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Zhu Houzhao's father, Emperor Xiaozong of Ming, was an emperor with a near-perfect evaluation. He reigned for 18 years, worked hard to govern, worked diligently and loved the people, and history called this period "Hongzhi Zhongxing". The only regret is that Zhu Youfan only lived for 36 years before he died young.
Zhu Youfan had only one son, so after his death, Zhu Houzhao became the new ruler of the Ming Dynasty without suspense.
Zhu Houzhao has been very intelligent since childhood, and he often learns it when he reads, and he is both literate and martial, and likes to ride and shoot. If Zhu Houzhao could fully apply his talents to governing the country, he could become one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. Unfortunately, the Zhengde Emperor focused most of his energy on entertainment.
When Zhu Houzhao was still the prince, he showed a personality of good and bad work. Since Emperor Mingxiaozong only had such a son, he loved him in every way. Zhu Houzhao grew up in this doting environment, and naturally had the habits of many clumsy children. For him, having fun and living freely is the most important thing in life. Even after he became emperor and shouldered the heaviest burden in the world, this was still the case. As for governing the country, that can only take a back seat.
Fortunately, however, Zhu Houzhao was indeed very clever, so although he spent most of his energy on entertainment, the Ming Dynasty did not have any major problems during the Zhengde years.
Zhu Houzhao has a wide range of hobbies in entertainment, and he has a strong interest in everything that is new. But he loves three things, namely: war, wine, and beauty.
In history, many emperors waged wars in order to open up territory, but Zhu Houzhao's main purpose in fighting was for entertainment. He used the battlefield as a huge playground, in which he himself participated in directing the battle, and gave himself the title of a great general. It's like sitting in front of a computer today playing a real-time strategy game. It's just that the authenticity of Zhu Houzhao's "game" is something we can't experience on a computer.
Zhu Houzhao's performance on the battlefield was remarkable. In the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), the Mongol army and the Ming army fought near the garrison city of Yingzhou, about 60 kilometers south of Datong, and Zhu Houzhao personally led his troops to the battlefield and repelled the Mongol attack. Although it was not a crucial battle, it was the only battle in the entire sixteenth century in which the Ming army completely defeated the raid of the Mongol army, and it was clear that Zhu Houzhao's presence on the battlefield played a decisive role. Therefore, if you want to use the role of the battlefield commander as a criterion, Zhu Houzhao is very qualified.
Zhu Houzhao's second hobby is greedy cups. He often drank too much alcohol until he was drunk. There is a passage in the Records of Emperor Wuzong (Wuzong is Zhu Houzhao's temple number): "Drinking heavily, he often followed himself with a cup... He is drunk all the time, and his upside downs are confused, which is really why. However, although Zhu Houzhao was greedy, he never caused a delay in major state affairs due to drunkenness. Therefore, at the critical time, this seemingly absurd and uninhibited Zhengde Emperor could still distinguish between the light and the heavy.
If Zhu Houzhao just likes beauty and eats both men and women, it is only his personal affair. But the problem is that he also has a special hobby: he likes to go to the homes of the people to rob the women.
Needless to say, the emperor's harem beauties flocked to her, but Zhu Houzhao often disdained his harem beauties, but was keen to go to the homes of ordinary people to rob the women. Shi Zai "Every night emperor Wuzong walked, saw the tall house and the big house, that is, rushed in, or asked for drinks, or searched for his women, and the people suffered." The eunuchs around Zhu Houzhao knew that the emperor had such a hobby, and naturally had no fear, robbing good women in the name of the emperor, unmarried, married, and even widows. In order to avoid receiving this special "favor" from the emperor, some well-to-do families had to spend a lot of money to bribe eunuchs. And those who have no money have to admit their fate.
Zhu Houzhao robbed so many women, but less than one percent of them could really get him. Most of these women were sent to work in places like the Raccoon Bureau in the palace, and there was no day to come out.
In August of the fifteenth year of Zhengde (1520), Zhu Houzhao accidentally fell into the water on the way to the south, causing pneumonia. In March of the sixteenth year of Zhengde (1521), Zhu Houzhao died at the age of thirty-one. This emperor, who was extremely clever and absurd in the history of the Ming Dynasty, hastily completed his life in this way.
It is worth mentioning that after the death of the Zhengde Emperor, all the women who were forcibly robbed by him were sent back to their respective homes. Nominally this decision was issued and implemented by the will of the Zhengde Emperor, but in fact the person who actually made this decision was Yang Tinghe, the head of the cabinet