《明史·列传·卷九十八》
因此，前后论严嵩罪的人，严嵩虽然不能在他们弹劾的时候使他们得祸，但无不假借他事托人在对官员的迁升考察的时候暗中报复他们。
故前后论嵩者，嵩虽不能显祸之于正言之时，莫不假事托人阴中之于迁除考察之际。
Therefore, those who censured Yan Song in the past and the present, although Yan Song was unable to bring disaster upon them at the time of their impeachment, he always found an excuse in other matters to secretly take revenge on them when they were promoted and investigated as officials.