Speaking of the ancient feudal monarchy's rule over Chinese society for more than two thousand years, it is really too much to say, whether it is the history of the canon or the history of the wild has its great archaeological value.
In the more than two thousand years since Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms until the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty, Chinese society has gone through a total of 24 dynasties, each of which has its own development characteristics because of its resume background, capital building, and customs and customs.
Of course, if we want to talk about the common denominator of all dynasties and dynasties, it must be the life of the society under the hierarchical concentration of imperial power, in the imperial palace, under the whole world, the emperor as the supreme supreme, as the dictator who holds the highest power in the whole world, in ancient society as the top of the food chain.
But supreme power does not mean that every king can really do his best, on the contrary, in such a high position, there are many emperors, in fact, we later called this kind of emperor a dark king, because lost in the flattery, lost in the paper drunken gold fans, and finally ended up in dismal.
The emperor I want to introduce to you today really needs to spend a lot of time to list the absurdities of his reign to the readers.
He was Emperor Mingwu Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao's growing environment
Introducing a person's life "deeds", the initial starting point is of course more contrasting from the environment in which he was born.
In fact, according to Zhu Houzhao's normal growth environment, it is difficult for future generations to imagine that he would do such a ridiculous thing when he ascended the throne later, because his early growth trajectory has actually always belonged to the "obedient man" route.
From the moment Zhu Houzhao was born in 1505 AD, it was regarded as a very auspicious existence by the entire royal family, and under the illumination of such an "aura", he was born with a special love for everyone who was in charge of the royal family.
Why? Doesn't modern society often say that your birth family has actually decided and laid the foundation for you in the future.
Zhu Houzhao's birth mother was Empress Zhang, and Empress Zhang was a remarkable person. Because in the ancient imperial society, which king can not have a beautiful lady of the three palaces and six courtyards, but Zhu Houzhao's father Zhu Youfan is different, he is a very dedicated monarch, all his life, he only loves Empress Zhang alone, and has never set up any three palaces and six courtyards.
At this point, the author's girlish heart has a flood of meaning, such a powerful and dedicated man is really rare, not to mention the polygamous society in ancient times!
Returning to the truth, the world also knows that during the reign of Zhu Youfan, he was indeed a good emperor who worked very hard, diligently and earnestly went to the court, conscientiously handled the music, and listened to the suggestions and suggestions of various sages, which was really a model king, and even more a model husband!
Because it was the only favor of the emperor who won the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, Empress Zhang's status in the harem was conceivably high, and perhaps future generations who had not learned too much about this period of history would think that Zhu Houzhao was indeed the only son of Zhu Youzhao and Empress Zhang, but this was not the case.
In fact, before Zhu Houzhao was born, Empress Zhang had already given birth to a son for Zhu Youzhao, but because the various medical conditions in ancient society were not so advanced, even in the royal family, it was still inevitable that some incidents of the death of the prince would occur, and Zhu Houzhao's brother died prematurely.
Empress Zhang and Emperor Mingxiaozong, who had lost their beloved son, washed their faces with tears all day long, depressed, and hoped day by day that heaven would give them another son. Then Zhu Houzhao's birth can be said to be completely obedient to the emperor's will, and his healthy birth can be said to have given Empress Zhang and Ming Xiaozong great comfort.
Based on the misery of the loss of their beloved son in the past, after Zhu Houzhao was born, Empress Zhang and Ming Xiaozong were particularly precious to this hard-won second prince, and it can be said that they gave him the most complete and careful care.
As the only son of the emperor and the natural "eldest son" after his brother's death, Zhu Houzhao's various cultivations from childhood were all highly anticipated by Emperor MingXiaozong.
In order to cultivate Zhu Houzhao into a talent, Emperor Xiaozong of Ming invited the most famous Confucian master in the palace to teach his son himself early.
In addition to cultural courses, the ancient imperial family paid attention to the all-rounders of literature and martial arts, so Ming Xiaozong helped Zhu Houzhao train various martial arts, so to speak, Zhu Houzhao's childhood life was completely arranged by the "good intentions" of his parents' various ardent hopes.
Zhu Houzhao himself is also very well-behaved and sensible, what courses his father arranged for him, he studied diligently and earnestly, and he also learned very well, after some training, he was not only able to learn from the past and the present, but also practiced his martial arts skills very deeply, quite like the imperial heirs expected by Emperor Xiaozong.
In the eyes of everyone in the Ming Dynasty Imperial Palace at that time, Zhu Houzhao was simply the chosen son of the heir of the Ming Dynasty, although he was indeed the only heir he could choose, but the quality of this only was really too high, far higher than the quality of the carefully selected one of the princes.
