After the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne by mistake, he had been keen on this matter for a long time, and the palace maid lit up her sword in shame
This shows that Emperor Xiaozong had three thousand beauties in the harem, but only one son, Zhu Houzhao, was born. Because of this, after the death of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming, Zhu Houzhao naturally inherited this great position without suspense. He is Ming Wuzong.
After Emperor Mingwuzong came to power, he spent a lot of time drinking heavily. As a result, at the age of 31, he collapsed in the leopard room. After Emperor Wuzong's death, his mother Empress Zhang and the head of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe, decided to be succeeded to the throne by Emperor Wuzong's cousin Zhu Houxi. In this way, Zhu Houxi inherited in the Yuan Dynasty and changed his name to Jiajing.
He was the greatest emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Daoist Emperor. The reason why the Jiajing Emperor had such a title was because he had been pursuing immortality, building palaces, listening to the words of believers, building spiritual altars, and so on.
According to historical records, in order to pursue the art of immortality, he summoned a large number of people from the rivers and lakes to the imperial palace to refine the so-called elixir. Even more appalling is the fact that these warlocks' drugs require a special kind of "folk prescription," the virgin blood of young women. The Jiajing Emperor did not say a word, recruited a large number of beautiful women from all over the country to fill the palace, and "dedicated" herself to refining medicine. There are also strict rules for the collection of menstrual blood: it is collected uniformly every morning, while blood donors can only feed on dew and mulberry leaves every day to prevent blood from mixing. If someone steals something else, the result is execution.
As the saying goes, man is iron rice and steel. How can these women endure drinking dew and eating mulberry leaves for so long? Some are bold enough to steal food. Some are regular and hungry. There are almost three outcomes, either execution or starvation, and the rest are better than death, and even many women have to choose suicide to end this inhuman suffering.
In addition to execution, starvation, and suicide, what is even more cruel is that after the completion of the "elixir", the surviving palace women also died en masse and were buried alive by the Jiajing Emperor. Of course, this was only the tip of the iceberg of the Jiajing Emperor's cruelty to maids. The restless Jiajing Emperor did not even show any mercy to the maids who served him. Maids were often beaten and maimed for no reason. Once, several palace ladies "complained" together and talked about sadness under the rain of tears. A maid named Yang Jinying, who was a little older and more experienced, saw the hell life of the sisters, so she came up with a bold idea: instead of waiting for death here, it was better to fight the emperor to the death. It turned out that Yang Jinying and dozens of palace women were collecting nectar for the Jiajing Emperor. They were crowded for many years and had to get up before dawn to work. They are tired like puppies every day. Helplessly, they had to pretend to be ill to "save" themselves.
As a result, when the Jiajing Emperor heard that the women were "idle," he whipped the leader Yang Jinying and dozens of palace people. Whipping was a small thing, but when they thought of such a thing for a long time, they felt very desperate, so they immediately agreed and decided to murder the Jiajing Emperor. At that time, the Jiajing Emperor's favorite concubine often stayed in the palace. Sixteen maids, led by Yang Jinying, quietly entered the dormitory one night, and in order to take advantage of the sleep time of the Jiajing Emperor, the maids deceived the two maids at the door. Take out a silk rope and cover it. But in the end, it was discovered, and Duanfei was implicated.