The Ming Dynasty was the last unified feudal dynasty established by the Han Chinese in China's feudal history, and a total of sixteen emperors were handed down, which lasted for 276 years. In this nearly three-hundred-year history, some emperors have been remembered for their decision to kill, and some have been cited as jokes because they love to do carpentry work, in fact, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, who is a well-known emperor, there is also an emperor's experience is also very interesting, this person is the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.
The Jiajing Emperor had two hobbies, one was to love cats, and the other was unbearable for the palace women. To introduce his two hobbies, we have to start from the beginning. In the beginning, Zhu Houxi was just a prince with a fief, far away from the capital, and enjoyed life freely in his fiefdom. But fate sometimes does have its magic, because the previous emperor swam into the lake and fell into the water, and did not leave any heirs, Zhu Houxi, who was originally eighteen thousand miles away from the throne, was suddenly pushed to a high position that had nothing to do with him.
Zhu Houxi, who became emperor, also had a time when he was full of spirit. Having just ascended the throne, because he was not the son of the previous emperor, it was reasonable to arrange a nominal father for him to become the legitimate heir, which seemed to be a little more justified. At that time, Jiajing did not accumulate the power of the DPRK and China, and had to rely on his own ability to resist many controversies in the court, and finally won the victory and established his prestige in the DPRK.
At that time, Jiajing also carried out a series of reforms, straightened out the discipline in the court, removed some cancerous tumors, and reused meritocracy, and all walks of life at that time reached a peak of prosperity. But if there is no follow-up effort behind the prosperity, the next step is to go downhill. Jiajing began to retire to the Western Garden, and Hai Rui once said that he had not been in the dynasty for twenty years, and Zhu Houxi at this time cultivated two hobbies.
At that time, Jiajing became a "cat slave", and he felt uncomfortable without touching the cat for a while. To what extent did he love cats? Even when the concubine was pampered, he had to take his cat with him, and the most favored cat was buried in a golden coffin after his death. In addition to loving cats, there is also a beginning to pursue immortality and practice Dan all day. People who sit on the dragon chair, especially not willing to die prematurely, always feel that they do not enjoy the feeling of being in a high position, Zhu Houxi is no exception, he began to find various warlocks to refine Dan, and indulged in it all day.
What the palace ladies could not stand the most was that the emperor wanted to refine Dan, and the requirements for materials were definitely extremely high, and they had to get up early every morning to collect dewdrops. After all, the dew drops are drop by drop, and they will drip when they are touched, so they need to be careful, quite laborious, and sometimes even the concubines are pulled out to collect the dew, making them cry bitterly and unbearable. But despite this, some people still revealed that they could still see Jiajing playing in the middle of the night, and the impact of not going to the court was still very small on him.