What kind of person is Yan Song? In 1480, Yan Song was born in the village of Fenyijieqiao in the capital of Yuanzhou, which is now Fengyi County, Jiangxi, and Jiajing, who he had to serve, would not be born until 27 years later. Yan Song's family was originally a famous and prestigious family in the Song Dynasty, but the so-called rich and noble did not have three generations, and by the generation of Yan Song's father, Yan Huai, the family had already fallen into the middle of the road. Yan Song's ancestor was Yan Mengheng, who used to be an official in Erpin, who was honest and self-respecting, just and upright, and often ate green vegetables when eating, known as Yan Green Vegetables. When he died, because the family property was too small, the ship that transported the remains of the family property back was shaky, people could only take the stone to increase the weight of the ship, and later people named this stone Buzheng Stone to commemorate Yan Song, the Qing official Gaozu, Yan Mengheng, since he was so poor, naturally did not leave anything for the family, so although Yan Song's life in the family when he was a child was not extremely poor, but what wealth and nobility should not be touched, his father Yan Huai was a poor talent, the talent was not very high, the examination came and went, and the examination did not take the exam for many years. But apparently his son Yan Song did not inherit his IQ.
Yan Song was brilliant from an early age, and at the age of 9, he was admitted to the county school with the first place in the child' birth, passed the county examination at the age of 10, and was raised at the age of 19. And that doesn't include the death of his father halfway through, and he kept filial piety for three years. 19-year-old Zhongju, to be reasonable, this result can really kill Hai Rui in a second, and Fan Jin is angry.
I believe that he must have set up his ideal of governing the world and serving the country one night, because of his efforts before the age of 45, I think he believed in the light. In the 18th year of The reign of Emperor Myeong-tsō, Iwamatsu was 25 years old, and this time he was directly selected as a Shujishi with the result of being the fifth in the country's poetry and scriptures. Obviously, for a 25-year-old young man, the future is immeasurable, but a few months later, The Great Ming Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youfan died, Zhu Houzhao succeeded to the throne, and Liu Jin's power fell to the world. In the first year of Zhengde, Liu Jin rebuked a person with a staff of 40 and demoted him to Guizhou Longchang as a postmaster, this person was called Wang Shouren. At that time, Yan Songgang was not a good person, very unaccustomed to Liu Jin's dictatorship, and was also indignant about the suppression of politicians, and in the second year of Zhengde, he was awarded the position of Hanlin editor, Zhengde for three years, through the death of his grandfather, Yan Song returned to his hometown to Dingyou.
In the summer of the following year, Yan Song's mother also died, and he was very sad that he had a serious illness, and he took leave to start filial piety for his grandmother and mother, which was a full nine years. In fact, it does not take nine years at all, 27 months is enough. At that time, Yan Song was a Shu Jishi, and he was already a solid candidate for the Hanlin Academy, not to mention that he could not be sick for nine years no matter how serious the illness was? So why did he keep filial piety at home for nine years? Because at that time, he was not yet the yan ge elder who later became powerful in the world. At that time, Liu Jin was running rampant with power and eight tigers, flying and stumbling, and the official atmosphere was dirty, and he did not want to become inflamed and attached to the situation, nor did he despise the same stream. In the past nine years, he built houses in the southeast of his hometown, named Qianshantang, studied day and night, there was no hustle and bustle of the city, no official battles, and no worldly disputes, Yan Song spent all day in the landscape and water, or went to the monastery to talk about the scriptures, in addition to these he also often cared about current affairs and sympathized with the sufferings of the people, at this time he left a lot of poems, there are deeply rooted in the folk "quit farming and talk about the old farmers", there are pity for the people to be exploited by corrupt officials and officials, "a little look at the people's music map, but also cool to urge the subject", there is also a sad for the people to meet the "remnants of the jiangguan chaos, Tang counts the spring to weep the old people.". At this time, Yan Song had ideals in mind, believed in the light, did not covet power, did not collude with Liu Jin, sympathized with the people, and wanted to benefit the people and be loyal to the country.
