As we all know, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was very strange, and the biggest one of them was Zhu Houzhao, the Zhengde Emperor we are going to talk about today.
To talk about Zhu Houzhao, I have to talk about his father, Emperor Mingxiaozong Zhu Youxian (chēng).
I have to say that Zhu Youfan is a good emperor who strives to govern with great efforts, and he is dedicated to the people. Although the work he did was such a fascinating job as the emperor, he did not have the welfare of weekends and weekends, nor did he have the night and night song of the harem beauties. Zhu Youfan worked particularly hard, working day and night on state affairs, he also did not love men and women, and only had one Empress Zhang as his companion in his life. This led to an ending, at the age of 35, he died young, leaving only an unreliable son.
Not surprisingly, Zhu Youfan should be the most obsessive emperor in history, and it is also a very romantic thing to be his empress! However, infatuation is obsessed, I don't know that the family has the throne to inherit, and I need to have a few more competitions to take up the post! However, his only son, Zhu Houzhao, although a bastard, became emperor.
From the perspective of bloodline, Zhu Houzhao is the purest only seedling of the old Zhu family. He was very happy growing up because everyone was used to him. Zhu Houzhao is very smart, and he can always learn what the teacher teaches him, but the greedy nature is also a problem that cannot be changed. However, in the eyes of everyone, this little prince is destined to be a good emperor with great achievements.
However, Zhu Houzhao disappointed everyone.
At the age of fifteen, Zhu Houzhao, who was in the rebellious period of adolescence, was put on the dragon chair and became the ninth and fifth supreme of the country. Xiao Zhu likes to be an emperor, because he can casually summon others to play with him, but he does not like to be an emperor, because being an emperor is very unfree, many places cannot go, and many things cannot be done.
During the time when he had just taken the throne, he was still very happy, because every day a group of people came to send fun things to please him. Especially the eunuch named Liu Jin, the most into Xiao Zhu's eyes.
Liu Jin, Ma Yongcheng, Gao Feng and seven other eunuchs took the emperor to play every day, sending parrots, tigers, and leopards. These eight eunuchs were favored by the little emperor, and their status was also soaring, and they also got the name of a combination: Eight Tigers!
However, Liu Jin, with the favor of the emperor, dared to act arbitrarily and chaotically, wantonly amassed wealth, encroached on land, disturbed the people and encroached on profits, and nepotism, which caused many people to be dissatisfied. Later, Zhu Houzhao did not blink an eye, and killed his playmate Liu Jin, and he was punished by Ling Chi.
In the eyes of the world's subjects, Liu Jin's death was deserved, a blessing for all the people, and a wise emperor. In the eyes of Emperor Zhu Houzhao, it is just one less playmate, and who is not playing with? Moreover, Liu Jin, an old eunuch, could not keep up with the trend in playing, and soon after he changed to a new playmate Channing. Zhu Houzhao continued to be at ease, willful, whether there was a eunuch Liu Jin or not, he was still that foolish teenager, without the slightest change!
Zhu Houzhao did a lot of ridiculous things.
Among them, the most famous thing is that he built a leopard room for his own fun. This leopard room is not a private room, nor is it a zoo, or just a zoo. This is the palace that Zhu Houzhao built for himself, just near the Xihua Gate, and he soaks in it almost every day to find happiness.
There are beautiful women in the leopard room, there are also music workers, of course, there are also leopard tigers, and the endless fun here makes Zhu Houzhao deeply fascinated. Why is this obviously a palace, but it is called the leopard room?
It turned out that Zhu Houzhao often kept the beasts in captivity in the dungeon, and then hung the raw meat of the animals on the bamboo poles to let the hungry beasts bite, while he played with the bamboo poles outside to let the beasts run after the bamboo poles. Over time, many wild beasts let him play waste, and only the leopard had the highest enthusiasm for feeding and the most ferocious bite action, so he liked to raise leopards the most. Therefore, he also called his favorite palace "Leopard Room".
Historically, Zhu Houzhao did have countless harem beauties, but he did not like to run to the harem, so he did not leave offspring in the end, so he was really not a good woman? Not really.
In fact, on the issue of women, Zhu Houzhao's reputation is very smelly. Many sources record that Zhu Houzhao used to frequently enter and leave private brothels. Of course he went in in civilian clothes and never paid for it. As for why Zhu Houzhao behaved like this, was it because the harem concubines did not have the quality of appearance? I think it is not, it may be a simple truth, home flowers are not as fragrant as wildflowers!
