Zhu Youxiao, that is, Ming Xizong, the eldest son of Guangzong. Less than a month after Guangzong ascended the throne, he died after taking the red pill, and Zhu Youxiao succeeded him as emperor, and changed to Yuan Tianqi the following year.

Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao has been playful since he was a child, and the nurse Keshi and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian did what he liked and tried their best to take him to play. After succeeding to the throne, Zhu Youxiao's playfulness not only did not converge, but he played more energetically, not only loved to play, but also played, and spent all his time having fun. In order to play, Zhu Youxiao could not study, not go to court, not read the recitals, not approve the military aircraft, and let Wei Zhongxian handle all the state affairs, which made a mess of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao is the most famous carpenter master in Chinese history, some people jokingly call him Master Zhu, his fame is about second only to Lu Ban, and his wood products are definitely one of the best treasures in the world. Zhu Youxiao's works are often colorful, delicate and wonderful, especially in the carving, original, unexpected.

Ming Xizong's works include a variety of ship models, furniture, lacquerware, inkstones, combs and other delicate woodware, all of which are of great artistic value, and it is said that he once built a miniature palace, four feet high, exquisite, ingenious, and magical. Ming Xizong has high standards for himself, and he is meticulous in his work, and after making a work, those who are satisfied will enjoy it repeatedly, and those who are not satisfied will throw away the rework and work tirelessly.

Only woodwork made in this way can it be a luxury, and what other carpenters do is nothing more than a daily necessity. Zhu Youxiao was the only carpenter in his era who did carpentry only for his hobby, not for a living.

Ming Xizong is relatively bad at governing the country, but in terms of governing wood, he can be called an elite giant. The emperor's dormitory was filled with all kinds of wood, as well as carpenter's tools such as adzes, chisels, axes, saws, and planers. He enjoys spending his days with a group of carpenters, learning from them and cutting and polishing with his own hands.

After making so many exquisite woodware, Ming Xizong didn't use it himself, just blindly made it, and enjoyed the process of doing carpenter's work. Sometimes he also asked the little eunuch to take his works to the market to sell, not to sell them for money, but to find a knowledgeable owner for his works, and if they sold well, he would have a sense of accomplishment. Sometimes he thinks that a certain work is a proud work, and he will tell the little eunuch that the price of the imperial thing must be more or less, and if it really sells for a good price, he will be very happy. The Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, took the lead in opening a generation of luxury woodware, which is really a great contribution.

Zhu Youxiao is ingenious, has a strong interest in carpenter's work, all axes, chisels, knives and saws are proficient, after becoming the emperor, I have been in the carpentry room all day long, pondering small utensils, furnishings, small toys, working until midnight without rest, doing carpentry even forgot to eat and did not feel hungry.

One day, Empress Zhang was reading "Historical Records", Zhu Youxiao ran in with sweat on his face, and asked what book he was reading, Empress Zhang replied "Zhao Gao's Biography", Zhu Youxiao had never read a book, and he didn't know history books.

How can such a person who regards play as his life an immature child, how can he govern the country and be a good emperor? At most, he is just an excellent craftsman, and during Zhu Youxiao's reign as emperor, it can be said that Wei Zhongxian made the Ming Dynasty go down day by day, and the vitality of the Ming Dynasty was greatly damaged from then on.

Every winter, the Xiyuan Ice Pond froze, the ice was hard and slippery, and Xizong ordered a group of eunuchs to play ice games with him. He personally designed a small drag bed for himself, the bed was small and delicate, only for one person, painted with red lacquer, with a canopy on it, surrounded by red satin railings, and with small hooks of lanyards on the front and back. Xizong sat on the towing bed and asked the eunuchs to pull the rope, some of them on the shore with ropes, some of them guided in front of the bed, and some of them pushed behind the bed. With force on both sides, the towing bed travels extremely fast, and it can go back and forth for miles in an instant.

In addition to carpentry, Xizong was also obsessed with architecture, he once made a small palace in the courtyard, imitating the form of the Qing Palace, no more than three or four feet high, with subtle twists and turns, and ingenious workmanship. He also made an agarwood rockery, a pond and a forest pavilion, which was meticulously carved, which was a must-have at that time.

Xizong likes to play football, often plays ball with eunuchs in Changle Palace, Xizong felt that he couldn't enjoy playing, so he designed and built five Keyuan halls. Xizong loves carpentry and construction, but also in the concern for the imperial court construction project, the Ming Dynasty carried out a huge scale of rebuilding projects on the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Hall and the Baohe Palace, from the column, the upper beam to the sword suspension, the whole project Xizong was present at the scene.

