Zhu Houxi,Ming Shizong,Nephew of Emperor Mingxiaozong Zhu Youzhao,Cousin of Emperor Mingwu zhu Houzhao,Era name Jiajing,also known as Emperor Jiajing.
Zhu Houxi's throne can be said to have been picked up, his fifteen-year-old cousin Zhu Houzhao played too much in the leopard room, accidentally played himself out of the game, it just so happens that his cousin has no sons and brothers, lack of successors, according to the "Emperor Ming Ancestral Training" "brother and brother and brother" principle, he was pushed by the ministers to the ninth five, and Bai picked up an emperor to do it.
After the Jiajing Emperor succeeded to the throne, he carried out drastic reforms, creating a situation of "Jiajing Zhongxing", and during this period, "capitalism" also began to sprout, and culture, science and technology, and military prosperity were unprecedented, but why would he be said by posterity that "the emperor did not do anything for forty-five years in vain"?
This is related to his belief in Taoism, in order to be able to live for two more years, he superstitious alchemists, respect Taoism, and want to find the art of immortality. However, the art of immortality was not found, because he needed to collect virgin menstrual blood for practicing the "Immortal God Dan", so he ordered the palace women not to eat during menstruation, so they had to eat mulberry leaves, drink dew, and often scolded the palace women, and the palace women finally couldn't stand it, so they broke out "Nongyin Palace Change", and were almost strangled by the palace women! Because after this incident appeared, he also stopped staying in the palace and moved to the West Garden.
Later, it is said that the Jiajing Emperor died, but also because he took an overdose of dan medicine with arsenic, mercury, male yellow, and virgin red, he poisoned himself to death. I could have lived two more years, but I ended up braiding at the age of 60, but sitting on the emperor's throne for forty-five years was long enough for the emperor who was generally short-lived!