On this issue, Xiao Zhu was a bit on par with cao cao. He did not like young girls who were twenty-eight years old, but especially liked older women who had been married.
On one occasion, a military attaché named Ma Ang committed an offence and was removed from his official position. In order to achieve the purpose of reinstatement of the official, he shamelessly sent his own sister to the palace to give Zhu Houzhao a concubine. Zhu Houzhao learned that his sister was married, not only was he not angry, but he was very satisfied, and when he learned that her husband was still alive, Zhu Houzhao was even happier.
Not long after this incident, Zhu Houzhao came to Ma Ang again and asked him: "I heard that your little wife is very beautiful?" ”
After Ma Ang listened, he immediately said with great joy: "The emperor likes it!" ”
The next day, Ma Ang sent his little wife to the palace. It was nothing, it was just ridiculous.
Soon, the emperor's teacher Yang Tinghe heard about this strange thing: a pregnant woman was sent to the palace!
This incident really frightened Lao Yang, if this child was born in the palace, what would happen!
Old Yang felt that this must not be true, so he immediately went into the palace to find the emperor. Zhu Houzhao nodded carelessly to confirm this matter, making Old Yang angry and wanted to hit the wall!
Fortunately, this matter did not continue to be absurd, but Zhu Houzhao's absurdity was far from over.
Zhu Houzhao heard that in the folk, there is a tiger hero Wu Song's image is particularly sought after. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao planned to really fight the tiger himself.
One day, he found someone to send a tiger to his leopard room. He summoned his playmate Channing and asked him to go and talk to the tiger first. Channing can sneak and shoot horses, but this kind of desperate thing of fighting tigers does not dare to touch. Zhu Hou saw that he did not dare, so he laughed at him, and immediately clapped his hands and went up.
Channing didn't cooperate with him, but Tiger was cooperative. Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was waving at it, the tiger immediately pounced on it in response. Zhu Houzhao realized at this time that he could not cope with this behemoth at all, so he threw up his legs and ran. His two legs were naturally tigers that could not run on four legs, and he saw that the tiger was about to pounce, but fortunately, a military attaché saved the emperor by subduing the tiger in time.
Just after escaping death, Zhu Houzhao immediately patted his ass, stood up and said, "I am enough myself, I don't need you to take care of it!" “
This is typical of the inability to know the sky is high.
Zhu Houzhao's greedy nature is not only manifested in the leopard room, but also in politics, he is also as willful as ever.
Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning, rebelled in Nanjing, but was soon pacified by Wang Shouren. When Zhu Houzhao heard this news, he was not only unhappy, but very angry, and he insisted that Wang Yangming had stolen his own limelight, and his lungs were about to explode. Therefore, he ordered Wang Yangming to release King Ning in Nanjing, return him to freedom, and then send a general named "Zhu Shou" to arrest him again. As a result, Zhu Chenhao was arrested again and executed in Tongzhou. And it was no one else who captured Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning, but Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of greed, and Zhu Shou was the pseudonym he used to fight.
Zhu Houzhao has been playing all his short life, and his death is also because of play.
Once, Zhu Houzhao passed through Jiangnan and was very happy to see this beautiful and rich land of fish and rice. It is not because of the relief of seeing the rich life of the people, but mainly to enjoy the pleasure of fishing on the river in a fishing boat. However, he accidentally fell into the river on his fishing boat and almost drowned, but fortunately he was rescued by fishermen. However, it was September, the river was cold, he was not in good health, and this fall caused pneumonia. After returning to the capital, many imperial doctors surrounded him.
However, after falling ill, Zhu Houzhao continued to indulge in the leopard room, so his physical condition was even worse, and he died soon after, only thirty years old.
Throughout Zhu Houzhao's life:
It is said that Zhu Houzhao is absurd and unscrupulous, but he never kills innocents indiscriminately, and he will also kill people for the people and go to brothels to pay back money;
It is said that Zhu Houzhao did not pay attention to the government, but he did not use the imperial power in vain, and delegated power to the teacher Yang Tinghe, so the country was still relatively peaceful;
It is said that Zhu Houzhao is willful, but there is never a cruel stimulus in the leopard room, and some are just simple happiness.
Although Zhu Houzhao was not a qualified emperor, and he could not become a good emperor, he was not an unforgivable bastard. He's just a poor guy who cast the wrong tire and got the wrong job! What he has spent his whole life fighting for is nothing more than four words that are out of reach: freedom!
I personally believe that among all the emperors from ancient times to the present, Zhu Houzhao is the happiest one!
Do you think That Zhu Houzhao is an asshole emperor or a young man chasing the wind?