If we talk about the dynasty with the most strange emperors on the mainland, it must be the Ming Dynasty, except for a few Ming monarchs in the middle and early stages, the rest are almost all faint monarchs, and their hobbies are very strange, and the Taoist priests who do carpentry play clams, only posterity can not imagine, there is nothing they can't do.
But even in this group of strange emperors, Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao is also numerous, he has "built nothing, destroyed a lot, greedy, lustful, soldiers, scoundrels", he has never done a single thing, and the final method of death is quite strange - he died at the age of 30 in the leopard room that everyone fears women.
What exactly is this leopard room? Why did the young Ming Wuzong die in it, and why was everyone afraid of the women?
Son of Destiny, ascended the throne at a young age
On June 8, 1505, the young Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youzhuang ushered in the last moment of his life, and before he died, his face was full of worry, and he could hardly close his eyes: "The prince is so young, and the empress is not ignorant, this Ming Jiangshan really can't let go of his heart!"
Among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty and even the world, Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youzhuang is a special case, he has set up a harem in his life, there is only one wife of Empress Zhang, you must know that even Yang Jian, who is known as the "son of no different belly", can't help but spoil the young palace maid after his wife Dugu Garo is old and decrepit, but Zhu Youzhuang has firmly guarded the bottom line, and has never entangled with other women in his life.
Of course, this made Empress Zhang the happiest empress of the Ming Dynasty, but it also led to a serious consequence - Zhu You's heir was thin, and only one of the two concubines died, leaving only the eldest son, Zhu Houzhao.
At this time, Zhu Houzhao directly guaranteed the throne, and there was not even a competitor.
For this single seedling, Zhu Youzhuang was really afraid of falling in his hands, and he was afraid of melting in his mouth, and he was crowned prince at a young age, and sent a large number of famous ministers to teach one-on-one. Zhu Houzhao is gifted and learns everything quickly, and Zhu Youzhuan is more and more fond of him.
However, at that time, the emperor and the empress each had their own harem to rule, and they were rarely able to personally bring Zhu Houzhao to teach, and the closest to Zhu Houzhao became a bunch of eunuchs.
As the emperor's only seedling, in order to gain a foothold in front of the little prince, the eunuchs went around to find him interesting things to amuse him, and the folk eagle dog singing and dancing tea and tea plays, only Zhu Houzhao had not seen, there was nothing they could not get.
Under their fawning, the young Zhu Houzhao could not keep the psychological defense line at all, and indulged in pleasure all day, the worst thing is that he is too smart, even if he plays hard, he can complete his homework perfectly, and by the way, he also taught himself Sanskrit, Mongolian, Arabic and other languages, this learning speed is beyond the reach of the teacher, how can he strictly control him?
Under the slaughter of others, Zhu Houzhao's personality, which was originally a blank piece of paper, has undergone earth-shaking changes, and no one can twist it. But the son is always his own good, Zhu Youzhuang looked at Zhu Houzhao, still loved, after all, he only has this one son.
In such excessive tolerance, Zhu Youzhuang at that time was full of hope for Zhu Houzhao, he did not think that his young son played better, there was something incredible, after all, his father was still young, he could give him a lot of years, and when Zhu Houzhao grew up, his temperament must have stabilized.
But the world is impermanent, in 1505, Zhu Youxuan, who was only 35 years old, suddenly fell seriously ill because of a wind chill, and finally developed to the point that there was no cure for the medicine stone, he was in all kinds of pain, the queen was a naïve harem woman, and the prince was so young and naughty, passing the throne to him like this, how to explain to the ancestors.
But despite all the uneasiness in his heart, Zhu Youzhuang died on June 8.
Before he died, he was most relieved about his wife and young son, so he specially instructed several ministers of Gu Ming to teach Zhu Houzhao well and assist him to become a generation of Ming Jun.
But Zhu Youzhuang never imagined that not only was he monogamy similar to Emperor Wen of Sui, but even his sons were similar to Emperor Wen of Sui - Zhu Houzhao was another Sui Emperor Yang Guang, to be smart is really smart, to be armed is also to be powerful, but the absurdity of the loser is also a famous name in history.
