Chapter 47 1. The Mystery of Power

In the history of the Han Dynasty, the fall of the Huo family was not an accidental event.Counting it, the family of power has collapsed like a mountain, like a tree being uprooted. This is already the third time.The Lu family was the first to fall, and the Wei Qing family was the second. History seems to tell us that Niu Honghong's powerful family cannot handle the second generation. In the dark, this seems to be the fate of the powerful family.Is it really?If so, did they have a premonition at the beginning, or did they formulate political countermeasures to prevent problems before they happen?In fact, no matter the Lu family class, the Wei family gang, or the Huo family, the power generation all had premonitions, but all their efforts were in vain.

At the beginning, before Lu's pheasant died, he called the Lu's family for a meeting to arrange the funeral.Lu's pheasant also specially warned Lu's class, be vigilant, be vigilant, and be vigilant again.Except for the Lu family, no one else is reliable.Unexpectedly, within a few days after Lu's pheasant left, the officials of the Han Dynasty and the Liu family's royal forces attacked like a pack of wolves, and finally tore the tiger from Lu's class alive. Back then, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were extremely respectable.Wei Qing is a low-key person, and Wei Zifu is as obedient as a cat, living in the harem without contending with the world.Prince Wei has accumulated good deeds and made virtues, and his virtuous name spread far and wide.Even so, Wei Qing still had a thorn in his back, so he repeatedly asked Emperor Liu Che not to give his two sons marquis and titles.However, Liu Che still blocked it.

Unexpectedly, when Wei Qing died, his power was lost.With the encouragement of Liu Che, the villain Jiang Chong completely poached the Wei family gang with just one yin and yang gossip witch palm. In my opinion, it is natural for the Lu family to be destroyed; it is chilling for the Wei family to be uprooted; and it is inevitable for the Huo family to be destroyed.Looking back, Huo Guang has been in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty for more than 20 years, and his power has expanded like never before.As the saying goes, if one person attains the Tao, the sky is full of chickens and dogs.After Huo's children ascended to the sky in batches under Huo Guang's prestige, did Huo Guang let go of his voice and shouted: "Little ones, don't come up again."

Has Huo Guang ever yelled like that?No. Instead, he put all the Huo family's eggs into a vegetable basket.Didn't Huo Guang know that putting eggs in one basket is very dangerous?And doesn't Huo Guang understand that the opposite of the extreme is the simplest dialectic of the universe? In my opinion, nothing can fool the old world.Huo Guang, there is no reason not to know.We can't say that, Huo Guang only cares about himself, and he doesn't care about the flood after his death.We should understand Huo Guang in this way: power is fascinating, once you hang on to it for too long, you really don’t want to come down.

Huo Guang is the elder, of course he has to take care of the younger one.So, he had no choice but to move the Huo family to the top of the power, set up a frame and make a nest on it.However, the ones above have been nesting for too long and don't want to come down; the ones below have waited too long and want to go up.So what to do? Easy to handle.The ones below have to wait for the ones above to take the initiative to move out, I am afraid they will have to wait until the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten.The best way is for everyone to lift a stone and smash it together, and everyone will have a share in the smashing.

This is the basic law of power struggle.History has proven that this is not bullshit.This is an eternal law summed up by millions of people in history with their lives and blood. Therefore, when we use this law to interpret Huo Guang's two difficult problems before his death, everything will be easily solved. Question 1: Why did Huo Xian poison Queen Xu without Huo Guang's permission? After Huo Guang learned about the situation, why did he not report it?Question 2, Huo Guangming knows that the Huo family is too prosperous and the world resents him, why doesn't he find a way out for the Huo family?

Let me answer these two questions for Huo Guang: Huo Xian was the one who poisoned Empress Xu.Confessing to Huo Xian and throwing away his pawn to save the car, will the Huo family live long?To do so would be childish.What matters is not who kills, but who kills.No one believed that the murder of Empress Xu was done by Huo Xian alone.To recruit or not to recruit is not the essence.The essence is that the Huo family's arrogance in occupying the center of power in the Han Dynasty is too strong, and it is too hated. That being the case, is there a best way out?Huo Guang asked the whole family to voluntarily resign and live a happy life?Ghosts believe it.Even if you retire, people will think that you are just putting on a show and have no plans.