Xizong is ingenious, and the entertainment tools he makes are quite exquisite. He filled the vat with water, covered the water surface with a round bucket, drilled a hole under the tank, formed a water spray at the bottom of the barrel, and then placed many small wooden balls in the water spray place, opened and closed the infusion, the water hit the wooden balls, the wooden balls circled, and for a long time, Xizong and the concubines watched and cheered together.

Xizong is good at building houses, likes to play with ingenuity, often after the house is caused, happy to dance, repeatedly appreciated, and after the joy is over, it is immediately destroyed, rebuilt and made in a new way, never feel tired, when the interest is high, often take off the coat to operate, the meal and drink can be forgotten, and the cold and summer are not noticed. The matter of governing the country and leveling the world has long been left behind, and there is no time to ask about it.

Of course, the traitor Wei Zhongxian will not miss this opportunity, he often takes advantage of Xizong's rope to cut ink, and when he is most interested, he takes the official document and asks Xizong for instructions, Xizong feels that it has affected his interest, so he said casually: "I already know, you just do it according to the rules." ”

In the old practice of the Ming Dynasty, all court ministers must be approved by the emperor's imperial pen; if it is a routine document, the celebrant must draft the words for approval on behalf of the celebrant supervisor, and must also write the words of the cabinet ticket, or change it by order, and use the red pen to approve it. Xizong devoted himself to the production of wooden houses, so he handed over all the above official duties to Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian took the opportunity to exclude dissidents, dictatorship and mislead the country, but Xizong did not hear or see, but he was an excellent craftsman, but the Ming Dynasty was crumbling in his skillful hands.

In addition to carpentry and construction, Zhu Youxiao likes excitement and novel play, regards horseback riding and archery as a game, likes to cut off the head of a beast with his own hands and then watch its eyes turn, dig out a bird's nest in a tree and fall down to make his head bleed and he doesn't care, he goes rowing and falls into the water and almost drowns. Zhu Youxiao reigned for seven years, because of excessive playfulness, he fell into the water, leaving the root of the disease, although he was rescued, after this fright, many treatments were ineffective, and his health deteriorated.

Later, Shangshu Huo Weihua offered an immortal medicine called Linglu Drink, which could be persuaded to achieve immediate results and live a long life. Emperor Apocalypse drank it according to his words, and it was really sweet and delicious, so he took it every day, and after drinking it for a few months, he actually got a bulging disease, and gradually became swollen and bedridden.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Tianqi's illness became even more serious, and he had a premonition that his days were short, so he summoned his younger brother Zhu Youzhen into the bedroom and said, "Come, my brother should be Yao Shun." ”

He was ordered to succeed to the throne, and the next day, he summoned the cabinet minister Huang Liji and said: "Yesterday I summoned King Xin, and I was very happy and felt a little calm. "Emperor Tianqi died in the Ganqing Palace at the age of twenty-three.

A sentence from his half-brother, Zhu Youzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, can be used as a commentary, after the death of Xizong, Zhu Youzhen entered the succession to the unification. Seeing an agarwood rockery left by the first emperor, the pond and forest pavilion on it are all furnished, and the lamp screen and incense table are still exquisite, Chongzhen sighed softly and said: "It is also the place where the spirit is sent for a while." ”

In one sentence, the bitterness of the Emperor of the Apocalypse is exhausted, and it also points out another spiritual function of luxury.

Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao's nurse can be said to have always been a much-criticized woman, and the Hakka family was originally just an ordinary woman, but since he became Zhu Youxiao's nurse, everything has changed.

Hakka married in his early years and gave birth to children, so he was able to become a nurse. The Hakka family successfully entered the prince's mansion to raise the imperial grandson Zhu Youxiao, of course, the Hakka family is not a simple woman, in the process of teaching Principal Zhu You to become an adult, and at the same time, he is also greedy with Zhu Youxiao. Later, the Hakka family began to collude with the eunuchs, and had a lot of romantic affairs.

Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao's nurse Keshi is a woman with strong needs, and she is also a ruthless woman. In order to protect his position in Zhu Youxiao's heart, the Hakka family often used tricks to harm the concubines around Zhu Youxiao, and in the end, Zhu Youxiao cut off his children and grandchildren, and none of his children and grandchildren could survive.

Ke is also a very smart woman, different from ordinary nurses, Hakka knows that if you want to enjoy the glory and wealth, you have to catch the heart of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, so she began to entangle with Zhu Youxiao.

In addition, in order to protect Wei Zhongxian, the Hakka family also gave advice to Wei Zhongxian many times, and finally helped Wei Zhongxian become an important minister by Zhu Youxiao's side, and killed Wang An.

Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao has extraordinary feelings for the nursing mother Hakka, and the Hakka has no maternal love for Zhu Youxiao, more of a love between men and women, because of the agelessness of the Hakka family, even if the Hakka family is forty years old, it is still the same as the age of twenty, which has also become the biggest capital of the Hakka family to seduce men. Obviously, Hak's behavior was spurned by everyone, and after Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, Hakka got the punishment he deserved.

Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao and his father are the same, but also a short-lived emperor in the Ming Dynasty, his life is only a short twenty-three years, a total of seven years of reign, but it has witnessed the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline. After the death of his father Zhu Changluo, Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong was supported by many ministers and ascended the throne, at this time Zhu Youxiao was only sixteen years old, but he had to face the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty began to have extreme darkness, Zhu Youxiao did not have outstanding governing ability, the greatest achievement of his life can be said to have cultivated a Wei Zhongxian, Ming Xizong listened to the slander of traitors, so that the Ming Dynasty was shaken in a hundred years, and later, Zhu Youxiao stayed directly in the palace and abandoned the government.

Although Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong was the eldest son of Zhu Changluo, and his mother was also deeply loved by Zhu Changluo, he was jealous of Li Xuanzhi, and finally his biological mother was killed by Li Xuanzhi.

When Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao was young, he was deeply humiliated by Li Xuanshi, and gradually formed a cautious and fearful character over time, which was very unfavorable to the life of Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao, and at the same time, Zhu Changluo was not valued by Emperor Wanli.

Later, after Zhu Changluo's death, Ming Xizong officially ascended the throne, but at this time, Li Xuanzhi began to blackmail Ming Xizong, and finally Li Xuanzhi was finally defeated. But after that, Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong began to listen to the nurse Keshi and her mistress Wei Zhongxian, and the increasingly powerful power threatened the peace of the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao witnessed the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty, and in the later period, he began to choose to hide, stayed in the palace, closed his door, and devoted himself to studying carpenters, creating a lot of puppets. Later, Zhu Youxiao began to seek immortals again, but in the end, he died because of eating pills.

Zhang Yan, the queen of Zhu Youxiao, is a good queen of the world, Zhang Yan was born in the family of Shi Yan, has read poetry and books since childhood, can distinguish between right and wrong, and be impartial, unfair and unjust, which was almost a beautiful conversation at that time.

Zhang Yan went through a lot of assessments, and was finally pushed to the position of queen, Zhang Yan has always maintained a heart, and showed extreme dissatisfaction and exclusion for the behavior of Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family, and sometimes made suggestions to Zhu Youxiao, but with little success. Later, the Ming Dynasty collapsed, and Zhang Yan, as the mother of the former dynasty, faced with the situation that the past was gone, she could only hang herself in her own palace.

Zhang Yan was very disgusted by the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and Xizong's nurse Fengsheng Madame Hak, who often mentioned their mistakes in front of Xizong several times, and personally punished the Hakka family as the queen. Therefore, Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family hated her to the core, but because the Zhang family was the queen, it was different from other concubines who were generally easy to deal with, so the two spread rumors behind their backs that Empress Zhang was not Zhang Guoji's biological daughter, in order to confuse Xizong's audio-visual appearance.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, Empress Zhang was pregnant, that is, Zhu Ciran, the prince of Huaichong, but was secretly framed by the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian and gave birth to a stillborn child, and the Zhang family failed to have children again in his life.

Wei Zhongxian suspected that it was the queen's father Zhang Guoji and his friends, Shao Fuzhong, Sun Jie and others who were behind the scenes, so he ordered the Donglin party ministers to be killed, hoping to shake the queen's position. At the same time, he hoped to oust Zhang from the position of queen, so that his niece, the daughter of Wei Liangqing, could become the queen.

When Wei Zhongxian was killing the Donglin party ministers, several ministers in the court began to perceive Wei Zhongxian's intentions, so they played the impeachment of Zhang Guoji and others. Li Guopu, a scholar, mediated and said: "The emperor and empress, equivalent to the parents of a country, can incite their father to frame their mother?" Zhang Guoji was able to save his life and was dismissed from office and released to his hometown.

When Ming Xizong was critically ill, he ordered his fifth brother to pass on the throne to King Xin, that is, Zhu Youzhen of Ming Sizong in the future. The reason why Ming Sizong was able to successfully ascend the throne as the emperor was that Zhang Yan made a lot of efforts, and when Zhu Youzhen entered the palace, Zhang Yan also eagerly helped Zhu Youzhen prevent Wei Zhongxian's persecution. After Sizong ascended the throne, he was also named Empress Yi'an for the Zhang family.