A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 234: Morning is for the people, dusk is for the king

After Liu He was sent back to the prince's residence in Changyi.

The ministers again reported: "In ancient times, people who were deposed and exiled were exiled to far away places. To prevent them from interfering with national government orders, we request that Liu He, the king of Changyi, be moved to Fangling County in Hanzhong."

However, the Queen Mother ordered Liu He to return to his homeland Changyi on the grounds that although Liu He was deposed, it did not cause too much turmoil in the world, only removing the title of King of Changyi. He was also given two thousand households in Tangmuyi, and all the wealth of Liu Kun, the former Ai king of Changyi, was given to Liu He.

Each of the four daughters of Liu Kun, the Ai King of Changyi, was given a thousand households in Tangmuyi. The Changyi Kingdom was abolished and demoted to Shanyang County. Because the ministers of the original Changyi Kingdom did not fully assist and educate the monarch and his ministers, they led the Changyi King astray and was convicted. The general Huo Guang killed them all, more than 200 people in total.

After Liu He was deposed, General Huo Guang and other ministers honored Liu Xun, the great-grandson of Emperor Wu, as the new emperor.

After Liu Xun was established as the emperor, the name Liu Bingji no longer applied to the emperor's name, so Liu Xun changed his name from Liu Bingji to Liu Xun.

September 8
Liu Xun entered the Weiyang Palace and met with the Empress Dowager. He was first granted the title of Marquis of Yangwu, and then the ministers presented him with seals and ribbons. Liu Xun became the emperor and paid a visit to Gaomiao.

In the same month, Emperor Han ordered a general amnesty for the whole country.

December 20
The ministers petitioned to make Huo Guang's daughter Huo Chengjun the queen, but the Han emperor euphemistically expressed his intention to make his wife Xu Pingjun the queen in the name of Xun Gujian.

Huo Guang did not object, but because Empress Xu's father Xu Guanghan had been castrated, he objected to the Han emperor's customary practice of conferring the rank of marquis on his father-in-law.

Xu Pingjun became the queen, and the Han Emperor ordered to give money to the officials and the people, while the Shangguan Queen Mother moved from Weiyang Palace to Changle Palace.

The first year of Han Dynasty (the first year of this century)

New Year
The Han Emperor ordered the recruitment of county officials and people with assets of more than one million yuan to be moved to Pingling, the cemetery of Emperor Zhao. The general Huo Guang knelt down to the Han Emperor to return power to the emperor. The Han Emperor humbly gave in and still appointed Huo Guang to take on important responsibilities and rewarded all his ministers for their merits.

Among them, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, based on Huo Guang's "strategic decision-making", issued an edict to grant him 17,000 households in Hebei and Dongwuyang, bringing his entitlement to 20,000 households.

They also moved Yang Chang, the imperial censor, Bingji, the Guanglu doctor, and Zhang Shi'an, the chariot and cavalry general, as nine ministers. Bai Bin, the censor doctor, was granted the title of Guanglu doctor, and his son Jinwu Baidu was appointed as the minister. The rest are all rewarded.

June
The Emperor of the Han Dynasty ordered his great-grandmother Wei Zifu, grandfather Liu Zhi, grandmother Shi Liangdi, father Liu Jin, and mother Wang Wengxu to discuss posthumous titles and set up a cemetery.

The third year of Han Dynasty (the third year of Benshi)

Because Huo Guang's step-brother Huo Xian was dissatisfied that his daughter Huo Chengjun did not become the queen, he took advantage of the opportunity of Queen Xu's delivery to bribe the imperial physician Chun Yuyan and let him poison Queen Xu to death.

When Empress Xu died, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was very sad and ordered all the doctors who treated her to be arrested and held accountable. Chunyu Yan was imprisoned and tried for "unethical treatment of illness".

Huo Xian was very afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he told Huo Guang the details and said to Huo Guang: "Now that the matter has reached this point, we should not let the officials torture Chun Yuyan."

Huo Guang was shocked that his wife could be so vicious and yelled at her: "Huo was almost harmed by you!"

At first, he wanted to take the initiative to explain the matter to the Han Emperor and expose Huo Xian. However, because he was afraid of a rift between the Huo family and the Han emperor, and was worried about his marital relationship with Huo Xian, he still informed the Han emperor and signed an order to exempt Chunyu Yan from questioning.

The fourth year of Han Dynasty (the fourth year of Benshi)

Huo Chengjun was appointed queen.

The sixth year of Han Dynasty (the second year of Dijie)

New Year
Huo Guang was seriously ill, and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty personally went to the general's mansion to check on Huo Guang's condition and wept over him.