Now I finally see the problem clearly, retreat is death, stay is death, advance is death, Huo Guang is powerless to save the Huo family.If the Huo family wants to live a few more days, they have to build a nest in the tree and build a few more logs to block a few more rocks.Therefore, before Huo Guang died, he left a suicide note, specifically requesting that Emperor Liu Bing have given Huo Shan an official position. Huo Guang, this isn't politics, it's just playing with one's life. The Huo family collapsed, and some people were very sad and hurt.This person, of course, is Zhang Anshi.At the beginning, Huo Guang had the most power, followed by Zhang Anshi.Now that the Huo family has collapsed, is it still far from Zhang Anshi?

This is called, rabbit dead fox sad.In fact, I have to be sad.Back then, Zhang Anshi and Huo Guang were not only colleagues, comrades-in-arms, but also in-laws.Zhang Anshi's granddaughter, married to a son of the Huo family.Now, the Huo family can't keep it, and maybe his granddaughter can't keep it either.If the granddaughter can't keep it, can he keep it? Fear is the most effective diet pill in the world.When Zhang Anshi thought of this, he couldn't eat well, couldn't sleep well, and didn't have the energy to walk. The world seemed to be gray.Ever since, within a few days, he lost a few laps, and he was very ugly.

When a pawn crosses the river, there is no life to turn back.An Shi, An Shi, there is no way forward, no way back, where is your life going to stay?I think this should be what Zhang Anshi asked himself countless times in his heart. Zhang Anshi's distraught appearance immediately caught Liu Bingji's attention.Liu Bing already watched Zhang Anshi get thinner and thinner day by day, feeling pitiful and puzzled at the same time.Puzzled, he inquired quietly, and only then did he know that the root cause of Zhang Anshi's illness was originally tied to his granddaughter. Soon, Liu Bing issued an amnesty order to release Zhang Anshi's granddaughter from prison.Liu Bing already thought, now, your old man finally feels at ease, right?Definitely feel at ease.Liu Bing already thought so.Others think so too.Maybe you think so too.

