Marriage Network and Power Game: On the Marriage between Royal Family and Heshuo Provincial in Tang Dynasty

During the reign of Emperor Daizong to Dezong, there was a huge network of marriages between the provincial in Hebei and within provincial. In order to reduce the political influence of this network on the Tang Dynasty, Dezong married several princesses and their clan daughters to the provincial in Hebei to make the family festive, which resulted in the situation of “Wang Wujun, Wang Shizhen and Zhang Xiaozhong being the son-in-law”. In the Zhide and Shunzong era, besides Heshuo Fanzhen’s temperament, which made the family marry each other, a new form appeared: Heshuo temperament, which was in power, made the family marry the old Heshuo temperament, which had returned to the dynasty. The appearance of the new form objectively reduced the political threat of Heshuo Marriage Network to the Tang court. After Muzong, civil strife continued frequently in Youzhou and Weibo Towns. With the succession of the two townships in power, it was no longer possible to form a stable marriage network between the provincial in Hebei, and the Tang court no longer needed to intervene by consanguinity in the form of princesses coming out and landing. The outbreak of the Ganlu Incident made Wenzong desperately need the support of Fanzhen, so the Tang court followed the old wisdom and married Princess Shou’an to Chengde Town. The princess’s descent made the future temperance envoys of the town all princess’s blood. The Wang family embarked on the aristocratic road of domination, which is exactly what Youzhou and Weibo did not possess. Since then, the character of the provincial in Hebei began to differentiate