In history, what did Yan Song fall for?

Everyone may think that Yan Song fell because of corruption, after all, this guy is a famous corrupt official through the ages, why did he not fall because of corruption?

Not really.

If Yan Song had fallen because of corruption, I am afraid that he would have fallen long ago, and even he would not have been able to climb to the position of head and assistant of the cabinet, because Jiajing had already known that this guy was a little greedy.

Jiajing, a wonderful emperor, does not look at whether people are greedy or not, but whether they are in line with his wishes.

When he taught Hai Rui, didn't he use the metaphor of clean water and turbidity to clean officials and corrupt officials, the meaning is obvious, the water is clear and turbid, he has to use it, even if it is a corrupt official, he has to use it!

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

Therefore, there is basically no hope of overthrowing Yan Song with the problem of corruption, because Jiajing already knows that Yan Song is greedy.

The reason why Yan Song fell was not because of corruption, but because of his incompetence in governing the country, so that the world was not at ease, and Jiajing was tired of it, so he removed him.

In other words, because Jiajing is incompetent and has no way to govern the country, so that the Daming River is declining, and the government and the opposition are complaining, and at this time, someone happened to point the finger at Yan Song, so he took the opportunity to withdraw Yan Song to cover up his mistakes.

That is to say, at this time, even if the upper performance impeaches Yan Song for corruption, it is useless, even if there is conclusive evidence, it is useless, because Jiajing and Yan Song are fighting hotly, and the situation in Daming is also quite good at this time, the four realms are peaceful, and the lives of the common people are barely passable.

Yang Cong's strategy is to "repair the plank road in the bright and Chen Cang in the dark." ”

To put it simply, on the surface, the well water does not interfere with the river water, and each does its own thing, secretly collecting evidence of Yan Song's corruption and perversion of the law, and then sees the opportunity to make a move, striving to knock Yan Song down in one fell swoop.

And this opportunity, he thinks, is still in the northwest.

Jiajing can cut Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, because of the matter in the northwest, if something happens in the northwest again, will Yan Song, the first assistant, be spared?

The situation in the northwest at this time is not optimistic, although Yang Cong has been away from the northwest for many years, the situation over there is still well understood, after all, there are many officers in the Northwest Army who were promoted when he was in office, and Xu Jie is also over there, it is still easy for him to get the situation there.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the situation in the northwest at this time is precarious.

As soon as Qiu Luan, a treacherous villain, took the position, he didn't care about these things at all, and he knew all day long that he was changing his methods to deduct food and salary, and the Northwest Frontier Army was simply half-dead and had no combat effectiveness at all.

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

Over the years, because the Ming army was tightly defended, the Northern Yuan Tatar Department rarely came to Koubian, but they were not idle, they have been fighting everywhere, and the results were quite brilliant, not only the Wuliang Habu entrenched outside the pass was conquered by it, and even the Bura and Bu'er children entrenched in Qinghai were also annexed by it, and the power of the Northern Yuan Tatar Department can be said to have swelled to an unprecedented extent, and the control of more than 100,000 strings was gone.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, the three sides of Shaanxi have always been controlled by Qiu Luan, on the surface, the border army he reported is about 30,000, in fact, most of them have been eaten by him, and the three towns of Shanxi were so whole by Yan Song, and then Qiu Luan was so greedy, the number of border troops is also decreasing sharply, and there are less than 20,000 left at this time, that is to say, in the entire northwest, six border towns, the border army that is really assembled is less than 40,000, and in the face of more than 100,000 Northern Yuan iron cavalry, how to resist?

Yang Cong knows very well that if Ren Yansong and Qiu Luan continue to mess around, something will happen in the northwest sooner or later, and it will not be a trivial matter, and the reason for the accident is mainly in this salary.

Yan Song controlled the household department in Nanjing, Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing were in a pit and wantonly embezzled food and wages, so that the border army was useless.

And what he has to do is to grasp the evidence of Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing's embezzlement of food and salary, and when the time comes, he will not believe it in front of Jiajing in one fell swoop, and Yan Song can still escape.

After he set a strategy, he began to set up a branch of the School of Physics in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, on the surface, he was doing his own thing, and he didn't plan to work with Yan Song at all, but in fact, he sent people to keep an eye on the northwest, Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing, collect evidence of their corruption, and prepare to make a force to bring down Yan Song in one fell swoop.

This strategy, logically speaking, should be no problem, but the world is unpredictable, not to mention whether Yan Song, Qiu Luan and Yan Maoqing will follow the script he set, the rest of Yan Song's subordinates are not fuel-efficient lamps, there is no accident in the northwest, but there is a big incident in the southeast.

When Yang Cong focused his eyes on the northwest, there were pirates and pirates on the southeast coast!

And the first to bear the brunt is Wang Zhi's fleet.

At this time, Wang Zhi's fleet is not the scale it was at the beginning, under his hands, there are nearly 100 large and small fortune ships alone, and the entire fleet is sailing on the sea, it is simply overwhelming, scaring people to death, how can there be pirates and pirates who dare to fight him?

Even Wang Zhi didn't think of this.

On this day, he was leading his fleet to pull a ship full of goods from the Nanzhili sea area and rushed to Dongying, when the front sentinel suddenly came to report that an unknown fleet was found in front of him, and there were dozens of ships.

What's going on here?

He hurriedly ran to the top floor of the handsome ship, took out his binoculars and looked straight ahead.

Sure enough, a few miles away, dozens of black dots were rapidly approaching them, looking at the size and style, it seemed to be a Cangshan ship of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Zhi couldn't help but be puzzled, this Cangshan boat is the standard configuration of the Daming Sailor, and the Daming Sailor is almost in the hands of Yang Cong at this time, how could so many Cangshan boats suddenly appear here?

Before he could react to what was going on, there was a sudden sound of dense artillery roar from the opposite side.

"Boom, boom", there was a loud noise, dozens of shells were extremely instantaneous, and countless columns of water suddenly appeared on the sea near the fleet, and even a few lucky ships were shot, and sawdust flew sideways.

, the firing range is so long, it is definitely the imperial standard artillery equipped by the sailors!

How could Qi Jingtong lead a sailor to attack him?

You know, he is just in charge of running errands, most of the goods on the ship are the Yang family and the Gu family, it doesn't matter if Qi Jingtong comes to beat him, if the Yang family and the Gu family sink into the sea, can this guy take care of it?

He was in a daze, when suddenly there was a dense roar of artillery on the opposite side.

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

As the distance got closer, he could roughly see that it was not the soldiers of the Ming Navy Division on the opposite boat at all, but the Japanese robbers in Dongying costumes!

Nima, it doesn't matter if you are a pretending to be a Daming sailor or a real widow, if you dare to beat Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not be polite to you.

Without thinking about it, he waved his hand and said, "Order, full speed ahead, all artillery, reload ammunition, ready to fire." ”