Why does Zheng Hao, the only champion in history, hate matchmakers?

Since ancient times, the top scholar has been a dragon and phoenix among people, and Xu is the son-in-law of the emperor. It's even more remarkable to have both.

However, there are few such coincidences in history. There is a simple reason. After years of hard work, most of the successful people are adults, and there are not a few people over the age of 30. On the other hand, in order to prevent future troubles, the emperor's son-in-law is generally not allowed to go into politics. Age and politics became the main obstacles for the emperor to choose a spouse. However, it is not completely absent. In the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Hao was lucky. He became the top scholar in history.

Zheng Hao is very famous, and his grandfather You Zheng was the prime minister of Tang Xianzong era. Zheng Hao was studious and brilliant in his childhood. At the age of 26, he won the first prize in the second year of Tang Wuzong (842). Young talents are popular, and Zheng Hao should be the representative of talents and looks.

In history, there was an engagement to marry the daughter of the Lujia family. However, later, the successor took a fancy to this talented man and prepared to marry his daughter Princess Wanshou. At that time, Bai Minzhong, a trusted minister of the emperor, volunteered to be a matchmaker. Zheng Hao flatly refused, and worried about complications, hurriedly arranged the original marriage.

Zheng Hao made a decisive decision and immediately went to Huai 'an, Jiangsu, where the woman was located, to marry the bride. The motorcade has arrived in Zhengzhou. I got the news from the endless events, but only released it by administrative means. Bring it back. After analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of coercion and inducements, Zheng Hao finally compromised, finally broke off his engagement with his fiancee and married the princess.

Perhaps the emperor also made a compromise, and Zheng Hao's political future was not affected by Ma Xu's position. After the marriage, the emperor worshipped Zheng Hao as a captain of Ma Xu, and soon he was promoted to the position of Chinese Book Sheren and Assistant Minister of Rites.

It seems that Zheng Hao has earned it, married a daughter-in-law, climbed to the royal family, and can still serve as a senior official. However, not everyone can get along with the princess. Being forced to stay together will produce a bad feeling. It is said that Zheng Hao was unhappy and depressed after marriage. A typical performance is that you hate matchmakers? Later, he was promoted to the position of Prime Minister of Bai Min, repeatedly confessed the black state of the Prime Minister, and spared no effort to impeach and exclude him. Fortunately, the emperor knew the story, and all this was ignored.

In the fifth year (85 1), Bai Minzhong was dismissed and released. Bai Minzhong was frightened and worried that he would take the opportunity to get rid of himself, so he turned to the emperor for help, hoping to stop Xu. The emperor laughed after hearing this, ordered a box to be given to Bai Minzhong, and told him that the box was full of letters to impeach him, indicating that he had always trusted Bai Minzhong and would never listen to Xu, and reassured Bai Minzhong to let him go back. These words reassured Bai Minzhong and thanked him again and again. Many years later, Bai mentioned this matter when chatting with colleagues, and was moved to tears.

With this evidence, we can see how reluctant Zheng Hao is to marry the princess.

However, there are also questions. In ancient times, the age of marriage was not big, and it was rare for people over 20 not to get married. Zheng Hao was the top scholar at the age of 26. In the second year after Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty succeeded to the throne, Zheng Hao married the princess, which was six years ago. It seems unreasonable for an old man in his thirties to marry a princess without getting married. A reasonable guess may be that Zheng Hao was married and loved by the new emperor. Zheng divorced his ex-wife and married the princess. The Tang dynasty was tolerant and open, and there was such a precedent. Princess Taiping's second husband is Wu Zetian's nephew and has a wife. In order to realize this marriage, Wu Zetian sent his first wife away.

In any case, Zheng Hao's position as a top scholar in Ma Xu is beyond doubt, and his political career has not been restricted too much. He served as assistant minister of punishments, assistant minister of official departments, minister of rites, and finally served as Henan Yin. However, Zheng Hao died at the age of 44, which made people speculate that perhaps the misfortune of marriage played a role.