What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Emperor Mingxi Zhu Youxiao (1605-1627), the 15th emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the eldest son of Emperor Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo, birth mother Xuan Wangshi, Ming Sizong Zhu Youjian half-brother, era name Tianqi, also known as "Emperor of Heavenly Revelation". He reigned at the age of 16 and reigned for 7 years.
The Emperor of the Apocalypse has an unrivalled level of craftsmanship in the carpentry industry.
The contemporaneous eunuch Liu Ruoyu's "Zhi Zhongzhi" records:
The First Emperor... It is also very good for water play, with large wooden barrels, large copper cylinders and the like, chiseling and cutting machine opening and closing infusion, or gushing like spray beads, or flowing like waterfalls, or making the ambush machine underneath, using water to rush the round wooden balls, such as walnuts, swirling like the size of the water surge, with the height and down, for a long time, as a joke, all unexpected. ...... Heavenly clever non-human also.
That is to say, he once used his brain to transform large wooden barrels, large copper cylinders and the like into artificial fountains, and the scene was very gorgeous and spectacular.
The Qing Dynasty Zhao Jishi's notebook work "Sending The Garden to the Sending Place" records:
Emperor Mingxi was extremely skillful by nature, fond of carpentry, axe axes in his hands, and building Dongyu, that is, the master craftsman could not reach.
Zhu Yu also personally designed a fully automatic folding bed, not only extremely light in weight, light in lifting, but also with a mechanism inside, which can be folded at will with mechanism manipulation, which can be called a 17th century Lego toy Transformer.
Zhu Youxiao's works are often colorful, exquisite and beautiful, especially in carving, unique ingenuity, and unexpected.
Zhu Youxiao's works include a variety of ship models, furniture, lacquerware, brick beds, comb boxes and other exquisite wooden tools, which are of great artistic value. It is said that he once built a slightly reduced palace, four feet high, exquisite and ingenious.
For his level of craftsmanship, the melon-eating masses also paid special attention: he once ordered the eunuch Xu Yuanwen to sell his woodworking products anonymously (note that it is anonymous) in the Beijing handicraft market, which caused a sensation at once, and each product could be sold at a high price.
The so-called carpenter in ancient times is actually not exactly the same as the modern so-called carpentry, in a sense, covering many categories such as architectural design and structural engineering.
Witness to Zhu You's school, it is also like this, such as painting in the palace to create more kinds of work, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is personally on the battlefield, the whole process of construction, the Emperor Pole and other three halls are completed in the year of the Apocalypse, he is personally supervising the work, caring everywhere, is completely the model of the modern supervision engineer.
This is clearly recorded in the Chronicle of discretion:
The holy nature is good at building houses, and whoever wields his axe and saws, that is, skilled workers cannot reach it. He is also a good painter, and all hand-made utensils are used by the royal supervisor and the internal official supervisor.
As Professor Zhang Ming pointed out in "The Bad Temper of History Has a Price for the Government":
The Southern Dynasty Emperor Who played a game of trading with his concubine all day long, and ming xizong, who only knew how to do carpentry work all day, was actually not thinking about big things, and if it came to IQ, I am afraid it may not be very bad.
The history books record that he was illiterate and an idiot emperor, but he was afraid that there was a great reason for the prejudice of the scholars.