"Yan Song's resignation may not necessarily have a direct connection with this, but his long-term recovery may have been influenced by the repelling of Jiangxi bureaucrats by the DPRK." Lu Bing guessed so.
In the seventh year of Zhengde, the prefect of Yuanzhou Prefecture, Yao Ting, started to revise the annals, and asked Yan Song to be the editor-in-chief. Soon Yao Ting went away again. In the second year, Xu Lian succeeded as prefect. After taking office, Xu Lian sent a letter asking Yan Song to continue to compile the official records. After eight months of hardship, to the 9th year of Zhengde, which is 1514 AD, Yan Song was appointed as the editor-in-chief. The year was the Jiaxu year, so people called it Jiaxu Zhi. Later, it was called "Zhengde Yuanzhou Fuzhi".
In the eleventh year of Zhengde, Yan Song returned to the court. At the beginning of his reinstatement, Yan Song criticized the government. He mentioned many times that "the world is suffering like a demon monk in a state of morality." He was also critical of many other practices of Wu Zong. Regarding the northward movement of the nanmu, he wrote: "Today, thousands of giant nanmu trees are used for the transportation of the temple in Hunan. They are joined by rafts to drag the flag, and they are hidden from the stream. The hardest nan is surrounded by more than ten meters, which can be fifty feet long, and there is a strange sound between the heaven and the earth. However, this tree will cost hundreds of dollars to transport it to this place by cutting down the land and saving water."
In the 16th year of Zhengde, a few months after Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, Yan Song was promoted to attend the Nanjing Hanlin Academy and was in charge of the affairs of the Academy.
In the 4th year of Jiajing, he was promoted to the Imperial College and returned to Beijing from Nanjing. So far, it can be said that Emperor Jiajing did not pay special attention to him, and there is no sign that he actively participated in the fierce struggle around the ceremony in the early period of Jiajing. Although he also wrote "Puyuan rituals extend public opinion, and the sacred affection is honored on behalf of the residence", even though he was an official in Nanjing and had the opportunity to contact Zhang Cong and Gui E who were also in Nanjing, he and Gui E were both from Jiangxi, and his son and Gui E's son Tongyan invited a teacher and so on. Yan Song and Gui E have poems and books to return, and many praised them. This is extremely common among scholar-officials and cannot be used as a proof of participation in party disputes.
At that time, those who opposed the cabinet and ministerial arrangements and supported the emperor’s advocacy of Xingxian Wang were mostly low-ranking bureaucrats, who were not only low-ranking officials, but also officials of non-critical departments. The ritual proposal created an excellent opportunity for them to change their status.
It is logical that Yan Song did not take the same actions as Zhang Cong and Gui E when he served in the most prominent Hanlin Academy. On the other hand, unlike most Hanlin officials, he firmly supported the views of the old bureaucracy headed by Yang Tinghe, and took a cautious attitude.
Compared with criticizing Zhengde's political affairs, Yan Song at this time had obvious changes in his role as an official. He valued Lilu very seriously, and he often said, "If you don't catch up, you have failed to learn." Some people criticized him for being innocent when offering wine.
Seeing this, Lu Bing frowned. From this point of view, this Yan Ge City Mansion is very deep!
In the seventh year of Jiajing, Yan Song stepped into the ranks of the upper-level bureaucrats with the right minister of the Ministry of Rites. He was sent by the Emperor Jiajing to supervise the establishment of the Xianling stele in Anlu, Huguang. Still back, Yan Song made two memorials. A memorial narration described the situation in the disaster-stricken area in Henan, saying, "In a drought, I eat hemp leaves and bark, and die of hunger. The city Yibing bait is grabbed by people, and the children's buns can't be sold for enough money, and they are abandoned until they are young. Leave in the wild. It is especially true in Luoyang, Shanzhou, and Lingbao, where people cannibalize each other, and more than two thousand people have been reported to freeze to death within ten days."
