Is Yan Song a good guy or a bad guy?

Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with cultivating immortality, so Yan Song used his literary talent to fool Emperor Jiajing, and Yan Song, who was in power, began to reject dissidents by all means. Yan Song is still a very greedy man, he pocketed his own money, and he always took bribes and slipped through the net, which seems to be a common fault of many eunuchs and treacherous court officials. Yan Song's behavior aggravated the class contradiction in Ming Dynasty, which was anathema to the world.

Xia Yan is the benefactor of Yan Song, and it is his kind words and promotion that have given Yan Song a bright future. However, after Yan Song came to power, he slandered Xia Yan in turn and eventually framed Xia Yan for death.

Yan Song and his son brought great disasters to the Ming Dynasty, and their greedy wealth was almost comparable to that of the imperial court at that time. Yan Shifan even boasted that even the imperial court was not as rich as me.

Yan Song went down.

After Yongshou Palace was burned, Yan Song suggested Jiajing move to Nangong. In those days, Ming Yingzong was captured in Mongolia because of the change of the civil fort, and was put under house arrest for several generations after he came back, so Jiajing felt that the Nangong was an ominous place.

Jiajing guessed that Yan Song had second thoughts. Xu Jie sensed the subtle changes in Jiajing and felt that the time was ripe to bring down Yan Song. He bribed the monk at once. As a result, when Jiajing divined, Xuanhe Shang said that Yan Song was the black sheep and the bane of the Ming Dynasty. Heaven hasn't punished him yet, because he lives in the capital, close to the palace. Once he is far away from the palace, the heaven will deal with this arrogant person.

Finally, Jiajing listened to the Taoist priest and killed Yan Shifan instead of Yan Song. Yan Song and his son have lost their former prosperity, and their notoriety in history cannot be washed away.