Chapter 23 Zhaotai Palace·Yunlin Pavilion

In the Western Han Dynasty and the later Eastern Han Dynasty, government officials were arranged by three kinds of people: one was the Qi family, the other was the royal family, and the other was the scholar-officials.The latter is a group of senior intellectuals of civilian origin.The Qi family is the emperor's in-laws: the emperor's mother's maiden family and the emperor's wife's maiden family.Between the second century BC and the first century AD, the feudal autocratic regime was developing steadily, and it was difficult for ordinary people to gain high positions and usurp power.But the royal family is different, as long as anyone has the right, he has the possibility of sitting in the dragon court.Therefore, during this period, that is, the Western Han and Eastern Han dynasties, the royal family had no weight in political power, and the emperor guarded them extremely tightly.The scholar-bureaucrats who came from the common people can rush straight up.However, if the scholar-bureaucrats can't get close to the emperor, and there is no insider, the emperor will not trust him for a long time.It is necessary to get close to the emperor in order to establish a long-term power family.Ms. Huo Xian murdered the queen at the risk of extermination and forced her daughter to marry Mr. Liu Xun, not only for the benefit of her daughter, but also for the benefit of herself and her family. .

Mr. Huo Guang is the half-brother of Mr. Huo Qubing, the national hero who defeated the Hun Khanate in the 1980s BC.In the introduction of the queen, Ms. Wei Zifu, the reader must still remember the illustrious Wei family. Ms. Wei Zifu's sister, Ms. Wei Shaoer, had an affair with a small clerk, Mr. Huo Zhongru, and gave birth to Huo Qubing.Later, Mr. Huo Zhongru returned to his hometown of Pingyang (Linfen County) in Hedong (Shanxi Province), got married again, and gave birth to a son, Huo Guang.Relying on his brother's relationship, he stepped into the palace and served the old emperor Liu Che.Although Mr. Huo Guang has an extraordinary background, he is cautious by nature. He has never had the bad habit of being arrogant and arrogant like ordinary dudes. In the past twenty years, he has not made any mistakes.Because of this, when the entire Wei family was massacred and bled, he was not implicated.Mr. Liu Che saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, so when he was dying, he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.All the circumstances have already been said before.

No matter how you look at it, Mr. Huo Guang is loyal and sincere to the Western Han Dynasty and the royal family surnamed Liu.Just because he established Mr. Liu Xun as the successor to the deposed Mr. Liu He, and made Mr. Liu Xun pluck green onions from the dry land, and suddenly rose to the sky, at least he was very kind to Mr. Liu Xun.However, Mr. Huo Guang had only passed away two years ago, and the grass on the grave may not have grown, but the whole family died under the knife of the firing squad.Although his wife and children were daring and caused a catastrophic disaster, but the righteous man was frustrated by killing all the dogs.Some people accused Mr. Liu Xun of deliberately encouraging them to commit crimes so that they could catch them all.This is also possible.Mr. Gai Liu Xun was still a common man, and when he was fighting chickens and stealing dogs with some local hooligans, Mr. Huo Guang, as the commander-in-chief (general) of the national armed forces, stood tall and unattainable.And because he is a small person, he was most impressed by the ferocious faces of the Huo family and the dogs.When he was elected emperor, he went to the ancestral hall (taimiao) of Mr. Liu Bang, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty. Although Mr. has become the emperor, he still has the feelings of the common people who are afraid of the general, so he seems to have a thorn in his back, and his whole body is tense.As the common saying goes: "The person who shakes the master is unlucky." Unlucky, the "Han Shu" says: "Not an animal." That is to say, it is bound to roll, or roll alive, or roll dead.Mr. Huo Guang is dead, but his family is dead.

However, the Huo family can't extricate themselves.After power is poisoned, it is almost impossible to live without power.For the family that has dominated the world for forty years, it is impossible for them to give up power and live the ordinary life of an ordinary marquis willingly.Therefore, it must be said that Mr. Liu Xun had bad intentions from the beginning, which is not necessarily true.The Huo family has fallen into the quagmire of power, and they have only two endings: one is that they really become the emperor themselves, and the other is that the whole family "beheads all the elders".Only democracy can avoid this tragedy, but there was no democracy at that time.The Huo family was destroyed in July 66 BC.The only one who survived was the queen, Ms. Huo Chengjun, who was only twenty-one years old.We can imagine her panic and grief when she heard that the whole family was killed, and her mother, brothers and sisters were all tied up and sent to the execution ground.This is not a blow that an ordinary girl can bear. It suddenly fell on her head. It was the same as when Ms. Wei Zifu heard the news of her son's failure.Ms. Wei Zifu refused to accept further insults and hanged herself.

Ms. Huo Chengjun is still young, she may still hope for a miracle, but miracles don't happen often.In August, the envoys broke into the empress's palace and read Mr. Liu Xun's edict to Ms. Huo Chengjun, which said: "You have a vicious heart and conspired with your mother Huo Xian to endanger the crown prince. You have no mother's kindness and are not suitable to be an empress. From now on, expel the empress officer and hand over the empress seal." ——Original text: The empress feels that she has lost her way, is immoral, and conspires with her mother, Lu Xuancheng Hou Xian, with poison. She wants to endanger the prince. She has no mother's kindness. It is not appropriate to wear the clothes of the ancestral temple to inherit the destiny.Oh, it's sad, he retreats to the palace, and there is a secretary on the seal.

Ms. Huo Chengjun had only been a queen for five years, and she was desolate here, and was sent to the balcony of Shanglin Garden in the suburbs of Chang'an.Since then, a beautiful flower in full bloom has been isolated from the world.In the past, she was proud, noble and arrogant, but now she is lonely and at the mercy of others.The backstage, which is as strong as steel and has survived for thousands of years, has become an illusion.However, doom still has her grip.Twelve years later, in 54 BC, Mr. Liu Xun suddenly remembered her, and sent her to a hut called "Yunlin Pavilion" to strengthen her confinement.However, it seems that only confinement can't dispel the hatred in his heart, so he ordered her to commit suicide.At this point, what else can I say, Ms. Huo Chengjun had to cry, is it poison?Or hang yourself?Or strangled by firing squad?There is no account in the history books.The confession is that Ms. Huo Chengjun finally died tragically at the age of thirty-three.If the old lady hadn't done everything possible to teach her to be a queen, she might not have caused this chain of vicious circles. She would marry a marquis and still live as a loving couple.However, riches and honor are dazzling, and you can't help yourself. No one in life is like this.Ms. Huo Chengjun was buried in the east of Kunwu Pavilion in Lantian County, a satellite city of Chang'an, and there are no more traces of her today.