The great man will live forever

Chapter 60
"Guangguang, do you want my brother to take you to see the battlefield?"

After dinner at Huo Zhongru's house, he was about to leave. Liu Han wanted to tease him again.

"No, thank you Shui Chehou for your kindness."

Huo Guang shook his head and saluted, upright and meticulous. He was only 12 years old and looked like an old man.

"I told you to call me elder brother or elder brother, don't look so polite, really don't want to? This is a person who surrendered to the Huns, and his name will last forever."

A faint light flashed in Huo Guangyi's eyes, his face remained unmoved as usual, and he just shook his head.

"Bo interest, let's go. When I come back victorious, I will take you to Chang'an, where you belong."

Huo Qubing and Liu Han said goodbye and left.

"Brother Liu, do you value my brother so much? Why do I feel like you are very interested in him?"

Liu Han lamented, "He will definitely be the pillar of the country in the future."

Can you not look good?
There are only two most powerful figures in the Huo family, Huo Qubing and Huo Guang!
A military commander has the highest honor, and is bestowed upon the wolf; a civil official has the highest honor, and he deposes and establishes the emperor, and promotes the Zhaoxuan Zhongxing;
There is no doubt that they are the two brightest stars in the Han sky.

Huo Qubing was a little confused, "You think so highly of him? I think he is a bit dull and rigid, without the vigor of a young man. He looks like an old man. You lied to him and told him to go to the battlefield, but he was not moved at all."

"This is exactly his advantage. The greatest victory for a person is to defeat himself. The young man is high-spirited, curious about new things, and wants to kill everyone. There are several young men who have never imagined commanding thousands of troops, marching across the battlefield, and being granted lordships. Will?
He may have it in his heart, but he restrained it. I actually wasn't lying to him. If he wanted to, I would really take him to the battlefield to see. Why, are you afraid that I can't protect him? "

"No, let's go. If he wants to in the future, I will take him to the battlefield and teach him personally."

The two men took their army and prepared to accept the Huns' surrender.

Except for Liu Han, no one knew that Huo Guang would be able to reach such a height in the future. He was so powerful that it was hard to find in history.

Huo Guang was the first person in Chinese history to achieve the ultimate in civil service.

After the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Huo Guangguan served as the Great General of Sima and the Chief Minister of the Secretariat. He served as Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty until his death.

It can be said that there is no one before, and there will be others in the future.

According to historical records, Huo Guang was "calm and careful", which means calm, careful and prudent.

He is a person with extremely strong self-control, even to the point of being perverted. How strong is he?
"Whenever you enter or leave the lower hall, there is a place where you can stop when you enter. The servants will peek at it and look at it without losing its size. This is how its character is."

That is to say, every time he enters or exits the palace, he always takes which foot first. The size of each step and where he steps next are exactly the same. Lang Pushe secretly marked and checked, and found that the size was exactly the same.

Moreover, he "has been in and out of prison for more than [-] years, and he has never done anything wrong, and even met his close relatives."

After decades of getting along day and night, Huo Guang never did anything that dissatisfied Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which is simply a miracle.

A teacher once said: "It is not difficult for a person to do a good deed. What is difficult is to do good deeds and not do bad deeds throughout his life."

It can be seen that it is really difficult for you to make someone appreciate you for decades, and this person is a bit moody and does not have the extremely perverted character of "correct nature and caution".

What's even more powerful is that Huo Guang followed the example of Yi Yin of the Yin Shang Dynasty and deposed the emperor. When Liu Fuling was 21 years old, he died of illness. Since he had no son, Huo Guang welcomed Liu He, the grandson of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, King of Changyi, to the throne.

However, Liu He only reigned for twenty days before Huo Guang and the Queen Mother Shangguan deposed him on the grounds of promiscuity and immorality, and chose Liu Bing as emperor.

From then on, later generations were collectively called "Hoy", which was the ultimate, even a model, of human ministers.
Yi Yin and Huo Guang both have the power to dethrone and establish kings, but "although they have extraordinary power, they do not do anything inappropriate", abide by the etiquette of monarchs and ministers, and basically do not seek selfishness or abuse their power. To be able to serve the country and serve the public wholeheartedly is destined to be a rare thing in history.

……

On the other side, in King Hunxie's tent, everyone was lining up to welcome him, because King Hunxie's envoy Bao Ci was back.

"Meet the king."

"How about going to Chang'an this time?" King Hunxie's envoy Bao Ciga said happily, "The imperial palace of the Han Dynasty was so grand that the emperor of the Han Dynasty seemed to be in the Dragon Palace..."

