Upon hearing the news that Yang Jisheng was impeaching them without leaving any room for maneuver and threatening to put their lives to death, Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song were greatly shocked, and the atmosphere in the entire study became depressing.
"Hahaha… "
Just as the atmosphere was becoming increasingly depressing, a burst of uncontrollable laughter suddenly rang out from the study.
In the depressing atmosphere of the study, this laughter stood out like a crane among chickens, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
Then, a one-eyed fat man with his mouth wide open and laughing appeared in everyone's sight—Yan Shifan.
"East Tower?" Yan Song turned his head to look at Yan Shifan, frowning slightly.
"Haha, Dad, I was laughing at Yang Jisheng..." Yan Shifan replied with a nonchalant grin.
"Huh?" Yan Song was puzzled.
"Dad, if anyone else impeached you, I would be nervous too, but as for Yang Jisheng, I just find it funny." Yan Shifan said with a smile on his face, and he was very disdainful when talking about Yang Jisheng.
"What happened to Yang Jisheng?" Yan Song frowned again.
Zhao Wenhua and Zhou Fangzheng also looked at Yan Shifan, not understanding why it was so funny to impeach Yang Jisheng.
"Dad, if others were impeached, at least you would be covered in blood. But if Yang Jisheng were impeached, he would be a joke. I guess you won't even get to see him. He has already hit his head against the wall at the fork in the road and there is no way he can get out." Yan Shifan replied with a smile.
"Why do you say that?" Yan Song was puzzled.
"That's right, Brother Donglou, I'm a little confused by what you said." Zhao Wenhua couldn't help but ask.
"Haha, Yang Jisheng is such an idiot. He is the most conceited idiot I have ever seen, heard of, and in history! Yang Jisheng claims to be a loyal and upright minister, but in my opinion, he is actually a patriotic thief!" Yan Shifan grinned, shook his head and sneered as he commented on Yang Jisheng, showing extreme disdain and contempt for Yang Jisheng.
"Ah? A patriotic thief?" Zhao Wenhua was stunned when he heard that.
Even Zhou Fangzheng, who betrayed Yang Jisheng, was stunned. Zhou Fangzheng could understand Yan Shifan's words that Yang Jisheng was stupid. He also thought so. Yang Jisheng ignored Yan Song's offer and ruined his future. He impeached Yan Song, knowing that it was impossible. If this is not stupidity, what is he? ! But if you say that Yang Jisheng is a patriotic traitor, Zhou Fangzheng can't understand it. To be realistic, Yang Jisheng impeached Yan Song out of his love for the country and the people. This is a manifestation of his patriotism. How could he become a patriotic traitor in Yan Shifan's mouth
"I've been following Yang Jisheng for a while, haha, and I came to this conclusion." Yan Shifan laughed at him. "In fact, there are many such patriotic thieves in history. I have summarized a standard for patriotic thieves. Simply put, they are 'excellent in both morals and studies when young, diligent in study and practice when young, upright and upright by nature, patriotic in words and deeds, but in fact they bring disaster to the country and the people, and die miserably'."
"Zhao Kuo during the Warring States Period is one of them. Do you think Zhao Kuo was patriotic? He was. He loved Zhao to the core. He was surrounded by the Qin army and trapped in a desperate situation, but he still had Zhao in his heart and would rather die than surrender. In the end, he died on the battlefield for Zhao. But in the end, his patriotism led to the annihilation of more than 400,000 Zhao troops. They were all killed by Bai Qi. The capital Handan was besieged by the Qin army for a year, and the country was almost destroyed! Zhao Kuo was like this, and tens of thousands of traitors could not do it. What else could he be if not a patriotic traitor?!"
Yan Shifan flicked a finger and said calmly. After mentioning the example of Zhao Kuo, Yan Shifan flicked another finger and continued, "To talk about the recent past, Ma Zhi of the Northern Song Dynasty, also known as Zhao Liangsi, is one of them. Haha, this guy is also a typical patriotic traitor. Ma Zhi was a Yan person in the late Northern Song Dynasty. His family was a great family of Liao and a resident of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in our Han Dynasty. At that time, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were occupied by Liao. Ma Zhi was in the enemy country but his heart was in Song. He thought about his homeland, the Northern Song Dynasty, day and night. In the first year of Zhenghe, Ma Zhi took the opportunity of Tong Guan, an envoy of the Song Dynasty, to visit Liao and secretly met with Tong Guan. He proposed a plan to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which was to cultivate the Jurchen tribes that had suffered from the oppression of the Khitan nobles, and started the plan to ally with Jin to destroy Liao. Tang's major policy. Haha, if you don't face up to your own strength, you need to have strong strength to back up your making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby countries, otherwise you will be courting disaster. However, such an absurd plan was regarded by the Northern Song Dynasty as the Longzhong Plan for the division of the world into three parts in the contemporary era, and Ma Zhi was promoted to a higher position. During the Xuanhe period, Ma Zhi went to Jin seven times to agree with Aguda to attack Liao, which led to the absurd national policy of joining Jin to destroy Liao. Haha, what was the result of his patriotism? As soon as Liao was destroyed, Jin began to target Northern Song. Only a few months after the demise of Liao, Jin tore up the alliance, invaded Song in the south, and destroyed Northern Song two years later. Ma Zhi, this idiot, the initiator of the alliance with Jin to destroy Liao, was naturally executed by the Northern Song Dynasty after Jin invaded Song. "
After Yan Shifan gave these two examples, Zhao Wenhua nodded slightly, but then asked doubtfully, "Brother Donglou, we all know the two patriotic traitors you mentioned, but Yang Jisheng..."
"Haha, but when it comes to patriotic traitors, our Yang Jisheng is no less capable than them. Let me give you two examples. The first is Yang Jisheng's famous work, the impeachment of Qiu Luan's "Ten Don'ts and Five Fallacies". Haha, this memorial of Yang Jisheng must have left a deep impression on you, father, and Meicun."
Yan Shifan said with a smile.
Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua nodded slightly. Of course they had an impression of this memorial, as only a few years had passed.
This happened the year before last.
When talking about this memorial, we cannot avoid the Gengxu Rebellion.
In June of the 29th year of the Jiajing reign, the rebel Altan led tens of thousands of barbarian cavalry to invade the border of the Ming Dynasty. They started from Datong and in August, they defeated the Ming army at Gubeikou and entered the Great Wall. On the same day, the barbarian cavalry reached Miyun, a suburb of Beijing, and the next day they reached Tongzhou. They divided their troops to plunder Changping, and the barbarian cavalry headed straight to the capital and laid siege to the city. This was the second time the capital was besieged since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to break the siege, the emperor adopted Xu Jie's suggestion, agreed to Altan's request for tribute, and promised to negotiate tribute after Altan withdrew from the frontier. In fact, Yan Song himself also supported this point at the time. Yan Song saw that the traitor Altan had no intention of breaking through the capital, and his purpose was to pay tribute. If you are defeated at the border, you can hide, but if you are defeated in the suburbs, you cannot hide. The enemy will leave when they are full, and the best strategy is to fortify the city. Xu Jie's suggestion was exactly what Yan Song wanted, so Yan Song supported it.
After receiving the court's reply, the rebel Altan Khan quickly withdrew his troops to the border and sent envoys to request tribute in December. Following Qiu Luan's advice, the emperor decided to open the border horse market and pay tribute to the rebel Altan Khan.
At this time, Yang Jisheng, who was the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of War, submitted a memorial to oppose it. The memorial he submitted mentioned the "Ten Don'ts and Five Fallacies".