Another memorial narrates the auspiciousness seen on the way, saying that "the white stone produces Zaoyang, and there are a group of storks gathering around the auspicious auspiciousness", "the monument enters the Jianghan, there is a difference in the river water." When the monument was erected, "clouds make rain". , "Lingfeng rushes." He proposed to write an article to keep it in mind. The appearance of auspiciousness and the report of disasters reflect that Yan Song has both a flattering side and a side that is concerned with the sentiments of the people.
Both memos have received good results. Regarding the previous sparse, Sejong replied: "This place is seriously injured, and the transportation of money and grain from the survey that year has been collected will be temporarily stopped. After the next year's harvest, the collection will be collected, and the rest of the disaster-stricken areas will be collected as usual." For the latter matter. , Shizong criticized: "Today Songyan comes from loyalty, sincerity cannot be broken. According to the draft, the article is written as the record, standing stone down." Jinxian Furui was accepted by Sejong, and the relief and peace of the people were what Sejong cared about in the past. . It can be said that this time of foreign affairs, Yan Song was appreciated by Sejong.
It can be seen that this old Yan Ge is not only deep in the city, but also quite capable.
In the following years, Yan Song was successively changed to the post of the minister of the household department and the minister of the official department. In the eleventh year of Jiajing, it was promoted to the Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Etiquette, and two years later, it was changed to the Shangshu of the Nanjing Officials.
When Lu Bing was in Nanjing, he had heard of Yan Song, but he was an imperial commissioner at the time, and he was dedicated to destroying pirates. Moreover, he always felt that Nanjing was not a place for old-age care. He didn't have much perspective on Nanjing officials at all levels, and he didn't know much about the official book of the Ministry of Etiquette at the time.
In the fifteenth year of Jiajing, Yan Song went to the Beijing dynasty for inspection, and was left by Emperor Jiajing as a scholar of the Ministry of Etiquette and a bachelor of the Imperial Academy. Because of Jiajing Emperor's emphasis on rituals, the minister of rituals had a particularly prominent position among ministers, and they often became a ladder to enter the cabinet. The contact between Yan Song and Sejong began to become frequent.
At this time, Lu Bing was still in the south of the Yangtze River and he didn't know much, but according to Yan Song himself, at that time the Emperor Jiajing was busy making rituals and music with his auxiliary ministers and Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, sometimes summoning two or three times a day, and sometimes retiring at night. He lives about four miles west of the city, drove him by car, often galloping solo.
Lu Bing had no way of judging whether what Elder Yan Ge said was true, or whether it was a slapstick.
In the seventeenth year of Jiajing, someone went to the emperor's temple and called it the Zong to enter the Tai Temple. The Korean ministers, including Yan Song, wanted to stop it. Emperor Jiajing was angry, wrote "Mingtang or Questions", and sternly questioned the officials. Yan Songjin changed what he said before, and "the rules and etiquette are very good." The controversy for the emperor Xian to enter the temple and claim the title is the end of the ceremony. Yan Song encountered a small setback in this matter, and also learned how to deal with the Jiajing Emperor who had a perverse and changeable temperament.
With diligence and gentleness, it is no wonder that Yan Song can win the favor of Emperor Jiajing. The bureaucrats who were summoned from time to time in Xiyuan were: Wuding Hou Guoxun, Cheng Guogong Zhu Xizhong, Ma Duwei Cui Yuan, cabinet minister Xia Yan and Gu Dingchen, and Yan Song, the official book of the Ministry of Rites. Yan Song's status as a cron of the Jiajing Emperor was determined. Come down.
Lu Bing put down this secret file, it was a bit of a headache, such a person became a relative, misfortune is unpredictable.
Lu Bing opened another secret file, which belonged to Yan Song's son, Yan Shifan.
The content of this file is only a few, but at the beginning, it was Yan Song.
Yan Song is said to be a good husband, and his wife Ouyang has a very good relationship. They have two daughters and one son, one of whom is Yan Shifan.
In the ten years of Jiajing, Yan Shifan was 19 years old. At that time, because of his father's three-year examination as a minister of rites, En Yin entered the Imperial College. After graduation, he was elected as the Zuojun Dudu Fu and the Houjun Dudu Fu experience. Now he is the governor of Shuntian Fu.