According to the "Biography of the Ming Dynasty, The Tale of the Traitor, Yan Shifan", "Yan Shifan was a fierce thief, a favored by his father, and he was tireless in recruiting power." ”
Yan Shifan was the son of Yan Song, the first assistant minister of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Yan Song single-handedly covered the sky inside and outside the imperial court, and Yan Shifan, under the "care" of his father, held a high position in the middle of the dynasty, wantonly embezzled and accepted bribes, indulged in alcohol, and was extremely extravagant, and his absurdity was even greater than that of Yan Song, and he could be called the first major traitor of the Jiajing Dynasty.
Yan Shifan was notorious all his life, but since he could become the "first traitor", he himself also had some real talent and practical learning.
Not only could he always curry favor with the uncertain Jiajing Emperor, but he also knew how to play tricks and balance his subjects, and he could also calmly withstand the verbal criticism and penalism of the people and officials below, and he was indeed a not simple figure.
Jiajing
Speaking of Yan Shifan, it can only be said that he is a chaotic demon king who is "blissful in life and a leader when he dies".
Such a wise person, however, embarked on a wrong path of harming the country and the people, and in the end, his wisdom was mistaken by wisdom and he lost his life.
Yan Shifan
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Yan Shifan, the character Deqiu, the number of the East Building, but according to historical records, Yan Shifan this person "short fat body, squinting one-eyed", is a "one-eyed dragon fat man", extremely ugly looking.
Yan Shifan was born into a family of high-ranking officials and nobles, and his father Yan Song was the longest-serving cabinet assistant during the Jiajing period of Emperor Ming.
Under the support of Yan Song's fame, Yan Shifan was directly promoted from the capital Guozijian all the way to the position of Left Attendant of the Ministry of Works without being examined.
Yan Song
Nevertheless, unlike other clumsy children who did not learn and did not learn, Yan Shifan was a genius who was even recognized in history.
The historical record says, "Yan Shifan is quite familiar with the national code and knows the current affairs."
His talent was recognized by even the Jiajing Emperor at that time.
It is precisely because of the favor of the emperor that Yan Song's father and son are so brazen and bold in the middle of the court.
It is said that the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was bent on cultivating immortals in the room and seeking the Tao, and rarely asked about the political affairs of the DPRK and China.
The way the Jiajing Emperor managed government affairs was to "come up with riddles" and let the ministers "guess the bottom of the puzzle".
It is said that the companion is like a companion tiger, the holy will is unpredictable, if you guess wrong, it is a big thing to lose your official or even lose your life, and if you guess correctly, it is naturally a good thing to ascend to heaven one step at a time.
Yan Shifan's greatest ability as a person is to "speculate on the Holy Will."
Still
Even if the city government is as deep as Yan Song and Xu Jie, such as the important ministers in the court, Yan Shifan can be said to be the number one in terms of "guessing".
Yan Shifan himself learned to be rich in five cars, knowledgeable about the past and the present, and he also had the ability to never forget.
If the Jiajing Emperor encountered any problems that others could not solve, Yan Shifan could accurately say the answer to the question.
Even some obscure scriptures, Yan Shifan can explain their origins and interpretations in detail.
In addition, Yan Shifan's literary style is outstanding, and a "green word" is particularly well written.
This "green word" is the material that the Jiajing Emperor needs to submit when he wears a Taoist costume to pray to the Jade Emperor, and belongs to a kind of "endowment" in the "poetry and song endowment", which not only needs to pay attention to algae decoration and use of codes in words, but also requires harmonic harmony in pronunciation.
Whenever the Jiajing Emperor prayed for his blessing, he asked his ministers to write a "green word" for him.
Yan Shifan's flattering kung fu is extremely good, so his "green words" are always particularly favored by the emperor, and compared with Yan Song, the "green word prime minister", Yan Shifan is even more "blue out of blue".
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Because of Yan Shifan's "ghost talent", he has become more and more prosperous in his career.
While relying on his father Yan Song's connections and means inside and outside the imperial court, Yan Shifan flattered the Jiajing Emperor, and for many years he held a high position and became the "first prince under the heavens" at that time.
