"Champion Hou" and "Hussar General" Huo went ill to everyone, but he had a half-brother Huo Guang who was little known. What kind of person was Huo Guang in history? Why was it that only three years after his death, the entire Huo clan was devastated?
1. Huo's younger brother
The history books record that Huo Guang was the half-brother of Huo Guang. In 119 BC, Huo went to lead his division to fight against the Xiongnu, and when he returned, he passed through his hometown in Hedong County, and took Huo Guang to Chang'an. At this time, Huo Guang was only 10 years old, and Emperor Wu appointed Huo Guang as a Lang official, and later promoted to Shizhong (侍中). After Huo Went ill and died, Huo Guang became the Fengdong Capital Governor Guanglu Doctor. Huo Guang often went to the palace door and the emperor's forbidden bedroom for more than 20 years, was humble and cautious, and never made a mistake, so he was quite trusted by Emperor Wu of Han.
2. The road to promotion
In 91 BC, the crown prince Liu Zhao was framed by the traitor Jiang Chong and committed suicide. In his later years, Emperor Wu of Han suddenly woke up but was old, and since there was no suitable heir, Emperor Wu of Han wanted to make his favorite son of Zhao Jieyu (Liu Fuling) the crown prince, because the child was still too young and had to be assisted by a minister. After thinking about it again and again, Emperor Wu of Han believed that only Huo Guang could entrust him with a heavy responsibility and entrust him with state affairs. Therefore, when Emperor Wu of Han was dying, he explicitly designated Huo Guang as the Grand Sima and Grand General, and together with Jin Ribao, Shangguan Jie, and Sang Hongyang, he assisted the then eight-year-old Han Zhao.
3. "Zhaoxuan ZTE"
Huo Guang was married to Kim Il-seop and Shangguan An, who were also assistant ministers. Kim Il-seok's second son, Jin Bounty,' wife is his daughter. Another auxiliary chancellor, Shangguan Jie, married the eldest daughter of Huo Guang, who had a daughter of the Shangguan clan. Shangguan An planned to make the six-year-old Shangguan shi empress, but was opposed by Huo Guang, so he turned to the door of Princess Gaichang and successfully achieved his goal. In order to repay Princess Gaichang, the Shangguan family wanted to make her lover Ding Wairen the Marquis and Guanglu Doctor, but huo Guang rejected it. Huo Guang had previously prevented other relatives of the Shangguan family from becoming officials on several occasions. As a result, the two sides formed a grudge and became political enemies.
Shangguan Jie's father and son, together with Princess Gaichang, Liu Dan the Prince of Yan, and Sang Hongyang, the assistant chancellor, formed an alliance against Huo Guang, and in the name of king Of Yan, they took advantage of Huo Guang's vacation to write a letter to Emperor Han Zhao, falsely accusing Huo Guang of having a disobedient heart, and responded internally and externally, preparing to kill Huo Guang in one fell swoop.
However, the fourteen-year-old Emperor Zhao, who saw through their plot, ignored them, appeased Huo Guang, and ordered an investigation into the origin of the shangshu people. Later, Emperor Zhao of Han also ordered that those who wrote to Slander Huo Guang would be investigated to the end. Seeing that they could not take action from Emperor Zhao, Shangguan Jie and others decided to launch a coup d'état to kill Huo Guang, depose Emperor Zhao, and establish The King of Yan as emperor. However, due to the leak of the plan, Huo Guang sent soldiers to destroy the Shangguan Jie father and son and Sang Hongyang, and princess Eyi and Liu Dan the Prince of Yan committed suicide. From then on, Huo Guang became the de facto decision-maker of the government.
During the reign of Emperor Zhao, Huo Guang gained the full trust of Emperor Zhao of Han, so he was able to monopolize power, and he took measures to recuperate, repeatedly pardoned the world, encouraged agriculture, and restored the national strength of the Han Dynasty to a certain extent. External relations with the Xiongnu were also eased, and the policy of peace and pro-Xiongnu was restored.
