Yan Song is well versed in officialdom philosophy. He attached himself to A Record of Xia Yan and approached Emperor Jiajing step by step. Jiajing believes in Taoism. He once crowned ministers with heavy perfume, and Yan Song paraded the streets with it every day. Xia Yan had long been dissatisfied with Jiajing's addiction to alchemy and waste of state affairs, so he threw it aside. Compared with their EQ, Xia Yan soon fell out of favor and Yan Song took the lead. Later, Yan Song supported Jiajing to list his biological father in the ancestral hall, which was called Huiji because of his contribution to the cabinet.
When Yan Song was in power, he began to remove obstacles. First, he intends to get rid of his old boss, Xia Yan. Then, Xi, Shen Lian and others were killed one after another. Finally, he destroyed his companion, and no one could threaten his position any more. You may delay, but time will not. 1548, Yan Song's record of succession, nearly 70 years old. In addition, he felt unable to serve Jiajing all the time, so he promoted his son Yan Shifan to assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry.
As a result, Xiong Haizi and Yan Shifan just let him worry, taking advantage of their positions to take bribes, and even buying and selling officials by the name of Dad, while Yan Song was kept in the dark and had no knowledge of all this. When Yan Shifan showed his treasure to Yan Song, Yan Song was very scared, and he had a premonition of disaster. Later, it was reported that Yan Shifan disturbed the imperial court and colluded with pirates. Jiajing hated the threat to the imperial power, so he beheaded Yan Shifan and let him get married. Yan Song was also implicated and returned to his hometown, but the Royal Guards did not find anything valuable from Yan Song's home.
On the other hand, Xu Jie, the leader of the clean stream at that time, indulged his children in the countryside and occupied 240,000 mu of land. Governor Ying Tian and Bingxian Xi handled the case impartially and punished his family. Xu Jie used DPRK-China relations to offer a reward of 32,000 gold to dismiss Harry and Cai Guoxi. At that time, people called him a "right-leaning traitor, because he could conform to the wind of the court and the constitution." According to historical records, when Yan Song died, he was given food in the tomb, with no coffin to bury and no one to mourn. A generation of traitors, the property is not as much as the so-called honest official, which makes people want to laugh.