Seeing the Han Palace for the first time really shocked King Hunxie's envoy Bao Ciga. It was a subversion of his mind and worldview, just like Li Hongzhang's first visit to the country and seeing skyscrapers.

The royal palaces of the Western Han Dynasty include Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace and Jianzhang Palace. They are called the "Three Palaces of the Han Dynasty" in history books, that is, the "Han Family Palace". They are the longest-existing palaces in Chinese history.

After Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang's regime, the Western Jin Dynasty, the former Zhao Dynasty, the former Qin Dynasty, the later Qin Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty all used it as the administrative hub of the central government until it was destroyed at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Many major historical events of the Western Han Dynasty happened here: Zhang Qian started from here to open up the Silk Road; Wang Zhaojun went out to the fortress and pro-Huns here.

The total area of ​​Weiyang Palace alone is about 500 million square meters, including Xuanshi, Qilin, Jinhua, Chengming, Wutai, Gouyi Palace and other palaces.

In addition, there are Shoucheng, Wansui, Guangming, Jiaofang, Qingliang, Yongyan, Yutang, Shouan, Pingjiu, Xuande, Dongming, Suiyu, Fenghuang, Tongguang, Qutai, Baihu, Yilan, Wuyuan and other palaces. .

It covers an area more than six times that of the Forbidden City today. There are more than 6 palaces in the palace, as well as six hills and multiple pools.

The other two Changle Palace and Jianzhang Palace are also about the same size as Weiyang Gong. You can imagine how big the Western Han Dynasty palace was at that time.

King Hunxie's envoy Bao Ciga continued: "Everywhere in Chang'an is prosperous and magnificent..."

He wanted to say something else, but King Hunxie interrupted him and asked the most important question, "What did the Emperor of the Han Dynasty say? Has the Emperor of the Han Dynasty personally promised you?"

King Hunxie's envoy Bao Ciga stepped forward and carefully took out a piece of exquisite jade tied with a red rope from his arms.

This jade is made of jasper, dark green in color, with gray-white corroded halo spots in between, and has good brightness.The two sides of the jade have the same pattern, and the inner ring is carved with neatly arranged grain patterns;
The outer ring is carved with an animal face pattern with thick incised lines. On the top of the animal face are two dragon bodies, divided into left and right sides, forming a symmetrical curved body, and are decorated with fine incised lines around them.

"Your Majesty, this is the jade that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty gave me personally. He asked me to give it to you personally as a token."

King Hunxie took the jade and looked at it with a smile on his face. It could be seen that he was very satisfied. He was not unlearned, he was a king after all.

"I heard that this jade is a ritual tool used by the Han people to worship heaven. It is used as a token to show that the Han people attach great importance to it. This time it is done. Okay, very good. You have done a great job."

Jade has been widely used since the prehistoric period more than 5000 years ago until the Qing Dynasty.During the Neolithic Age, jade bis mainly symbolized wealth and status and were used for sacrifices.After the Shang and Zhou dynasties, jade bis were used not only for sacrifices, burials, but also for decoration.

"Zhou Li·Chun Guan·Da Zongbo" says: "Use jade as six utensils to pay homage to the four directions of heaven and earth. Use blue jade to pay homage to heaven, yellow cong to pay homage to earth, green gui to pay homage to the east, red canopy to pay homage to the south, and white amber to pay homage to the west. Pay homage to the north with Xuan Huang."

The "bi" in the allusions of "He's Bi" and "The Complete Bi Returns to Zhao" refers to "jade bi".

King Hunxie was very happy to see the Han emperor giving this jade and understand its meaning.

"I'll take it over and show it to King Xiutu."

At this time, King Hunxie's envoy Bao Ci rolled his eyes and seemed to have thought of something, "Your Majesty, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?"

"What are you talking about?" King Hunxie seemed to think he was going to reward him. "When this thing is completely successful, I will reward you with a thousand cattle and sheep, and a hundred taels of gold. How about it?" He patted his shoulder as a token of appreciation. encourage.

He is not one of those black-hearted capitalists who wants the horse to run but does not let the horse eat grass.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for doing things for you. I praise you for going through fire and water without hesitation. I don't want rewards. I was thinking that the system of the Han Dynasty has always been to reward based on merit. This surrender is entirely promoted by you, Your Majesty."

"Then what do you mean?"

"There is no need to divide the credit into two parts."

"I understand. In this case, you can make another trip to contact the surrendered Han generals."

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)