In fact, this is not the case.After Zhang Anshi heard that the emperor had pardoned his granddaughter, it was like a thunderstorm on the ground, and his heart sank in fright, and he couldn't find the edge. Zhang Anshi was genuinely afraid, not fake.What is he afraid of?He is not afraid of Huo Guang's ghost knocking on the door in the middle of the night, but he is afraid of Liu's sickness hiding a needle in his cotton and a knife in his smile.He was even more afraid of the invisible hand.The name of that hand is fate. This fate, as mentioned earlier: In the history of the Han Dynasty, how far can the second generation of power go. If you don't believe me, let's count from the beginning.Xiao He is very good, he was thrown into prison by Liu Bang in his later years, and he almost couldn't get out.Cao Shen, Zhang Liang, and Chen Ping are very good, and they are also very good at being human. What about their second generation?Obscurity, soundless.Taiwei Zhou Bo is also very good, and Zhou Yafu is born in the second generation.As a result, Zhou Bo was falsely accused of rebellion in his later years, and Zhou Yafu was even more pitiful, starving to death. Counting down, Jia Yi, Yuan An, Chao Cuo, Dong Zhongshu, Dou Ying, Han Anguo.These civil servants and military generals are pretty awesome.Don't talk about the second generation, like Jia Yi and Chao Cuo, they left before even finishing the first generation. Counting again, Li Guang is considered a bull.Niu, very cattle.From Li Guang to Li Ling are all great, but the three generations have not died well, and they have become the most tragic family in the history of the Han Dynasty. Counting down again, the best one is probably Zhang Tang, the number one cruel official in the Han Dynasty.Zhang Tang is awesome, he only has eyes for the emperor, he chases and slaps other things that are not flies, or they are human ladders, he steps on them to climb up.In the end, he was outnumbered and died at the hands of Zhu Maichen and many others. Zhang Anshi is the second generation of Zhang Tang's power.At the beginning, Zhang Tang was defeated and died at the position of Doctor Yushi; now, Zhang An is at the top of General Wei.Should I also... I don't want to, I really dare not think about it anymore.Fate, everything is fate.Why is the life of the second generation of power always so bitter. However, suffering has to be endured.So, Zhang Anshi seemed to have figured it out, and started to work normally.Whenever there is a big event, the emperor asks him to talk about it, and he goes briskly.Then, when the emperor ruled on a major event, Zhang Anshi called for sick leave.When the emperor officially announced the decree, he pretended to be stupid and sent someone to the prime minister's mansion to ask if the emperor had issued any documents recently.So, after all the messing around, no one ever knew that Zhang Anshi participated in the decision-making of major events decided by the emperor. What is Zhang Anshi's move called?Don't do things in a high-key manner and be a low-key person; but do things in a low-key manner and pretend to be a grandson.Pretend, since there is a reason to pretend, on that confusing chessboard, he can't afford to offend, so he can at least hide. Zhang Anshi not only wants to pretend to be a grandson, but also to accumulate good deeds and do good deeds.Zhang Anshi does good deeds and has the following characteristics: First of all, no thanks for big favors and small favors.Whoever thanks, please fuck off.For example, once he recommended a friend to be an official, and that person was indeed promoted, so he came to thank him.Unexpectedly, after that person left, he never had contact with them again.Second, do good deeds without leaving a name.There is a Lang Guan who has been with Zhang Anshi for a long time and performed well, but he was not promoted.So, I couldn't help complaining.The complaint was heard by Zhang Anshi, and soon Lang Guan was promoted.Again, to protect the shortcomings of subordinates.Once, there was a man who was drunk and urinated in the hall.Someone brought a complaint to Zhang Anshi, Zhang Anshi suppressed the matter, and replied, maybe what he drank was water and wine, not real wine, so there is no need to make a fuss. Don't do evil because it is small, and don't do good because it is small.What Zhang Anshi did has nothing to do with morality or quality.It's all about survival. It may be a few small white ants that destroy the gate of the high mansion, it may be a few insects at the roots that destroy the towering tree, and it may be a few little people under his subordinates who destroy Zhang Anshi.Accumulating small acts of kindness, becoming a great virtue, and keeping the backyard stable is equivalent to saving half of one's life. To jump out of the vicious circle of fate in history, one must earnestly learn lessons and act modestly and prudently.This is the way of life that Zhang Anshi summed up.Zhang Anshi also believed that the father and son of the Zhang family had a high status and should be removed in time.Ever since, he wrote to the emperor and made two requests. Request one, transfer son Zhang Yanshou, don't let him stay in the capital; request two, reduce the wages of Zhang's father and son for two generations. The request has been approved by Liu Bing.Zhang Yanshou was transferred outside and became the prefect of the Northern Territory; Liu Bing had ordered others to withhold the Zhang family's father and son's wages for another deposit, and later when the settlement was settled, there was actually one million yuan.Soon, however, Zhang Yanshou was transferred back to Chang'an and became a servant. In fact, Liu Bing already knew what Zhang Anshi was thinking.Liu Bing already thought that Zhang Anshi might be superstitious or too nervous.However, he couldn't tell the truth, so he had to cooperate with the old man to dress up and show off. If Zhang Yanshou is really allowed to be the prefect of the North, if Zhang Anshi's salary is really taken away, it can only mean that Zhang Anshi's life is over.However, Liu Bing no longer did this.So he transferred Zhang Yanshou back to Chang'an, and saved the wages of Zhang Anshi and his son. This is politics. Between singing and harmony, it is all art. In Zhang Anshi's eyes, is Liu's illness so terrible?Does he suffer from hyperstress syndrome?Let's stop talking standing up, because we don't mind the pain in our backs.How can Zhang Anshi not be afraid of Liu's illness?If we have a longer memory, we should know that