Counting the top ten treacherous officials in history-Yan Song!
[Dynasty: Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty]
Instantly, Zhu Di's face darkened.
F * ck!
He had just proudly said that other than Wu Sangui, there could not be any treacherous officials, and now he had appeared.
This was a slap to his face!
Similarly, Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned ashen.
He never thought that his Great Ming actually had a treacherous official!!
His ranking was so high!
All the people in the world looked at the light screen.
If there was a ranking of treacherous officials in the Ming Dynasty, then the number one treacherous official was not Wu Sangui, not Zhou Yanru, not Hu Weiyong, but Yan Song!
Yan Song had five major crimes!
The first sin: flattering the emperor with slanderous words
Emperor Jiajing worshiped Taoism and pursued longevity. Yan Song, the chief assistant, spent a huge amount of material resources, manpower and financial resources to build palaces and Taoist temples. He built dozens of abstinence palaces and secret halls, spent tens of thousands of craftsmen and labor, and spent three million coins to complete them.
At that time, the entire Ming Dynasty only had two million coins!!
In order to raise money, Yan Song ordered the people to "show respect" to the money. In the middle, there were corrupt officials who took bribes, causing resentment among the people.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he flew into a rage.
"Is this Jiajing Emperor an idiot? You actually want to pursue immortality? Countless wise emperors in the past dynasties could not do this. Who do you think you are?!”
"Spending a year and a half of the Ming Dynasty's money just to build a palace to please the emperor, this Yan Song deserves to die!! Your entire clan will be exterminated!"
The First Assistant of Qing Ci
Emperor Jiajing loved Qing Ci, so Yan Song spent a lot of energy writing Qing Ci. Every time he dealt with political affairs, he would write Qing Ci.
In 1550, during the Gengxu Rebellion, the Tumed tribe of the Mongol Empire led their army to attack the Ming Dynasty because they were dissatisfied with the tribute. When the six tribes asked how to deal with it, Yan Song was still writing his Qing Ci and ignored the memorial.
This directly led to the Mongolian cavaliers massacring and plundering the property of the local people in the suburbs of the capital. They left unscathed after harassing them for eight days.
Therefore, the local people ridiculed Yan Song as the chief assistant of Qing Ci.
"Bang!"
Zhu Di flew into a rage and trembled with anger.
"The Mongolia army is already at the door, yet they still have the mood to write a poem?!”
"A full eight days! The Mongolians had actually slaughtered and plundered in the suburbs of the capital for eight days.”
"For such an important matter, Zhen does not believe that Jiajing does not know, and even more so, I do not believe that the border guards do not know! What were the local soldiers doing? What is the emperor doing?"
He had conquered Mongolia seven times and split Northern Yuan. The Ming soldiers had traveled all the way to Hanhai.
It had always been Da Ming who beat up others. Since when was it the Mongolians 'turn to run amok in Da Ming's territory?!
Yan Song believed that he could only follow the Emperor's orders. As long as he could please the Emperor, everything would be worth it.
As long as the Emperor liked it, no matter how ridiculous it was, no matter how unacceptable it was, Yan Song would do it.
He never thought about the gains and losses of the people. In his opinion, the people were unimportant. Yan Song never cared about the deaths of tens of millions of people.
In comparison, he felt that the Emperor's hobbies were more important.
Ying Zheng narrowed his eyes. He felt that this man was somewhat similar to Zhao Gao.
The only difference was that Zhao Gao only gained power after his death, while Yan Song was the Emperor's favorite.
The king of Chu liked thin waists, and many people in the palace starved to death.
No matter when or when, it was inevitable.
The second crime: Framing Zhongliang
Yan Song was a scholar in his early years and only ascended the court ten years later.
In order to be promoted, he had frantically tried to curry favor with his fellow countryman, Minister of Rites Xia Yan.
After that, he rose up step by step. When Xia Yan became the chief assistant of Ming Dynasty, Yan Song also became the Minister of Rites.
After that, in order to enter the cabinet and become the chief assistant, Xia Yan became a thorn in Yan Song's side.
In 1538, due to the Great Ceremony Incident, Yan Song changed his preface to support Jiajing.
This move won Jiajing's favor and he successfully entered the cabinet, but the chief assistant Xia Yan was dismissed.
In 1548, Xia Yan was implicated and imprisoned. Yan Song spread rumors that Xia Yan was privately dissatisfied with Jiajing's worship of Dao and called Jiajing a fatuous monarch.
In the tenth month, Xia Yan was beheaded, and Yan Song stepped on Xia Yan's corpse and became the chief assistant of Ming Dynasty.
More than ten years later, Yan Song wantonly demoted or imprisoned loyal ministers and good ministers in the court, and the court was destroyed.
Sin 3: Overwhelming the Royal Family
Yan Song had a son named Yan Shifan.
Because the Third Prince Yu Wang was not liked by Jiajing, Yan Song and his son also tended to be cold to him.
Under the influence of Yan Song and his son, the Ministry of Revenue did not even give out the annual reward to Prince Yu for three years.
In the end, it was Prince Yu who spent 1,500 taels of silver to bribe Yan Shifan before the Ministry of Revenue compensated him with the annual reward.
Following that was a scene.
On the screen, a fat and ugly man in gorgeous clothes laughed loudly in front of everyone, showing off.
"Even the emperor's son has to give me money. Who in this world doesn't dare to give me money?!”
"Bang!"
Zhu Yuanzhang instantly stood up. His face was flushed red, and his emperor aura was as if he was facing an abyss.
"What a good son of the emperor, giving money, good!!!!”
All the officials in the court knelt down.
He valued kinship, and all his sons and nephews had fiefs. Even Zhu Wenzheng, who wanted to rebel, was only imprisoned.
In the end, his descendants actually treated his own children so coldly.
Every word he said was about imperial power.
Who would have thought that their descendants would have to bribe officials to get the annual rewards that they should have?
Was this still his Zhu Family Dynasty?
Zhu Yuanzhang roared in the empty hall,
"What is this Jiajing doing?”
" How did he become an emperor?!"
"He's so cold to his own son. Can he treat the people well?!”
Zhu Di's face darkened.
He had never thought that his descendants would need to bribe officials to get their annual rewards.
Since when did princes need the permission of their officials to get money?!
Zhu Di suppressed the anger in his heart and continued to look at the screen.
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