Desolate and strange
In April of the first year of Zhengde, the elderly British duke Zhang Mao suddenly wept bitterly at the Great Pilgrimage, and gave Zhu Houzhao an exhortation: "When you suddenly hear about the banquet, pay attention to riding and shooting, and even a group of small miscellaneous people, passing through the door, visiting the garden, indulging in pleasure, and the ministers and others are terrified when they hear it."
The first emperor Zhu Youxuan's body was not cold, and the little emperor went out of the palace every day to look for flowers and ask Willow, which was simply insulting to the royal face.
However, what the Manchu dynasty did not know was that it was just beginning.
Under the courtesy of the "Eight Tigers" led by the great eunuch Liu Jin, the young Zhu Houzhao has seen countless means of pleasure, and does not want to go to the dynasty at all, to be honest, his life today is not as good as when he was a prince, when he was a prince, the emperor father who loved him the most provided him with all the best, and the imperial government was carried by himself, Zhu Houzhao was relaxed and comfortable, and everything he did now was controlled by the minister.
Zhu Houzhao, who came up with rebellious energy, simply fell completely, he ignored the imperial government, mixed with the eunuchs and palace girls all day, and enjoyed himself wantonly.
It may be that he is tired of being an emperor, and he also changed a good palace into a market, pretending to be a merchant himself, and letting the eunuchs and palace ladies come up as guests to buy things and deduct money from them. In this way, he still found it boring, and even put a brothel sign outside a palace, asking the palace maids to dress up as prostitutes for him to enjoy.
When encountering such an absurd emperor, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty almost broke their defenses, and they advised each other to death every day, but Zhu Houzhao did not bother to pay attention to them, and in order to avoid their advice, he did not even go to court for eight out of ten days, and spent his days and nights looking for pleasure.
Zhu Houzhao's various absurd behaviors made Daming very disappointed with this emperor, but he did not expect that he was still a little bloody, and when the little prince of Mongolia came to detain the customs, he ignored the dissuasion of the ministers and assumed the name of the general Zhu Shou, insisting on driving his own conquest.
You know, the last emperor of the Daming Dynasty was the famous Daming God of War, called Zhu Qizhen, the son of Tianmen, and the Tumu Fort buried Daming's 500,000 troops in the first battle, and even he was taken captive to study in Valai, if it were not for the strength of Yu Qian and Daizong, Daming would have to finish playing at that time.
Since this war, the monarchs of the Ming Dynasty have changed their colors when they heard of the conquest, but the young Zhu Houzhao was full of interest in fighting, not a single civil official was brought, and he screamed like the Mongols rushed over, he did have some skills, several times rushed into battle, directly rushed the Mongols back, since then he has burst with confidence, claiming to be invincible in the world, and as a result, he made another joke.
In 1519 AD, the king of Ning, Jiangxi rebelled, Zhu Houzhao heard it, and immediately came to the spirit, and ordered to drive the prince again, he thought that this time he could repeat the glory of the last time, but the local official Wang Yangming was too powerful, before he could reach the battlefield, Wang Yangming tied up the king of Ning three times and five by two.
The ministers of the dynasty rejoiced and persuaded Zhu Houzhao to quickly help his master return to the dynasty, but Zhu Houzhao ignored them, and had to continue to move forward, and let Wang Yangming wait to release King Ning, and he wanted to personally fight King Ning.
Wang Yangming was going crazy, and the ministers of the dynasty also collapsed, I never thought in my life that I could meet such a ridiculous emperor in my career, but what is more is still behind, since Zhu Houzhao is not busy going to the conquest, he has more time to enjoy life.
The route of their expedition this time was Jiangnan, which was famous for its prosperity, and as soon as Zhu Houzhao arrived here, he followed up like a mouse in a rice tank, dazzled and excited, and directly asked the magistrate and eunuch to search for beautiful women everywhere and get them on the boat for his enjoyment.
After the women of the Liang family were tired of playing, Zhu Houzhao set his sights on the prostitutes in Jiangnan, and he personally disembarked from the ship despite the obstruction of the ministers, and went to the brothel to "test" the prostitutes.
The prostitutes in Jiangnan were excited when they heard that the emperor was so good at playing, as long as they could climb Zhu Houzhao, they could get out of the sea of hardship and enter the palace to be a mother-in-law, so they did everything they could, dressed up and showed their tricks, waiting for Zhu Houzhao to come to the door.
