A white-haired old man standing in the cold wind with a stick, he weakly lifted a pair of old yellow eyes, looking at the village where he grew up in Si, a dirt road leading to his home, which now no longer belonged to him, and he became a wandering beggar. He was scolded as a power traitor during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty- Yan Song.
A gust of wind swept up the dust on the road and whimpered in his ears. He heard the sound of the wind, and he also heard the terrible friction coming from a dark and late-night prison many years ago...
It was Yang Jisheng who was killed by him scraping the rotten flesh and maggots on his legs with a broken bowl piece, scraping off the fascia covering the bones, and emitting a terrible and harsh grinding sound, although the sound was weak, it was shocking and stinging people's eardrums. With the help of the faint light, it was the guard holding a prison lamp, and his hand was shaking constantly. A muffled voice came from the darkness: "Don't move, I can't see clearly." The guards tried to control their hands, but the panic still caused him to tremble constantly.
In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (1555), this beaten warrior, Yang Jisheng, was executed. Before the execution, Wang Shizhen paid the guards, stood in the putrid and dark prison, and looked at his friend who was about to die, Wang Shizhen cried loudly: "Jiaoshan, how did things become like this?" Yang Jisheng seemed unusually calm, and he smiled and comforted the weeping "send-off": "Yuanmei, you don't have to do this." ”
The Yang Jisheng who scolded him died, but Wang Shizhen's cries often lingered in his ears; this cry was not only for Yang Jisheng, but also for Wang Shizhen himself: it was because Wang Shizhen had been secretly caring for and helping Yang Jisheng in prison that he was hated by him, and he wanted to kill Wang Shizhen, but for a while he could not grasp the handle of the other party, so this account was calculated on the head of Wang Shizhen's father, Wang Chen, a not serious work problem, and after his operation, he was asked to be a capital crime.
He recalled the scene where Wang Shizhen ran to his house to save his father and wept bitterly and begged him: while he swore to comfort the other party despite his reassurance, he secretly urged the people of the Three Laws Division to act as soon as possible. Wang Shizhen is really a filial piety! In order to save his father, he actually knelt down on the way of the ministers, prostrated his head and slapped his mouth wildly, although Wang Shizhen's prostration was full of blood, and he was not at all moved. It's just that the cries of pain often appear in dreams.
An extremely greedy and selfish heart is almost numb to humanity, and he will not care whenever the "noise" in these dreams appears. Maybe people are old and will often have auditory hallucinations!
He turned his head to look at the poplar on the side of the road. Life is like a fallen leaf, once a young shoot, but also experienced the prosperity of the world, will eventually fall silently in the cold wind. Xia Yan, who was framed to death by him, once lamented to Bai Yang--"Poplar, Poplar, can you know that I will not return here?" ”
The upright Xia Yan was the first assistant of the imperial court at that time, and also a stumbling block on the road to Yan Song's great cause of fame in life, and he wanted not only the throne of the first assistant, but also the life of Xia Yan.
Attempting to attack Xia Yan and kill him, the Moruo River Loop Incident. He used Qiu Luan to make false accusations, arrested and imprisoned the border general Zeng Milling, and then used Xia Yan zeng to support Zeng Milling in recovering the Hetao area, framing Xia Yan for secretly contacting the border guards and plotting against him. In the end, on the charge of "handing over to the officials of the attendants", he executed the wise and honest border general Zeng Qiao and beheaded Xia Yan, who was just and righteous.
Those noises sounded in his ears again, which were the sighs and scoldings of the people after Xia Yan was beheaded: "Since ancient times, the sages have many thin lives, and the adulterers and evils are all crowned marquises"; "Hate Yan Jiexi, do things into deception, good and evil will eventually be rewarded, only to fight early and late."
Scene after scene of the past came to his mind: the people who were devastated in the change of Gengshu, the arrogant Li Da, and his own first assistant who was weak to the outside and clever in his internal power; in this incident, the Jinyi guard Shen Guoshang played Zhang Zhan, "The university scholar Song, greedy, ill-fated, foolish heart stubborn to iron stone;" His son Yan Shifan instructed people to kill Shen Zhen at Xuanfu, and Shen Jun's two sons were also beaten to death in prison; the later Daoist Lan Daoxing also pretended to be a ghost in front of the emperor, and eventually he was also imprisoned. He was tortured to death; zou yinglong and Lin Run, one by one, attacked him, all wanting to kill him; until the appearance of the strongest and most terrifying opponent, he became the terminator of his "devil", this person was -- Xu Jie, Xu Jie was a person who could really grasp the key point and grasp the best time to strike, and a copy of Xu Jie's recital touched Jiajing's pain point -- "Yan Shifan colluded with Wu Kou and Beiyuan to secretly form a private armed force, and built a large number of civil engineering in his hometown in a vain attempt to overthrow Daming..."
It was these fictitious things that made Jiajing angry and ashamed, and he ordered the beheading of Yan Shifan, and his hometown was also raided, and he worked hard and greedily for a lifetime, risking his life, facing the spit and scolding of thousands of people, accompanying the smiling faces of slaves, fighting with people, fighting with people, and in the end it was replaced by a family that was destroyed and had nothing.
What a lifetime' work! Thirty-two thousand gold, three million two silver, countless treasures and paintings, the people of the imperial court have been searching for a month, and now they are gone, there is nothing. Thinking of this, his heart was dripping blood. He may not have imagined that the wealth he had embezzled would later be compiled into a book, "Records of The Icebergs of Tianshui".
He didn't want to think much about it anymore, and he took one last look at his hometown: the beginning of his life and career; the road to the outside world, from which he had walked out with integrity and dreams.
At an early age, he was very intelligent: he could write at the age of three; he could recite poems at the age of six; and at the age of eight he was admitted to the county school as an excellent child.
In his youth, he was relatively upright: in the first year of Zhengde (1506), he was elected hanlin and became a Shujishi, and this year, he was 26 years old. Because the government was controlled by Liu Jin, Channing, Jiang Bin and others at that time, he resolutely resigned his official post and returned home because he was unwilling to work with these people, and later the imperial court repeatedly recruited him, and he also refused to accept it -- "The traitor is in charge, and he cannot be with them under the circumstances." "Sonorous vows, showing his responsibility and integrity."
Later, however, he changed. In the sixth year of Jiajing (1527), at the age of 47, he became an official again, at this time, coinciding with the boiling "Great Ceremony" incident, and in July of the seventeenth year of Jiajing (1538), he wrote "Qingyun Fu" and "Great Gift Completion Fu" with a stroke of his pen. Two horse-ass articles have since determined the direction of his life - if you want to soar, you must be obsessed with flattery and unscrupulous means.
The real situation gradually changed him, causing him to lose his original intention - to learn, to be honest, and to serve the country. The sinister and dark of the officialdom; the greed and desire of human nature make him lose the direction of life and forget the way of coming.
Life is like a dream, his dream is someone else's nightmare; his nightmare can make Daming get back on track. As the poet Zangkejia wrote in the modern poem "Some People": "Some people, he lives, others can not live ... He lives and others can't live people, and his fate can be seen..."
Today, Yan Song is an old man with white hair; a homeless beggar. At dusk, he braved the cold wind in the wilderness to return to the cemetery in the wilderness (a place used to sacrifice the grave, which occasionally contained some sacrifices, and Yan Song relied on this to feed himself). In the middle of the night, the cold wind whistled, and this former high-powered, cunning, calculated, corpse-like man died in loneliness and desolation. He was 88 years old.
A shady person died, and Daming Jiangshan ushered in a brief period of light under the governance of Xu Jie and others!