In the 41st year of Jiajing, the "Yan Party," which had been in charge of the government for nearly 20 years, lost power, and not only was Yan Song himself ordered by Emperor Jiajing to become a minister, but his son Yan Shifan was also exiled and sent to Leizhou, Guangdong.
This day is a day worth celebrating for the military officials of the imperial court.
Although Yan Song and Yan Shifan both left a life, the fall of the Yan Party was inevitable, and the Ming Dynasty, which was covered with dark clouds all year round, ushered in a rare ray of sunshine.
Yan Song and Yan Shifan's carelessness was a matter that was tacitly acquiesced by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, after all, although the two of them were sorry for the people for many years, they at least served Emperor Jiajing well.
Because of this, even if the ministers who hate Yan Song's father and son again, they should give the emperor a face, and they will no longer be held accountable.
After all, the country has entered a new chapter, and if it is extended, no one will be able to step down.
Of course, Yan Song and Yan Shifan also knew all this.
Although the two were demoted and distributed, their family property was not confiscated, and with years of expropriation and extortion, their family property has become rich and rivaled that of the country.
To a certain extent, this can be regarded as the last "pension money" left by Emperor Jiajing to the two, so that they can get together and disperse.
As a generation of traitors who are enough to "leave a name in history", Yan Song can get such an ending, which is quite good, plus he is old, so he did not struggle, but chose to accept it silently.
However, his son Yan Shifan was quite disdainful of thisAt this moment, he still regards this incident as a defeat in a political struggleAnd not a complete liquidation of the imperial court.
Yan Shifan prides himself on being "the world's first ghost talent", and he thinks that he can see through all the changes in the court, so he is particularly dissatisfied with such an outcome.
However, Yan Shifan, who has always been smart, probably could not have imagined that it was his arrogance that eventually killed him, and that an unintentional move of his own not long after that completely changed the nature of the whole incident.
And after Yan Shifan was killed and his family was raided, why could his descendants make a comeback?
After receiving the sentence of exile in Leizhou, Guangdong, Yan Shifan set out on his way.
In order to look good, Yan Shifan can be described as a bright lantern when he leaves Beijing, with a tall head, not like a hairdresser, but like a groom who marries a daughter-in-law.
Along the way, Yan Shifan traveled everywhere and enjoyed himself.
Due to the operation of the Yan Party for many years, the friends have long been all over the world, and there will be local ** who will come out to entertain them everywhere.
As the so-called emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, even if Yan Shifan is sentenced to exile, his status is several grades higher than that of most places.
Because of this, almost no one dares to slack off along the way.
Perhaps it was the praise of the outside world that made Yan Shifan's heart flutter, and when he returned to his hometown of Fenyi County, Yuanzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi, he actually stayed and began to run the family business, and invited the Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain to choose a dragon vein here for himself.
According to the "Records of Ming Shizong" (March Wuxushuo of the 44th year of Jiajing): In the 43rd year of Jiajing, Yushi Lin Run wrote about Yan Shifan's construction of a house in his hometown.
According to common sense, Yan Shifan is just expanding his yard and building a few more houses.
Although it will also cause annexation of the land of the local people, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, such behavior is very normal, far from being a big rebellion.
But,In this book, Lin Run drew inferences from one case to another, and listed many crimes in the matter of Yan Shifan's house repair.
In terms of metaphysics, nature still occupies the dragon vein and plots against the old routine;
At the practical level, Lin Run also accused Yan Shifan of recruiting "traitors" and "people who know the art of war" in the name of governing the house, and "trained and drilled more than ten assassins" to collude with the Japanese and prepare to "go abroad to Japan".
Before Yan Song and Yan Shifan, he could be regarded as a "traitor" at most, but now after Lin Run's book, Yan Shifan can be called a "traitor", and the nature of the matter has changed.
Therefore, Emperor Jiajing was furious, swept away all the "affectionate veins" with the Yan family in the past, and directly ordered Yan Shifan to be arrested and imprisoned.
After a year of trial and processing, in 1565, Yan Shifan and his henchman Luo Longwen were beheaded, and Yan Song's family was also reduced to the people, and the family property was confiscated, and all the money was used as the treasury.
It is said that when Yan Shifan was beheaded, there was not even a person to collect the body and mourn.
And the white-haired man sent the black-haired Yan Song even worse, in his later years, he had no life, so he had to send food in a cemetery, and even died without a coffin for burial.
It was also at this time that the remnants of the Yan Party were completely purged from the Ming Dynasty power organs.
The complete liquidation of the Yan Party is undoubtedly very happy, however, what people did not expect is that it only took one generation for the Yan Song family to return to the capital again.
WhileThis variable appeared in Yan Shaoting, the second son of Yan Shifan.
Yan Shaoting was born in the shadow of the family under the shadow of the "brocade clothes guard is a thousand households" fictitious position, after the "Yan Shifan case" incident, Yan Shaoting was assigned to the guard station, in order to clear the crime, this year he was only nineteen years old.
When Yan Shaoting was born, it was at the peak of the Yan family's power, and because of this, he lived in a life of fine clothes and food since he was a child.
According to legend, Yan Shaoting loved to emulate the gentleman of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and raised a large group of doormen, these people never had any job, and their only task was to play with Yan Shaoting.
Yan Shaoting squandered his wealth, whenever a guest cried poor, he would generously stuff a few hundred taels of silver, and never asked for it to be returned.
Fortunately, Yan Shifan's family has a strong background, so he can afford to toss him so much.
It's not without its benefitsWhen Yan Shifan raided the house after his death, the servants and guests of the Yan family almost ran away, only Yan Shaoting still has hundreds of guests around him, who are willing to follow.
