After the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure that his jiangshan could be passed down from generation to generation, he not only wantonly divided the feudal kings, but also formulated a "Emperor Ming Ancestral Training" to restrain the behavior of the descendants of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang thought that as long as future generations can implement these rules and regulations, daming will be stable and worry-free. But in fact, on the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants not only did not act according to the order, but one by one was more unreliable than the other, and the Ming Dynasty gradually declined.
According to records, there were 16 emperors in the Ming Dynasty, but in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the other emperors were all strange, the Wanli Emperor had been in the harem for decades, the Jiajing Emperor used girls to refine immortal elixirs with blood, and the Emperor of The Apocalypse was thinking about studying wood art. In addition, there is a strange emperor. According to historical records, this emperor once indulged in fighting and fighting, abandoned the government, and reused eunuchs, which can be called the emperor of the subjugated country. But Xiaobian wants to introduce this emperor who has been scolded for hundreds of years from another angle, I believe that everyone will have a new understanding of him, he is the Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, who is known as the Cricket Emperor.
Zhu Houzhao was the only son of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming. Empress Zhang gave birth to two sons and a daughter to Emperor Xiaozong of Ming in her lifetime, but only Emperor Mingwu Zhu Houzhao survived, so Zhu Houzhao was the happiest prince in history. He was made crown prince at the age of 2, and his father and mother doted on him to the extreme. The young Zhu Houzhao was both literate and martial, not only did he never forget his reading, but he also loved riding and shooting very much. Unfortunately, this young and heroic prince, under the doting of his parents, slowly grew from a towering tree to a crooked neck tree.
In 1505, Emperor Xiaozong of Ming died, and the 15-year-old Zhu Houzhao succeeded to the throne. However, Zhu Houzhao did not seem to want to be emperor, because during his reign, he refused to go to the court several times, and for a time he was also addicted to fighting crickets, and ordered every household to hand over crickets, which made the people miserable, and for this reason, Zhu Houzhao was called the cricket emperor.
Not only that, the history books record that Zhu Houzhao, who became emperor, did not inherit the diligence of his father Emperor Xiaozong at all, but was absurd, addicted to wine, abandoned the government, and reused eunuchs. So is Zhu Houzhao really so unbearable? Xiaobian believes that when Zhu Houzhao took the throne, he was still young, his employment was wrong, and his heart did not change, but compared with other emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao still had a lot of merit.
In terms of political achievements, his achievements greatly overshadowed the mistakes he made. According to records, during the Xuande period, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty reached an unprecedented strength, the number of local uprisings and rebellions was the smallest, the relationship between the government and the people was also very harmonious, and the quality of life of the people was very high. In this way, the Xuande period was the most prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty, and such an emperor naturally could not be so excessively degraded because of a small hobby.
In addition, the reason why he reused the eunuch Liu Jin was not that he did not distinguish between loyalty and adultery, but that Liu Jin could balance the growing clique of civil officials. Not only that, Zhu Houzhao was also the only emperor after Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di to personally go on horseback to kill the enemy. Counting down, Zhu Houzhao's life has been meritorious, but it is a bit too much to say that he is a faint jun.