jiajing and his subordinates, and find out the means and cracks suitable for his breakthrough, and the representative work of his political career is to fight between his old opponent Xia Yan with one punch and one slap.
One: Fellow villagers see fellow villagers, and two tears flow
As Xia Yan and Yan Song, who are also from Jiangxi, one is a Fen Yi person and the other is a Guixi person. In the spirit of political level, they are all first-class political experts, the only difference is that Xia Yan is more from the level of national justice, while Yan Song is a personal fly camp dog after coming to Beijing. Since just entering the political arena, Xia Yan has been known for daring to write and upright.
After the Jiajing Emperor succeeded to the throne, Xia Yan immediately won the emperor's appreciation because of his skill in writing green words, and everyone knew that Yan Song was a down-to-earth qingzi prime minister, and it was not known that Xia Yan became famous in this regard earlier than him. Because the Jiajing Emperor was very religious in Taoism, although Xia Yan did not believe in this, but because of his excellent writing, sometimes even Jiajing, who was at the top of the IQ in the emperor, often begged and waited for Xia Shoufu to help him write qingzi, and before Yan Song did not appear, the two sides were still relatively harmonious.
Xia Yan mentioned earlier that although his desire to control power is also very strong, his starting point is all for the good of the country, and it is precisely because of the inappropriate use of personal power that Yan Song found flaws in Xia Yan's emotional intelligence and words and deeds, and finally defeated his opponent.
Although he despised Yan Song, and even at a banquet in Yan Song, like Liu Bei went to Nanyang to invite Zhuge Liang to invite Zhuge Liang, he begged Xia Yan to come to his banquet, of course, Yan Laoqian had houses in Jiangsu and other places, but mainly the Chaoyang masses, and there were houses in the core area. However, because they were all Fellows of Jiangxi, Xia Yan still recommended Yan Song after becoming the first assistant. Because they originally looked down on Yan Song from the bottom of their hearts, and the two sides were in the same dynasty as the city, the contradiction between the two immediately broke out.
First of all, the breakthrough point of the contradiction was the famous Xiangyeguan incident in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and Jiajing's obsession with Taoism led him to think of the bull's nose and the old Tao in every word and deed, and even seriously and seriously made the Xiangye crown in Taoism and distributed it to the trusted ministers around him. Yan Song and Xia Yan got two of them, a fortuitous conversation, Yan Song found that the relationship between Xia Yan and the emperor was actually not a monolith, so he was reprimanded by Xia Yan that he should not be a Taoist, turning his head to see Yan Song every day with a crown protected by a layer of green veil, Yan Song's good feelings in the emperor's mind rose sharply, which gradually sentenced Xia Yan to death.
Two: Xia Yan's horse lost its front hoof
Then, although it was Xia Yan, a high-ranking official, his self-protection was extremely poor. Soon, Yan Shifan, the son of Yan Song, who was working inside the Chaoyang Gate, was corrupt and perverted the law, accepted bribes, and was captured by Xia Yan. So he secretly planned a series of official impeachment cases, ready to solve Yan Song's father and son in one fell swoop! When Yan Song heard about this, he immediately lost his doctrine.
However, his son Yan Shifan had a good idea. He had long seen that Xia Yan was a troubled person, so he proposed that his father and son go to Xia Yan's house to cry and intercede. So the next day, in front of Xia Yan, the chancellor of Daming, two high-ranking officials, Yan Song and Yan Shifan, knelt on the ground, cried breathlessly, and carried out extremely profound self-criticism.
The actions of the two finally impressed Xia Shoufu, and he supported Yan Song's father and son with his hands. This was originally a good opportunity to fight Yan Song, and The baton successor Xu Jie behind Xia Yan was much more decisive than he was. Therefore, Xia Shoufu did not kill us, then our father and son would give him a ride.
Three: Zhongshan wolf Yan Song
Soon, a letter was handed to the Jiajing Emperor, who was working in the Taihe Palace, and Lu Bing, one of the three smartest people in the world at that time, who was also attacked by Xia Yan, also sided with Yan Song because of the political blows of Xia Yan. Zeng Milling, whose frontier was in the Gansu region of Ningxia, proposed to retake Hetao, and both Xia Yan and Jiajing were happy to say yes because of the three-minute heat, but soon Jiajing was not interested. The emperor was no longer interested, and Xia Yan was bad.
Soon Yan Song wrote a letter, and Xia Yan colluded with the bian general, otherwise where would he come from with such high enthusiasm. Jiajing analyzed the results and felt that Yan Song's words were polite, as Yan Song's biggest political opponent on the way forward, in the face of xia yan, a falling water dog, Yan Song would not let go of such a good opportunity to solve Xia Yan. In addition, Jiajing hated Xia Shoufu because of incidents such as Xiangyeguan, and Xia Yan naturally had to be treated with a human head on the ground.
From the perspective of political struggle, Xia Yan did not have the attitude of ideological struggle that poor Kou wanted to pursue, but instead let go of the human spirit and Yan Song, who had the same skills as himself in writing green words, was really short-sighted, and the benevolence of a single thought was often his own disgrace.
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