Huo Guang, the powerful minister of the Western Han Dynasty, was a very capable minister, who not only perfectly completed the task of entrusting Emperor Wu of Han to be an orphan, but also wholeheartedly assisted several generations of emperors. And the temptation to face power is not at all moved.
Originally, he held the supreme power of the country in one hand, and no one had any opinions on trying to usurp the throne. Moreover, at that time, there was no one who took the throne after the death of Emperor Han Zhao, and Liu He was a playboy with a clumsy disciple, and this was the best time for him to usurp the throne. However, Huo Guang continued to support Emperor Xuan of Han and fulfilled the obligations of a minister.
Huo Guang had been dutiful all his life, without the slightest disobedience. However, in the generation of Huo Guang's son, great changes occurred, and these changes also caused the Huo family to be destroyed.
On the one hand, because the Huo family was too powerful, Emperor Xuan of Han felt threatened by his rule. On the other hand, Huo Guang's son Huo Yu and Huo Xian did not want to tolerate everywhere like their father, when Emperor Xuan of Han pointed the sword at them, if it was Huo Guang, he would endure, but Huo Yu Huo Xian did not resist choosing to rebel, which is a way that the risk and return are proportional, to become a Huo family can not only carry forward, more likely to change the dynasty, but also fail, it is the overall demise of a family. The result, of course, is the latter.
The first person Emperor Xuan of Han wanted to engage was Huo Yun, who gave Huo Yun shangshu the position, but quickly turned Shangshu into a fictitious title. Huo Yun was emptied of power, and an important pawn of the Huo family was restricted to death by Emperor Xuan of Han. Then Emperor Xuan of Han repeated the same trick, aiming the sword of power at Huo Yu, first sealing Huo Yu as the Grand Sima but then canceling the military seal in his hand, and the general without the military seal was like a soldier without a gun, who could not do anything and was completely hollowed out. After the two men were stripped of their power, the rest of the Huo family had no one to rely on, and then they were transferred out of the capital one after another.
Not to mention, Emperor Xuan of Han not only deprived the Huo family of its powers, but also successively granted these powers to the Shi Liangdi family and the Xu family, the Huo family's old enemies. The blow is very lethal to them, like taking away the weapon in your hand to your enemy. After all, the Huo family also has decades of inheritance, watching the power in their hands being stripped away step by step, the Huo family began to resist in the unbearable Huo family.
The first to stand up was Huo Yu, who advocated rebellion within the imperial court and taking back the power he needed, there was no need to go too far. However, Huo Xian felt that since the emperor was able to do this, the purpose was to exterminate the Huo family, so it was better to rebel to avoid the consequences, and there was no need to let it go. When Huo Guang was able to depose the new monarch, they could too.
After formulating a detailed plan to seize power, the news was learned by a friend named Zhang Zhang and informed. Rebellion was a capital offense, and when the emperor learned of the Huo family's conspiracy to rebel, he quickly sent troops to surround the Huo family and exterminate them all. Huo Xian and Huo Yu knew that the death penalty would be inevitable, and eventually ended their lives by suicide.
Almost all of the Huo family died in the process of plotting the palace coup, leaving only One Empress Huo in the palace to survive. However, Empress Huo did not succeed in her death, and the angry Emperor Xuan of Han sent her into the Cold Palace. A few years later, he was driven to live in the "Yunlin Pavilion" again, and the lonely empress Huo tasted all the sorrows of the world and finally hanged herself one day.
Since then, the Foundation of the Huo Family's decades of operation has been destroyed.