When it comes to the absurd emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao is absolutely well-deserved. As an emperor who began to receive imperial education from an early age, Zhu Houzhao began to abandon the government only two years after he took the throne, and also built a magnificent palace on the south bank of the Tailiu Pond outside the Xihua Gate, and set up a "leopard room" in the palace that made all women afraid.
From then on, the political center of the Ming Dynasty began to turn to the leopard room, and Zhu Houzhao himself ate and drank Lazar here until his death. What exactly is this leopard room? Why did the palace that shocked all women make Zhu Houzhao linger?
First, do not love the country and love the beast
Since ancient times, the more powerful the men are, the more they like to collect some rare beasts, and the emperor, as the most honorable man under the heavens, needless to say. The Ming Dynasty was the peak period for the emperor to raise animals, and the reason why Zhu Houzhao established the leopard house was originally to raise various beasts of prey in it.
According to historical records, the construction of the leopard house took a total of five years and the total cost exceeded 240,000 taels of silver. Long before the construction of the leopard house, the economy of the Ming Dynasty had reached the point of being stretched, and although Zhu Houzhao, as an emperor, knew that the treasury was empty, he could not resist the instigation of the "Eight Great Tigers" headed by Liu Jin, and was bound to establish a kingdom of his own pleasure.
Since the construction of the leopard house, Zhu Houzhao has asked hundreds of officials to loot all kinds of rare and exotic beasts from the people, especially all kinds of beasts. In Zhu Houzhao's eyes, the leopard is the most ferocious animal among all animals, so he specially let people catch the leopard, and then watch the leopards stage a "battle of trapped beasts" in the leopard room.
However, the emperors are all fond of the new and tired of the old, and there will always be a day when they watch a performance in such a luxurious house. At this time, Zhu Houzhao came up with a new trick, he let people scavenging all kinds of beautiful women in the folk, whether married or unmarried, as long as they look beautiful and distinctive, they all abducted them to the leopard room for him to play.
For the emperor, the good-looking women in the world should be his, not to mention a few women, that is, it is not surprising that all the women in the world are arrested for his enjoyment.
In addition to the beauty of the Central Plains, Zhu Houzhao also likes to see the enchanting-looking Western beauties. One of the Governors in the Jinyi Guards was a Semu person, and Zhu Houzhao was curious about what the Semu beauty looked like, so he specially asked this Dudu to go to the Semu to search for the beauty. When he learned that the Governor himself had a daughter, he ordered the Governor to sacrifice his daughter for his amusement. In order to save his daughter, the governor had to come to the capital to take a flower, think of the daughter of others as his daughter, and then offer it to the emperor, which avoided the disaster.
The emperor of a country was so absurd that the people dared to be angry, and in order to avoid the destruction of their daughters, the people with daughters in the family chose a husband for their daughters early. Some people who really can't find a man simply pull one on the street, anyway, they don't want to see their daughter become an emperor's toy.
Second, the prince who has embarked on a crooked road
In fact, Zhu Houzhao was not born so saccharine. As a candidate for the crown prince of Gen Zheng Miaohong, Zhu Houzhao was placed high hopes by Zhu Youfan from an early age, and all the gentlemen who taught him were famous teachers, and even Zhu Youzhao often took him with him and let him follow him to learn the way of governing the country.
As the son of an emperor, Zhu Houzhao was very intelligent from an early age, involving a wide range of subjects, from the concept of governing the country to the cockfighting and lackeys, and even proficient in Sanskrit and Arabic.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, according to Zhu Youfan's vision, the Ming Dynasty has such a clever prince, and it will definitely rise to a higher level in the future.
However, I don't know when it began, Zhu Houzhao's Fa Fa began to go crooked, and he began to go further and further against the wishes of his father and his father and his husband, and under the deception of a group of eunuchs, he resolutely went farther and farther in the area of eating, drinking, and enjoying.
Zhu Youfan was well aware of the great harm of the eunuch hall, and during his reign, he vigorously rectified the eunuch party and revived the Ming Dynasty, which had long been plagued by the eunuch party. Unfortunately, Zhu Houzhao did not understand his painstaking intentions, and instead of continuing the policy of the former emperors, he once again entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.
Zhu Houzhao was fascinated by the eunuchs of the Eastern Palace as early as the time of the crown prince, and the Ming Eight Tigers led by Liu Jin were even more aggressively retaliated against the loyalists who disagreed with them under his connivance. The reason why this emperor went from everyone's praise to everyone's scorn was naturally indispensable to the merits of the Ming Eight Tigers.
Third, covet the pleasure of dying in the leopard room
Since becoming emperor, Zhu Houzhao was even more hedonistic than when he was the crown prince, coupled with the deliberate disturbance of Liu Jin and others, even though the Wenwu hundred officials lamented one after another, they still had nothing to do with them, after all, the power of the Eight Tigers of the Fa Ming was too strong, and if others acted rashly, they would lose their heads.
As a red man around the emperor, Liu Jin had a cunning personality, and he held the power of the dprk with the favor of the emperor, and if the hundred officials of the DPRK and the central government were slightly unfavorable to him, he could force people to die in the blink of an eye. At the deliberate instigation of Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao, as the emperor, became a decoration, and there was a great tendency not to play the country unwillingly.
However, After all, Zhu Houzhao was a person who had been educated by the emperor, and Liu Jin was only a eunuch even if he was smart, and no matter how high his IQ was, he could not compare with Zhu Houzhao. Although he ignored the government, he was still relatively clear about What Liu Jin had done, but he did not get rid of Liu Jin immediately, but let him continue to swell, until he thought that continuing to affect his position, he cooperated with others to compile seventeen major crimes for others and put him to death.
Unfortunately, Liu Jin's death did not serve as a warning, and the harem of the former dynasty did not settle down because of this, and then there were Channing and Jiang Bin and others.
The emperor is absurd, and the throne will naturally be coveted by others. In the fourteenth year of Zhengde, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, rebelled. Zhu Houzhao was not angry when he learned of this, but was very happy, he felt that this was a good time for him to establish his power, and at the moment, he disregarded the persuasion of everyone to march in person. Unfortunately, this wish of his did not come true, and King Ning was arrested as early as when he was still on the road.
Zhu Houzhao set out with great enthusiasm, but he was slapped fiercely, in order to take care of his imperial dignity, his men came up with a brilliant plan, let people let go of the king of Ning who had been captured, and then the emperor personally arrested him back, thinking that the emperor was usually too absurd, and the wine bag and rice bag at the bottom would come up with such an idea of ruining the three views.
In the process of The Return of the Banshi to the Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao passed through Qingjiangpu and suddenly began to learn the fishermen's mind to catch fish, and as a result, when the net was started, there were too many fish and the boat was unbalanced, and he himself fell into the river. Zhu Houzhao, as a person from the capital, was born unaware of water, and when the people below rescued him, he had already been choked and his heart and lungs were broken.
After returning to the capital, despite the meticulous cultivation of the doctors, Zhu Houzhao's body continued to decay, and he died in the leopard room the following year, when he was Chinese New Year's Eve years old.