Huo Guang, a powerful minister of the Western Han Dynasty, actually reached the point of deposing the emperor, which can be described as the limelight. We know that there was a young general in the Western Han Dynasty, that is, Huo Fu disease, which made the Huns shiver.
Both are surnamed Huo, in fact, the two really have a relationship, they are half-brothers.
Their father was Huo Zhongru. Huo Zhongru was a pingyang county official. While serving the Marquis of Pingyang in Chang'an, he had an affair with Wei Shao'er, the maid of the Princess of Pingyang' palace, and gave birth to Huo's illness.
After returning to Pingyang County, he married and gave birth to Huo Guang. He no longer interacts with Wei Shao'er. Wei Shao'er had never talked to his son about his father, so for a long time Huo went ill and did not know who his father was.
When he had already made the achievements of the world, he knew his own life. However, he did not blame his father too much for not taking care of him, but after meeting him, he knelt down to him and blamed himself for not fulfilling his filial piety.
For this reason, Huo Fuyi not only bought a field slave for his father, but also brought his half-brother Huo Guang to Chang'an to cultivate and produce materials.
With the help of Huo Zhiyi, he first served as a Lang official, and then moved to various Cao officials and attendants.
However, it did not take long for Huo to fall ill and die. But anyway, Huo's illness is still there, don't forget, and Wei Zifu.
Everyone knew that Wei Qing was Huo's uncle, and the two nephews and uncles were powerful one by one because of their merits in attacking the Xiongnu. There was someone in the middle of them, and that was Wei Zifu.
Although Huo Guang had nothing to do with the Wei family, he also belonged to one of the members of the Wei family's foreign relatives group. After all, relatives of relatives are also relatives.
Of course, it is indispensable to his sleekness. After Huo's death, he honestly served Emperor Wu of Han and was imprisoned in and out of the palace for more than twenty years, without making a single mistake. Therefore, he gained the trust of Emperor Wu of Han.
Subsequently, a major event broke out in the Han Dynasty, and the Wei family was completely destroyed, and Emperor Wu of Han chose Liu Fuling, the son of Lady Hook Yi, as his successor.
Before his death, he also designated Huo Guang as the Grand Sima and Grand General, and asked him to assist the eight-year-old Han Zhao Emperor together with Jin Ilju, Shangguan Jie, and Sang Hongyang.
These are not easy to mess with, and they are very ambitious. Although Huo Guang and two of them were married, huo Guang's relationship with Shangguan Ji was not good, it was still a relationship of political enemies, and the contradictions between the two sides were becoming more and more intense.
Shangguan Jie's father and son also joined forces with King Yan and others to attempt a coup d'état and kill Huo Guang and depose the emperor. As a result, the matter was exposed, and the imperial court became the world of Huo Guang alone.
Objectively speaking, Huo Guang, as a powerful courtier, still did a lot of good things for the Han Dynasty, adopted a policy of recuperation, and restored the national strength of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Han Zhao died, and he had no sons. Huo Guang welcomed Emperor Wu of Han to the throne of Liu He, the Prince of Changyi, but soon deposed him and elected Liu Yi from the people, who was already the grandson of Liu Zhao, the crown prince of The Han Dynasty, and had been in exile and imprisoned. He was the later Emperor Xuan of Han.
However, Huo Guang himself was highly successful, and although he did not blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, after his death, his family suffered.