In the first year of The Han Zhao Emperor YuanPing, that is, on April 17, 74 BC, the Han Zhao Emperor Liu Fuling died, and when he died, he had no heirs, and the great general Huo Guangnai vigorously overcame the public opinion and established Liu He, the nephew of Emperor Han Zhao, the king of Changyi, as emperor, but unexpectedly, this Liu He was an ignorant white-eyed wolf, not only did not respect the law of etiquette and wantonly, but as soon as he came to power, he vainly tried to seize power, wanted to empty Huo Guang's old ministers and replace them with his own people, Huo Guang was angry and actually deposed Liu He.
Pictured: Stills of Liu He from the TV series "Song in the Clouds"
After this farce, although Huo Guang's authority was even greater, he could not help but lose face. Therefore, huo Guang did not dare to rush to make decisions anymore, he decided to let the empress dowager temporarily administer the province, and then investigate in detail, carefully screen, and had to find a good and obedient new emperor in the Liu clan!
However, Huo Guang looked at all the princes of the clan and the children and grandchildren of Emperor Wu in this world, and each of them felt that he was not very satisfied, either too stupid and stupid, or too fierce and too wavey, and there was no one who was suitable for him. At this moment, a great-grandson of Emperor Wu, who had been exiled, entered Huo Guang's line of sight. This emperor's great-grandson was the only survivor of the Prince's Mansion in the womb of the witches, and Liu Zhi's grandson Liu Yiji (later renamed Liu Zhen (later renamed Liu Zhen to facilitate the people's avoidance).
Pictured: Stills of Liu Yi in the TV series "Song in the Clouds"
At that time, Liu Zhi was destroyed by his father Emperor Wu of Han Liu Chemanmen, fortunately Liu Yi had been saved by the death of the prison director at the time, Bing Ji, and took care of him all the way to grow up in prison, until after Emperor Zhao ascended the throne, he was registered in Zongzheng Mansion, went to the clan household registration, and was adopted in the Ye Ting (the community where palace attendants such as palace women and eunuchs lived), but still not known to the public, so he had no official position, nor a knighthood, and every day he wandered in the city well Lu Lane and became a small and famous ranger. It was not until Liu He was deposed that BingJi, who had already served as guanglu doctor (ranked more than two thousand stones, in charge of the adviser to deal with it), found the opportunity to recommend Liu Yiji to Huo Guang, saying that this young man was eighteen years old, had a scripture technique, had beautiful materials, was a good child, knew respect for the elderly and respected the sages, knew grateful for Dade, in short, he had more qualities than that broken Liu He, and more importantly, he had no foundation, no gangs, and the foreign relatives were all fallen scholars, so there was nothing to worry about. Huo Guang listened, felt OK, and said that he could consider it.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Huo Guang proposed it at the meeting, everyone immediately raised their hands and approved it. It turned out that although Liu Zhao, the crown prince of The Imperial Family, had long been framed and died tragically, he still left a huge political legacy for his grandson Liu Yi. After all, Liu Zhu was the crown prince for thirty years, and in his later years Emperor Wu of Han liked to parade around, and whenever he left the palace, he entrusted everything to Liu Zhao, Liu According to his generous temperament and liked to recruit guests and raise soldiers, he often rehabilitated some things that he thought were too heavy punishments, and often promoted some virtuous people from the people, so he had great political prestige in the government and the opposition, and also accumulated a large number of political supporters. Although these princelings were killed tens of thousands in the scourge of the Witches, they still left a great invisible force active in the han Dynasty politics at that time, and these people and a large number of righteous people who sympathized with Liu Zhao, who was wrongfully killed in the Scourge of the Witches, voted for Liu Yi at the crucial moment, so this matter became!
On July 25 of that year, Liu Was ill and had entered the palace, and the group of ministers played the empress dowager, and The empress dowager was already the new king of the Han Dynasty, and was the Emperor Xuan of Han. From prisoner to heavenly son, Emperor Xuan of Han became the only civilian emperor in Chinese history to emerge in the middle stage of the feudal dynasty.
What is even more lamentable is that the nearly fifteen-year-old Empress Shangguan, because her husband Emperor Han Zhao was the grandfather of Emperor Xuan of Han, was promoted to a higher level this time, becoming the empress dowager, and also the youngest empress dowager in Chinese history. (Even more exaggerated, 25 years later, Emperor Xuan of Han died, Emperor Yuan of Han ascended the throne, and Shangguan, who was nearly forty years old, became the youngest empress dowager in Chinese history.) ）
Huo Guang, the maternal grandfather of Empress Shangguan, naturally became the highest-ranking foreign relative in Chinese history, and he was four generations older than Emperor Xuan of Han.
At this point, this farce and tragicomedy about the ownership of the throne has finally settled, and Huo Guangzhao Chongguo and others have long breathed a sigh of relief. Soon, the new emperor issued an edict, granting amnesty to the world, and praising those ministers who had made up their minds to support the merits, and the marquis without a marquis, and the title of marquis, in one breath, rewarded as many as twenty-three people, of which Zhao Chongguo did not have a marquis, so he was named the Marquis of Yingping, and there were 1,279 households. Huo Guang was even more exaggerated, and even sealed 7,000 households, a total of 20,000 households before the total, which was the largest marquis of the Western Han Dynasty. At the same time, he was also rewarded with seven thousand catties of gold, sixty million dollars, 170 slaves, and two thousand horses.
Liu Yi had indeed not disappointed the Qunchen, and at the same time he had not disappointed the people. It is precisely because he comes from the bottom of society, often goes to the city and the people, and knows the people's suffering best, so during his reign, he repeatedly pardoned the world, reduced taxes, cut princes, lightly sentenced to prison, exempted from military service, and fought corruption; and he also held up a large number of wise men and served as good officials, so that the political clarity of the Xuan Emperor Dynasty was actually the best in the two hundred years of the Western Han Dynasty, and even five of the six good officials in the "Biography of the Officials of the Book of Han" belonged to the Xuan Emperor Dynasty. It can be seen that although there is a "rule of Wenjing" that has been praised throughout the ages, the people of the Han Dynasty really lived a good life in fact in the "Han Xuan Zhongxing".
To tell the truth, Huo Guang was really very bullish, he dared to establish an emperor, abolish it, and then establish another emperor, and after the end, he did not leave a notoriety and become a traitor, but instead became the first hero of the Great Han Zhongxing, and the merit of the Qilin Pavilion was praised by the world. How much moral courage, political luck, and the ability to fight politically require.