Huo Guang wrote a letter of thanks and asked to allocate 3,000 households of his fief to Huoshan, the Marquis of Leping, in order to inherit the incense of his brother Huo Qubing. The Han Emperor agreed and sent the matter to Yousi. In addition, he also appointed Huo Guang's son Huo Yu as the right general on the same day.

April
General Huo Guang passed away.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty and the Empress Dowager Shangguan attended the funeral together, and ordered the Taizhong doctor Ren Xuan and the five ministers to take care of the funeral, while the two thousand stone officials from the court set up a temporary structure at the cemetery.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty compared Huo Guang to Xiao He, the founding hero of the early Han Dynasty, and ordered his officials to bury him with emperor-level etiquette, allowing him to be buried with him in Maoling.

At Huo Guang's funeral, there were jade robes, Zi Palace, Bianfang, Huang Chang Ti Cou and other funeral utensils. He was buried in a Qianqian chariot and a yellow house. He was escorted by military officers, light chariots and sergeants from the fifth school of the Northern Army.
Soldiers who served in Sanhe were also recruited to dig and repair tombs, build ancestral halls in the cemetery, and set up gardens, which were guarded by 300 households. Special chief officials and chief ministers were also appointed. The Han emperor gave him the posthumous title of "Xuan Cheng".

From the time of Emperor Zhao, Huo Guang's son Huo Yu and nephew Huo Yun were both appointed as Zhonglang Generals, while Huo Yun's younger brother Huo Shan was appointed as Fengche Captain, serving in the palace and leading the armies of Hu and Yue.

Huo Guang's two sons-in-law were both guards in the East and West palaces. The sons-in-law and grandsons of Huo Guang's brothers were invited by the court and served as officials, cavalry captains, and ministers in various government offices. As a result, the Huo family's pro-party members and their descendants occupied important positions in the court and were deeply entrenched. Even Bai Bai, who was deeply involved in the court, occupied important positions in the court. Everyone is afraid.

Every time Huo Guang met with the Han Emperor, the Han Emperor would show his humility in asking for advice, with a serious expression, and be extremely respectful and humble to him. In fact, he was very afraid of him in his heart, and he would often feel like "a thorn in his back" when riding with him. .

Although Huo Guang is dead now, the Huo family still holds the upper hand in the court and holds the main power. The Han Emperor knew very well that if he did not take back power, he would become a puppet at the mercy of others.

May
The Emperor of the Han Dynasty began to take charge of the government personally. On the grounds that he missed Huo Guang's meritorious deeds, he appointed Huo Shan, Huoshan, the Marquis of Leping, Huo Guang's nephew, who was the captain of Fengche at that time, to lead the affairs of the state. However, he also ordered the ministers to report their work to the emperor frequently so that the emperor could control it. Lower affection. After that, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty listened to the affairs every five days, and sent reports from all departments below the prime minister to describe the situation and measures, and to test his political achievements and abilities. The imperial organization was thus complete and thorough, and the officials did not dare to muddle through the work, and the personnel were properly allocated. .

Because Huo Shan wanted to take charge of the government, he could no longer serve as the captain of Fengche. However, in order to prevent Huo from thinking that he wanted to liquidate, he could not directly appoint his cronies.

At this time, Bai's role became particularly important. The Han Emperor appointed Xiuwu Hou Bai Xian, who no longer had any position, as the captain of Fengche on the grounds that Xiuwu Hou had been at the border all year round and understood the Hu people's character.

When the Huo family saw that the position was in the hands of the Bai family, who was friendly with the Huo family, and had not been taken over by the Han emperor, and Huo Shan had been promoted highly and could participate in the government, he did not react much.

At the same time, it happened that Bai Bin, the imperial censor doctor, resigned from his post as censor doctor because of his old age and asked to return to the country.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty appointed Prime Minister Wei, whom he valued in the imperial censor, as the imperial censor, and asked him to participate in the confidential decision-making of the court as a minister. First, he appointed his cronies to succeed Jinwu and take control of the capital.

He appointed Guanglu doctor Bingji as Guangluxun, and also entrusted his father-in-law Ping'enhou Xu Guanghan with important tasks, with the intention of gradually taking the power of the court into his own hands.

However, the Han Emperor knew very well that although he had regained some of his power, the relatives and cronies of the Huo family still controlled various confidential departments of the central government, especially the military power.

The seventh year of Han Dynasty (the third year of Dijie)

The truth about Huo Xian's poisoning of Queen Xu also began to leak out slowly. When Emperor Han learned the truth, he almost went crazy and wanted to directly order the eradication of the Huo family. However, many years of low-level life made him gradually calm down.