In October of the fifth year of Zhengde, Liu Jin was cursed, and Jiao Fang and more than 60 people in the same party either died, or who was killed, or idle, or anonymity, and became righteous in the middle of the country. Slowly, the court became clear, as if the ideal of saving the people of the world had hope again. So on March 25, 2011, after Yan Song got dressed up and went north to report, Yan Song official Fu Hanlin Academy edited. This year he was 37 years old, the first time he became an official, he treated his colleagues with sincerity, he had ideals, high ambitions, Mr. Wang Yangming, Li Mengyang and so on have had great contacts with him.
Li Mengyang praised Yan Song's early personality, and once made a special trip to Yan Song's hometown to visit Yan Song. When Mr. Wang Yangming put down the rebellion of King Ning, he also specially invited Yan Song, who was on leave at home, to participate in the military, and Yan Song did his best to enjoy the moon at night in Nanchang, and they climbed the Ming Yuanlou together, and gave poetry to enjoy the scenery, and their feelings were harmonious, but I don't know how Li Mengyang and Wang Yangming would feel in their hearts if Li Mengyang and Wang Yangming lived until the last years of Jiajing, looking at the old man Yan Ge, who had become a dragon at that time.
In the 12th year of Zhengde, Yan Song participated in the examination of the main examination ceremony department, and was bent on seeking talents for the country, and the 26 jinshi he admitted were later called Jiashi. After that, he was ordered to give lectures in the inner museum and taught Zhu Houzhao the Four Books and Five Classics, and when he was a teacher, he always told Zhu Houzhao that the virtue of Yao Shun lies in loving the people like a son, the way to employ people lies in hiding or not, and the basis of governing the country lies in the economy of the monarch and the people. There are both rules and regulations, but also hammer system, well-intentioned, whether it is sacrifice, reward the group of courtiers to give lectures, he seized every opportunity to explain to Zhu Houzhao the meaning of thrift and thrift and humble advice, but Zhu Houzhao's indifference naturally will not listen, Yan Song also lamented that he took the state's Qilu, his carving insect skills can not change the character of the king, and even thought of retreating again. At that time, Yan Song often encouraged himself with "willing to reward the present generation with loyalty and filial piety, and to see the merits of the ancients early on".
Although he was not a low official, he and his wife had always been very affectionate and had never taken concubines; he was a corporal and always reminded himself to be loyal to the court. At this time, he loved to make friends, was keen on knowledge, and believed in the light.
In March of 16, when he was 42 years old, The Great Ming Wu Temple died and Jiajing succeeded to the throne. In the early years of Jiajing, the court was clear, which gave Yan Zong great encouragement, so he kept writing kuangzheng reforms, and he also bought a small room in the capital, named Aixian, taking Aixian as his duty, always supervising himself. During this time, he recommended many excellent officials for the imperial court, and at that time he was still a young man who slayed dragons, and if he could continue like this, perhaps he would become a famous courtier throughout the ages, a generation of sages. But it was a pity that he was not Yu Shaobao, he was not Zhang Jiangling, he was Elder Yan Ge.
In the 7th year of Jiajing, he was ordered to go to the mausoleum of King Xingxian to preside over the sacrifice, and came back to report that after he went to the treasure book and the divine bed, the heavens descended on Ganlin, and said what was said when the stone produced jujube yang, the group of storks gathered, the stele entered the Han River, the river rose sharply, he wrote an inscription carving stone, this day descended Xiangrui, I don't know if he is nonsense, but this is enough to show that Yan Song began to change, because of the great ceremonial event, Lixing Xianwang has a very important significance, Jiajing is very superstitious Xiangrui. He made Jiajing very happy, and the next year he promoted him to the left waiter of the ceremonial department, you know that this year he only promoted the right attendant of the ceremonial department, this speed can be called Qingyun straight up, this is what he rarely encountered in his official career, and it was also the first time he began to get promoted through the whiskers and horses, but at that time he had not completely deviated from his original intention, while repaying Xiangrui, he did not forget the disaster he saw in Henan, he wrote bluntly that the hungry people ate hemp leaves, bark, sold children and sold MVs, and the local areas were violent. Because of this letter, Jiajing sent hundreds of thousands of knits, and the victims were rescued. After that, he was sent to Nanjing, which was nine years, I don't know what he experienced in these nine years, but these nine years were too long, his starting point was very high, but for 20 years as an official, he had spent half his life, and in the blink of an eye, he was almost 50 years old, and he thought that he could live a clean life and serve the country and the people, but looking back at the first half of his life, he seemed to have gained nothing.
