In history, why did Yan Song fall?

Everyone may think that Yan Song fell down because of corruption. After all, this guy is a famous corrupt official throughout the ages. Why is he not the reason for corruption?

Actually, it is not the case.

If Yan Song had fallen out of corruption, he would have fallen out long ago, and he would not even be able to climb to the position of chief minister of the cabinet, because Jiajing had known for a long time that this guy was a little greedy.

The strange emperor Jiajing, the standard for employed people is not to look at whether people are greedy or not, but whether people are in line with their wishes.

When he taught Hai Rui a lesson, he used clear water and turbid water to describe clean and corrupt officials. The meaning was very obvious. He had to use both clear water and turbid water, even corrupt officials would use it!

He is not an idiot. Yan Song has been an official under him for more than 40 years. How could he not know that Yan Song is corrupt?

Therefore, there is basically no hope to defeat Yan Song by corruption, because Jiajing knew that Yan Song was greedy.

The reason why Yan Song fell was not because of corruption, but because of his incompetence in governing the country, which led to the unstable world. Jiajing got bored of him and removed him.

In other words, because Jiajing was incompetent and incompetent in governing the country, the Ming Dynasty was declining and the court and the country complained. At this time, someone was pointing the finger at Yan Song, so he took advantage of the situation to remove Yan Song to cover up his faults.

In other words, at this time, even if it is impeached Yan Song for corruption, it is useless, even if there is conclusive evidence, it is useless, because Jiajing and Yan Songzheng are fighting fiercely, and the situation in the Ming Dynasty is quite good at this time, with peace in the four realms and the lives of the people can barely be passed. Why did Jiajing make a big fuss and beat the cabinet chief minister whom he promoted? Wouldn't this be slap himself in the face?

Yang Cong set a strategy to "build the plank road openly and go to Chen Cang secretly."

Simply put, it means that on the surface, the well water does not violate the river water, and they do their own things, secretly collecting evidence of Yan Song's corruption and abuse of power, and then seize the opportunity to take action and strive to kill Yan Song in one fell swoop.

And he thinks this opportunity is still in the northwest.

Jiajing can even cut off the prime minister of Xia Yan, because of the Northwest incident. If something happens again in the Northwest, will Yan Song, the prime minister of Yan?

The situation in the northwest at this moment is not optimistic. Although Yang Cong has been away from the northwest for many years, he still knows the situation there. After all, many officers in the Northwest Army were promoted by him when he was in office, and Xu Jie is there, so it is still easy for him to obtain the situation there.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the situation in the northwest at this moment as a precarious situation.

Zeng Xian was in Japan and knew how to train soldiers, repair the Great Wall, and consolidate border defenses. As soon as Qiu Luan took office, he ignored these things and knew how to deduct food and pay. The northwest border army was almost dead and had no combat power.

What's even more terrifying is that in recent years, the power of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has not only not weakened, but has also been greatly strengthened.

In recent years, because the Ming army was tightly defended, the Northern Yuan Tatar tribe rarely came to the border, but they were not idle either. They were fighting everywhere, and the results were quite brilliant. Not only was the Urianha tribe entrenched outside the pass and was conquered by it, but even the Yibula tribe and Buerhai tribe entrenched in Qinghai were annexed by it. The power of the Northern Yuan Tatar tribe can be said to have expanded to an unprecedented level, with more than 100,000 string controls.

On the other hand, Qiu Luan has always been controlled by the Ming army on the three sides of Shaanxi. On the surface, he reported about 30,000 border troops, but in fact, most of them were paid by him. However, Yan Song was so apart and Qiu Luan was greedy, the number of border troops was also drastically reduced. At this moment, there are less than 20,000 left. In other words, in the entire northwest, the six border towns, the real gathering of border troops was less than 40,000. How can we resist the situation in the face of more than 100,000 Northern Yuan cavalry?

Yang Cong knew very well that if Ren Yan Song and Qiu Luan continued to mess around, something would happen in the northwest sooner or later, and it would not be a trivial matter. The main reason for the accident was the food and wages.

Yan Song controlled the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing, Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing were in a trap and embezzled food and wages, resulting in the border troops being useless. At that time, the Tatar tribe of the Northern Yuan Dynasty came over, and it would be strange if nothing happened!

What he had to do was to obtain evidence of Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing's embezzlement of food and wages. When he was presented to Jiajing in one fell swoop, he would not believe it. Yan Song could still escape.

After he decided on the strategy, he began to establish the School of Physics Branch in the 13 provinces of the two capitals. On the surface, he was doing his own thing and had no intention of starting a fight with Yan Song at all. In fact, he sent someone to stare at the northwest, stare at Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing, collecting evidence of their corruption, and preparing to make efforts to overthrow Yan Song.

This strategy should be fine, but the world is unpredictable. Not to mention Yan Song, Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing will follow the script he decided, the rest of Yan Song's men are not a good deal. There is nothing wrong with the northwest, but something big happened in the southeast.

When Yang Cong focused his eyes on the northwest, pirates and Japanese pirates appeared again on the southeast coast!

The first thing to be affected was Wang Zhi's fleet.

At this moment, Wang Zhi's fleet is not as large as before. He has nearly 100 large and large lucky ships under his command. The entire fleet sails on the sea, which is simply overwhelming and scaring people to death. How could there be pirates and Japanese pirates dare to challenge him?

Even Wang Zhi didn't expect this.

On that day, he was leading his fleet to take a full ship of cargo from the sea of ​​Nanzhili to Japan. When the provost in front suddenly came to report, he found an unknown fleet in front, with dozens of ships in total.

What's going on?

He hurried to the top of the ship, took out his telescope and looked straight ahead.

Sure enough, a few miles away, dozens of black dots were approaching them quickly. Judging from the size and style, it seemed to be the Cangshan boat in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Zhi couldn't help but wonder. This Cangshan boat was the standard configuration of the Ming Navy, and the Ming Navy was almost in control of Yang Cong at this moment. Why did so many Cangshan boats suddenly appear here?

Before he could react, what was going on, a dense roar of artillery suddenly came from the opposite side.

"Boom boom boom", with a loud bang, dozens of shells were in an instant, and countless water columns suddenly emerged from the sea near the fleet, and even several lucky ships were shot, with wood chips flying everywhere.

Damn, the range is so long, it is definitely a court-style artillery equipped by the navy!

How could Qi Jingtong lead the navy to attack him?

You know, he is just responsible for running errands. Most of the goods on the ship are from the Yang family and the Gu family. It doesn’t matter if Qi Jingtong comes to beat him. If the goods from the Yang family and the Gu family sink into the sea, can this guy afford to take care of it?

He was stunned when a dense roar of artillery suddenly came from the opposite side.

"Boom boom boom", there was another loud bang, and this time, there were more lucky ships shot.

As the distance approached, he roughly realized that the ship opposite was not the Ming navy soldiers, but Japanese pirates wearing Japanese costumes!

Damn it, no matter whether you are pretending to be a navy master of the Ming Dynasty or a real Japanese pirate, if you dare to beat me, I will not be polite to you.
Chapter completed!