many years ago, Zhang Anshi did something that hurt Liu Bingji. Back then, when Liu Bing had nothing, he was so poor that he couldn't afford to read books, and couldn't get his wife, who helped him?It's Zhang He.At that time, Zhang He still wanted to be a good person to the end, and planned to marry his daughter to Liu Bingji, but was stopped by Zhang Anshi.At that time, Zhang Anshi had already hurt Liu Bing in front of Zhang He, saying that it would be good for the poor boy to have food, and he still wanted to have a future in the future.Therefore, Zhang He had no choice but to go another way, cheating a marriage for Liu Bing. Fate is really playing tricks on people. Unexpectedly, those who cried back then laughed today; those who laughed back then could not stop the urge to cry today.The person who wanted to cry back then and laugh today is of course Xu Guanghan who was tricked by Zhang He into marrying his daughter to Liu Bingji; the person who wanted to laugh back then and wants to cry today is Zhang Anshi who once hurt Liu Bingji . The so-called, there is no love for no reason in the world, and there is no hate for no reason.For a long time, Liu Bing has not mentioned the events of that year in front of Zhang Anshi.However, Zhang Anshi was still afraid.I'm afraid that he will bring it up one day, and I'm even more afraid that Liu Bing will turn his back on him one day and settle the old and new accounts together, so it's too late to cry. In fact, Liu Bing already knew in his heart who was good and who was bad.Why Zhang Anshi always acted like a grandson in front of him, he also knew in his heart.A young man scared an old official so much that he didn't even dare to lift his head. To be honest, Liu Bingji felt a little sorry. So Liu Bing already thought that it would be better to say something to him.They both rotted in their stomachs. It was nothing to him, but it was torture to Zhang Anshi.Finally, taking the opportunity of a chat, Liu Bing already sighed to Zhang Anshi and said: "Oh, old He always lifted me up, but you always belittled me when I was old. When I think of this, I can't stop thanking you. " Don't think that what Liu Bingji said was ironic.In fact, this is kind words.Back then, Liu Fuling was strong and strong, and with Huo Guang's assistance, the world was stable.If Zhang Anshi followed his elder brother Zhang He and tried his best to praise Liu Bingji, it would definitely attract Huo Guang and Liu Fuling's attention and resentment, thinking that there was another job grabber.Next, that's a big problem. Of course, that is the truth, and it is a comforting word.Liu Bingji wanted Zhang Anshi to live in peace, so don't think about it.However, it is very difficult for Zhang Anshi to live and work with peace of mind. Liu Bing had just become emperor when Zhang He died.Zhang He had a son who died early.It's really good deeds that don't leave anyone behind.Liu Bing already wanted to repay him, but there was no way.Therefore, Liu Bing had already thought about it, and wanted to make Zhang He the Marquis of Ende, and put two hundred families to guard Zhang He's tomb. However, as soon as Zhang Anshi heard this, he immediately took action and refused to pursue the title on Zhang He's behalf. What's the matter with Zhang Anshi? Liu Bing has been given the title of a dead person, and he also wants to seek peace of mind. Zhang Anshi is a living person, so is there any need to be so nervous?In fact, we are not in the game, and we don't know the hearts of the people in the game. The thing is like this, Zhang Anshi has a young son named Peng Zu, because Zhang He's son died early, he adopted Zhang He.Because Zhang He sponsored Liu Bingji to study, Peng Zu studied with Liu Bingji since he was a child, and they had a very good relationship.After Liu Bing became emperor, he granted his old classmate Peng Zu a Marquis of Guan Nei. Herein lies the problem.Zhang Anshi believes that Liu Bing has made Zhang He a Marquis, and the next step is to make Peng Zu.Peng Zu has no merit and no virtue, and he has nothing to do. That is not a good thing.The Zhang family has a high status and authority, under one person, above ten thousand people, it will definitely make others jealous.Maybe one day another poacher will come, and the Zhang family will make a move, and it will be over. Therefore, Zhang Anshi went to Liu Bingji and explicitly rejected Liu Bingji's posthumous title to Zhang He. At the same time, he also offered to clear most of the households who guarded Zhang He's tomb, reducing it to thirty households. How do you guess people answered?Zhang Anshi never expected that Liu Bing would catch fire on the spot.Liu Bingji said to Zhang Anshi like this: "Don't always think that I chased Mr. He for your own good. In fact, I am repaying Mr. He for his kindness to me, and it has nothing to do with you." Zhang Anshi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and he didn't dare to breathe out, and he didn't dare to speak. It seems that Zhang Anshi can't do it if he doesn't want to.Sure enough, before long, Liu Bing had conferred the title of Zhang He and Peng Zu the title of Marquis of Yangdu.So far, the second generation of Zhang Anshi's father and son are all princes, and they can be said to be powerful in the world. However, Zhang Anshi wanted to be proud, but he couldn't.He dared not, nor did he have the heart.The revelation of the Huo Guang family's blood is still vivid: Hell and heaven are but a piece of paper; the grave and life are just the thickness of a piece of soil. Therefore, Zhang Anshi had to bow his head and become an official, making a fortune in silence.Mrs. Zhang Anshi is good at managing the family. She opened a textile factory by herself. She has seven hundred children in her family and is richer than the general Huo Guang.Sometimes, the poor don't know the suffering of the rich.If Huo Guang was so rich back then, then Zhang Anshi today is so rich that he dare not even spend money.Whether it is eating, drinking, or dressing, Zhang Anshi is very frugal and simple.For the consumption level of Huo Guang's family back then, he could not match it. 62 BC, August eleventh.Zhang Anshi passed away.Goodness, finally buried in peace. Zhang Anshi, in the cruel living environment, used incomparable wisdom and a clear mind to break the puzzle of power, so as to preserve his strength, full but not overflowing, and a descendant of Yinze.This is a valuable political and spiritual wealth that he left to future generations. Beautiful, Zhang Anshi!