The ministers in the court saw that Zhu Houzhao, who had been carefully cultivated by Emperor Ming Xiaozong, had grown up to be very knowledgeable and talented, and he was also applauded by each of them, and even said that after a hundred years of Emperor Ming's filial piety, this heir would definitely be able to take over the country properly.
Laissez-faire after ascending the throne
When Zhu Houzhao was fifteen years old, his father, Zhu Youfan, who had extremely high expectations for him, died, and then Zhu Houzhao successfully ascended to the throne under the expectant eyes of everyone.
In fact, a series of operations of Zhu Houzhao at this age are also understandable, after all, according to age, he is also in adolescence, and the biggest feature of adolescence is curiosity and desire to explore all things.
After ascending to the throne, Zhu Houzhao had the greatest autonomy in life, and he no longer had to be bound by the expectations of his parents as in the past.
He actually has a great characteristic of this person, you can also praise him is indeed talented and intelligent, that is, he has a skill that can not be forgotten, in layman's terms, that is, he remembers everything very quickly, and such a mental characteristics also makes him often start to like the new and dislike the old attitude towards many things.
Because a new thing is imprinted in his mind after reading it, there is nothing new for him, so he will be anxious to explore other new things.
The age of teenagers is the most rebellious and playful age, without the supervision of his father and the shackles of his mother, the young and vigorous Zhu Houzhao is quietly changing.
After zhu Houzhao first ascended the throne, in fact, from some historical records, he still wanted to be a good emperor, and he also deliberately changed the name of the country to Zhengde, and he felt that his political achievements in the future would be worthy of the word Zhenghede.
But his true self does not seem to be like this, at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he did insist on the role of a diligent and earnest "wise emperor" for a period of time, on time and early, listening to the speeches, approving the recitals, and not understanding the problem, he promptly consulted the experienced old courtiers left to him by his father.
But this self-discipline did not last long, as if the self-discipline at the beginning of his ascension to the throne was only to conform to the expectations and appreciation of the ministers, to conform to a kind of extension of his previous carefully cultivated model.
But his self-discipline was soon overwhelmed by the real madness inside.
Ben was the age he loved to play the most, but he had to let him bear such a heavy responsibility of the country, and Zhu Houzhao at that time was likely to have such an idea.
As a result, he began to be unable to play, wanted to have fun, and wanted to free himself up in an environment where no one could control him, and his playful hair was also captured by the eunuch Liu Jin who served him, which paved the way for Liu Jin to completely become Zhu Houzhao's playful butler in the later period.
He was like a captive bird that had finally been released from its cage, and he began to stop caring about Jiangshan Sheji, and even talked to the ministers about invitations to go out and play in the mountains and rivers above the court.
At first, the ministers knew that the young emperor who had just ascended the throne was not yet mature, but they saw that Zhu Houzhao's behavior was getting worse and worse, and finally he simply did not even go to the court.
Such an operation of his could have upset the old ministers who were loyal to the country, and they rushed to play petitions, and even directly complained about his dissatisfaction with ignoring the government in spite of the emperor's majesty, but at this time, Zhu Houzhao was already completely unrelenting.
He longed for freedom and wanted to go to the market from time to time, so he ordered Liu Jin to imitate and build a scene like a market outside the palace for him, and also let the palace people play the role of small merchants and peddlers, and then play the role of big businessmen to bargain with them, so it was not happy.
A leopard room that makes a woman smell discolored
After his slightly older age, Zhu Houzhao understood even more about the love of men and women, and he really did not inherit the advantages of his father and emperor at all. At first, under Liu Jin's arrangement, he just watched the beautiful women dance, but he was not satisfied with watching at all, he wanted to get, get more beautiful women.
The harem's three thousand beautiful ladies could not satisfy his desires, and he ordered someone to build a leopard house for him, in the case that the national treasury could no longer support such a large amount of expenses.
He ordered the palace people to go to the people to catch more character beauties for himself, and he locked them all in the leopard room, where he was happy and drunk day and night.
Of course, there must be leopards in the leopard room, Zhu Houzhao has a total of five in it, and he domesticates them in various ways on weekdays, in fact, in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, those beautiful women are no different from these leopards, they are all caught by him to watch and have fun.
In this leopard room, there are all kinds of rare treasures collected by him, in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, this leopard room is simply a free paradise he set up in the palace, he can indulge in all the beautiful things here, and completely disregard the overall situation that the outside world has long been chaotic.
But it is necessary to have a degree, free from the shackles of the royal family, free from the ardent hope of his parents, Zhu Houzhao was immersed in the leopard room all day, and he did not want to leave for a long time...
In the end, his absurdity caused rebellion and rebellion, and the last luck of his fate allowed him to successfully quell the rebellion, but in the playful play on the way back to the palace, in that accidental fall into the water, because of the water in the lungs, and returned to the palace within a few days, the 30-year-old Zhu Houzhao died forever in his own free paradise.