严嵩,字惟中,号介溪,明代江西分宜人。举弘治十八年(1505年)进士,累官吏部左侍郎、礼部尚书、武英殿大学士、太子太师等要职。当时,明朝正由中衰趋向腐朽,统治集团内部矛盾日益尖锐,虽然宦官的势力受到限制,但内阁又开始专权,并形成了长期的门户之争。在这种背景下,严嵩从嘉靖二十一年(1542年)到四十一年(1562年),揽权擅政达二十一个春秋,可谓长盛不衰,究其原因,是他那一套行之有效的从政之道。严嵩的从政之道,是以保护自己为核心,以替朝廷效命为手段。《明史》称他“无他才略,惟一意媚,窃权图利”。 Yan Song, but the word, the number of brook Creek, Jiangxi sub-Yi Ming Dynasty. Wang Hongzhi eighteen years (1505) Jinshi, tired officials Li Bu Lang Lang, Li Book, Wu Ying Hall, Prince Edward Taishi and other senior positions. At that time, the Ming dynasty was deteriorating from a middle-level position and the contradictions among the ruling groups became increasingly acute. Although the power of eunuchs was limited, the cabinet began to exercise its power of authority and formed a long-term dispute over the portal. In this context, Yan Song from Jiajing twenty-one years (1542) to forty-one years (1562), the right to strike at twenty-one Spring and Autumn, can be described as prolonged, the reason is that he That a set of effective politics. Yan Song’s politics, is to protect themselves as the core, to serve the court as a means of life. “Ming Dynasty” called him “without his only slightly, only Mei Mei, theft profits.”