Before Yan Shaoting was assigned, he only had one or two pieces of silver left, but it was just one or two pieces of silver, and he had to take it out to invite guests to eat and drink, without reservation.
Yan Shaoting's fame is not as big as his father's, but his record in the history books is extremely high:
According to legend, he is outstanding, quite righteous and wealthy, is Yan Song's favorite grandson, when he was not yet an adult, he was favored by the governor of Jinyi, Lu Shan, and Yan Shifan set a doll ......
I have to say that Yan Shifan really gave birth to a good son.
Normally, the border means that there will never be a day, and after Yan Shaoting was exiled to the border pass, he stayed for as long as 22 years.
It wasn't until the twentieth year of Wanli that Yan Shaoting, who was already 45 years old, got an opportunity, that is, to become a participant in the Wanli Korean War.
At that time, Li Rusong, the commander of the Ming army's eastward expedition, and Yan Shaoting were old acquaintances, so they asked Emperor Wanli for instructions and transferred him to the court to participate in the war.
Yan Shaoting has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and there is no place for hardshipAfter hearing the news, he immediately agreed.
Li Rusong was two years older than Yan Shaoting, and when the Japanese general Konishi Yuki, on the seventh day of the first month of the 21st year of Wanli, approached the city of Pyongyang, Li Rusong appointed Yan Shaoting as the vanguard to engage the enemy.
Yan Shaoting fought bravely, led the Ming army to annihilate more than 2,000 Japanese troops in a battle, won a complete victory, and was repeatedly promoted.
After the end of the Wanli Korean War, Yan Shaoting, a descendant of a criminal minister, was actually able to "wash his name" and be reinstated because of his meritorious service.
In this way, the Yan family fell because of the Japanese Invaders, and it actually stood up again because of the peace of the Japanese people, which is really a big strange story.
There are two speculations about Yan Shaoting's re-emergence.
First, Yan Shaoting is really talented, and through his own efforts, he has earned his military exploits and regained the emperor's appreciation.
The second is that Yan Song's nemesis Xu Jie also ushered in the fall at this time, and Xu Jie's two sons were sentenced to prison for their crimes, which gave Yan Shaoting the opportunity to rise again.
However, no matter which statement is more credible, Yan Shaoting's military achievements are real, and after he re-entered the court as an official, he was not as famous as Yan Song and Yan Shifan.
Yan Shaoting has been law-abiding and conscientious all his life, and his performance has been very good.
After working for a few years, he was also promoted from "Jinyi Wei Zheng Qianhu" to "Commander of the Commander".At the end of his career, he even achieved the "West Sifang Official Banner Service".
Pinned to his waist, he was wearing a sword python suit given by the emperor himself, and he was holding a first-class ** Yulu.
After Yan Shifan's death, his family returned to the ranks of first-class masters in less than a generation.
Yan Shaoting himself practiced martial arts, never participated in politics, and treated his son with the same requirements, Yan Shaoting taught his youngest son Yan Yun to practice martial arts since he was a child.
It is saidYan Yun read the Four Books and Five Classics from day to day, practiced military book scheduling at night, and "lived alone to fight for food" and "forgot to sleep and eat" very hard.
* In the future, Yan Yun was never inferior to his father Yan Shaoting, he was a good man, both civil and military.
In the big test in the first year of the Apocalypse, Yan Yun won the crown of "Wuju Man" in one fell swoop, and made persistent efforts in the following year and won the "Wujin Shi", or the Emperor of the Apocalypse personally awarded the award.
Although the martial arts examination is nominally on a par with the imperial examination, its essence and status far exceed that of the imperial examination.
After Yan Yuncong entered the office, because of his brave combat and invincible attack, he was soon promoted to "guerrilla general", guarding the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty and Shanhaiguan.
It is worth mentioning that it isThe plaque hung at Shanhaiguan at that time was still "the first pass in the world" written by Yan Song himself.
Yan Yun performed very well in the process of leading the troops and captives, and was able to be rewarded by the Ministry of War almost every year, and the emperor was also very satisfied with him, and later dropped him to Yongping, which was closer to Beijing, as the "General of Yongping in the North".
However, it is a pity that although Yan Yuncong's talent, ability and morality are the only ones in the Yan family, he is not as lucky as his fathers.
In 1627 AD, Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, and in front of him was a ruined and dangerous dynasty.
In order to stabilize the south, Yan Yuncong was transferred to the Liangguang "Tuojing Border Police", although far away from the capital, but Yan Yuncong still fulfilled his duties, every time he fought, he would personally put on armor and take the lead.
In that era when the building was about to collapse, he always insisted on his post and did not waver in the slightest.
Due to the many times he pacified the turmoil in the south, Yan Yuncong was crowned "Former Military Governor" by the imperial court, and he won a lot of titles: Guanglu Doctor, Zuo Zhuguo, Dafu, Qingjiang Bo......
It can be said thatYan Yun has never achieved the ultimate of a general, its status has even reached the point where its great-ancestor Yan Song was surprised when he saw it.
And Yan Yun never lived up to the trust of the imperial court, and in the last days of the Ming Dynasty, he always remained loyal.
After the fall of Beijing, he followed the Nanming regime around, and even if the Qing Dynasty had been established later, he still insisted on opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
Until the demise of Nanming**, he did not change the court in the slightest and threw himself into the Qing army.
Yan Yuncong has a very high prestige in the south, and has been co-opted by the Qing Dynasty many times, but he refuses all of them and returns to his hometown "Dumen Pingji" until the end of his life.
In the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, fifty-nine-year-old Yan Yuncong diedWith his death, the Yan family has since been obscure.
The Yan clan started from the most cunning Yan Song, but not from the most loyal Yan Yuncong, which is not a great irony.