4. Abolish Liu He
In the summer of 74 BC, Emperor Zhao of Han died without sons. Huo Guang then welcomed Emperor Wu of Han Sun Changyi to the throne, and after the ecstatic Liu He took the throne with more than 200 people into Beijing, he drank and had fun with this group every day, and within 27 days of his reign, he did nearly a thousand absurd things, making the palace a miasma. Huo Guang saw that Liu He was so overwhelmed by the heavy responsibility, and after consulting with the ministers, he asked Empress Shangguan to issue an edict and deposed Liu He that month. Liu He was deposed and deposed until Emperor Xuan of Han ascended the throne and was renamed Marquis of Haixia.
5. Emperor Xuan ascended the throne
At the beginning of Emperor Xuan's reign, Huo Guang said that he would return to the emperor. Then Emperor Xuan of Han did not accept it, and the decision on the affairs of the imperial court was still questioned by Huo Guang before being reported to the emperor. Emperor Xuan of Han had great trust in Huo Guang on the surface, but in his heart he was very jealous, and when he rode with Huo Guang, he "felt like a thorn in his back." Huo Guang himself made a great contribution to the Lord, which also laid the foundation for the later demise of the whole family.
Huo Guang had a daughter named Huo Chengjun, and after Emperor Xuan ascended the throne, he did not take the advice of his courtiers to make Huo Chengjun empress. Instead, he made his original wife Xu Pingjun empress. Huo Guang did not object, but on the grounds that Empress Xu's father, Xu Guanghan, had been tortured by the palace, he opposed Emperor Xuan of Han's conferring the title of Marquis of Han in accordance with Han Dynasty customs.
Huo Guang's step-brother Huo Xian, dissatisfied with his daughter's failure to become empress, took advantage of Empress Xu's birth opportunity to buy the doctor Chun Yuyan and poison empress Xu. After Empress Xu's death, Emperor Xuan of Han held the doctors accountable, and Chun Yuyan was imprisoned for trial, fearing that he confessed the matter to Huo Guang. Horrified, Huo Guang wanted to hold Huo Xian responsible, but in the end he was hindered by the marital love to cover up the past for her. Huo Chengjun was eventually made empress.
In 68 BC, Huo Guang died of a serious illness, and on his deathbed, He wrote to Emperor Xuan to request that his own three thousand households be divided into his nephew Huo Shan in order to inherit the incense of his brother Huo's illness.
6. Tragically exterminated
After Huo Guang's death, Emperor Xuan of Han and Empress Shangguan came to the funeral scene together, comparing him with Xiao He and burying him in Maoling with an emperor-level funeral rite. At his funeral, there were jade robes, zi palaces, convenient rooms, yellow intestine inscriptions and other burial utensils, with a car, the yellow house to send the funeral, the nickname "Xuancheng". However, Huo Guang's widow Huo Xian was still not grand enough, and the size of the tomb was repeatedly expanded.
In July 66 BC, the Huo family's rebellion was revealed, and the Huo family was beheaded by the door. At this point, Huo Guang's wife, son, nephew, son-in-law and other family members were all killed or committed suicide except for the golden reward for being pardoned for reporting rebellion, and his daughter Huo Chengjun was also deposed in Zhaotai Palace, committing suicide twelve years later, and thousands of families in Chang'an City were implicated. After the destruction of the Huo family, Huo Guangzhi's tomb was not connected, and he was still buried with Maoling.
In 51 BC, Emperor Xuan of Han accepted the surrender of the Southern Xiongnu and recalled the past to assist the meritorious ministers, so he had eleven heroes painted in the Qilin Pavilion to commemorate and praise, with Huo Guang as the first. Because of his family rebellion after his death, he was not given the full name of Huo Guang, but was only honored as "Grand Sima (大司馬), Great General," boluhou (博陸候, surnamed Huo Shi).
Since then, Huo Guang has been honored by the emperors of the Han Dynasty, and during the han dynasty, there were 100 tomb keepers. In the second year of the first year of the Hanping Emperor's reign, Huo Yang, the great-grandson of Huo Guang's cousin, was made the Marquis of Bolu and enshrined Huo Guang.
The evaluation of Huo Guang in later generations is mostly sad and regretful! Huo Guang was entrusted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to support the country, stabilize the society, and support Zhao Lixuan, even the Duke of Zhou was no more than that. However, he did not learn any techniques, he was secretly in Dali, plotted evilly with his wife, and established a daughter as a queen, fantasizing that the family power was becoming stronger and stronger from generation to generation, so as to increase to the scourge of subversion, only three years after his death, the clan did everything, which was really sad!