The Jiajing Emperor was the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty and a cousin of Emperor Wuzong of Ming. In the early period of his reign, he made great efforts to govern and rectify the imperial program, and the history was called Jiajing Zhongxing.
However, in his later years, the emperor was obsessed with the search for immortal alchemy and did many absurd things. In addition, this person was small-minded and suspicious, and persecuted many ministers.
Jiajing Emperor
So was the Jiajing Emperor's 27 dragon beds in the same bedchamber because of his suspicions? According to legend, the Jiajing Emperor was addicted to alchemy in his later years, and took these elixirs for a long time, causing him to have a violent temper, and many palace women suffered unspeakably. The Jiajing Emperor had to drink dew every day, and the refining of dan medicine even required women's menstrual blood. The fold made many palace people miserable. Thus there was a joint effort by 11 palace ladies to kill the Jiajing Emperor.
The things mentioned above really happened, but was it really because someone assassinated the Jiajing Emperor that he was preparing 27 dragon beds to hide his eyes and ears?
The real situation is that the emperor is called the Nine-Five Emperor, and the palace where he lives has a total of 9 rooms, each room has 3 beds, and the emperor needs to sleep in these 27 beds according to the change of the day, that is, the season and the season. This is probably the dependency of the Ming dynasty system, because since Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have called themselves "Fengtian Carrier", that is, the real Son of Heaven. So of course, sleeping also has to talk about pomp and circumstance.
Although it is said that the Jiajing Emperor had to toss so much because of etiquette, since this assassination incident occurred, the Jiajing Emperor did not dare to live in this sleeping hall for nearly 20 years. But after all, the emperor is a son of heaven, how can he not sleep in the place where he should sleep? So for so many years, the ministers continued to go up and ask the emperor to return to the bedchamber, but the Jiajing Emperor still refused. In the end, it was Wang Tongzu who moved out of the ancestral system and the idea that the emperor must live in the right place, and also suggested that the sleeping hall be rebuilt to let the Jiajing Emperor drive away this shadow in his heart. It was not until shortly before his death that he returned to his bedchamber.