Zhu Houzhao was born in 1491 AD and passed away in 1521 AD, with the reign title “Zhengde”. In history, there have been mixed evaluations of this emperor, with one faction believing that he was a qualified and highly capable emperor. Because he used thunderous means to quell the eunuch rebellion, quell internal strife, and defeat the Little Prince of Mongolia; The other faction believes that he is too absurd and immoral. As an emperor, he actually did things like forcibly robbing women from the people, which is even more absurd for the sake of pleasure, and even built leopard houses.
What is a leopard house? In the second year of the Zhengde reign, the emperor, in order to persuade the masses, built a courtyard and palace at the Xihua Gate, and built a secret room on both sides. The sentence is connected in a row, called the Leopard Room. “In the Ming History of Qian Ning, it is described as follows:” The musician Zang Xian and the Hui people, Yu Yongji and other monks, were invited to perform a secret play and build a new temple called the Leopard Room inside the forbidden area, where they could sing and play music freely
Although the Leopard House was not invented by Emperor Wu of Ming Dynasty, it was a place where emperors throughout the Ming Dynasty enjoyed themselves. As an emperor, there are countless beautiful women in the harem who want to give birth to children for him. Therefore, under normal circumstances, an emperor usually does not have no offspring. But Zhu Houzhao does indeed have no descendants, what is the reason behind this? Let’s analyze it briefly for everyone.
The first reason: physical reasons
Except for some unfortunate and unfortunate emperors, the other emperors, not to mention anything else, were much better off in terms of clothing and food than ordinary families. So that’s why wealthy and powerful families have much better physical fitness than ordinary and poor families. So the physical fitness of the emperor, if not inherently poor, would definitely be slightly better than that of the average person under normal circumstances. Moreover, infertility is a physiological disease that is not inherited like heart disease, and Zhu Houzhao’s father also does not have this disease, otherwise he would not have been able to give birth to him. So I think Zhu Houzhao’s body was damaged due to his promiscuous and chaotic private life.
I have always felt that there is a significant difference in personality between Zhu Houzhao and his father. His father Zhu Youzhong was a rare and devoted person in ancient Chinese history, both within the royal family and among ordinary commoners. He was the only emperor in the Ming Dynasty who advocated monogamy. And this emperor is not just talking, he personally achieved the goal of having only one wife in his lifetime.
How many emperors can do this? Not to mention the emperor, as long as the family has some decent conditions, how many men don’t want to have three wives, four concubines, and a family full of children and grandchildren? However, precisely because of this, Zhu Youzhong only had two sons. One of them died young, and Zhu Houzhao was the rightful heir to the throne without any dispute. If we calculate his age, Zhu Houzhao was probably around 15 years old when he boarded the plane. If it were in modern times, that is, at the age of just graduating from junior high school and entering high school. At the age of rebellion, playfulness, and playfulness.
And his father was a super workaholic who didn’t discipline him much when he was young, so he was slowly corrupted by the eunuchs around him at a young age. Thinking back to Zhu Houzhao, he was also a child who excelled in reading and was praised by teachers. Unfortunately, due to my father’s neglect of discipline, coupled with the eunuchs around me not only failing to fulfill their duty of serving the king, but also tempting and enticing the king to indulge in pleasure.
It can be said that the reason why Zhu Houzhao later became like this is closely related to the eunuchs around him. Moreover, with only one son, he is bound to inherit the throne. Under the combination of these two situations, even if he was fooling around, no one dared to say anything, let alone discipline or stop him. So indulging in pleasure and indulging in debauchery and absurdity is also an inevitable result.
In the “Wan Li Ye Huo Pian”, it is recorded that “Wang Qiong, the Minister of War, wore a tattered robe and sneaked into the leopard house, drinking with his superiors all night long. Yang Xunji, the former head of the Ministry of Rites, was recommended by the actor Zang Xianjian and served in Jinling, where he was responsible for producing and writing miscellaneous drama lyrics and music, even on par with other outstanding performers