His father was in the first auxiliary position, and Yan Shifan himself was also a waiter in the Ministry of Works, so he was so powerful that there were naturally not a few people who came to curry favor.
At that time, the Jiajing Emperor ignored the government, and most of the important administrative affairs were entrusted to Yan Song.
Yan Song was old and still had to accompany the emperor at all times, so the important affairs of the court were handed over to Yan Shifan.
Yan Shifan's way of dealing with the world is indeed quite a situation, as a red person in front of the emperor, many people want to "add officials to the knighthood" for themselves through Yan Shifan's hand, and the people who come to see him every day are endless, and they all bring valuable meeting gifts.
Whether it is a project or an official promotion, in short, the big and small affairs of the DPRK and China, Yan Shifan can always "get a piece of the pie." ”
What's more, Yan Shifan would report a number directly based on the official's situation.
"Officials have no size, they all have a price", so the officials had to obediently obey and send all the money to him.
With the trust of the emperor and the favor of Yan Song, Yan Shifan became more and more unscrupulous and arrogant.
It is recorded in the history books that Yan Shifan not only accepted bribes from officials, but also had the audacity to not even give the face of the prince of the dynasty.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, the crown prince should receive a living expense from the emperor every year as a household expense.
But the emperor was obsessed with the search for immortality, so he paid little attention to government affairs and children's affairs.
Over time, even Yan Shifan's attitude toward the prince was extremely cold, and he did not pay this "living expenses" to the prince for three consecutive years.
In desperation, the prince had to send more than a thousand people to Yan Shifan's mansion, and only after that did he get the money that belonged to him.
For this matter, Yan Shifan was extremely proud, and even made a big fuss, claiming that "the imperial court has no wealth."
According to historical records, Yan Shifan used the money he received from bribes to build a family house in the capital spanning three or four streets and alleys, and also fenced a pond with an area of dozens of acres, of which rare birds and laurel trees are very difficult to see.
Yan Shifan exhausted all kinds of means to loot the people's fat and people's ointment, such a huge wealth, the family can not put down, and can not be easily seen by people, Yan Shifan thought of a way, that is, to bury these wealth in the ground.
So Yan Shifan ordered people to dig a cellar in their home, and it took him three days and three nights with his wife to hide all these unsightly possessions.
This cellar is "one foot deep and five feet square", which is about ten cubic meters according to modern area.
This was only a small part of Yan Shifan's home in the capital.
In Yan's hometown of Fengyi County, Yan Shifan's cellar area was more than double that of the capital.
And in order to hide his eyes and ears, Yan Shifan also put a lot of thought into the cellar of his hometown.
He sent people to pile up dirt on the cellar and plant flowers and trees, creating a beautiful scene of garden beauty.
Yan Shifan invited Yan Song to come to visit, Yan Song looked at the mountains of gold and silver jewelry piled up in front of him, he was also stunned, and directly called out", "Those who accumulate more will die", and then hurriedly rushed to the direction of home.
In the capital city, Yan Shifan feasted on guests every day, indulging in pleasures, and there were also flocks of concubines in the palace, embracing left and right.
According to historical records, in addition to Yan Shifan's greed for money, another major hobby is to indulge in beauty.
In this regard, Yan Shifan was very different from his father Yan Song.
Although Yan Song was also a traitor, in terms of feelings, he had been with his original wife, Ouyang Shi, all the while.
On the other hand, Yan Shifan, just a famous wife and concubine in the book, Yan Shifan married 27 rooms, not to mention the countless nameless handmaidens and maids.
Yan Shifan's room is a priceless ivory bed and a gold wire tent, and the paper is drunk and gold, and the life is very luxurious.
Even on the day of the death of his mother Ouyang Shi, Yan Shifan disregarded filial piety and continued to sing night and concubines.
It is rumored that the role of "Ximen Qing" in the book "Jin Ping Mei" is actually fictionalized by the author Lan Ling Xiaoxiaosheng based on the real character of Yan Shifan.
Yan Shifan's nickname is "Qing'er" (庆兒), "East Building".
Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng transformed the "East Building" into "Ximen", and then used the word "Qing" as the name to create the novel character "Ximen Qing" to allude to Yan Shifan's absurd and unruly life.
Yan Shifan, who wielded his father's official authority and power, was greedy and lustful, recklessly killed people, and disregarded the law, which was similar to Ximen Qing in the novel.
From the analysis of the background and behavior of the characters described in "Jin Ping Mei", it seems that the images of Ximen Qing and Yan Shifan are most consistent.
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Yan Shifan was hated by the righteous because of his evil and full of evil, and he was impeached by many ministers in the imperial court.
However, due to the emperor's partiality of listening and believing, coupled with Yan Shifan's rhetoric, these impeachments not only did not work, the ministers lost their official positions, and some even took the lives of their families.
Yang Jisheng, who was known as the "first minister of the Ming Dynasty", was also convicted of this.
According to the historical record, in the thirty-second year of Jiajing, Yang Jisheng, who was then a soldier and a foreign minister, wrote to the emperor "Please Curse the Thieves and Ministers".
Yang Jisheng
Yang Jisheng pleaded with the emperor to "listen to the words of his subjects and see what was going on", and Yan Shifan calculated deeply, seizing on Yang Jisheng's loophole in the compromise "or summoning Yu and Jing'erwang" to make a big fuss, framing Yang Jisheng for colluding with these two princes in private.
"Yu and Jing", the son of the Jiajing Emperor.
The Jiajing Emperor was most jealous of his ministers for making friends with the crown prince in private, for fear of rebellion.
Yan Shifan knew this very well, so he so easily transferred the emperor's anger to Yang Jisheng's head.
The Jiajing Emperor also no longer cared whether Yang Jisheng's exposed yan Shifan's crime was true, and was preoccupied with Yang Jisheng's personal relationship with the princes, so he directly ordered Yang Jisheng to be questioned, and Yang Jisheng was imprisoned.
Thirty-four years after Jiajing, under a series of "inciting the wind and igniting fire" methods of Yan Shifan, Yang Jisheng was finally executed by the emperor and lost his life.
When Yang Jisheng was tortured by Yan Shifan in prison, Wang Shizhen had sent him medicine, and because of this small matter, the famous anti-Wu general Wang Shu was also implicated for no reason, and finally died under Yan Shifan's conspiracy and trickery.
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The first person to openly impeach Yan Shifan at the imperial court was Jinyi Wei Shen Lian.
In the sixth year of Jiajing, the small Mongolian state of the Ming Dynasty on the border actually led troops to the south, and the situation was like a bamboo, and many cities on the border were vulnerable, and even almost invaded the hinterland of the capital.
At that time, Yan Shifan had already controlled the court for many years, refusing to send troops to resist, only seeking a peace strategy, and only Shen Lian alone recruited township braves to resist the invasion.
Shen Lian
Shen Lian was weak and weak, and the Li Dabu was in no man's land, and quickly fled after burning and looting, while nearly 10,000 people were slaughtered outside sai.
Shen Lian hated Yan Shifan's prestige and blessing in the imperial court, so he decided to play a chapter of impeachment.
But as soon as he handed it over, he was detained by Yan Shifan.
Since then, Yan Shifan has begun a series of retaliatory means.
Yan Shifan first wanted to win over Li Fengmao, the inspector of Bao'an Prefecture, but li Fengmao was an upright person who was bent on helping Shen Lian.
In order to get rid of Shen Lian logically, Yan Shifan sent Lu Kai to replace Li Fengmao's position, waiting for an opportunity to look for an opportunity around Shen Lian and get rid of him in one fell swoop.
It just so happened that at that time, a group of "White Lotus Sects" appeared outside the Saixi that specialized in leaking the internal military affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and the generals guarding the border guarding the city arrested the "White Lotus Sect" people and tortured them, and recruited a group of people who provided them with intelligence, and Lu Kai took this opportunity to add Shen Lian's name to the list.
Therefore, under Yan Shifan's arrangement, Shen Lian became a traitor who colluded with the "White Lotus Sect".
Thirty-six years after Jiajing, Shen Lian was beheaded in Xuanfu City at the age of fifty-one.
