His hobby is to be a carpenter who treats the emperor as a part-time worker, and how strange and absurd is this Ming Xi Emperor Zhu You, who aspires to become a descendant of Lu Ban and is known as the "Carpenter Emperor"? Is he really a faint emperor?
Ming XiZong Zhu Youxiao was the fifteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the eldest son of Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo, the half-brother of Ming Sizong Zhu Youguan, Zhu Youxiao was born in the imperial family, but his living environment from childhood was very unfavorable to him, his birth mother was Ming Guangzong's attendant Wang Shi, because he was deeply loved by Ming Guangzong, he was jealous of Li Xuanshi, and was eventually killed by Li Xuanshi, Zhu Youxiao lacked father love and maternal love from childhood, and when Zhu Youxiao was born, his father Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo, although he was made a prince, was not valued by the Wanli Emperor. His father, Zhu Changluo, lived a very unscathed life, and as a son, Zhu Youxiao naturally had to be implicated, because he was snubbed by the Wanli Emperor, Zhu Changluo often sought pleasure and did not have time to take care of this son, and even did not teach him how to read and write, so that Zhu Yu did not read much until he was more than ten years old, and his educational level could almost be defined as illiteracy.
His father Zhu Changluo died only a month after he ascended the throne, zhu you school, who had not received any cultural education, was thus driven to the throne of the emperor by the ducks, and Zhu Youxiao, who had just taken the throne, had to eat the loss of no culture, and also made a lot of jokes that made people laugh, because the big characters could not read a few, Zhu Youxiao could not understand what was written on the fold, so every time the fold was judged by listening to others, and he was unwilling to listen to others, and often did not know how to tamper with the edict. Confusing the edict and embarrassing the ministers of the DPRK and The Chinese ministers, this also led to emperor Zhu You of the Ming Dynasty having no interest in handling political affairs at all, so he began to immerse himself in his own carpentry business.
Why was Emperor Mingxi known as the "Carpenter Emperor"? It is precisely because of the low level of education that Zhu Youxiao fell in love with carpenter work, although Zhu Youxiao read less but people are not stupid, his biggest specialty is to do carpentry work, and he also has a very high talent on this, Zhu Yu school is not talented as an emperor but in doing carpentry work, it can be said that it is a rare genius, it is said that the earliest folding bed was invented by Zhu Youxiao, and The carpentry done by Zhu Youxiao is very exquisite, it can be said that it is the first ingenious craftsman of Daming. Some people say that if he had not been born in the imperial family, he would have become a brilliant craftsman, and he could carve everything he saw, and the carving was very delicate and looked very professional, and he also created a lot of works by himself, sometimes even professional carpenters could not fault it.
Not only in the carpentry life is gifted, Zhu Youxiao is also an excellent "senior architect", he loves architecture and likes to build houses, according to records, Zhu Youxiao once designed and built a wooden palace model in the courtyard according to the mother book of the Qianqing Palace, the model was no more than three or four feet high but the workmanship was exquisite and ingenious, during the reign of Emperor Ming XiZong Zhu You, several halls in the palace were rebuilt on a large scale, and the "Zhi Zhongzhi" written by the eunuch Liu Ruoyu of the Inner Palace recorded that Zhu Youxiao once chiseled a lot of holes in the wooden barrel. After setting up a mechanism in the barrel, the bucket was filled with water, and the large wooden barrel was used to make an automatic fountain, so the exquisite and avant-garde design level was difficult for many professional carpenters at that time to achieve, and Zhu Youxiao, as an emperor, actually relied on his own groping to easily design and manufacture it, and Zhu Youxiao's achievements in carpentry were evident.
Why did Zhu You, who was jokingly called the "Carpenter Emperor" and did not do his job, have the saying that "the apocalypse does not die, and the Great Ming does not perish"? Emperor Mingxi Zhu Youjun ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, and when he first came to power, he faced a dangerous situation of internal and external troubles: Liaodong was completely annexed by Houjin, and the power of the Donglin Party in the imperial hall was dominated by the heavens, and in the face of such a tricky situation, even in the late Ming Dynasty, Jiajing and Wanli, they did nothing more than hide from the dynasty. And these officials are not fuel-saving lamps, they form gangs and factions to form parties for personal gain, and often quarrel in the court because of some trivial matters, which makes the Ming Dynasty's internal friction serious and work efficiency greatly reduced, Ming Xi Zong Zhu Yu school nobles in self-knowledge, know that they are not the material for governing the country, in order to improve this situation, so they reuse the eunuch Wei Zhongxian to help them manage the country, the focus is on the suppression of the Donglin Party to make the country run normally, and after Wei Zhongxian came to power, Vigorously reforming the tax system to reduce agricultural taxes stabilized the political economy of the Ming Dynasty, and the economic income of the Ming Dynasty reached an unprecedented peak during the apocalypse.
At the same age of sixteen or seventeen, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian did not have the experience of his brother Zhu Youxiao, who was confused and calculated in major matters, did not have the appearance of an emperor at all, and even did not listen to Zhu Youxiao's instructions to depose Wei Zhongxian and reuse the Donglin Party, and finally ended up with the fate of "the son of heaven defends the country, and the king dies in the society".