The 16 emperors of the Ming Dynasty are all strange, Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao can be called the most playful one, his father Zhu Youfan only loved Empress Zhang a woman in his life, gave birth to his only son, he had no competitive pressure from birth, determined that he naturally loved to play and have fun. In 1504, Zhu Houzhao succeeded to the throne at the age of 15, and even though he became emperor, his playfulness did not weaken but intensified.
He should go to the Fengtian Temple to worship the Emperor of Heaven and pray for the wind and rain to be smooth during his tenure, but on such a serious occasion, he took a monkey and a dog and forced the monkey to ride on the dog, but he himself lit a firecracker on the side, the dog was frightened by the harsh sound of firecrackers and ran wildly, the monkey fell off the dog's body, and was also frightened to escape, and Zhu Houzhao saw this funny scene and laughed next to it.
Zhu Houzhao's absurdity was more than this, and at the instigation of the eunuch Liu Jin, he played a new trick. Because he was the emperor who could not go out of the palace to play, he opened shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues in the palace, turned the palace into a vegetable market, and let the minister put on a cloth dress as the boss, changed his dragon robe and put on ordinary clothes to pretend to be a rich man to buy things for the minister, and also learned from the common people to bargain and play well.
However, people have two sides, Zhu Houzhao is greedy, but when doing the right thing, he is very sober, there was a suicide case in Qiantang, Zhejiang, this person was fatally injured by 5 knives, and the county order sentenced him to suicide. But this look is not in line with common sense, who commits suicide to cut themselves 5 knives, and the front slash 4 knives people are not dead, has been regarded as a medical miracle. The case was reported to the Punishment Department, and the people in the Punishment Department also felt that this person was sentenced to suicide as a fool's errand, so they asked the county order to retry it. A few days later, the county order closed the case by suicide again, and the Punishment Department was furious and handed over the case to the Dali Temple.
Dali Temple is the place responsible for the trial of criminal prison cases, and difficult cases in prefectures and counties must be sent here, and after the Dali Temple is tried, it is handed over to the Criminal Department for review, which is equivalent to the modern Supreme Court. Zhu Houzhao later learned about the case, listened to the ins and outs of the case, and also agreed that the five knives in his body could not be committed by the suicidal person, and thought that the county order thought that he was as stupid as Emperor Hui of Jin, and said angrily: "Is there a person who killed himself with five knives in his body?" Want to compare Shujin Huihu? ”
Emperor Hui of Jin was the low-energy emperor who uttered the shocking phrase "Why don't you eat meat paste", and the minister told him that the soldiers in the world were in chaos, and the people were starving to death, and emperor Hui of Jin, who had never been hungry, actually said, "Why don't the people eat meat?" As soon as these words came out, the minister was so shocked that he could not speak. Zhu Houzhao's uninhibited people looked down on Emperor Hui of Jin, and it was conceivable how faint Emperor Hui of Jin was. Later, the investigation of the case came out that the person was actually killed by the wife and nephew of the county order, and the county order had to say that the black was white and the white was black in order to shield relatives.
Zhu Houzhao's life of a gamer, even death is very dramatic. In 1521, Zhu Houzhao toured Beijing in the south, passing through the pond, surrounded by blue sky and white clouds, the water was very clear, the small fish and shrimp under the water could be seen, he Yaxing came and thought about the addiction of fishermen, driving a small boat to go fishing. "The weather has unpredictable storms, people have bad luck", because there are too many fish in the net, he did not bring the fish up, but the body lost balance, fell into the water, the lungs into a lot of water, 3 months later vomited blood and died.