As the saying goes, the fate of parents is the word of the concubine, and ancient marriages especially value origin. The first is that the person who marries his daughter wants to make his daughter live a little better, and the second is that he wants to climb a high branch and become rich and prosperous from now on. But there is one person in history who does the opposite, and what he seeks for his daughter is not a rich and noble family, not even an ordinary family, but a criminal of the imperial court!
In 75 BC, the county commander of Yeting, Zhang He, entertained an eunuch with a feast at home. During the banquet, Zhang He asked: I heard that you have a daughter who has reached adulthood, and this official wants to find a family affair for her. Seeing that the county order was personally looking for marriage, the eunuch agreed with a full mouth.
So the two went to a dungeon, only to see a handsome and burly man studying hard inside. The eunuch asked incomprehensibly: Is it not true that the marriage given to the little people by the county official is this person? Zhang He said: Although this person is a criminal, you see that he has an extraordinary appearance and a lofty spirit, and you and I have been friends for many years, and I can assure you that this person will become a great thing in the future.
The eunuch, named Xu Guanghan, was also an official of the Han Dynasty, and was later sentenced to palace punishment for making a mistake. Hearing Zhang He say this, Xu Guanghan also felt that the man in front of him was extraordinary, so he decided to gamble and pin the fate of the family on this person.
After returning home, Zhang He told Xu Guanghan that this person was Liu Qian, the eldest grandson of the former deposed prince Liu Zhao. Xu Guanghan was also shocked after hearing this, so I was not in trouble, so I hurriedly refused. Zhang He saw this and immediately said: Although Liu Qing is a criminal, he is an imperial prince and nobleman, and if he has a career in the future, he will not be inferior to the Marquis of Guannei, and Xu Guanghan will be relieved after hearing this.
When he got home, he informed his wife of the incident. As a result, the wife was furious and did not agree to the marriage. Later, it was Zhang He who came to the door in person, and Xu Guanghan's wife agreed to see Liu Qian himself first.
When Zhang He led Liu Xiang to Xu Guanghan's house the next day, Xu Guanghan's wife was immediately attracted by the tall man in front of her. So I asked my daughter Xu Pingjun, do you like this man? Xu Pingjun looked at the man in front of him and said, "It all depends on the will of his parents."
In 74 BC, the 14-year-old Xu Pingjun officially married Liu Wan, and the marriage room of the two was Xu Guanghan's usual warehouse for piling up miscellaneous goods. After marriage, Liu Xiang studied harder and harder, and Xu Pingjun, as his wife, accompanied Liu Xiang day and night. The following year, the two gave birth to a son.
In 74 BC, Emperor Zhao of Han died suddenly at Weiyang Palace at the age of 20. Since he had no children under his knees, the chancellor Huo Guang decided to choose a person in the clan to inherit the throne. "This person is Liu He, the King of Hanchangyi."
After Liu He ascended the throne, he was dissatisfied with Huo Guang's monopoly, so he tried every means to control the real power, and as a result, he was abolished by Huo Guang after only 27 days of reign. With the lessons of the past, Huo Guang decided to continue to look for a person in the clan room who had no background to control. At this time, his subordinates suggested that Liu Zhi, the deposed prince, had a grandson who had been exiled to the people, and after the Wu Rebellion, he had been displaced and chose him as the best candidate, so Liu Que was sent by Huo Guang to the palace.
In 74 BC, Liu Qing was officially made emperor, but his real power was still controlled by Huo Guang. At that time, Huo Guang had a daughter Huo Chengjun who was not yet married, so Huo Guang intended to give her to Liu Qing as empress. However, Liu Qing was very fond of his wife Xu Pingjun, so he rejected Huo Guang for the allusion of the ancient sword of Wei Shi, and Xu Pingjun naturally became the empress.
Just when Liu Qian wanted to make Xu Guanghan the head of the state, he was rejected by Huo Guang on the grounds that Xu Guanghan had committed a crime. It was not until a year later that Xu Guanghan was symbolically enthroned as a Changcheng Jun.
In 71 BC, Xu Pingjun was poisoned by the resentful Huo Chengjun, and Liu Qing was distraught by this, and in order to compensate his wife, he insisted on giving Xu Guanghan the title of governor of the country and the title of Marquis of Ping'en.
Many years later, Emperor Xuan of Han successfully eliminated the Huo family's forces. Perhaps feeling guilty about his wife, Liu Qian promoted the entire Xu family, and Xu Guanghan's two younger brothers were also successively made marquises. The Xu family was able to change from a commoner to a relative of the emperor, and Xu Guanghan gambled the fate of the Xu family on a criminal, and finally won the glory and wealth of the Xu family.