In the official arena, he saw that the oil-headed and slippery-headed guy was called a filial piety; he saw that people who had no talent at all were constantly promoted; he saw that the reason for the promotion of corrupt officials was actually incorruptible; he also saw that corruption and bribery could turn the crisis into safety; and he also saw the luxurious life of high-ranking officials of rich merchants who spent thousands of dollars. It seems that the officialdom does not value talent so much, because no matter how talented you are, they only need you as a tool of the superior officer, doing mechanical work, you only need to do it, you don't need to show your ability, and no one cares what you have. If you want to be promoted, you can't be a good person, you have to bribe the superiors, you need to learn to slap the horse and smile at the shoulders, as long as you can get promoted and get rich, you have to suck the carbuncle and know everything. So why can't I Yan Song do this? He just watched, and then thought, thinking that his ancestors had been clean all their lives, but they had not gained anything, nor had they left anything for their children and grandchildren, so he watched like this, looked at the individuals around him who were rich and wealthy, he thought like this, thinking that he had spent half his life for the country and the people, he had not gotten anything, the people did not seem to have anything to do with himself, and he did not seem to believe in the ideal, after all, it had been so long, so long that the ideal became more and more blurred in the stagnation of time.
He underestimated the alienation of the officialdom, which is the place that can best alienate people, and he is not a person with a firm heart, and gradually she began to forget his ideals, he began to believe in his ideals, he felt that the world might have been dark, but he forgot that believing in itself is powerful, the heart is the world, each of us is chaotic at the beginning, there is no color, no black and white, until one day, there is something called conscience that tells us, There will be light in this world, but on the road we walk, all we can see is darkness, and there are many temptations in the darkness, so many people have believed in the light for a short time, but then they choose to join the darkness, maybe they will live well, but they will never know what is called light, there is Yan Song in this kind of person, some people understand the darkness, but still choose to believe in the light, they stick to the thorns all the way in the darkness, all the way to good and evil, all the way to the unity of knowledge and action, and have always maintained their belief. Finally they finally saw the light, and the heart finally became bright, or the hearts of these people have always been bright.
Among these people are Yu Shaobao, Mr. Wang Yangming, and Zhang Jiangling, who believe in the power of the world's heart, not outside things but in the heart. The world is not good or bad, not black and not white, the heavens and the earth are not kind, nor are they unkind, he will not pity the dog, nor will he hate the dog, he just gives all the dogs a fair choice, impartiality, not benevolent and not evil, good and bad, black and white, but our own color. Unfortunately, Yan Song and Mr. Wang Yangming have a good relationship, but they did not learn this from Mr. Wang Yangming.
Gibran's poem says that we have gone so far that we have forgotten why we set out. Yes, Yan Song had gone so far that he had forgotten why he had set out, and it could only be said that Yan Song had also believed in the light, but later he did not believe it.
In the 15th year of Jiajing, YanSong was 57 years old, and this year Yansong came to The Beijing Division to celebrate the Longevity Festival. In December, Libu Shangshu Xia Yan entered the cabinet to prepare for the machine, felt that Yan Song was of high character, and elected Yan Song to take over as Libu Shangshu, but Xia Yan forgot that this Yan Song was no longer the Yan Song of nine years ago, and the opportunity that Yan Song wanted finally came.
In the 16th year of Jiajing, Jiajing tended to be retro in the article, while Yan Song was quite accomplished in ancient Literature and was often summoned to the palace to talk all night long. In the 17th year of Jiajing, someone wrote to invite Jiajing's biological father to enter the Taimiao Temple, although in the past it was too much for the civil officials to let Jiajing recognize his father, but this time it was obvious that Jiajing was excessive, and Yu was unreasonable, because King Xingxian had not been an emperor, and the ministers of the DPRK and China wanted to stop it, but Jiajing was furious and questioned the courtiers, at this time, Yan Song, who had previously opposed Jiajing, suddenly changed his tone, expressed his approval, and "prepared for the etiquette" to cater to Jiajing, gained Jiajing's trust, and he also began to lose his former integrity. After this, he framed Xia Yan, formed a party for personal gain, stole power for profit, promoted party henchmen, used qingzi to please Jiajing, and obeyed Jiajing's will, just as he himself said, whatever Jiajing wanted to do, even if it was absurd and ridiculous, even if it was ridiculous and ridiculous.