For a while, the prostitutes in the entire Jiangnan were like fragrant food, and even the officials had to be in awe, even if one day they flew up the branches and blew the wind in Zhu Houzhao's ears.
But Zhu Houzhao didn't know that this would be the last crazy hedonistic time in his life, and in the near future, he would close his eyes forever in his favorite leopard room and never wake up again.
Build a leopard house, everyone is afraid
The leopard room is Zhu Houzhao's luxurious villa, which was originally used by Zhu Houzhao to raise rare birds and beasts.
The emperor is the king of a country, enjoying the world, originally raising a few fierce beasts is not a big deal, the problem is that Zhu Houzhao has raised too much, tigers, lions, leopards, pythons, can open a luxury zoo.
What is even more perverted is that Zhu Houzhao raised these beasts not as pets at all, but in order to appreciate the bloody scene of them tearing each other apart, he put the beasts in a cage and let them kill each other until there was only one victor left.
That kind of bloody scene, others will be disgusted whenever they look at it, but Zhu Houzhao is more and more excited, after a long period of observation, he found that the endurance and combat effectiveness of leopards are the strongest, so with a wave of his hand, he ordered the zoo to be renamed "leopard room", and raise more leopards for him to watch the fight for fun.
Because Zhu Houzhao really liked to watch these bloody scenes and stayed here for a long time, the eunuchs arranged his clothing, food, housing and transportation here, and in order to curry favor with them, they also searched for rare treasures and dancers, and decorated the leopard room like a fairyland on earth, so that Zhu Houzhao enjoyed the joys of the world.
Speaking of this, I'm afraid many people will be strange, although the leopard room is bloody and luxurious, it has nothing to do with women, why are women afraid of everyone? Just imagine, the treasure beast has all the people for fun, then what is missing in the leopard room, of course, it is a woman.
Zhu Houzhao is lustful, the most common thing to do outside is to rob people's women, as long as it is a woman with some posture, he can see it, either to forcibly occupy them on the spot, or to take them into the palace for a long time to spoil, but in that era, where did ordinary women come from? Most of these people are rich families or even the families of officials, but Zhu Houzhao went up and robbed them, where did they dare to squeak? I can only watch my family members being abused.
These poor women who were snatched were placed in the leopard room, they originally had a happy family, and they lived a free life outside the palace, but they flew into trouble, and were snatched back to the leopard room by Zhu Houzhao, listening to the roar of the beast all day, and serving the unscrupulous emperor, what kind of bitter life was this day?
Besides, not all women can get Zhu Houzhao's favor, most of them have never received luck after being snatched back by Zhu Houzhao, but the women who have been favored by the emperor cannot leave the palace, so they can only become rough servants, suffer for life, and cannot see their families.
In addition, the absurd scene in the leopard room is far beyond their imagination. Zhu Houzhao not only robbed people and women for sexual pleasure, but also had a proclivity for raising male pets, and the leopard room was full of young and beautiful boys and small eunuchs, and when he was interested, he would gather men and women together and enjoy them wantonly.
However, such absurd pleasure also made Zhu Houzhao pay a painful price, this fierce general who was once able to mount a horse to ward off enemies after a long period of indulgence, his body has been completely hollowed out, just a small wind chill, let him not be sick, and finally completely closed his eyes in this leopard room that carried the absurdity of his life.
This year, Zhu Houzhao was only 30 years old, five years younger than his father Zhu Youzhuang, who died early, and after his death, the throne was inherited by his cousin, and his mother was not treated well, leaving behind only endless ridicule and infamy in later generations.
In that feudal era, the emperor had supreme power and could do almost whatever he wanted, but some people chose to suppress their desires, such as Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youzhuang, and some people chose to completely indulge and ignore the people's livelihood, such as Zhu Houzhao.
However, the reincarnation of heavenly reason, retribution is not happy, Zhu Youzhuang, who practiced benevolent government, was remembered by history, but the absurd and strange Zhu Houzhao suffered retribution when he was alive, died in the leopard room forged by his own hands, and even after death, he was ridiculed and scolded, this is the so-called "water can carry the boat, the power can overturn the boat" ah!