On October 27, 1491, Zhu Houzhao, a ming dynasty emperor, was born, with the era name Zhengde. He was the 10th emperor of the Ming Dynasty and was known for his absurdity and wanton behavior. He played all his life, and finally killed himself.
Zhu Houzhao
He favored the eight eunuchs led by Liu Jin, Ma Yongcheng, Gao Feng, Luo Xiang, Wei Bin, Qiu Ju, Gu Dayong, and Zhang Yong, who were called "Eight Parties" and later "Eight Tigers". Because of the favor of eunuchs, the government was in chaos and social contradictions intensified. So, how did Emperor Mingwu Zhu Houzhao kill himself?
Small works
There was a degree of absurdity, but he was the first lustful emperor to move a brothel into the palace. At that time, the "Eight Tigers" led by Liu Jin around him racked their brains every day to play with him. Zhu Houzhao also ordered Liu Jin and others to build many shops in the palace imitating the appearance of the street market, and also arranged for eunuchs to dress up as shop owners and people, and himself to dress up as rich merchants and play on the commercial street every day. Later, he felt that it was not too addictive, and imitated the folk brothel, letting the palace ladies dress up as prostitutes in the brothel, and dress up as prostitutes to go door to door for pleasure.
Ming Wuzong also indulged in fun despite the strong opposition of the courtiers, listened to the temptation of the "Eight Tigers" and built a leopard room, which gathered beautiful women, musicians, and night and night songs, and later simply did not return to the palace, nor did he go to the court, every day in the leopard room, living an absurd and unbridled life. Because Emperor Wuzong of Ming abandoned the government, the eight eunuchs who accompanied him to play controlled the government, and even the folds were directly presented to Liu Jin, who was in charge of Liu Jin. There was chaos above the court, and Liu Jin and eight other eunuchs were called "Eight Tigers" by the people of the time. Second, he was a belligerent emperor who pretended to be a warrior on the battlefield. Ming Wuzong was not addicted to playing in the palace, and he even thought of going to the battlefield to play himself. In October of the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), the Mongol prince Boyan Knock passed. Zhu Houzhao was greatly excited and quickly returned to Beijing to arrange a personal march. It was less than seventy years after the change of the tumu fort, and the courtiers could not help but be nervous when they heard the word "pro-march". So it was another round of exhortations, lessons, and even threats, but Zhu Houzhao was absolutely unwilling to let go of this opportunity for actual combat, and finally led the troops to fight in the name of "Great General Zhu Shou". As punishment, he did not give any civilian officer the honor of accompanying the car. A few days after the great battle between the two sides, Zhu Houzhao personally went to the front line to fight the enemy, and it is said that he personally beheaded the enemy, but it was also full of dangers, "taking advantage of the public opinion and falling into several traps." The battle personally commanded by Zhu Houzhao achieved the record of killing sixteen enemy soldiers, wounding five hundred and sixty-three and killing twenty-five, which of course was also a victory, because the Tatar army was finally repulsed.
On June 14, 1519, in the fourteenth year of Zhengde (1519), Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, Jiangxi, who had long harbored different ambitions and plotted rebellion, killed the imperial court officials and led the crowd to rebel. Zhu Houzhao found an excuse and once again marched in person. In order to purify the ear roots, the decree was "Again, capital punishment." The courtiers had already learned the emperor's stubbornness, and they were exhausted, so they had to go with him. Unexpectedly, the army had just gone for 4 days, and news came from the front that Wang Yangming, the inspector of Nangan, had quelled the rebellion in Jiangxi and captured King Ning alive. Hearing the news, Ming Wuzong was very angry, and such a good opportunity was mixed up by Wang Yangming. Emperor Wuzong of Ming ordered Wang Yangming to dedicate the captured Zhu Chenhao to himself in the name of "Sacrifice prisoner". So after Emperor Wuzong arrived in Nanchang, he took the people, put on the military uniform, set up the battle posture, removed Zhu Chenhao from the shackles, released him in the encirclement of the army, and then cut the drum and sounded the gold, and then captured Zhu Chenhao alive, put him back in chains, and listed in front of the team, shouting that the great general Zhu Shou had captured the traitor, and then returned triumphantly.
Ming Wuzong liked to fight wars, also liked to travel, and often played missing. It was supposed to be a good way to lead the soldiers to personally recruit and quell the rebels, but as soon as they left Beijing, the rebels were caught. But Ming Wuzong did not want to go back, so the southern expedition changed to the southern tour, since it was changed to play, Wuzong remembered Liu Meiren who stayed in the palace, and Wuzong and Liu Meiren played quite romantically, the two took a jade hairpin as a promise letter, there was no jade hairpin Liu Meiren did not come, and this jade hairpin happened to be lost by Wuzong, so the army went south, Wuzong suddenly disappeared for a month, personally took a boat back to pick up Liu Meiren, so that the accompanying ministers were worried and helpless. In this way, Emperor Wuzong took the army to the mountains and rivers, passing through the mountains and forests, he took people and horses to hunt, and along the way he personally went to the brothel to inspect the prostitutes, and the price of pollen soared, and the value of the prostitutes doubled. After being captured in Nanchang, he returned to continue playing, touring Zhenjiang, climbing Jinshan, and crossing the Yangtze River from Guazhou. Unexpectedly, when taking a boat across Qingjiangpu, Wuzong saw that the scenery was too beautiful, and accidentally fell into the river, and as a result, he fell ill and finally played himself to death. Because Emperor Wuzong had no sons, the throne was succeeded by his cousin, the later Jiajing Emperor.
Socio-political deterioration is the result of gradual accumulation. Although Ming Wuzong was absurd, he was not confused at all in major matters. Emperor Wuzong was resolute and resolute in his handling of things, and he cursed Liu Jin at the flick of his fingers, the rebellion of the king of Ping'an and the king of Ning, the defeat of the Mongol princes, and the relief of disasters many times, all of which were major events during the Zhengde period. Moreover, there were still many talents under his reign, which also reflected from the side that there were still commendable points under the emperor's rule.