He constantly went to build Taoist temples and workshops in twenty or thirty places, served tens of thousands of craftsmen, paid two or three million yuan in annual expenses, and when the funds were insufficient, all kinds of exploitation and misappropriation became more and more intense, and the financial deficit became more and more serious. Jiajing has moved to the Xiyuan Wanshou Palace since the change of jiajing's palace maid in the 20th year, and the chancellor can rarely see Jiajing, but Yan Song can often see Jiajing, so Jiajing has great affection for him. So he took advantage of this favor and understanding of Jiajing's personality to begin to frame dissidents and mutilate Zhongliang. In the past 20 years, Zhang Jing, Li Tianpet, Xie Yu, Ye Jing, Tong Hanchen, Zhao Jing, Wang Zongdi, Li Rujin, Shen Lian, Xu Xueshi, Yang Jisheng, Wu Shilai, dong Chuance, etc. have all been framed and persecuted. Others who made him unhappy were dismissed from office on the charge of investigation, which can be described as a power tilt against the opposition. Sometimes there are officials who risk their lives to impeach, but Jiajing always shields them.
When the Wokou rebelled, he used his cronies to collect bribes, enrich themselves, and miss the fighters, thus worsening the war situation, and the officialdom became a common practice in buying officials and knights under the control of Yan Song, and the party was in a dirty mess. He didn't care, only for himself, only for power, and even at the expense of raising Kou, in the dark, he had long forgotten why he set out in the first place. Yan Song held power for more and more, the court was all over the Yan Party, but slowly Yan Song grew old, people will always be old, Yan Song is no exception, he began to find that his control over the court was getting weaker and weaker, so he began to arrange for his son to help him take power, arranged for his son Yan Shifan to be a waiter in the Ministry of Works, Yan Shifan bribed Jiajing left and right, Jiajing's every move Yan Shifan knew everything, people called Yan Shifan xiaoge lao, even Yu Wang, that is, later Longqing, also needed to pay bribes to Yan Shifan to ensure peace, and Yan Shifan's power fell to the opposition.
Until one day, Jiajing was disgusted with Yan Song's power and the placement of henchmen, and then he completely fell out of favor because of a sentence from Lan Daoxing, and then Yushi Zou Yinglong impeached Yan Song's father and son for illegality. Jiajing turned his face ruthlessly, making Yan Song zhishi, so the era that belonged to Yan Ge was over.
I don't know if he ever thought that when he let Xia Yan fall out of favor because of a hat, he never thought that he would have such a day. On March 24, 1944, Yan Song's first strategist, his son, Yan Shifan, one of the only three wise men in the world, was executed along with his henchman Luo Longwen, Yan Song was confiscated of his family property, cut off officials and returned to his hometown, and soon, Yan Song's family was stripped of pieces. He was homeless, so he had to ask someone to build a grass hut next to his ancestor's tomb to feed him.
After another two years, Yan Song died of loneliness, poverty and illness at the age of 87. After his death, there was neither a coffin to be buried, nor a person to mourn. Before he died, he sat down with difficulty and wrote with a pen, "In his life, he only serves the country loyally, and when he dies, he follows people to say right from wrong." When I see these two sentences now, I still feel ironic, who is his so-called bold and loyal? Just like where is Jiajing's cleverness used? This pair of monarchs is really a natural match, both equally selfish.
Looking at Yan Song's square inscription on the Pharaoh's way, I could hardly relate her to the evil dragon who was scheming and calamity to the country and the people. Perhaps only from his suicide, I can vaguely recognize that he was also a square dragon slayer teenager, but unfortunately he eventually became a dragon!