After a year of wooing and adjusting, he only controls 30% of the power in the court, while the Central Army only controls 10%. If he acts rashly, he may be counterattacked.

So he called his trusted censor Wei Xiang, Guang Luxun Bingji and others to discuss a solution.

When Emperor Han and Prime Minister Wei were at a loss what to do, Bingji said: "It seems that we are now looking for allies."

Prime Minister Wei thought for a moment and realized that there was really no power in the court that could compare with the Huo family.

"Allies? Now that the power of the court and the army are almost all controlled by the Huo family, how can there be any allies?"

The Han Emperor said thoughtfully: "Could it be that you are talking about the Bai family?"

Bingji nodded, and Prime Minister Wei sighed: "The Bai family? Not to mention the good relationship between him and the Huo family. When Shangguan Jie wanted to kill Huo Guang, it was Bai Bin who saved him and deposed Liu He. I heard There is also the shadow of Bai Bin. From what I can see, he is the same person as the Huo family, so how can he help us eradicate the Huo family?"

Bingji shook his head and said: "No, as far as I know, the Bai family is different from ordinary aristocratic families. They rarely value the family, but value people more. The Bai family helped Huo Guang because Huo Guang was indeed capable and virtuous and could cure people. The world.

But in the eyes of the Bai family, Huo Guang is not equal to the Huo family. In other words, Huo Guang is Huo Guang, and the Huo family is the Huo family. Huo Guang's contribution to the world does not mean that the Huo family has contributed to the world. Now the Huo family has emerged from Huo Xian. This kind of vicious woman not only interferes in royal affairs, but also holds great power.

According to Bai's theory, only virtuous people can occupy high positions, and it is harmful to the world for people without virtue to occupy high positions. Therefore, helping virtuous kings and abandoning unvirtuous kings is their criterion for establishing the world, and it is also their long-term longevity. s reason.

Since the Bai family has experienced the Lu family's rebellion, the Emperor's rebellion, the Seven Kingdoms' rebellion, the witchcraft disaster, and the Shangguan rebellion, they should know what to do. "

Emperor Han hesitated and said, "But even with the Bai family as allies, our strength plus theirs is still not enough to compare with the Huo family's power."

Bingji smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you don't know something. Everyone knows that the power controlled by the Bai family is mainly among the officials in Hebei. This is because the Bai family has the right to interpret the "Bai Family Spring and Autumn Annals" and has the most powerful power in the world. It is a famous school, so among Taixue, fifty-six out of ten come from Bai Confucianism, and through Taixue, good officials can be sent to the world.

But few people know that not only local officials, but also minor officials in various central government offices mostly come from Taixue and Bai's schools. Even if the Huo family controls 50% of the power of the court, it is still subject to the lower-level officials controlled by the Bai family.

Take the Tingwei Mansion as an example. Although the Huo family holds the position of Tingwei, everything in the Tingwei Mansion still cannot escape the Bai family's ears, and the Bai family can even have a certain influence on it.

Although the Bai family rarely held positions in the army, with the help of the Xiu Wuhou family, many officers benefited from them and would not easily become enemies with the Bai family. "

The Han Emperor was a little frightened and asked: "The Bai family's power has penetrated so deeply into the central government?"

Bingji sighed: "Exactly, your majesty needs to know that the Bai family is a large family that has been passed down from the time of Emperor Gaozu. Even Emperor Wu can only be friendly with them. At most, they will be squeezed out of important positions and their influence will be reduced. Strength, but not dare to destroy at every turn like the Dou family did."

Seeing the Han Emperor's frightened look, Bingji comforted him and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. The Bai family is not a big family without brains. They will hardly do harm to Your Majesty. If the Bai family does this, there will be no place for them in the world." place.

They themselves also know very well what their foundation is, so they will only take action if they occupy the moral high ground. The same is true for Emperor Dang, and the same is true for Liu He. Only the evil king will be afraid of the power of the Bai family, and Your Majesty has always practiced virtue, and now you are in the position of a victim. Why should you be afraid that Mr. Bai will not help you?

What's more, keeping the Bai family is also beneficial to His Majesty, that is, if there is another conflict in the future, the Bai family will become the most important help for the righteous party. This is the case now and will be in the future. "

Emperor Han breathed a sigh of relief and thought about it carefully, it seemed like this.

"Then I'll leave it to you to contact the Bai family!"

Bingji bowed and said, "I will obey your orders!"

(End of this chapter)