We know that a generation of male lords Han Wudi is a person with good looks, the most likes the high appearance of the people, not only the women around him are the color of the country, the outstanding looks of men such as Han Yan, Han Said, Li Yannian, Jiang Chong have also become his male favorites, and good looks and some abilities will be more reused by Han Wudi. For example, Wei Qinghuo became a famous general god of war, and then he had four orphan ministers: the great general Huo Guang, who was "seven feet and three inches long, white, sparse eyebrows, and beautiful beard." The "Riding General Kim Il-seok" is eight feet two inches long and has a very strict appearance. "Chiaki Shodota" is more than eight feet long and has a very beautiful appearance. "The history books of the left general Shangguan Jie are not recorded, but he is superb in acting and extremely good at patting horses. The heir of Emperor Wudi of Han, Liu Fuling, was "eight feet two inches long" and "grew more knowledgeable", which shows that Emperor Wudi of Han had an inexplicable fanaticism and attachment to his appearance.
Among these auxiliary ministers left by Emperor Wu of Han to Liu Fuling, Tian Qianqiu was a generous man and rarely expressed political opinions, so after the young Emperor Han Zhao took the throne, the three generals Huo Guang, the che general Jin Ilju, and the left general Shangguan Jie became the iron triangle of the imperial court, and as long as this triangle was stable, the political situation of the Great Han Dynasty would never be chaotic.
Pictured: Jin Ribao, the Xiongnu prince of Xiutu who was super good at raising horses, turned out to be a han courtier
But alas, this iron triangle soon became unbalanced, and it turned out that friendship was vulnerable to the fatal temptations of power.
Just a year later, in September 86 BC, Jin Ilju died of illness, shangguan jie's son Shangguan An succeeded Jin ilju as a general on the horse, and the Shangguan family's power was greatly enhanced, and they had to compete with the Huo family, so the iron triangle became a two-legged ding, which could not support the Han Dynasty. Although Huo Guang and Shangguan Jie have been friends and sons and daughters for many years, they can be described as a natural political alliance, and the two sides cooperate tacitly. However, as they have been in power for a long time, their desire for power has become increasingly fierce, and in the end, it is difficult for a mountain to tolerate two tigers, and the two tigers will be injured when they compete with each other, and Zhao Chongguo, a military leader who is a friend of the two tigers, how will he choose?
Zhao Chongguo was already fifty-two years old at the time, but he was still serving as a small cavalry general Changshi (rank Qianshi), although he was "a man shen yong with a general plan, a young general and a marshal's festival, and learned the art of war, and informed the four Yi things", was a rare military talent, but perhaps he was not good enough, so he was refrigerated by Emperor Wu of Han for a long time, until emperor Zhao took the throne and Jin Ilju died of illness, Huo Guang transferred this cattle man to his side and promoted him to the position of grand general and protector of the army, ranking two thousand stones, in charge of the military and political affairs of the General's Palace.
Obviously, Zhao Chongguo was Huo Guang's man. No way, politics is originally a group project, and without factions, it is not called politics. Although those messy political struggles, Zhao Chongguo was reluctant to mix more, but whether from the perspective of ability or political philosophy, huo Guang, the iron-fisted strong minister who was trained and trained by Huo Fuyi and Emperor Wu of Han from childhood, was much higher than Shangguan Jie, who was born from a horse and was also good at patting horses (Emperor Wu of Han loved horses, and many important ministers started from horse officials, so it is said that we must not underestimate Ma Wen), and from the perspective of the domestic political situation, Wei Huo's two doors and five marquises are deeply rooted and deeply rooted, and the prestige in the army is extremely high, if the imperial court must choose a top pillar, Then choose Huo Guang! After the scourge of the witches, what the empire needed most was stability, and Huo Guang had always been conscientious and conscientious, and had always won the trust of Emperor Wu and Emperor Zhao, and had not tasted a single one for many years, he was an extremely stable person, even if the sky fell, there was also his tall man on top.
As it turned out, Zhao Chongguo was right.
In the autumn of the second year of the first year of the Han Zhao Emperor (85 BC), the Zhao Emperor issued an edict exempting farmers from all over the country from renting this year's land. The last time the han dynasty was exempted from the national rent was seventy-two years ago, when Emperor Wen of Han was in power.