In order to cut the grass and remove the roots, Shen Lian's two sons, Shen Wan, and Shen Zhen were beaten to death with a torture rod, and Shen Xiang was sent to the frontier, which was the only bloodline that Shen Lian left in the world.
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Shen Lian is dead, but the feud between Shen Lian and The Yan father and son continues.
Four years after Shen Lian's death, the ten major crimes of Yan Song listed by Shen Lian became one of the important crimes of the fall of the Yan father and son.
In the forty years of Jiajing, Yushi Zou Yinglong impeached Yan Song and Yan Shifan's father and son", "treating the generals as slaves..... blatant bribery" and many other crimes.
Previously, Yan Song had lost the emperor's favor because of his suggestion that the emperor move to Nanyuan, so as soon as the emperor received such a loose performance, he immediately ordered, "Yan Song retires, and Yan Shifan exiles the frontier."
It is reasonable to say that Yan Shifan originally started by relying on Yan Song's power.
Yan Song fell, and Yan Shifan should have converged a few points.
However, probably after a long time of leisure, Yan Shifan not only did not know how to judge the hour and size up the situation, but even dared to openly disobey the Holy Will.
According to the will of the Holy Father, Yan Shifan should be exiled to Leizhou, Guangdong, but Yan Shifan went against the grain and returned to his hometown in Jiangxi halfway through, while recruiting party henchmen and plotting with Luo Longwen and others on how to overturn the market, while building mansions in his hometown and recruiting soldiers and horses.
At that time, the officials in charge of Fengyi County learned of Yan Shifan's movements and informed the imperial court, saying that "Yan Fu gathered a crowd to train troops with the intention of plotting rebellion," and that the Jiajing Emperor was most afraid of "conspiracy to rebel" in his life, so he immediately issued an order to arrest Yan Shifan and others and go to Beijing for interrogation.
All along, Yan Shifan knew well what the emperor's bottom line was untouchable.
Therefore, for the menacing officials of the imperial court, Yan Shifan had already made excuses and preparations in his heart.
In Yan Shifan's view, when deciding on his own case, the emperor could accept the Yan family's crime of embezzlement, but he absolutely could not "pass through" all these crimes.
Yan Shifan explained to his henchmen that he must buy off officials, carefully consider sentences on the conviction documents, delete inappropriate articles and sentences, and use Shen Lian and Yang Jisheng's unjust cases to make an article, so that he can borrow the emperor's hand to escape.
At that time, it was Yu Shilinrun who was in charge of Yan Shifan's affairs.
As for how to convict Yan Shifan, Lin Run has always been undecided.
Yan Shifan had already secretly instructed his subordinates to spread news outside, saying that Yan Shifan was imprisoned to avenge Yang Jisheng and Shen Lian.
The reason why Yan Shifan came up with this countermeasure was because it was the Jiajing Emperor who convicted Yang Jisheng and Shen Lian in the first place.
Rehabilitating Yang Jisheng and Shen Lian against Zhaoxue meant that the emperor's previous decision was wrong.
If Yan Shifan's crimes were to be pursued on this charge, it would not be equivalent to overturning the emperor's old case.
For the Jiajing Emperor, who was so conceited, this crime was very likely to exonerate Yan Shifan.
Yan Shifan's little tricks, his nemesis Xu Jie had already seen through them.
In order to make Yan Shifan "unable to escape the death penalty", it was necessary to give Yan Shifan all the crimes that the Jiaqing Emperor hated the most, so that he would not have a chance to make a comeback.
Xu Jie
So Xu Jie gave Yan Shifan three other crimes: colluding with Wokou, colluding with thieves, and intending to commit crimes.
Xu Jie once again played tricks, and without going through the procedure of verifying the charges, he directly submitted these reports to the emperor: after verification by the Three Laws Division, the evidence of Yan Shifan's "rebellion" and "tongwu" was conclusive.
On March 24, 1944, the Jiajing Emperor decreed that Yan Shifanwen be sentenced to death for "collusion and rebellion."
After Yan Shifan was beheaded, many people clapped their hands and applauded, and at this time it also became a major news that had been circulating for a long time.