In 1542, when Emperor Jiajing was seriously injured by 16 palace maidens, the empress took the opportunity to take revenge on her rival and ordered the Ministry of Punishment to say: "Concubine Cao and the concubine and the palace maid plotted to kill the son of Dang, and these two were their chief masterminds, and they were all beheaded and exterminated by their nine tribes."
It all shows that the emperor of the dynasty is strange, some play with grasshoppers, some specialize in marrying only one wife, some like to play carpenter, and the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, who picked up the throne in vain, seems to be out of place with them, and what he likes is cultivation.
In 1521, Emperor Wuzong of Ming was seriously ill and had no son, and before his death, Yang Yanhe, the first assistant of Emperor Ming, ordered Emperor Mingwuzong's 14-year-old cousin Zhu Houxi to shorten the mourning period of his father Zhu Youqi and inherit the title of King Xing, and Zhu Houxi was chosen as his successor on the day after Emperor Wuzong of Ming's death.
However, the two sides had a dispute over etiquette, and the minister asked Zhu Houxi to recognize Ming Wuzong's father, Ming Xiaozong, as the patriarchal father, and although Zhu Houxi was young, he was very intelligent, and directly refused to recognize Ming Xiaozong as the imperial examination, saying: "I am not a prince, and what the edict wants me to inherit is the imperial throne, not the succession."
After that, Zhu Houxi built a temple for his father in the capital, and despite the opposition of the courtiers, he honored his father as emperor Xingxian and his mother as empress dowager, which ended the great etiquette dispute for more than three years.
However, Zhu Houxi did not stop there, intending to let his father, who had not been an emperor, enter the temple, a move that was obstructed by the minister.
Until 1538, Zhu Houxi ignored patriarchal etiquette, first posthumously honored his father Zhu Youqi as emperor, temple number Ruizong, elevated his prince-sized tomb to imperial mausoleum, and then justifiably moved his tablet into the Taimiao, ranked above Emperor Wuzong of Ming, then withdrew the tablet of Emperor Mingrenzong from the temple and put it in another temple, and changed the temple number of Emperor Taizong Zhu Di to Chengzu.
However, Zhu Houxi believed in monasticism, and in order to deify himself, he added Dao titles to himself and his parents, and the imperial court asked God to decide everything before deciding, and also asked the ministers to follow the Dao together, giving them the crown of a Taoist.
He was also very superstitious about the medicine formula, wrote down his thoughts on paper, and then asked the Fangshi to burn it, just for the gods to know his thoughts, and sent people to collect Ganoderma lucidum everywhere, and often ate the elixir of Fangshi Lian. In order to satisfy the monastic path, it was ordered that women in the civil elect enter the palace, and each election would be several hundred.
In 1540, Fang Shi Duan Chao offered his own white gold utensils, saying that he could use this object to invite immortals, and Zhu Houxi was very happy to summon Duan Chao to enter the palace to talk, and Duan Zhao took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty lives in the deep palace and does not contact outsiders, he will be refined into gold and get the medicine of immortality."
Zhu Houxi was even more happy, and handed over the imperial government to the five-year-old crown prince Zhu Zaihui, and the ministers did not dare to advise, only the imperial servant Qing Yang could not stand it the most, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty just sees a fangshi, and wants to take medicine to become an immortal." How can a god live in a luxurious palace, wear ornate clothes, and eat fine clothes? ”
Zhu Houxi was furious when he saw it, and ordered Yang to beat him to death after only beating him to death, while Zhu Houxi still beat the remaining fifty before stopping.
In 1542, Zhu Houxi learned that menstrual blood could refine the elixir, so he locked up all the palace maidens, and only gave them mulberry leaves and drinking dew before the blood was collected, causing hundreds of palace maids to fall ill, and the palace maid Yang Jinying could not bear it, so he found 15 palace maids to plot Zhu Houxi.
In November of the same year, Zhu Houxi went to Cao Duanfei's palace to spend the night, and Yang Jinying took advantage of his sleep to assassinate with the palace maidens, they held Zhu Houxi down, and because the rope was tied with a dead knot, they removed the hairpin on his head and stabbed Zhu Houxi indiscriminately.
Unexpectedly, the palace maid Zhang Jinlian saw that Zhu Houxi was not dead, so frightened that she ran to the queen's palace and told Empress Fang, and Empress Fang quickly led people to catch all the assassins.
As a result, Empress Fang took advantage of Zhu Houxi's serious injury and could not speak, so she framed Cao Duanfei and Wang Ningconcubine, who were competing with her favor, as the masterminds of the palace maidens, and beheaded the two and all sixteen palace maids to the public.
Because of the occurrence of the year of Non Yin, it happened in the harem, so it was called the change of Non Yin Palace, and Zhu Houxi also recovered from his illness, and after recovering from illness, he moved from the Qianqing Palace to the Xiyuan Deep Palace to live alone, specializing in cultivation until his death.