In February of the sixth year of the first year of the Han Zhao Emperor (81 BC), at the suggestion of Du Yannian, Huo Guang, in the name of Emperor Zhao, ordered Xiang Tian Qianqiu and Yushi Dafu Sang Hongyang to gather more than 60 well-known scholars from all over the country, as well as some local gentry and learned merchants, to jointly summarize and debate with various departments of the imperial court on various policies during the Period of Emperor Wu, especially the policy of monopoly on salt and iron wine, which lasted for nearly half a year, and in July of the same year, the meeting was closed, during which the wartime economic governor of the empire Sang Hongyang, although he was tongue-in-cheek and warlike. Insisting on state control of the economic lifeline, it is a pity that the times have changed, and even this economic expert and mathematical prodigy who has turned the tide of the tide can not compete with the general trend of "waste in the sea, halving the household registration, and resting with the people". In the end, Huo Guang successfully used the meeting to win the support of relatively wide public opinion, and from then on began to shrink the official camp policy economically, appropriately relaxed the restrictions of some official industries, and took the lead in abolishing the liquor monopoly and the iron monopoly in the Kannai area (for details of the meeting, see the ancient text "Salt and Iron Theory"). After that, Huo Guang continued his political proposition of lightly debauching and thin endowments, resting with the people internally, and holding a heavy position on the outside, en-wei and exerting both power, actively defending and easily not launching a war, making the people more and more enriched, and the empire gradually re-emerged from the situation that the national economy was close to collapse in the late Han Wudi period.
In the following year ,80 BC), the ambitionist Shangguan Jie conspired with Emperor Zhao's brother Liu Dan the Prince of Yan, Emperor Zhao's sister Princess Gaichang (Emperor Zhao was young and motherless, so he was raised by this eldest sister), and the imperial master Sang Hongyang and others to set up a Feast of Hongmen to assassinate Huo Guang, and then deposed Emperor Zhao and installed Liu Dan the Prince of Yan as the Son of Heaven. Liu Dan was a man of eloquence, erudition, miscellaneous sayings, ephemeris, magic numbers, advocacy, and hunting, and he was known as the "Wise King" and was also quite famous in the government and the opposition, and Shangguan Jie felt that his chances of winning were quite great.
Unfortunately, the personnel of this rebel group were too complicated, the secrecy work was too poor, and as a result, the matter was not revealed and the secrets were leaked, and Emperor Han Zhao ordered that Shangguan Jie and Sang Hongyang be beheaded, and Emperor Han Zhao's caretaker, Princess Gai Chang, heard the letter and committed suicide in fear of sin. The edict was sent to the Yan capital, and Liu Dan, the King of Yan, drank with the guests and concubines of the group, sang generously and sadly, and wept in all the seats. He then hanged himself with a ribbon and died. As many as twenty people committed suicide together with the queen concubine.
After this great change, Huo Guang swept away his opposition, and the vacated positions were all occupied by his cronies and henchmen, while his son Huo Yu, his nephew Huo Yun, his son-in-law Fan Mingyou and Deng Guanghan all held the military power, and Huo Guang then turned his power to the opposition, weijiahainei, and became the de facto supreme ruler of the Han court, this powerful minister had a mixed reputation in history, but it was undeniable that the Huo family was dominant, ending the fierce party struggle of the Han Dynasty; the major political groups were closely united around Huo and knew the importance of the times. Working together to build a harmonious society in the Han Dynasty eventually created a rich and powerful era, and even solved the problems that Emperor Wu of han did not solve in his lifetime, and the famous "Zhaoxuan Zhongxing" appeared in history.
Pictured: Emperor Zhao of Han in the TV series "Song in the Clouds of Great Han Love"
It can be seen that using personal qualities to evaluate historical figures is bound to be difficult to distinguish and straight. Even a treacherous and cunning politician may play a historically heroic role in a certain situation. Huo Guang may not be much nobler in moral character than Shangguan Jie, but since his ruling standard is stronger than Shangguan Jie, this is enough for the traumatized Han Empire.